JPH11175441A - Method and device for recognizing communication information - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the method and device for recognizing communication information by which a receiver can instantaneously identify a transmitter by outputting received data by using output designation information included in received information. SOLUTION: This device is provided with a storage device 107 including a character buffer for storing received mail data, format information for extracting the transmitter name from the received mail, and deciding which of each kind of format should be used for displaying it, character change information for changing the character of the format, character habit information for deciding the habit of the character of the transmitter, and background information for deciding the background of the screen, and a voice outputting device 108 including voice pitch information for deciding the pitch of a voice, voice speed information for deciding the output speed of the voice, voice habit information for deciding for habit of the voice, and background music information for deciding a music to be played while the mail is viewed. Thus, the mail can visually and audibly be featured and outputted, and a receiver can instantaneously judge the main transmitter, and high convenience can be obtained.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a communication information recognizing method and apparatus, and more particularly, to a communication information recognizing method and apparatus applicable to an Internet terminal and a mail transmitting / receiving apparatus.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a conventional technique according to the present invention, there is the following disclosure example. Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 1-119161 discloses that character fonts having various densities are prepared so that a character font most suitable for the line density of a receiving facsimile can be selected and always clear source identification information can be added. Is what you do. JP-A-2-113665 and JP-A-5-344248 allow transmission without a destination number being applied, and the handwriting of an ID number allows the sender's address, company name, affiliation, post, and name to be transmitted. Can send.

Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 6-189148 discloses a method of facsimile-transmitting a portion of a document that can be seen by a person other than the one desired by the sender and a portion treated as confidential transmission. Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. Hei 6-268800 discloses character recognition of information at a predetermined position of received information, and notifies a specific partner of an incoming call. Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. Hei 8-265413 discloses a method in which an incoming call notification in a portable wireless device such as a mobile phone is switched according to a caller, and the caller can be identified without answering the incoming call.

[0004]

The above-mentioned JP-A-8-26
Japanese Patent No. 5413 discloses switching of an incoming call notification in a portable wireless device such as a mobile phone according to a caller and identifying a caller without responding to an incoming call, but the receiver receives the caller and an incoming call notification corresponding to the caller. Is required to be registered in advance, and there is a problem that an incoming call from an unregistered caller has to emit a normal ringtone.

[0005] In the conventional mail system, the sent text is judged by the sender's name to determine who sent the sentence. If the sender's mail is more visually and audibly characterized, the sender of the mail can be immediately identified, the convenience of the receiver is improved, and a useful mail system can be obtained.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and the invention of claim 1 stores output designation information, for example, characters, voice, background, music, etc. transmitted by a sender, An object of the present invention is to provide a communication information recognizing method in which a receiver can immediately identify a sender by outputting using such information.

A second object of the present invention is to provide a communication information recognizing method in which, when there is no data, a receiver requests data from a sender in means for storing output designation information. It is.

[0008] It is an object of the present invention to enable the sender to be immediately identified by expressing the character habit of the sender. A fourth object of the present invention is to make it possible to immediately identify a sender by expressing the habit of the sender's voice. It is an object of the invention of claim 5 to be able to immediately identify a sender by expressing a favorite color and pattern of the sender. It is an object of the invention of claim 6 to be able to immediately identify a sender by expressing music that the sender likes. Claim 7
It is an object of the present invention to provide a communication information recognizing apparatus which executes the method according to the first to sixth aspects of the present invention.

[0009]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a registering means for registering output designation information for designating an output form of received information in association with sender information, which is included in the received information upon reception. Sender information is compared with the information registered in the registration unit, and output designation information corresponding to the sender information included in the reception information is extracted from the registration unit, and the output designated in the extracted output designation information is extracted. A communication information recognizing method for providing a sender identification function by performing output according to a form, wherein if received information includes output designation information that is not registered in the registration unit, the unregistered The output designation information is additionally registered in the registration unit, and the output registration information is extracted by comparing the additionally registered information with the sender information included in the reception information. Target, visual The receiver can immediately identify the sender without checking the sender's name, the receiver can switch between the heads and smoothly prepare for reception, This makes it possible to obtain a communication information recording device that is highly convenient for the user.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, when the sender information included in the received information and the information registered in the registration means are compared with each other, the sender information included in the received information corresponds to the sender information included in the received information. If the output designation information to be registered is not registered in the registration means, a transmission request of the unregistered output designation information is issued to the sender, and the output form is characterized for all receptions. Thus, the sender can be more reliably determined.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the first or second aspect of the present invention, the output designation information is information for designating a character expression form, and the output designation information is used to determine an effective sender. A specific method for characterizing the output form is provided.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in any one of the first to third aspects of the present invention, the output designation information is information for designating an expression form by voice, and an effective sender is determined. A specific method for characterizing the output form is provided.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in any one of the first to fourth aspects of the present invention, the output designation information is information for designating an expression form based on a background of a screen. A specific method for characterizing an output mode for performing the determination is provided.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in any one of the first to fifth aspects of the present invention, the output designation information is information for designating an expression form by background music, and an effective sender is determined. A specific method for characterizing an output form for performing the above is provided.

[0015] The invention of claim 7 is the first to sixth inventions.
A medium that records data and a program for executing the communication information recognition method according to any one of the above aspects, and a processing unit that processes the data and the program extracted from the medium and the received information. .

[0016]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A communication information recognition apparatus according to the present invention has a correspondence table between a sender and a character form (font, thickness, size), and transmits the data to the correspondence table when data is received. If there is no data about the sender, the receiver requests and supplements the missing information from the sender, compares the correspondence table with the comparison means, determines the character corresponding to the sender, and responds to the matched sender name On the display means.

In addition, a correspondence table between the sender and the voice form (pitch, speed, habit) is provided, and when the data is received, if there is no data related to the sender, the receiver is notified to the sender. The missing information is requested and supplemented, the comparing means compares the correspondence table, determines the voice corresponding to the sender, and outputs the voice corresponding to the matched sender name to the output means.

[0018] Further, a correspondence table between the sender and the background form (color, pattern) is provided, and when the data is received, if there is no data on the sender, the information is insufficient for the sender. Is requested and supplemented, and the correspondence table is compared with the correspondence table to determine the voice corresponding to the sender, and output to the output means as the voice corresponding to the matched sender name.

In addition, a correspondence table between the sender and the music form (background music type) is provided, and when data is received, if there is no data on the sender, there is insufficient means for the receiver to request the sender. The requested information is supplemented by requesting, and the correspondence table is compared by the comparing means, the voice corresponding to the sender is determined, and the voice corresponding to the matched sender name is output to the output means.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the entire system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The system according to the present embodiment includes a CPU 101 that controls the entire system and a display device 10 such as a CRT.
2. An input device 103 such as a keyboard, a communication device 104 for exchanging e-mail, a printing device 105 for printing input and transmitted data, an external storage device 106 such as FDD, input data and transmitted data. Character buffer for storing the sender's name from the sent mail, font information for determining which of the various fonts to display, character change information for changing the characters of the font, A storage device 107 including character habit information for defining a habit and background information for defining background data of a screen, voice pitch information for determining a pitch of voice, voice speed information for determining an output speed of voice, voice habit information for determining a voice habit. , And from the audio output device 108 containing background music information that defines the music played when viewing the mail. That.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram for explaining another embodiment of the present invention. In FIG.
8 'is an audio output device, 109 is a program / data memory, 110 is a medium, and other parts having the same functions as those in FIG. 1 are denoted by the same reference numerals as in FIG. FD, CD-R
The program and data stored in the medium 110 such as the OM are transferred from the external storage device 106 to the program / data memory 1.
09, it is also possible to cause the storage device 107 and the audio output device 108 in the system shown in FIG.

FIGS. 3 to 6 show examples of correspondence tables set in the present invention. FIG. 3 is an example of a name / character correspondence table, and FIG. 4 is an example of a name / speech correspondence table. 5 shows an example of a name background correspondence table, and FIG. 6 shows an example of a name background music correspondence table. FIG.
In the correspondence table shown in the table, "Yoshida" is a business associate, mail from "Yoshida" is displayed in Mincho, and "Yoshida"'s habit is small letters, Means to write. In the correspondence table shown in FIG. 4, "Nishibori" is associated with business relations, and "Nishibori" means speaking with high voice and fast. FIG.
In the correspondence table shown in (1), "Tanaka" is a private relationship, and when displaying a mail sent from "Tanaka", it means that the data of "Image 3" is used for the background. In the correspondence table shown in FIG.
Displaying the e-mail sent from “Tanaka” means that music of “music 3” is played in the background.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart for explaining an example of the operation of the present invention. First, the received information sent by e-mail is retrieved (step S1), and it is checked whether there is any character habit or background data (step S2). (Step S3), a search is made for the sender name from the mail data (step S4), and a check is made as to whether the mail name is to be displayed and output by voice or to be output by voice (step S3)
5) If it is a character, various correspondence tables are searched (step S)
6) If there is no character information (step S7), a request is made for the character information from the sender (step S8), and character information such as the typeface to be displayed and the character habit is extracted (step S7).
9) Display characters (step S10).

If the voice output is made in step S5, various correspondence tables are searched (step S11). If there is no voice information (step S12), voice information is requested (step S1).
3) The voice information such as the level and speed of the voice to be output is extracted (step S14), and the voice is output (step S15). Next, it is checked whether there is background information (step S16), and if not, the background information is requested from the sender (step S17), the background data is extracted (step S18), and the background is displayed (step S19). . Then, check whether there is background music (step S2).
0), if not, request background music information from the sender (step S21), extract background music data (step S22), and output (step S23). The data request method is F
In the TP procedure (one of the communication procedures between computers), there is a method of taking from the sender's machine.

The transmitted data is stored in a character buffer, the sender name is searched, and which of the fonts stored in the main body is to be displayed is determined from the correspondence table between the sender name and the font, and the font is determined. It is stored in the information, the size of the determined font is determined from the correspondence table between the sender name and the characteristic, and is stored in the character change information. If there is information on the character habit of the sender from the received data, it is extracted and stored as character habit information. Similarly, if there is background data of the sender screen from the transmitted data, it is saved as background information, if there is voice level information from the transmitted data, it is stored as voice pitch information, and if there is voice output speed, The information is stored as voice speed information. If there is information on the voice habit, it is stored as voice habit information, and if there is information on music to be played while watching the mail, it is stored as background music information.

FIGS. 8 to 12 are diagrams showing an output example of a sending mail according to the present invention. FIG. 8 shows an example in which the typeface is changed, and FIG. 9 shows a case where the sender's name is output as a handwritten image. FIG. 10 shows an example of output with sound, FIG. 11 shows an example of output with a background, and FIG. 12 shows an example of output with a background music.

In the example of the mail shown in FIG. 8, when the mail is sent from Mr. Yoshida, the mail becomes a gothic font, and when the mail is sent from Mr. Tanaka, the mail becomes a pop font. In the example of the mail shown in FIG. 9, when sent from Mr. Yoshida, it becomes small and rises to the right, and when sent from Mr. Nishibori, it becomes large characters (this part is not shown). A method of transforming characters is disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 1-17095. The sender's name and the like may be sent as image data as handwritten characters. In the example of the mail shown in FIG. 10, when sent from Mr. Yoshida, the mail is output slowly with a low voice, and when sent from Mr. Nishibori, the mail is output quickly with a high voice. The digital information may be sent only in the part such as "Takahashi-dono" at the beginning. In the example of the mail shown in FIG. 11, when sent from Yoshida, image 1 (here, the sun) is displayed, and when sent from Nishibori, image 2 (here, umbrella).
Is displayed. Standard screen size (640 x 48
0) data to JPEG (one of still image compression), JIF
(One of still image compression) or the like may be used for compression and transmission. In addition, moving data such as MPEG (one of moving image compression) may be used. The example of the mail shown in FIG.
When sent from Mr. Yoshida, music 1 (here, jazz) is played, and when sent from Mr. Nishibori, music 2 (here, classic) is played. These may be converted into digital data such as PCM (one of digitized sounds) or the like, and music compressed by a sound compression technique may be transmitted.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of an electronic mail transmitted according to the present invention. Data such as font, background, and music are attached after the body data.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart for explaining an example of the data search operation according to the present invention. First,
The received mail is read (step S31), a pointer is set at the head of the mail, and the mail is initialized (step S3).
2) Search for the name in the email (step S3)
3) A search is made for a table storing the stored names and characteristics from the searched names (step S34). If there is information in the table (step S35), the mail is displayed with the information added. If no FTP server is found (step S36), and if no FTP server is found (step S37), the mail is displayed without additional information. If you know the FTP server, FTP
The additional information is extracted from the server by the FTP procedure (step S38), and is written in a table (step S39).
The mail is displayed with the information added.

FIG. 15 is a diagram for explaining the flow of communication exchange between a sender and a receiver according to the present invention.
First, when a sender sends a mail (41), the mail reaches a receiver via a communication network such as Ethernet (42).
The receiver saves the mail and the sender information (43), and if the sender information is insufficient, the receiver requests the sender for sender information data (44). The sender sends the requested sender information data (45). The receiver receives the sender information data (46) and stores the sender information data (47).

[0031]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, there is provided registering means for registering data for distinguishing a caller, and by outputting a received signal in a different output form depending on the caller, the received signal can be, for example, audio-visual, Visually characterized, the recipient can immediately identify the sender without having to check the sender's name, and the recipient can switch between heads and smoothly prepare for reception Thus, a useful communication information recording device with high convenience for the receiver can be obtained.

Effect of Claim 2 In addition to the effect of Claim 1, by sending a request to the sender for data that is not registered in the registration means and adding it to the registered data, the feature of the output form The attachment can be performed for all receptions, and the sender can be more reliably determined.

Effects of Claims 3 to 6: In addition to the effects of Claims 1 and 2, a specific method is provided for characterizing an output form for determining an effective sender.

According to the seventh aspect of the present invention, there is provided a communication information recognizing apparatus which executes the communication information recognizing method which provides the effects of the first to sixth aspects.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an entire system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram for explaining another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an example of a name / character correspondence table set in the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an example of a name voice correspondence table set in the present invention.

FIG. 5 is an example of a name background correspondence table set in the present invention.

FIG. 6 shows an example of a name / background music correspondence table set in the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart for explaining an example of the operation of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example in which the font of a mail is changed and output according to the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example in which a sender name is output as a handwritten image according to the present invention.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of audio output according to the present invention.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of outputting with a background according to the present invention.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of output with background music added according to the present invention.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of an electronic mail transmitted according to the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a data search operation according to the present invention.

FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating a flow of communication exchange between a sender and a receiver according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

101, CPU, 102, display device, 103, input device, 104, communication device, 105, printing device, 106, external storage device, 107, storage device, 107 ', storage device,
108 audio output device, 108 'audio output device, 10
9 ... program / data memory, 110 ... medium.

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Claims (7)

[Claims] A registration means for registering output designation information for designating an output form of reception information in association with sender information is provided. At the time of reception, sender information included in the reception information and the registration information registered in the registration means are provided. By extracting the output designation information corresponding to the sender information included in the reception information from the registration unit by comparing the information with the information and performing output in the output form designated by the extracted output designation information, A communication information recognizing method in which an identification function is provided, wherein, if output designation information not registered in the registration unit is included in received information, the unregistered output designation information is additionally registered in the registration unit. A communication information recognizing method for comparing output additionally registered information with sender information included in received information to extract output designation information. 2. When the sender information included in the reception information is compared with the information registered in the registration unit, output designation information corresponding to the sender information included in the reception information is not registered in the registration unit. 2. The communication information recognition method according to claim 1, wherein if so, a request for transmitting the unregistered output designation information is issued to the sender. 3. The communication information recognition method according to claim 1, wherein the output designation information is information for designating an expression form by characters. 4. The communication information recognition method according to claim 1, wherein said output designation information is information for designating an expression form by voice. 5. The communication information recognition method according to claim 1, wherein said output designation information is information for designating an expression form of a screen background. 6. The communication information recognition method according to claim 1, wherein said output designation information is information for designating an expression form by background music. 7. A medium on which data and a program for executing the communication information recognition method according to claim 1 are recorded, data and a program taken out from the medium, and a processing means for processing the received information. And a communication information recognition device.