JPS6066552A - Automatic answering telephone set - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make the redoing of recording a message possible by recording the message in a tape for a reply message by remote control and informing the tape coming to an end during the recording by alarm sound. CONSTITUTION:When an operation signal for changing the content of the reply message to a telephone circuit, the operation signal is detected by a remote control signal detecting circuit 13 through a coupling transformer 4, and the detected signal is sent to a CPU14. When the CPU14 judges that a remote control signal for changing the reply message is detected, the CPU makes a recording/reproducing switch 7 to a recording side and drives a tape for the reply message by a tape driving circuit 11 to start recording. Under this condition, if the tape for the reply message comes to an end, a tape end detecting device 20 sends a tape end detection signal to the CPU14. Basing on this signal, the CPU14 gives a stop command to a tape driving circuit 12 to stop the driving of the tape. On completion of the recording, the CPU14 sends alarm sound that indicates the ending of the tape by an alarm sound generating circuit 21 to the telephone circuit 1 through the coupling transformer 4. Various remote operation is performed in succession to terminate the recording.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Application) The present invention relates to a telephone answering machine that can be remotely controlled via a telephone line, and more particularly to a telephone answering machine that enables remote control of a response message.

(Background) Figure 1 shows a conventional answering machine R (hereinafter abbreviated as the device).
1 is a block diagram showing an example of 1, in which l is a telephone line, 2 is a call signal detection circuit, 3 is a relay, and 4
is a coupling transformer, 5 is a playback amplifier, 6 is a recording amplifier, 7
1 is a recording/reproducing switch, 8, 9 is a recording/reproducing head, 10 is a tape for playing back a response message, 11 is a tape for recording a business message, 12 is a tape drive circuit, 13 is a remote control signal detection circuit, 14 is a central command unit ( (hereinafter abbreviated as CPU), 15 is an answering machine switch, and 16 is a separation sound generation circuit.

Next, the operation will be explained. Now, when the answer message recorder 15 is turned on, the CPU 14 uses the tape drive circuit 12 to load 100 tapes for reproducing response messages, rewinds the message recording tape 11, and puts the recorder in a standby state. .

In this state, when the first ring signal arrives from the telephone line m1, the ring signal detection circuit 2 detects the signal and sends a detection signal to the CPU 14.

The CPU 14 thereby closes the relay 3 and couples the telephone line 1 and the coupling transformer 4 to enable signal transmission and reception.

At the same time, the tape drive circuit 12 drives the tape 10 for playback of a response message (a message recorded in advance by the owner of this device to convey to the caller), and switches the recording/playback switch 7 to the playback side (solid line side). . Thereafter, the response message is reproduced and transmitted to the caller through the recording/reproducing head 8, the reproduction amplifier 5, and the coupling transformer 4.

When the sending of the response message is completed, the CPU 14 stops the response message reproduction tape 10.

Subsequently, the tape drive circuit 12 drives the tape 11 for recording the business message (the caller's business message), and the recording/reproducing switch 7 is switched to the recording side (dashed line side).

As a result, the caller's message is recorded as the first message on the message recording tape 11 through the coupling transformer 4, the recording amplifier 6, and the recording/reproducing head 9.

When the recording of the caller's message is finished, CPU1
4 generates and records a delimiter sound on the message recording tape 11 by the delimiter sound generating circuit 16, and then stops the tape. Then, relay 3 is opened to complete one cycle of the answering answer recording function.

By repeating the above cycle, the /iJ items of the calling material are recorded one after another on the message message recording tray.

Next, when the old man sends a remote control signal after taking the device out of town through the telephone line 1, the remote control signal detection circuit 13
detects the signal and sends the detection signal to the CPU 14. CPU
14 thereby sends a command to the tape drive circuit 12 to rewind and then reproduce the message recording tape 11.

This allows the owner to listen to recorded messages one after another.

However, the above-mentioned conventional apparatus has the disadvantage that it does not have a function to operate the response message tape 10 by remote control, and the response message cannot be changed from the outside.

(Objective) The object of the present invention is to provide an answering machine having a function of being able to record a message on a response message tape by remote control and, in that case, notifying the end of the tape. There is a particular thing.

(Summary) In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides F) means for recording a message on a response message tape by remote control, means for detecting the end of the response message tape, and means for recording a message when the end of the tape is detected. A feature of the answering machine is that the answering machine is equipped with a means for transmitting a warning sound to the telephone line at the same time as the operation is stopped, indicating that the tape has ended.

(Example) The present invention will now be illustrated by way of examples.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention in an answering machine (hereinafter abbreviated as the device). In the figure, reference numeral 20 indicates a "tape end detection" device, and reference numeral 21 indicates a warning sound generating circuit.The other reference numerals indicate the same components as in FIG.

Next, the operation of the embodiment of the present invention described above will be explained with reference to 70-chamber I in FIG.

First, the answering machine switch 15 of the apparatus shown in FIG.
). When a ring tone is sent through telephone line 1,
The call signal detection circuit 2 detects this and sends the CPU 14
sends a detection signal to. As a result, the CPU 14
The telephone line 1 is connected to the coupling transformer 4 to enable transmission and reception of signals (step S2). Thereafter, the tape drive circuit 12 drives the responsive tape 10, and the recording/reproduction switch 7 is switched to the reproduction 94 (dotted line side). Then, the response message is reproduced and transmitted to the caller through the recording/reproducing head 8, the reproduction amplifier 5, and the coupling 1/channel 4 (step 83).

Now, when the owner of this device sends an operation signal to the telephone line l to change the content of the response message, the operation signal is detected by the remote operation signal detection circuit 13 via the coupling transformer 4, and the detection signal is sent to the CPU 14. Sent. Therefore, C.P.
U14 is the response message S4). Note that step S4
If it is determined that there is no remote control signal for changing the response message, the process moves to step S5 and recording of the business message begins.

Now, if the result in step S4 is YES, the CPU 14 sets the recording/reproducing switch 7 to the recording side (solid line side), drives the response message tape by the tape drive circuit 11, and starts recording (step SS). In this state, when the response message tape reaches the end, the tape end detection device 20
sends a tape end detection signal to the CPU 14 (step S
6).

Based on the tape end detection signal, the CPU 14 issues a stop command to the tape drive circuit 12 to stop driving the tape;
At the end of the recording, the warning sound generating circuit 21 sends out a warning sound indicating that the tape has ended to the telephone line 1 via the coupling transformer 4 (step S7).

Thereafter, it is determined whether all other remote operations have been completed (stesoge SS). If the answer is no, various remote operations are performed (step S9). If the status game S8 becomes YES, the process returns to step S1 and the answering machine waits again. As explained above, according to the device of this embodiment, it is possible to record a message on the response message tape by remote control. If possible and the tape ends during recording,
The owner can be immediately notified of this by a warning sound. Therefore, since the owner knows that the message was not recorded correctly, he can create a desired response message tape by slightly re-recording the message.

(Effects) According to the present invention, there is an effect that the contents of the response message tape can be changed by remote control.

However, in this case, if the tape ends during recording, you will be notified by the warning sound, so by using the warning sound as a landmark, you can tell whether all messages to be recorded have been recorded without directly looking at the tape. It has the effect of being understood.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a conventional retaining size @ filling device, Fig. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, and Fig. 3 f-CI
3 is a flowchart showing the functions of CPUc') in the embodiment. 1...Telephone line, 2...Call number 16 detection circuit,
3... Relay, 4... Coupling transformer, 5... Playback amplifier, 6... Recording amplifier, 7... Recording/playback switch,
8.9... Recording/reproduction head, 10... Tape for response message, 11... Tape for message message, 12...
・Tape drive circuit, 13...Remote control (i sealing outlet circuit, 14...Central command unit [(CPU), 20...Chive end detection 1f;, position, 21...U warning sound generation Circuit 1
Figure 2

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) In an answering machine capable of various remote operations via a telephone line, a means for recording a message via the telephone line on a remote control response message tape;
means for detecting the tape end of the response message tape; and when the tape end is detected while recording a response message on the remote control response message tape, a warning sound indicating the end of the tape is sent to the telephone line. An answering machine characterized by comprising means for.