JPS6367949A - Automatic answering telephone system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To rapidly discriminate an object for an automatically recorded message and to reproduced only the message of a called subscriber by allowing a calling subscriber to tell a called subscriber's name at the time of incoming call during absence, discriminating the called subscriber's name, displaying the name together with the discriminating information and recording a message from the calling subscriber together with the discriminating information. CONSTITUTION:In case of an incoming call during absence, a microprocessor 15 sends an answering message from a RAM 16 to the calling subscriber. The answer of the calling subscriber which is inputted in accordance with the answering message is recognized by a sound recognizing circuit 14 and stored in the RAM 16. At that time, called subscriber's information such as the name of the called subscriber is printed out together with its address number. A called subscriber's message following the answer is stored in the RAM 16 together with the name and address number of the calling subscriber. When the called subscriber detects that the incoming call is addressed to himself from printed out recording paper, the address number printed out is keyed from a key button 19. The microprocessor 15 reads out message data corresponding to the address number from the RAM 16 in accordance with the address number.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Summary] The present application allows the caller to state the name of the called party when a call is received while the caller is away, identifies the called party's name and displays it together with its identification information, and makes the call. This invention discloses an answering machine that records messages from other parties together with their identification information, and later allows the called party to view the display and reproduce the recorded messages.

[Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to an answering machine, and more particularly to an answering machine that is shared by a plurality of people.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, answering machines have been well known that automatically send a response message to a caller when an incoming call is received, and have the caller make a message using the response message and record it on an audio tape.

In this case, with the spread of answering machines, a system for efficiently sharing a single answering machine in offices and homes has become necessary.

[Conventional technology]

When conventional answering machines are used together, an unspecified person can confirm to whom the recorded message is addressed by playing back the recorded message and discerning its contents. There is.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

In this way, with conventional answering machines, the person who plays the recorded message happens to be the target of the message (called party).
If so, the mission of the answering machine is completed at that point, but if the person to whom the message is sent is not the person who played the message, the message player must search for and contact the person to whom the message is sent.

In particular, if there are multiple recorded messages, all the messages must be played back from the beginning, and if the message targets multiple people, it is not easy to search for the target person. In such a case, there is a problem in that it requires a lot of time and effort.

Furthermore, if the person who played the recording was not the person to whom the message was sent, there was also the problem that the contents of the message could be heard by someone other than the person to whom the message was sent, resulting in an invasion of privacy.

Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide an operation that allows quick identification of the person to whom a message is recorded without having to listen to the contents of the message, and that allows easy reproduction of only the message of the called party. The purpose of the present invention is to realize an answering machine with good performance.

[Means for solving problems]

FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically showing an answering machine of the present invention for solving the above problems, in which ■ is a recording means that stores a response message to a caller when an incoming call is received;
2 is a callee identification means for identifying a specific called party called by the calling party in response to the response message, and 3 is a display means for displaying information on the called party identified by the called party identification means 2. , 4 is a reproduction means for reproducing the information in the recording means 1, and 5 is a reproduction means for providing the called party information identified by the called party identification means 2 together with identification information for reproduction to the display means 3, and also displays the identification information. This is a control means for storing the message in the recording means 1 in combination with the message in response to the response message.

[For production]

In FIG. 1 showing the present invention, when a call arrives while you are away,
A response message to the caller is sent from the recording means 1. When the calling party sends information such as the name of the called party in response to this response message, the called party identification means 2 identifies this and the control means 5 uses the called party information for reproduction. The identification information is given to the display means 3 together with identification information such as the address number of
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〔Example〕

The present invention will be explained in detail below.

FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of the answering machine of the present invention shown in FIG. 1, and the entire device is shown in FIG. In the figure, 11 is a switching circuit that switches the telephone line between the handset T side and the answering machine side, 12 is an input/output control circuit that controls the transmission and reception of messages when an incoming call is received, and 13 is the voice from the human output control circuit 12. An A/D conversion circuit that converts a signal into a digital signal; 14 is a speech recognition LSI that analyzes speech using the digital signal from the A/D conversion circuit 13;
15 is a microprocessor as a control means, 116 is a RAM (Random Access Memory) as a means for recording digital data from the voice recognition circuit 14, and 17 is a printer as a display means. As shown in Figure 3, for example, it is output as a hard copy and printed as shown in Figure 4, 18 is a clock for giving the time, 19 is a key button for input, and 20 is a RAM.
16 is a speech synthesis circuit using a speech synthesis LSI for synthesizing recorded digital data into speech; 21 is a D/A conversion circuit for converting the digital signal synthesized by the speech synthesis circuit 20 into an analog signal; 22 is a D/A conversion circuit; /A conversion circuit 21
A speaker that converts analog signals from a computer into audio.

Next, the operation of the embodiment of the present invention will be explained.

When a user in an office or home where this answering machine is installed inputs a key indicating the answering machine state from the key button 19, the microprocessor 15 switches the telephone line from the handset T side to the answering machine side.
Switch.

When there is an incoming call from the telephone line, the input/output circuit 12 switches to the input side, and the A/D conversion circuit 13 and the voice recognition circuit 1
4, the incoming signal can be captured. The micropro sensor 15 judges the received incoming signal and stores it in the RAM.
16 to output a prerecorded response message in the form of a digital signal, which is reproduced by the voice synthesis circuit 20 and D/A conversion circuit 21, and the input/output control circuit 12 is switched to the output side to output the response message to the telephone line. Send out.

Although the sending of this response message is the same as in the conventional case, the content of the response message itself is unique in order to carry out the subsequent operation of the present invention.

In other words, you can have the caller tell the name of the called party by a response message, for example, ``I am not available at the moment, so please tell me the name of the other party after the next dial tone.If there is a message, Please speak after the second tone."
The content is stored in the RAM 16 as follows.

The caller's message input according to the response message is recognized by the voice recognition circuit 14 and stored in the RAM 16. At this time, the called party information such as the called party's name after the first dial tone is printed out together with the address number, ie, the identification number, as shown in FIG. 4. When outputting this printout, the time information obtained from the clock 18 may also be printed as called party information to clarify what time and minute the call is received. Further, in the message of the called party following the second dial tone, the already obtained name and address number of the calling party are combined and stored in the RAM 16.

The called party looks at the printed record sheet and confirms whether the call is for him or herself or another person.If the call is for himself, he presses the key button 19 to enter the address number printed on the printout. Enter the key.

Microprocessor-15 uses this address number to
The message data corresponding to the address number is read from the AM message recording area, and the voice synthesis circuit 20 and D/
It is converted into an audio signal via the A conversion circuit 21 and supplied to the speaker 22 via the input/output control circuit 12, so that the message of the caller who called while the user was away can be immediately heard.

In the above description, the name of the called party is used as the called party information, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the calling party may be made to tell the number of the called party determined in advance.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As described above, according to the answering machine of the present invention, the caller is made to tell the name of the called party when the telephone is away,
The system was configured to identify the called party's name and other information from the voice and display it together with that identification information, and to play a message for the called party based on the identification number, so one answering machine could be used. When the telephone is shared by a plurality of people, it is possible to check at a glance who received the call while the user is away, thereby reducing waste of labor and time.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a principle block diagram of the answering machine according to the present invention, Fig. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the answering machine of the present invention shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a block diagram showing the principle of the answering machine according to the present invention. FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing the external appearance of an answering machine according to the present invention; FIG. 1 and 2, 1 is a recording means, 2 is a called party identification means, 3 is a display means, 4 is a reproduction means, 5 is a control means, 16 is a RAM as a recording means, and 13 and 14 are called receivers. 17 is a printer as a display means; 20 and 21 are a voice synthesis circuit and a D/A conversion circuit as playback means; 15 is a control means. Microprocessor-1 is shown. In the drawings, the same reference numerals indicate the same or corresponding parts. Patent applicant Fujitsu Co., Ltd. Agent Patent Attorney
Mori 1) Hiroshi (1 other person) Principle diagram of the answering machine mounting of the present invention Figure 1

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) Recording means for storing a response message to the caller when an incoming call is received; Called party identification means for identifying a specific called party called by the caller in response to the response message; (2), display means (3) for displaying information of the identified called party;
, reproducing means (4) for reproducing the information of the recording means (1);
The called party information identified by the called party identification means (2) is given to the display means (3) together with the identification information for reproduction, and the identification information is combined with the message for the response message and the An answering machine characterized by comprising a control means (5) for storing information in a recording means (1). (2) An answering machine according to claim 1, wherein the control means (5) reads a message corresponding to the identification information from the recording means (1) by key input and sends it to the reproduction means (4). Device. (3) The answering machine according to claim 1, wherein the called information is the name of the called party.