KR20000038151A - Automatic response apparatus for video telephone - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An automatic response apparatus for video telephone is provided to identify a telephone number called during the absence by storing the telephone number called during the absence automatically using a caller ID provided from a telephone office. CONSTITUTION: A system control unit(105) controls a signal process of a camera digital signal processing unit(103), performs a compression, a decompression and a transmission of a video signal, and performs an automatic response. A communication control and interface unit(107) performs a control of a video communication and a signal input and output according to a control of the system control unit(105). A memory unit(109) stores control information or video information of the system control unit(105) and stores a caller ID, an automatic response video and audio data and a received video and audio data.

Description

Video answering machine

The present invention relates to an automatic answering device of a video telephone. In particular, the user can perform a missed call using both voice and video, and can record not only the voice but also the video of the called party, and the telephone number of the calling party. The present invention relates to an automatic answering device for a video telephone, which allows automatic recording of a caller ID provided by an exchange office.

While the video phone provides the convenience of simultaneous voice communication with the other party and his or her own video communication, the conventional video phone simply notifies the other party of the missed call as a voice message and records the other party's use as a voice message. I just put it.

The present invention focuses on the fact that the video telephone processes the video together with the voice, so that the missed guidance message can be transmitted in video and / or voice, and the response of the other party can be recorded in video and / or audio. It provides an automatic answering device for video telephones by automatically recording the caller ID provided by.

1 is a block diagram of a video telephone to which the present invention is applied.

Figure 2 is a flowchart of the automatic response control process in the present invention

The answering machine of the video telephone of the present invention; Setting means for setting the answering machine mode; first recording means for recording the called party's telephone number and the number of incoming calls as a caller ID for an incoming call when the answering machine is set by the setting means; Second recording means for storing the missed announcement voice and video message to be transmitted to the other party when a call is received, and third recording means for recording the voice and / or the voice of the other party when a call is received during the absence, and in the auto answering mode. An automatic answering apparatus of a video telephone comprising a control means for controlling the first to third recording means to send out guide voice and / or video and record a response. Indicates.

First, referring to FIG. 1, a configuration of a video telephone to which the present invention is applied will be described. An image signal captured by the camera unit 101 by driving the camera unit 101 and the camera unit 101 to obtain an image signal is described. A camera driving and signal input unit 102 for inputting a digital camera, a camera digital signal processing unit 103 for processing an image signal output from the camera driving and signal input unit 102, and the camera digital signal processing unit 103. Control the compression and decompression unit 104 to compress or decompress the image signal, and control the signal processing of the camera digital signal processing unit 103, perform compression and decompression and transmission control of the image signal, and perform automatic response control. Is connected to the system control unit 105 for performing the operation, a monitor 106 for displaying the image signal processed by the camera digital signal processing unit 103, and the compression and decompression unit 104. A communication control and interface unit 107 for controlling image communication and performing signal input / output under the control of the stem control unit 105, and a key input unit for inputting a user command or user input information to the system control unit 105. And a memory unit 109 in which control information, image information, and the like of the system control unit 105 are stored, and caller ID, auto-answer video and audio data, received video and audio data are recorded, and the communication control. And a handset 110 connected to the interface unit 107 to perform voice transmission and reception.

Fig. 2 is a flowchart showing the automatic answering control process performed in the video telephone according to the present invention. When a telephone ring is received in the automatic answering mode, the caller ID provided by the switching center is recorded and whether the other party is a general voice telephone or a video telephone. Accordingly, it has been shown that the user can perform the absence guidance simultaneously with the video and the voice and record the video and the voice of the other party, or perform the absence guidance only with the voice and perform the automatic response by recording the voice of the other party.

Hereinafter, the operation of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

The camera unit 101 is composed of a lens and a CCD to convert the image into an electrical signal and output, and the drive and signal input unit 102 drives the CCD of the camera unit 101 to convert the image into an electrical signal The converted signal is received and supplied to the camera digital signal processor 103.

The camera digital signal processing unit 103 performs the processing of the luminance signal and the color signal under the control of the system control unit 105, connects to the compression and recovery unit 104, and also supplies the image to the monitor 106. Meanwhile, the received counterpart image is also displayed.

The compression and decompression unit 104 compresses the digital signal of the photographed image into a predetermined compression format under the control of the system control unit 105 and transmits the digital signal to the counterpart device through the communication control and interface unit 107 or the counterpart device. The image signal received from the processor is recovered to be displayed on the monitor 106.

The communication control and interface unit 107 is under the control of the system control unit 105 and is in charge of connecting (building) the communication line with the counterpart device and transmitting and receiving control information including image information.

In addition, the handset 110 is connected to the communication control and interface unit 107 to be responsible for the transmission and reception of the user and the other party's voice signal during communication.

Meanwhile, in order to perform the auto answering function, the user inputs a predefined auto answering key to the key input unit 108, and the system control unit 108 recognizes the auto answering key input and enters the auto answering mode.

That is, the automatic answering mode is set in step 201, and when a call is received, in step 202, the communication control and interface unit 107 detects a telephone ring and is controlled by the system control unit 105 to establish a communication line. .

The caller ID provided by the exchange office is recorded in the caller ID storage unit 109a of the memory unit 109. At this time, the incoming frequency of the corresponding number is recorded together so as to know how many times the call has been made from the same number.

In the next step 204, it is determined whether the absence guidance is performed by video and audio at the same time or by voice only.

This is because the modem connection fails when the other party is not a video call. In this case, the modem connection is performed. In this case, the modem connection is successful. In this case, the modem connection is successful.

That is, the mode can be determined automatically.

When proceeding to the video mode, in step 205, the system control unit 105 reads the missed guide video data 109c along with the missed guide voice message 109b of the memory unit 109 to control the communication control and interface unit 107. ) To perform the missed guidance to the other party through video and audio.

In this case, the guide image data 109c may be a still image or a moving image in which the user memorizes his / her appearance in advance using the camera unit 101.

As described above, when the caller wants to leave the video and the audio at the same time in response to the absence guidance of the video and the audio, the key promised in advance is pressed.

Then, the system controller 105 receives both the video and the voice of the other party and compresses the compressed and decompressed unit 104. The compressed voice is recorded in the received voice storage unit 109d of the memory unit 109 and compressed. The image is recorded in the received image storage unit 109e.

On the other hand, in the voice mode, in step 207, the system control unit 105 reads the missed voice guidance message 109b of the memory unit 109 and transmits it to the counterpart through the communication control and interface unit 107.

When the voice caller leaves a voice message in response to the absence guidance of the voice, the system controller 105 receives the voice of the other party and compresses the compressed and decompressed unit 104, and the compressed voice is received by the memory unit 109. The recording is made in the audio storage unit 109d.

When there is a missed call as described above, when the user presses the key promised in the key input unit 108, the system controller 105 indicates that the missed call has been made to the monitor 106 through the camera digital signal processor 103. The received telephone number is displayed with reference to the stored information of the Caller ID storage unit 109a, and the number of incoming calls is also displayed.

It also displays how many audio and video messages there are.

When the user presses a key promised through the key input unit 108 with respect to the missed call as described above, the system controller 105 reads the received voice message and video data from each of the storage units 109d and 109e. At the same time as output (voice) to the speaker such as 110) and simultaneously display the image left by the other party on the monitor 106, it is possible to accurately determine with both video and audio from whom the call was received.

The present invention can automatically store the phone number received during the absence using the Caller ID, and can also perform the absence guidance not only with the voice but also with the video, and not only the voice recording of the other party, but also the other person can leave the video with the video telephone. It is convenient because it can be provided, and provides a video phone that can accurately know the identity and use of the caller by video and audio.

Claims (1)

Setting means for setting the answering machine mode; first recording means for recording the called party's telephone number and the number of incoming calls as a caller ID for an incoming call when the answering machine is set by the setting means; Second recording means for storing the missed announcement voice and video message to be transmitted to the other party when the call is received; and third recording means for recording the video and / or audio of the other party when the call is received during the absence, and in the automatic answering mode. An automatic answering device for a video telephone comprising a control means for controlling the first to third recording means to send out a guide video and / or audio and record a response.