KR20020005349A - A voice guiding system for informing the function of mobile phone and the method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A portable phone having a voice guidance function and a method thereof are provided to add a two-step switching function, the first switching for voice guidance and the second switching for the function of each button, to each button so that a user can push a desired button without seeing it. CONSTITUTION: A portable phone having a voice guidance function is comprised of a keypad part(12), a search button part(13), a voice guidance function selection button(15), a memory(16), a voice ROM(17), a voice signal regeneration part(18), a voice output part(19), a voice input part(20), an LCD(21), an RF transmit-receive part(22), and a control part(11). The keypad part(12) includes a plurality of buttons. The search button part(13) includes a plurality of search buttons to search for specific information. The voice guidance function selection button(15) executes the setup and release of the voice guidance function. The memory(16) stores various information for the portable phone. The voice ROM(17) stores voice code data, composed of numbers and characters, for voice guidance. The voice signal regeneration part(18) regenerates the voice code data inputted from the voice ROM(17) into a voice signal. The voice output part(19) outputs the voice regenerated from the voice signal regeneration part(18) and the voice received on telephone conversation. The voice input part(20) receives a user voice signal. The LCD(21) outputs the information stored in the memory(16) in the form of a text. The RF transmit-receive part(22) transmits and receives radio communication signals. The control part(11) controls each of the components of the portable phone.

Description

A voice guiding system for informing the function of mobile phone and the method

In the present invention, a mobile phone having a plurality of buttons outputs the functions of each button by using a primary switching operation and a letter, a symbol, etc. displayed on the LCD as a voice so that dialing can be performed without looking at the buttons. The present invention relates to a mobile phone and a mobile phone voice guide function providing a voice guide function in which a function of a corresponding button is performed or text information output on an LCD is output as voice.

In the case of a mobile phone that is generally used, it is not difficult to dial to make a phone call under normal conditions.However, even if you use a handsfree kit, you must press the button of the mobile phone to make a call even if you use the handsfree kit. There is a problem that the risk of an accident is increased because the vision is deprived.

In addition, in the case of a mobile phone or a telephone, a recognition protrusion is displayed on or around the top of the button 5, but it is difficult to distinguish other numeric buttons or function buttons without looking at the dial button, and is not suitable for dialing or visually impaired users. There is difficulty.

Therefore, in order to solve the above problems, when the visually impaired person uses the phone or when the general person inevitably uses the mobile phone while driving, two-stage switching to each button to press a desired button without looking at the dial button The present invention provides a mobile phone and a mobile phone voice guidance function having a voice guidance function for performing a voice guidance for each button in the primary switching and a function of the corresponding button in the secondary switching.

1 is a view showing an entire block diagram of a mobile phone having a voice guidance function as an embodiment according to the present invention;

2 is an overall flowchart for providing a mobile phone voice guidance function according to the present invention,

3 is a flow chart showing a voice guidance function execution subroutine of the flow chart of FIG.

4 is a perspective view of a mobile phone having a plurality of search buttons to perform a search by voice guidance in a mobile phone having a voice guidance function according to the present invention,

5 is a flowchart illustrating an entire search process by the search button of FIG.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a process of searching for a recently dialed number and a stored phone number in an ascending or descending order among the search buttons of FIG. 5 and performing voice guidance.

Explanation of symbols on the main parts of the invention

1,4 mobile phone 11: control unit

12: front keypad portion 13: side button portion

14: search button 15,41: voice guidance function selection button

16: Memory 17: Voice ROM

18: audio signal playback unit 19: audio output unit

20: voice input unit 21: LCD

22: RF transceiver 23,47: bidirectional search button

24,42: Recent Caller Number Search Button

25,43: Saved phone number search button 26,44: Select button

41: voice guidance function selection button 45,46: protrusion

According to the present invention for achieving the above object, when performing a switching operation on a button configured in a mobile phone having a plurality of buttons having a two-stage switching function, the button generates a key value corresponding to the primary switching or secondary switching, the control unit After recognizing the key value of the button, if the key value corresponding to the primary switching, the voice code data for the function of the button is read from the voice ROM and transmitted to the voice signal reproducing unit. After receiving the voice code data, the voice signal reproducing unit converts the voice code data into a voice signal so that the voice guidance for the corresponding button is output through the voice output unit such as a speaker or earphone. To distinguish between them. When the user confirms that the desired button is selected in the voice guidance, the user performs secondary switching among the two-stage switching functions assigned to the button so that a unique function embedded in the button is performed.

The above-mentioned voice guidance function is provided with a mobile phone, a telephone, as well as a door lock or a security release configured such that a key value generated by pressing a button performs a specific function. The present invention can be applied to a control device that performs control by a device or a button operation.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram showing an entire voice guide device for implementing a mobile phone voice guide device according to an embodiment of the present invention,

A keypad unit 12 having a plurality of buttons engraved on at least one of numbers, letters, or symbols on an outer surface thereof so as to perform a dial; A search button unit 13 provided with a plurality of search buttons for searching specific stored information; A voice guidance function selection button 15 for setting and releasing the voice guidance function; A memory 16 for storing various information of the mobile phone; A voice ROM 17 for storing voice code data of numbers and letters for voice guidance; A voice signal reproducing unit 18 which receives voice code data from the voice ROM and reproduces the voice code data as a voice signal; A voice output unit 19 for outputting a voice reproduced by the voice signal reproducing unit 18 and a voice received during a call; A voice input unit (microphone unit) 20 for receiving a user voice signal; An LCD 21 for outputting information stored in the memory in the form of a character; RF transceiver 22 for transmitting and receiving a wireless communication signal; And a control unit 11 for controlling each component of the mobile phone.

The above-described memory 16 stores various kinds of information of other mobile phones such as telephone numbers, names, text information, and the like.

The above-described voice ROM 17 stores digitized voice code data such as letters, numbers and symbols. When there is a voice guidance output request for a function of a specific character or telephone number or button, the control unit reads the voice code data for the character from the voice ROM and sends it to the voice signal reproducing unit 18 to output the corresponding voice signal from the voice output unit. Will output

Here, the keypad 12 preferably has a character selection button for selectively selecting a plurality of characters assigned to a single button.

The voice signal reproducing unit 18 reproduces and amplifies the voice code data received from the voice ROM 17 as a voice signal so that voice guidance is output from the speaker or earphone.

The voice output unit 19 may be a speaker embedded in the mobile phone itself, or may be a speaker of a handsfree kit when using a vehicle handsfree kit, or may be an earphone.

In the following, the processing of the voice output for voice guidance described above will be described in more detail.

2 is an overall flowchart for implementing a voice guidance function of a mobile phone according to the present invention.

As shown in the figure, the processing procedure for voice guidance of each button of the mobile phone, the LCD output text, etc., the voice guidance function is provided to the mobile phone through the voice guidance setting release button or menu setting, release the voice guidance setting provided in the mobile phone If the voice guidance function is activated in step S201 described above, but the user wants to use the mobile phone without the voice guidance function, turn off the voice guidance function of the mobile phone and directly confirm the button in the same manner as the general mobile phone. If you want to use the voice guidance function of the mobile phone (S208) and the mobile phone, using the voice guidance function selection button 41 shown in Fig. 4 or by setting the voice guidance function by menu selection Two-stage switching on the phone's button with voice guidance activated Performing primary switching among the functions, and transmitting the key value of the corresponding button generated as a result of the switching to the control unit (S202).

The primary switching function sends a key value corresponding to the primary switching to the controller so that the controller can perform a function of guiding a function of the button or a voice or a letter or number corresponding to the button by voice. .

Next, when the primary switching is performed on the button in the above-described step, the controller of the cellular phone receives a key value corresponding to the primary switching function and performs voice guidance for the corresponding button (S203).

Referring to the voice guidance of the button, if the user does not want the button to return to step S202 to repeat the above process until the desired button is selected (204), if the desired button is selected, the two-stage switching function of the above-described button The secondary switching is performed and the controller recognizes the key value corresponding to the secondary switching to perform a unique function of the corresponding button (S205).

In this case, the unique function refers to a function of performing a direct operation for using a mobile phone such as displaying a number assigned to a corresponding button on a selected LCD when the call is made (S205).

After the above-described step S205, the user determines whether all desired buttons are selected (S206), and if all the numbers are selected, or if the desired telephone number is retrieved and displayed on the LCD by searching for a stored telephone number or a recent caller number, dialing is performed. In order to perform a call by pressing the "call" button or the select button 44 of FIG. 4 to perform a call, or if the retrieved information is text information such as a message rather than a telephone number, the selection of "OK" or FIG. By pressing the button 44 to listen to the voice guidance, all processing is terminated (S207).

Here, the voice guidance for the text message or the voice guidance for the telephone number and the dialing to the retrieved telephone number are selected by the control unit according to the processing. For example, when searching for a phone number, a voice prompt is issued while searching for a phone number. When the user's phone number is finally searched, pressing the Select button or Call button performs dialing. When searching for text messages, the Select button or When the OK button is pressed, the control unit determines the final step of each process so that the contents of the text message are output as voice.

Here, the select button 44 is used to dial a telephone number searched among one component of the search button unit 13 configured at the side of the mobile phone 4 of FIG. 4 to be described below, or to perform audio output of information displayed on the LCD. Configured button.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a voice guidance function execution subroutine in the flowchart of FIG. 2.

Transmitting a primary switching key value to a controller by performing a primary switching on a button having a two-stage switching function (S331);

The control unit 11 having received the primary switching key value transmitted in the above step reproduces the voice signal by extracting the function of the button on which the primary switching has been performed or the voice code data of the characters and numbers on the button from the voice ROM 17. Transmitting to the unit 18 (S332); And

The voice signal reproducing unit 18 converts the voice code data into a voice signal and transmits it to the voice output unit 19 (S333), and then outputs the voice (S334). When the above-described subroutine ends, Returning to the flowchart of FIG. 2 again, the remaining processing is performed.

4 is a perspective view of a mobile phone having a plurality of search buttons to perform a search by voice guidance in the mobile phone according to the present invention.

As shown, a mobile phone having a voice guidance function according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a voice button function selection button 41 and a voice button function, in addition to the general front keypad part 12, and a search button unit for performing a search ( 13) is configured on the side of the mobile phone.

The aforementioned search button unit 13 includes a recent call number search button 42, a user number search button 43, and a bidirectional search button 47.

In addition, the separately configured select button 44 is used when a user wants to search for and execute information desired by a user in a search. It performs the same function as the call button of the above-described process, but also has a function of outputting the message by voice in searching for a message. The dialing and voice output of the message are automatically selected by the control unit as described above according to the processing. That is, if the selection button is pressed when the phone number search is performed, the dialing is performed, and when the text message search is performed, the controller controls the voice guidance to be output.

The voice function selection button 45 and the selection (execution) button 44 are provided with protrusions 45 and 46 of a predetermined size on the upper surface so that the user can easily find the corresponding button so that it is easy to distinguish them from other buttons. It is preferable to construct.

The voice selection button 45 can be set and released by the menu selection of the mobile phone, the voice guidance function can be set and released, so it is also possible to delete the voice selection button.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an entire search process by the search button of FIG. 4.

When the user wants to search, performing a search by selecting a recent call number search button 42 or a phone number search button 43 stored by a user input in the search button unit 13 of FIG. 4 (S501). ) And performing a recent call number search when selecting the last call number search button 42 (S502) and performing a stored phone number search when the user selects the stored call number search button 43 (S503). Carry calls, including.

6 is a subroutine diagram of a recent call number search and a stored phone number search of the search button of FIG.

The mobile phone initially assigns a value (0) in the ascending order to a variable (eg, n) which internally determines the order of the latest calling number in the descending order, and adds 1 to the number of the stored last calling number (S601);

When the recent caller ID search button 42 or the stored phone number search button 43 is selected, in the ascending search, the number in the corresponding order is selected by adding 1 to the above-described variable; Performing voice guidance by selecting a phone number in the corresponding sequence after subtracting the number (S602, S606, S603, S607, S604, S608);

It is determined whether the phone number that is selected and the voice guidance output is the desired phone number (S609), and if the selected phone number is not the desired phone number,

If the user selects an ascending search, it is determined whether the variable n that designates the initially determined telephone number sequence is equal to the number of the latest outgoing telephone number or the stored telephone number (S610). The process moves to S603 and the process is repeated. If n is equal to the number of stored phone numbers, it is determined whether to terminate the search (S611). If the search is to be performed again, the process returns to step S602 and the process is repeated. It includes a step.

Next, when the user selects a descending search rather than an ascending search, it is determined whether the variable n that initially specifies the telephone number order is initially equal to 1 (S612). If n is greater than 1, the process moves to step S606 to repeat the process. If n is equal to 1, it is determined whether or not to terminate the search (S613). If the search is to be performed again, the process returns to step S605, and if the rescanning is not performed, the process is terminated. It includes a step.

If the searched phone number is the desired phone number, the user presses the call button or the selection button 44 provided on the side of the mobile phone 4 (S614) to dial the searched phone number to perform a call (S615) and then terminate the process. do.

Here, the voice guidance function for the button is not limited to the mobile phone, but may include a door lock, a control panel on which numeric buttons are arranged, and the like.

Next will be described an embodiment of a button having a two-stage switching structure of the button.

An embodiment of a button having a two-stage switching structure includes a case in which a predetermined signal of this step is set in a sensor-type button or a control unit in which an infrared sensor for detecting a touch of a button is set so that a button is shortly pressed. It may be a timer-type button that realizes the second switching function by recognizing the secondary switching, or a double contact button having two contacts, one with primary switching, and another with double contact with secondary switching.

Next, when searching for the menu function of the mobile phone by using the button having the above-mentioned two-stage switching function, first activate the voice guidance function, and the user selects the button for the menu item on the front panel of the mobile phone using the voice guidance function. After pressing the button for a long time, the submenu of the menu item is displayed on the LCD. Suppose that the LCD displays 1: recent number, 2: recent number 3: find phone number. When user presses button 1 shortly, voice prompt “Recently dialed number” appears and button 2 is shortened. If you press the "Recently Received Number" voice prompt appears, press the button 3 shortly, "Phone Number Search" voice prompt will appear, the mobile phone users hear the voice prompt "Find a phone number" and press the button (button 3) If you press and hold again, the submenu of phone number search (1: search by name, 2: search by address) is displayed. When the user presses the button 1 again, the voice prompt "Find by name" comes out, and when the user presses the button 2 short, the voice guide "Find by address" comes out. If the mobile phone user hears the voice guidance "Find by address" and press the button (2) a little longer, the voice guidance "Select address to find" comes out. After listening to the guide for the number button and selecting a address, the stored name and phone number of the address is converted to voice and output to the speaker or earphone, so the mobile phone user presses the call button or the select button when the person wants to make a call. If you press the search button on the phone after "Select address to find", you can move forward or backward sequentially from the first or last address of the stored address, and the text character for each name is voiced whenever the stored name of the address appears. The signal is converted into a signal and is heard by the user through the voice output unit 19. After listening to the voice guidance, select the number you want to call from the stored phone numbers and press the call button.

If there is no text for the person's name and only the phone number, the controller reads the information about the number from the voice ROM 25 with the phone number displayed on the LCD and outputs it from the voice output unit.

In searching the submenu of the menu in the above-described search, the search in the descending or ascending order may be performed using the search button 23 configured in the search button unit 13 shown in FIGS. 1 and 4.

As described above, if you need to make a call while driving, or if a visually impaired person needs to make a call using a mobile phone or a telephone, listen to the function of each button through voice guidance without selecting the dial button and select the corresponding button. By doing so, you can reduce the risk of an accident that occurs when you make a phone call using your mobile phone while driving.

Still another effect according to the present invention is to make it easier and more accurate for a blind person to use a mobile phone or a telephone, which is a dial device having a plurality of buttons.

Another effect of the present invention is to implement the voice guidance function, there is an effect that facilitates the operation of the device having an operation function by the button.

In addition, the technology related to the present invention can be applied to all devices having various buttons, such as a dial assistance device having a dial function.

Claims (11)

In a mobile phone as a personal wireless communication device, Voice ROM for storing voice code data for letters, numbers, symbols for voice guidance; A voice signal reproducing unit converting the voice code data into a voice signal when the voice code data extracted from the voice ROM is input; A plurality of buttons having a two-stage switching function for transmitting a key value for performing voice guidance by primary switching and for transmitting a key value for executing a preset switching function by secondary switching; And Receiving the switching key value generated from the plurality of buttons, if the key value of the button is due to the primary switching, extract the voice code data for voice guidance for the function of the button from the voice ROM to the voice signal playback unit And a control unit configured to perform a function of the button if the key value of the button is due to the secondary switching. The method of claim 1, wherein the voice ROM, A mobile phone having a voice guidance function, characterized in that for storing at least one voice code data of all letters or numbers or symbols of Korean characters or voice code data for a function of a menu or a button of the mobile phone. The method of claim 1, wherein the button having the two-stage switching structure, Mobile phone having a voice guidance function, characterized in that the sensor-type button configured to sense the touch of the button. The method of claim 1, wherein the button having the two-stage switching structure, A predetermined reference time is set in the control unit, and when the button is switched for less than a predetermined reference time of the predetermined reference time, the primary switching function is performed, and when the button is pressed for more than the predetermined reference time, the timer type button is a secondary switching. Mobile phone having a voice guidance function, characterized in that. The method of claim 1, wherein the button having the two-stage switching structure, A mobile phone having a voice guidance function having two contacts, one of which is a primary switching and the other of which is a dual contact button. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile phone, A search button unit comprising search buttons for searching specific stored information; Voice guidance function selection button for setting and releasing the voice guidance function; And Mobile phone having a voice guidance function characterized in that it comprises a selection button that is selected by the button to output the search information output on the LCD as a voice from the voice output unit. The method of claim 6, wherein the search button unit, Mobile phone with voice guidance function characterized in that it comprises a recent caller ID search button. The method of claim 6, wherein the search button unit, A mobile phone having a voice guidance function comprising a stored phone number search button. The method of claim 6, wherein the search button, A mobile phone having a voice guidance function comprising a two-way search button. (1) a first step of determining whether the voice guidance function is selected; (2) a second step of determining whether a primary contact with the button has been performed if the voice guidance function is selected as the determination result of the first step; (3) a third step of repeating the second step if there is no primary contact with the button as a result of the second step, and performing a voice guidance function for the button if there is a primary contact with the button; (4) a fourth step of determining whether secondary switching is performed on the button after the third step; (5) a fifth step of executing a function for the button if the secondary switching is performed as a result of the determination in the fourth step; And (6) if the secondary switching is not performed as a result of the determination of the fourth step, returning to the second step and repeating the processing. The method of claim 10, wherein in the fifth step, the secondary switched button is a search button. (1) a seventh step of determining whether a recent call number search or a user stored phone number search is selected; And (2) As a result of the determination of the seventh step, if the most recently called number search is selected, the most recently dialed number search is performed; Mobile phone voice guidance function providing method comprising a.