KR20060065327A - Method for displaying and storing phone-number informed by voice and mobile communication terminal using the method - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly, to a voice guided phone number display and storage method for automatically recognizing and providing a phone number provided by a voice in a phone number guide system and a mobile communication terminal using the same. .

The mobile communication terminal according to the present invention includes a keypad; A display unit for displaying a menu and an operation state; A wireless communication unit for extracting a voice and data signal from a wireless signal transmitted and received through an antenna; A voice input / output circuit for inputting and outputting a call signal from the wireless communication unit through a microphone and a speaker; A memory including a driving program of the mobile communication terminal and a phone book in which a plurality of phone numbers are stored; A communication control unit for controlling voice and data communication through the wireless communication unit and a voice input / output circuit, and a control unit for each part of the mobile communication terminal, and receive an input voice recognition activation signal to receive a voice by the voice input / output circuit during a call. And a phone controller including a voice recognition unit for recognizing and storing the phone number outputted through the system, and a system controller including a phone number output unit displaying the phone number recognized and stored at the end of the call on the display unit.

Mobile terminal, phone book, phone number, phone number guide system, voice recognition

Description

Method for displaying and storing phone-number informed by voice and mobile communication terminal using the method}

1 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a mobile communication terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a schematic diagram schematically showing a user interface of a mobile communication terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a process of displaying and storing a voice guide telephone number of a mobile communication terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a process of displaying and storing a voice guide phone number of a mobile communication terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly, a method for displaying and storing a voice guided phone number which can automatically recognize and display a phone number provided by voice in a phone number guide system and store the same in a phone book. The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal.

In the conventional search of a phone number, for example, a voice telephone number can be received by accessing a voice telephone number guide system such as '114 telephone guide service' through a telephone. However, such a phone number search technology has been inconvenient to dial the phone number after the end of the call because the user notes the phone number to be guided by voice because the retrieved phone number is guided by voice.

On the other hand, due to the development of mobile communication technology and mobile communication terminal, a voice memo function that can memorize the contents of a call is mounted on the mobile communication terminal so that a user can make a voice memo while talking. Therefore, the voice guide phone number can also be used after confirming the voice memo.

However, the general voice memo function does not improve the disadvantage of having to memorize the memorized phone number later while playing the memorized phone number and dialing again.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, the object of which is to recognize the phone number is guided by voice without a separate note process, and the voice guide to display the recognized phone number through the mobile communication terminal A phone number display and storage method and a mobile communication terminal using the same.

Furthermore, the present invention provides a voice guided telephone number display and storage method capable of immediately dialing a displayed telephone number and a mobile communication terminal using the same.

Furthermore, the present invention provides a voice guided phone number display and storage method which can be stored in a phone book by simply inputting a phone number recognized and displayed on a mobile communication terminal, and a mobile communication terminal using the same.

According to an aspect of the present invention, a mobile communication terminal capable of storing a voice guided phone number inputs a voice recognition activation command for storing a phone number outputted during a call using a mobile communication terminal possessed by a user. Then, the controller of the mobile communication terminal activates the voice recognition unit. The voice recognition unit recognizes the phone number output from the voice, converts it into text, and stores it in a temporary storage space of the memory. When the call is terminated, the controller of the mobile communication terminal accesses and stores the number converted into text in the voice recognition unit and displayed on the display unit. Therefore, the user can check through the mobile communication terminal without a separate note of the phone number output by the voice.

According to an additional aspect of the present invention, if the mobile communication terminal according to the present invention inputs a phone number and a calling command, the controller of the mobile communication terminal is input and the telephone number to be dialed is, for example, a telephone number guide system such as '114'. Check if the phone number is. If the dialed telephone number is a telephone number of the telephone number guide system, the controller of the mobile communication terminal activates the voice recognition unit.

The voice recognition unit recognizes the phone number guided by the voice guidance system, converts the phone number into text, and stores it in a temporary storage space of the memory. When the call with the telephone number guide system ends, the controller of the mobile communication terminal accesses the telephone number stored by the voice recognition unit and displays it on the display unit. Therefore, the user can check through the mobile communication terminal without a separate note of the voice guide phone number.

According to a further aspect of the present invention, a mobile communication terminal according to the present invention provides a user interface capable of automatically making a voice connection and recognizing a telephone number or storing the telephone number in a memory directory. Therefore, the user has the advantage of storing the phone number that is voice-recognized and outputted in the phonebook with a simple selection or making a direct call.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily understand and reproduce the present invention.

1 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a mobile communication terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. As shown, the mobile communication terminal capable of displaying and storing a voice guided telephone number according to the present invention includes a phone control unit 110 and an accessory circuit thereof, which are largely common to existing mobile communication terminals.

It includes a phone control unit 110 and its subcircuits, which are largely common to existing mobile communication terminals, and the subcircuits include a keypad 120, a display unit 130 for displaying a menu and an operation state, and a display unit 130. A display driver 140 for outputting graphic data to the control panel, a wireless communication unit 150 for extracting voice and data signals from a wireless signal transmitted and received through an antenna ANT, and a voice call signal from the wireless communication unit 150. Voice input / output circuit 160 for inputting / outputting through a microphone and a speaker, a memory 170, an audio reproducing unit 180, and an audio outputting unit 190.

The keypad 120 and the display unit 130, which is usually a liquid crystal display, may have a conventional well-known configuration. The display driver 140 displays the graphic data output through the display unit 130 providing visual information to the user and the display data including the backlight control signal through the display unit 130.

In addition, the wireless communication unit 150 is configured to include an antenna (ANT) and RF circuit for communication with the base station. In the present specification, the wireless communication unit 150 is interpreted to cover not only various versions of CDMA but also existing methods such as cellular, GSM, and W-CDMA, as well as mobile communication methods to be introduced in the future. The audio input / output circuit 160 processes digital voice data, i.e., a voice call signal, into an analog voice signal, or vice versa, and amplifies the digital voice data into an amplification gain value of the voice call signal input and output according to the control signal. It is a well-known structure including an additional circuit such as a filter.

The baseband circuit of the wireless communication unit 150 and most of the circuits of the phone control unit 110 are commercially provided as a single integrated circuit. This integrated circuit, commonly referred to as an MSM chip, includes dedicated hardware to process communications therein, a digital signal processor and a general purpose microprocessor. Logically, these include a communication control unit 111 for controlling voice and data communication, and a system control unit 112 for controlling the entire system according to an operation signal or an operation state input from the keypad 120.                     

The memory 170 includes a RAM area in which data generated during a mobile communication terminal control operation is temporarily stored, a ROM area in which a control program for controlling the operation of the mobile communication terminal and basic information thereof are stored, and provided by the mobile communication terminal. It is divided into a user interface (U / I: USER INTERFACE) or a data area capable of storing data generated by the user application and the user application, and is controlled by the system control unit 112. In addition, the memory 170 includes a phone book in which a plurality of phone numbers are stored.

The audio reproducing unit 180 is composed of, for example, a sound source reproducing chip such as a YAMAHA chip for reproducing a ringtone or a DSP chip for reproducing an MP3. The audio reproducing unit 180 reproduces from various sound sources such as reproducing a ringtone, an effect sound, or a music file. Output to 190. The audio output unit 190 amplifies and outputs various reproduction sounds such as a ring tone, an effect sound, and a music file reproduced from the audio reproduction unit 180 according to an amplification gain value according to a control signal output from the system controller 112.

The system controller 112 controls each part of the device of the mobile communication terminal, and receives a voice recognition activation signal input through the keypad 120 to recognize a phone number output by voice by the voice input / output circuit 160 during a call. And a phone number output unit 112-2 for displaying the stored phone number on the display unit 130.

The voice recognition unit 112-1 receives a voice recognition activation signal input through the keypad 120, recognizes a phone number output from the voice input / output circuit 160, converts the voice number into text, and temporarily stores the memory 170. Store it in the RAM area which is the storage space.

The voice recognition unit 112-1 recognizes the phone number output as voice using the feature vector of the phoneme according to the voice of the numbers constituting the phone number. Each voice from '0' to '9' consists of consonants and vowels, and each phone has a different feature vector. The voice recognition unit 112-1 may recognize a phone number outputted by voice using different feature vectors for each phoneme.

For example, if the phone number output through the voice input / output circuit 160 is "02-123-1234", the voice recognition unit 112-1 distinguishes the phonemes of the phone number outputted from the voice, and features each phoneme. Extract the vector. Subsequently, the voice recognition unit 112-1 recognizes a phone number according to the phoneme by using the extracted phoneme feature vector, converts the recognized phone number into text data, and then stores a RAM area that is a temporary storage space of the memory 170. Store in

When the call is terminated, the phone number output unit 112-2 accesses the phone number stored in the memory 170 by the voice recognition unit 112-1 and displays it on the display unit 130 of the mobile communication terminal.

According to an additional aspect of the present invention, the mobile communication terminal according to the present invention checks the dialed telephone number input by the keypad 120 and the voice recognition unit 112-1 when the corresponding telephone number is the telephone number of the telephone number guide system. The telephone number comparison unit 112-3 further outputs a voice recognition activation signal.

When the call command of the telephone number input through the keypad 120 is received, the communication control unit 111 establishes a connection with the base station through the wireless communication unit 150 and transmits the input outgoing telephone number to the base station. Connect to the call. The telephone number comparison unit 112-3 checks the telephone number sent by the communication control unit 111 and bypasses the telephone number when the telephone number is a general telephone number, for example, "114 telephone number guide service". In the case of the phone number of the phone line telephone guide system, the voice recognition unit 112-1 outputs a voice recognition activation signal.

The voice recognition unit 112-1 receives the voice recognition activation signal output from the phone number comparison unit 112-3, recognizes the phone number provided from the voice phone number guidance system, converts the phone number into text, and stores the memory 170. In the RAM area, which is a temporary storage space. The voice recognition unit 112-1 converts only the numbers of the voice guides provided by recognizing the voice from the time point at which the voice is guided by the phone number guide system into text data and stores the converted numbers. When the telephone number output unit 112-2 ends the call with the voice telephone number guide system, the telephone number output unit 112-2 accesses the telephone number stored in the memory 170 by the voice recognition unit 112-1 to the display unit 130 of the mobile communication terminal. Display.

In general, the voice announcement guided by the voice telephone number guide system has a certain pattern, for example, " 02-123-1234 " The voice telephone number guide system mixes a telephone number retrieved by an operator, such as "02-123-1234", to a user having a certain pattern such as "the number you inquired". Therefore, the voice recognition unit 112-1 passes a predetermined guide voice guided from the time point at which the phone number is voice guided, and then converts the guided phone number into text data using the voice recognition method described above. .

According to a further aspect of the present invention, the phone number output unit 112-2 of the system controller 112 according to the present invention stores the voice recognized phone number in the phone book of the memory 170 or the phone number output unit 112. -2) Provides a user interface to select the function of connecting a call to the phone number displayed by the. Accordingly, the system control unit 112 of the mobile communication terminal according to the present invention accordingly the system control unit 112 stores the phone number displayed by the phone number output unit 112-2 in accordance with the input of the phone book storage command memory ( And a telephone number storage processor 112-4, which stores the telephone book in 170, and the communication control unit 111 selects and inputs the telephone number displayed by the telephone number output unit 112-2 from the user. Dial according to the input of the connect command. The above-described user interface will be described in more detail with reference to FIG. 2.

2 is a schematic diagram schematically showing a user interface of a mobile communication terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. As shown, the phone number output unit 112-2 of the mobile communication terminal according to the present invention stores a phone call function and a corresponding phone number capable of calling a phone number displayed by voice recognition without inputting a separate phone number. For example, the display unit 130 displays the phone number storing function stored in the phone book 170 at the bottom of the display unit 130.

For example, when the call with the telephone number guide system is terminated, the telephone number output unit 112-2 is recognized by the voice recognition unit 112-1, and the corresponding telephone number stored in the memory 170 is stored separately. A user interface is displayed on the display unit 130 to select a dialing function capable of sending a phone number and a phone number storing function for storing the phone number in the phone book of the memory 170. When the user's selection information is dialed to a voice-recognized phone number, that is, an operation command corresponding to a direct dialing function is input, the communication control unit 111 dials the corresponding phone number.

In addition, when the user's selection information is the storage of the phone number, the phone number storage processor 112-4 stores the phone number in the phone book of the memory 170 according to the user's input. Therefore, the mobile communication terminal according to the present invention can directly connect a phone number recognized and voiced without a separate memo or stored in the phone book without a separate input process.

3 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a process of displaying and storing a voice guidance telephone number of a mobile communication terminal according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the user inputs a voice recognition activation command to store a phone number outputted during a call using a mobile communication terminal possessed by the user (S101).

The system control unit 112 receives the signal and transmits a voice recognition activation signal to the voice recognition unit 112-1 to activate the voice recognition function, and the voice recognition unit 112-1 recognizes the phone number outputted by the voice to text. Are converted into the temporary storage space of the memory 170 (S102) and (S103).

When the call is terminated (S104), the phone number output unit 112-2 of the system controller 112 accesses and stores the number converted into text in the voice recognition unit 112-1 and displayed on the display unit 130. (S105).                     

4 is a flowchart schematically illustrating a process of displaying and storing a voice guide phone number of a mobile communication terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention. As shown, a voice guided phone number display and storage method of the mobile communication terminal according to the present invention, the user using the mobile communication terminal owned by the user to retrieve the phone number of the telephone number guide system and the call command When inputting (S201), the system control unit 112 transmits the input phone number to the communication control unit 111 and the communication control unit 111 establishes a connection with the base station by dialing the corresponding phone number (S202).

The telephone number comparison unit 112-3 checks whether the telephone number dialed by the communication control unit 111 is a telephone number of a telephone number guide system such as '114' currently provided by 'KT', for example. S203), If the result is a general phone number, bypass. The communication control unit 111 releases the call connection when the call ends (S204) (S205). When the telephone number transmitted by the communication control unit 111 is the telephone number of the telephone number guide system, the telephone number comparison unit 112-3 outputs a voice recognition activation signal to the voice recognition unit 112-1 (S206). .

The voice recognition unit 112-1 may provide, for example, a number corresponding to the telephone number in the voice guidance message, "02-123-1234" provided by the telephone number guide system. Only -1234 "is recognized and converted into text data, and the converted telephone number is stored in the RAM area which is a temporary storage space of the memory 170 (S207). When the call with the telephone number guide system is terminated by the communication control unit 111 according to the communication termination command of the user (S208), the phone number output unit 112-2 of the system control unit 112 is the voice recognition unit 112-1. A dialing function and a phone number storing function selection input of the corresponding phone number are displayed together with the phone number stored in the memory 170 by using (S209).

When the user selects a dialing function and inputs a predetermined button of the keypad 120 corresponding thereto (S210), the communication control unit 111 dials the corresponding phone number (S211). In addition, when the user's selection information is the storage of the phone number (S212), the phone number storage processing unit 112-4 activates the phone number stored in the memory 170 of the mobile communication terminal to activate the corresponding phone number. The number is stored (S213). In general, most mobile communication terminals implement a phone book program that can store phone numbers by name. The phone number storage processor 112-4 drives and stores a phone number program according to a stored command of the recognized phone number.

As described in detail above, a voice guided phone number display and storage method according to the present invention and a mobile communication terminal using the same recognize a phone number outputted by voice and a phone number provided by voice in a phone number guide system and convert it into text. And, by providing the converted phone number to the user through the display unit, there is an effect that can be visually confirmed through the display unit without the need for a separate note of the voice guide phone number.

In addition, a menu according to the function of directly dialing and storing a phone number can be selected through a user interface, so that the phone number recognized and voice-guided can be immediately stored in the phone book as well as immediately connected by simply inputting a function selection key.                     

The present invention has been described above with reference to preferred embodiments, but is not limited thereto, and is interpreted by the appended claims, which are intended to cover many modifications that will be apparent to those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the present invention. Should be done.

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In the mobile communication terminal, A keypad; A display unit for displaying a menu and an operation state; A wireless communication unit for extracting a voice and data signal from a wireless signal transmitted and received through an antenna; A voice input / output circuit for inputting and outputting a call signal from the wireless communication unit through a microphone and a speaker; A memory including a driving program of the mobile communication terminal and a phone book in which a plurality of phone numbers are stored; A communication control unit for controlling voice and data communication through the wireless communication unit and voice input / output circuits; A voice recognition unit which controls each part of the device of the mobile communication terminal, receives a voice recognition activation signal input through the keypad and recognizes and stores a telephone number output by voice by the voice input / output circuit during a call; A phone control unit including a system control unit including a phone number output unit for displaying the phone number recognized and stored on the display unit at the end; A mobile communication terminal capable of displaying and storing a voice guided phone number comprising a. The system of claim 1, wherein the system control unit: A telephone number comparison unit checking a telephone number inputted by the keypad and outputting a voice recognition activation signal to the voice recognition unit when the telephone number is a telephone number of a telephone number guide system; A mobile communication terminal capable of displaying and storing a voice-guided phone number further comprising. The system of claim 2, wherein the system control unit: And a telephone number storage processing unit for storing the telephone number recognized by the voice recognition unit in accordance with the keypad input to a telephone directory of the memory. The method of claim 3, wherein the communication control unit: And a phone number display and store the voice guidance phone number by connecting the phone number displayed on the display unit by the phone number output unit according to the keypad input. In the voice guided conversion number recognition and storage method implemented in a mobile communication terminal, Recognizing and storing a telephone number output as a voice among call signals received from a base station according to an input voice recognition activation command; Displaying a phone number stored in the memory through a display unit at the end of a call; Voice guided conversion number recognition and storage method comprising a. The method of claim 5 wherein the method is: Checking a telephone number dialed according to a telephone call command of an input telephone number to activate voice recognition when the telephone number is a telephone number of a telephone number guide system; Voice guided conversion number recognition and storage method further comprising a. The method of claim 6 wherein the method is: Storing the telephone book in the memory according to a storage command of the telephone number displayed on the display unit; Voice guided conversion number recognition and storage method further comprising a. The method of claim 7, wherein the method is: Dialing the telephone number displayed on the display unit according to an incoming call command; Voice guided conversion number recognition and storage method further comprising a.

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