JP2001177608A - Telephone set - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a telephone set capable of informing a receiving person of the name of a caller by voice at the same time as the incoming call even when the receiving person is away from the telephone set and when he cannot answer the telephone because of driving a car, etc. SOLUTION: A caller's telephone number and information on the name of the caller correspond and are registered in a voice memory 7 in advance and when a call incomes, the memory 7 is retrieved with the caller's telephone number to read corresponding information on the name of the caller. This information on the name of the caller is sent to a voice processing part 8 as voice data and the name of the caller is outputted from a speaker 9 by voice to give information on the incoming call. As the result, the receiving person can obtain the name of the caller at the same time as the incoming call even when he is away from the telephone set and when he cannot answer the telephone because of driving a car, etc.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a telephone capable of notifying a receiver of a caller's name by voice when receiving a call.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Subscribed telephone systems, portable telephone systems and simplified portable telephone systems (PHS: Personal)
In a telephone such as a Handyphone System, when there is an incoming call, a ring tone or a melody is emitted to notify the user of the incoming call, and the telephone number of the caller is displayed on the display unit.

[0003] However, when the user is at a place slightly away from the telephone or cannot release his hands, such as while driving a car,
Although you know that you have received the call, you can not find the caller's phone number or name unless you look at the display of the phone, such as going to the place where the phone is located or stopping the car, etc. The caller's name could not be known at the time of the incoming call. Also, blind people could not know the caller's name.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems, and is intended to be used when a receiver is at a place slightly away from a telephone, or when he / she cannot release his hand while driving a car. It is another object of the present invention to provide a telephone which allows a recipient to know the name of a sender simultaneously with an incoming call even when the recipient is blind.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, a ring tone is generated upon receiving an incoming signal supplied via a wireless, wired or optical fiber communication line. In the telephone set, the storage means in which voice data is stored in advance corresponding to the telephone number, and the reception signal is received, and it is checked whether or not the telephone number of the caller is stored in the storage means. Reading means for reading voice data corresponding to the telephone number if
A ring tone generating means for generating, as a ring tone, the voice data read by the reading means. According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the telephone set of the first aspect, the reading means checks whether or not the telephone number of the caller is a telephone number of a public telephone. In this case, the voice data corresponding to the public telephone stored in the storage means is read in advance.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A portable telephone according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of the mobile phone according to the embodiment.
In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes an antenna that transmits and receives radio waves, and 2 denotes a communication unit that demodulates a signal received by the antenna 1 and modulates a signal to be transmitted and transmits the modulated signal from the antenna 1. 3 is a central processing unit (CP) for controlling the entire mobile phone.
U), 4 is a read only memory (ROM) for storing a program executed by the CPU 3 for controlling the mobile phone, and 5 is a random access memory (RAM) used by the CPU 3 for setting a work area and the like. .

Reference numeral 6 denotes a display unit for displaying various information such as the telephone number of the caller, and 7 denotes a voice memory. The voice memory 7 stores voice data for calling out a caller's telephone number and a caller's name (hereinafter referred to as caller name data) in association with each other, and also reads "from a public telephone". Voice data for generating voice (hereinafter referred to as public telephone voice data) is stored. The audio processing unit 8 converts the received signal demodulated by the communication unit 2 into an analog audio signal and outputs the analog audio signal to the speaker 9, and encodes the audio signal from the microphone 11 and outputs the encoded audio signal to the communication unit 2. Further, the voice processing section 8 is provided with an incoming voice forming circuit, converts voice data read from the voice memory 7 into a voice signal, and outputs the voice signal to the speaker 9 as incoming voice. An operation unit 10 includes a numeric keypad and function setting keys.

Next, the operation of the mobile phone according to the above embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. Note that the operation at the time of calling from this mobile phone is the same as that of a conventional mobile phone, and therefore the description is omitted. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an operation at the time of an incoming call to the mobile phone according to the embodiment. When an incoming call arrives at the mobile phone while waiting for an incoming call (step S1), a caller telephone number sent from a base station (not shown) is supplied to the CPU 3 via the communication unit 2. The CPU 3 stores the caller telephone number in the voice memory 7.
Check if it is registered in (step S
2).

If the result of the check indicates that the caller telephone number is registered in the voice memory 7, the caller name data corresponding to the caller telephone number is read from the voice memory 7 and sent to the voice processing unit 8. Send (step S3). The audio processing unit 8 converts the data into an audio signal,
From the sound. Thereby, for example, a voice “Taro Yamada is calling” is generated from the speaker 9.
As a result, the receiver can know the name of the caller by voice simultaneously with the incoming call.

On the other hand, if the caller telephone number is not registered in the voice memory 7, the CPU 3 checks whether the caller telephone number is a telephone number of a public telephone (step S4). If it is a public telephone, the public telephone voice data is read from the voice memory 7 and output to the voice processing unit 8 (step S5). As a result, a voice “from a public telephone” is generated from the speaker 9. If the caller's telephone number is not registered in the voice memory 7 and the call is not a call from a public telephone, the data of the standard ringtone or ringtone is sent to the voice processing unit 8 and the call is received from the speaker 9. A sound or an incoming melody is output (step S6).

[0011] Thereafter, when the receiver presses the answering button to answer, the telephone is connected to the caller's telephone via a line (step S7), the transmission of the audio signal is stopped in the audio processor 8 (step S8), and the call state is established. (Step S
9). Then, when the call ends, the line connecting the caller side and the callee side is disconnected and returns to the initial state (step S10).

Next, the process of registering the correspondence between the caller telephone number and the caller name data in the voice memory 7 will be described with reference to FIG. First, in order to start registration in the voice memory 7, a key on the operation unit 10 assigned as a key for instructing registration of a caller telephone number is operated (step S21). Then, the telephone number of the caller to be registered is input using the numeric keypad of the operation unit 10 or the like (step S2).
2) The input caller's telephone number is written into the voice memory 7 (step S23).

Next, after a key on the operation unit 10 assigned as a key for instructing to input the caller name data by voice is operated (step S24), step S24 is performed.
A caller name corresponding to the telephone number of the caller keyed in 22 is input by voice from microphone 11 (step S2).
5). The voice input from the microphone 11 is sampled and digitized by the voice processing unit 8 and converted into voice data of caller name information (step S26), and then written into the voice memory 7 in association with the caller telephone number. (Step S27). Thus, registration of the caller name data corresponding to one caller telephone number in the voice memory 7 is completed. When the caller name information corresponding to a plurality of caller telephone numbers is registered in the voice memory, the operations from S21 to S27 are repeated.

In the embodiment of the present invention described above, one speaker is used. However, a speaker that outputs voice and a speaker that outputs ringtone or ringtone may be separate speakers.

[0015]

As described above, according to the present invention, the storage means in which the voice data is stored in advance corresponding to the telephone number, and the telephone number of the caller receiving the incoming signal are stored in the storage means. Reading means for checking whether or not the voice data is stored, and if stored, read out voice data corresponding to the telephone number; and ring tone generating means for generating the voice data read out by the read means as a ring tone. So that when the recipient is a little away from the phone,
Even if you cannot release your hand while driving a car, or if the user is blind, the name of the caller can be known simultaneously with the incoming call.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, when the telephone number of the caller is a telephone number of a public telephone, voice data corresponding to the public telephone stored in the storage means in advance is generated. Therefore, the receiver can immediately know that the caller is calling from a public telephone, and has the effect of being able to quickly answer the call.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a mobile phone according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a process of notifying a caller name by voice when an incoming call is received according to the embodiment;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing processing for registering telephone number and caller name information according to the embodiment;

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Antenna, 2 ... Communication part, 3 ... Central processing unit (CP
U), 4 read-only memory (ROM), 5 random access memory (RAM), 6 display unit, 7 audio memory, 8 audio processing unit, 9 speaker, 10 operation unit, 11 microphone.

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Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A telephone for generating a ring tone upon receiving an incoming signal supplied via a wireless, wired or optical fiber communication line, comprising: storage means in which voice data is stored in advance in correspondence with a telephone number; Receiving means for receiving the incoming signal and checking whether or not the telephone number of the caller is stored in the storage means, and if stored, reading out voice data corresponding to the telephone number; A ring tone generating means for generating, as a ring tone, the voice data read by the telephone. 2. The reading means checks whether or not the telephone number of the caller is a telephone number of a public telephone. If the telephone number is a telephone number of a public telephone, the reading means is stored in advance in the storage means. The telephone according to claim 1, wherein voice data corresponding to a public telephone is read.