JPH11112611A - Telephone system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To surely recognize a calling sound and a calling level sound by outputting a first calling sound, in the case of not matching with a telephone number stored in a telephone number list storage means and a second calling sound different from the first calling sound in the case of matching with it. SOLUTION: When normal call termination is made, one second of the calling sound and two seconds of a silent state are repeated. Also, when a call origination telephone number and the number of list match, 0.4 second of the calling sound and 2.6 seconds of the silent state are repeated. When the call origination telephone number and the number of the list match, when the calling sound is registered for the corresponding number, the calling sound is reproduced during a silent state period. The pertinent calling sound is read from a flash memory 6 and supplied through a communication part 7 to an adder 9 by an automatic answering function part 4. The calling sound supplied from a microcomputer 20 and the calling sound ate added in the adder 9 and a speaker 114 is driven through an amplifier 10.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a telephone device capable of receiving a notification of a telephone number of a calling line.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a service provided by a telephone carrier,
2. Description of the Related Art An outgoing telephone number display service is implemented in which a telephone number of a called party is notified and displayed on a communication device such as a telephone before answering. This service has already been put into practical use, for example, as "Caller ID" in the United States, and has been implemented as "Number Display" in Japan in a different system from Caller ID.

[0003] In an outgoing telephone number display service implemented as a number display in Japan, when an incoming call is made to a subscriber (hereinafter, referred to as a contractor) who has made a contract to receive this service in advance, an outgoing line is provided. The telephone number information is transmitted to a terminal device such as a telephone via a contract line before communication. The transmission of the telephone number information is performed by a modem signal. An incoming signal is demodulated and decoded by a telephone equipped with a modem function and provided for the outgoing telephone number display service prepared in advance by the contractor side, and telephone number information of the outgoing line is obtained. The obtained telephone number information is displayed on predetermined display means provided on the telephone.

On the other hand, a telephone device with an answering machine function, which automatically records the other party's business according to a predetermined procedure when a telephone call is received while answering, that is, a so-called answering machine, has been widely used. It is widespread. Such an answering machine has a recording medium such as a cassette tape or a semiconductor memory, for example, and is capable of recording telephone calls received while answering to the recording medium.

By the way, as an application of the above-mentioned calling telephone number display service, a telephone number is registered in advance in a telephone and a voice corresponding to the telephone number is recorded, and a telephone number obtained by the service is recorded. When a telephone number registered in advance matches, a corresponding sound is reproduced together with a ringing sound of a call.

For example, in a telephone device having a recording medium such as the above answering machine, together with a telephone number,
Voice-record the name corresponding to the phone number. By doing so, when a call is received, the name of the caller can be reproduced as a calling voice. Therefore, if you actually make a call or receive an outgoing phone number display service, you can know who the call came from without having to bother to look at the phone number display. It is.

[0007]

However, the ringing sound to be reproduced usually has a narrow band, and has a weaker impression than the ringing sound of a telephone. for that reason,
If the ringing voice is reproduced in the gap between the normal ringing sounds, the ringing sound of the telephone can be recognized, but there is a problem that the ringing sound may be missed.

[0008] Further, there is a problem that if a call is made only by a calling voice without a bell sound, the sound may be missed due to insufficient volume.

On the other hand, in the above-mentioned answering machine, in many cases, a fixed number of bell sounds are counted, and if no one answers the telephone within this number, the answering machine function is set to operate. In such a case, if the ringing voice is reproduced and the period of the ringing bell is shifted, there is a problem that the bell cannot be counted and the answering machine function may be hindered.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to make it possible to reliably recognize a calling voice and a calling bell sound when a calling voice corresponding to a call destination is reproduced at the time of an incoming call using a calling telephone number display service. Telephone equipment.

[0011]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a telephone apparatus compatible with a calling telephone number display service for notifying a telephone number of a calling line.
Telephone number list storage means for pre-registering and storing one or more telephone numbers, and determination means for determining whether the notified outgoing line telephone number matches the telephone number stored in the telephone number list storage means The first ringing tone is output if the notified telephone number of the outgoing line does not match the telephone number stored in the telephone number list storage means, and Is a telephone device having ring-tone output means for outputting a second ring tone different from the first ring tone.

As described above, the present invention determines whether the notified telephone number of the outgoing line matches the telephone number stored in the telephone number list storage means. A ringing tone is sounded, and if a match is made, a second ringing tone different from the first ringing tone is sounded. Therefore, even if the user does not actually pick up the telephone or go to the telephone device side, the telephone number list is displayed. It is possible to immediately identify whether the call is from a registered party.

[0013]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an external view of an example of an answering machine to which the present invention is applied. The answering machine 100 is compatible with the outgoing telephone number display service described in the above-described related art, and has various displays and operation units for that purpose.

Although the details will be described later, the answering machine 1
In 00, a list of telephone numbers is created, and telephone numbers and names can be registered in association with each other. Further, it is possible to record and register a ring tone by voice with respect to the telephone number in which the name is registered. For an incoming call from a registered partner (calling telephone number), the registered calling voice and a ringing tone (ringing tone) can be used to make a call. In addition, as an answering machine function,
The history of incoming calls during absence is stored for a predetermined number of times, and for each of those incoming calls, if there is a recording of a message and the name matches the registered telephone number, the name is displayed. With respect to the incoming call history, the user can select only a desired message from these messages and directly reproduce the selected message.

The handset 10 is connected to the answering machine 100.
1 is connected. The display window 102 is, for example, an LCD (Liquid
d Crystal Display) and a plurality of, for example, LE
And a display unit using D (Light Emitting Diode). Various items such as the operation mode of the answering machine 100 and information from the calling telephone number display service are displayed on the display window 102.

On the right side of the display window 102 is a dial section 103.
And a switch unit 104 is provided at the center of the dial unit 103. It is more preferable that the switch unit 104 and the dial unit 103 be configured as one body. That is, it is configured to function as the dial unit 103 when rotated and function as the switch unit 104 when pressed. The item displayed on the display window 102 is selected by rotating the dial unit 103, and the selection is confirmed by pressing the switch unit 104. Further, by pressing the switch unit 104, the functions and the display window 10 can be changed.
2 can be switched.

One set of buttons 105 is a volume control button. Buttons 106 to 109 are function buttons. At the time of normal calling / receiving, the button 106 is a button for making an extension call, and the button 107 is
This is a redial button for redialing the telephone number just called. Button 109 is a button for holding a call. On the other hand, when registering incoming data, button 107 is used to register a telephone number requiring a waiting time, and button 109 deletes the registered contents. The button 108 is used to confirm the registered contents at the time of the registration operation.

At the center of the answering machine 100, a dial button 110 comprising a plurality of buttons, that is, symbol buttons "#" and "*" and numeric buttons "0" to "9" is provided. The microphone 111 is used when recording a voice message. By pressing the speakerphone button 112, a call can be made using the speaker 114 and the microphone 111 irrespective of the handset 101.
During a call or an incoming call, the call / incoming lamp 113 is turned on. The speaker 114 is used when making a call using the above-described speakerphone, and makes a ringing tone. The antenna 116 is provided for communicating with a slave unit (not shown).

At the lower part of the display window 102, a function button group 115 for operating an answering machine function and a function of a calling telephone number display service is provided. The buttons arranged in the upper row are, from the left, a play / stop button, an absence button,
And a transfer button. The buttons located at the bottom are
From the left, a non-notification button, a call rejection button, an incoming data button, and a call recording button.

The play / stop button plays and stops playback of a message recorded during absence. Pressing the answering button activates the answering machine function,
You will be able to record your business. By pressing the transfer button, for example, before going out, an incoming call is transferred to a destination that is registered in advance as a transfer destination. Pressing the transfer button again cancels the transfer state.

By pressing the non-notification button when dialing, it is possible to prevent the user's own telephone number from being displayed to the other party. In the outgoing telephone number display service, a specific number, for example, "184" can be dialed before the telephone number so that the telephone number of the user is not displayed on the destination. The non-notification button automatically performs this operation. The call rejection button is a button for rejecting a call with the called party. When the call rejection button is pressed during a ringing tone or during a call, a message is transmitted to notify the other party that the call is rejected, and the line is disconnected. When the incoming data button is pressed, the incoming data is displayed on the display window 102, and the mode shifts to a mode for processing the incoming data. By pressing the call recording button during a call, the contents of the call are recorded.

FIG. 2 shows an example of the display window 102. The upper part is a data display unit 150, which is composed of, for example, an LCD, and is provided with a display area for two lines with one character for 12 characters. Alphanumeric characters, hiragana, katakana, kanji, and symbols can be displayed as one character. Data display unit 15
0 has a plurality of display modes. Answering machine 10
In response to a state of 0, for example, the current date and time,
The dialed telephone number, incoming data, approximate call time, call charge, and registered contents of the telephone number list are displayed on the data display section 150.

In the lower part, lighting / non-lighting is displayed using, for example, an LED. The display unit 151 lights up when the telephone number list function is used, and the display unit 152 lights up when there is an incoming call by the calling telephone number display service. The display unit 153 is turned on when the call rejection function based on the calling telephone number display service is used, and the display unit 154 is in the transfer mode by pressing the transfer button in the function button group 115 described above. When lit. The display unit 155 is turned on during the registration operation. Display 1
Reference numeral 56 lights when the incoming data is displayed on the display unit 150 and a message is recorded for the incoming data.

FIG. 3 shows an example of the configuration of the answering machine 100. The microcomputer 20 is formed of, for example, a one-chip microcomputer, and controls the entire operation of the answering machine 100. Memory 24 for microcomputer 20
Is connected. The operation unit 23 is provided with the dial unit 10 described above.
3, the switch unit 104 and the buttons 105 to 110,
A signal corresponding to the operation of each of these units is output on behalf of 112 and 115. The microcomputer 20 generates a control signal corresponding to the output of the operation unit 23. Microcomputer 2
The display control signal generated at 0 is supplied to the display unit 21. The display unit 21 performs various displays based on the supplied display control signal, corresponding to the display window 102 described above.

A telephone line is connected to the line control unit 1. The line controller 1 controls the line connection between the subscriber's line switch of the central office and the answering machine 100. The line control unit always monitors the line when the line is not connected. When the polarity inversion of L1 and L2 is detected on the line and the information receiving terminal start signal (CAR) is received, the line control unit 1 sends the primary response signal to the local exchange in the DC loop between L1 and L2. return.

From the local exchange which has received the primary response signal, the calling telephone number information is transmitted as a modem signal. The modem signal is in accordance with ITU-T Recommendation V. 23, is modulated by a frequency modulation method, and the data rate is 120
It is transmitted at 0 bps. The modem signal also includes information for other services.

This modem signal is supplied from the line controller 1 to the calling telephone number receiver 3. The outgoing telephone number receiving section 3 demodulates the supplied modem signal and extracts outgoing telephone number information. The extracted outgoing telephone number information is supplied to the microcomputer 20 and written into the memory 24 as incoming data. As the incoming data, a predetermined number, for example, 20 cases, is stored in the memory 24 as an incoming history. The calling telephone number receiving unit 3 includes a DSP (Digital Signal Processor) 5 together with an answering machine function unit 4 described later.
Composed of

The outgoing telephone number information is information indicating the outgoing telephone number, that is, the telephone number of the outgoing line. The outgoing telephone number is the same as a normal telephone number,
And the subscriber number. In this service, the caller side, for example, "184" prior to the telephone number
By dialing, you can choose not to notify your number (not notify). In this case, "P" is sent as the calling telephone number. If the number cannot be notified for unknown reasons, "O" is sent as the calling telephone number. If the number cannot be notified because the call is from a public telephone, "C" is sent as the calling telephone number. If the number cannot be notified due to service conflict, "S" is sent.

When the reception of the modem signal is completed, the loop between L1 and L2 is broken in the line control unit 1, and a reception completion signal is sent to the local exchange. In response to this signal, a call signal is sent from the local exchange. This call signal is supplied from the line control unit 1 to the incoming call detecting unit 2, and it is detected that there is an incoming call. Incoming call detector 2
Notifies the microcomputer 20 that there is an incoming call.

The microcomputer 20 receives the notification and generates a ringing tone. The ringing tone is supplied to the amplifier 10 via the adder 9. The supplied ringing tone is amplified by the amplifier 10 and the speaker 114 is driven.

When the handset 101 is removed from the hook, a secondary response signal is sent from the line controller 1 to the local exchange. Receiving this signal, L1 and L2 are depolarized, and telephone communication is started. The line control unit 1 connects the public telephone line to the communication unit 7. Call part 7
Is a cross-point switch controlled by the microcomputer 20, and connects the line control unit 1 and the handset 101. Thus, telephone communication is performed using handset 101.

On the other hand, when the answering machine is operating, for example, when a ringing tone is made a predetermined number of times,
The communication unit 7 is controlled by the microcomputer 20, and the connection with the line control unit 1 is switched from the handset 101 to the answering machine function unit 4. In the answering machine 4, the microphone 1
The answering machine message stored in the flash memory 6 is reproduced by using 11 and sent to the communication partner via the communication unit 7 and the line control unit 1. The message from the communication partner is supplied to the answering machine 4 via the line control unit 1 and the communication unit 7 and stored in the flash memory 6 for recording.

The requirements recorded in the flash memory 6 are associated with the storage of the calling telephone number information in the memory 24 described above. This is, for example, a table indicating the correspondence between the address of the message recorded in the flash memory 6 on the memory 6 and the calling telephone number information.
This is done by creating above. Further, a table indicating the correspondence between the two may be provided on the flash memory 6 side.

The answering machine 4 can detect a silence period of a predetermined time (for example, 2 seconds) from the start of recording, and can determine the presence or absence of recording of a message based on the detection result. Information on the presence / absence of the message recording is supplied to the microcomputer 20.

FIG. 4 shows an example of a method for storing incoming data stored in the memory 24 as an incoming history. The incoming date and time and the outgoing telephone number are stored in association with each other. At the same time, information indicating the presence or absence of the above-described message recording is stored. As the incoming data, a predetermined number, for example, 20 cases, is stored in ascending order.

The answering machine 100 can create a calling telephone number list based on the stored calling telephone number information. For example, by a predetermined operation, a telephone number is input, a name corresponding to the telephone number is appropriately set, and registered in the list as caller information.
The telephone number is input by, for example, the dial button 110. The name is input using, for example, the dial unit 103 and the switch unit 104. The telephone number list thus created is stored in a predetermined area of the memory 24.

When the outgoing telephone number matches the registered telephone number, the registered name is replaced with the outgoing telephone number as shown in the second or last line of FIG. Be recorded. Of course, both the name and the calling telephone number may be stored.

Next, a method of reproducing the message stored in the flash memory 6 will be described with reference to FIG. When a message is recorded while the answering machine is operating, the display section 156 in the display window 102 indicating "there is a message" is lit. When the switch unit 104 is pressed at this time, the display unit 1 in the display window 102 is pressed.
50 becomes the menu display as shown in FIG. 5A. Currently, "Hassin (outgoing)" is selected.

The menu is selected by rotating the dial unit 103. As shown in FIG. 5B, “Say (play)” is selected. When the switch 104 is pressed to confirm the selection, first, the latest incoming data is read from the memory 24, and the read data is displayed on the display 150. This is shown in FIG. 5C. The incoming date and time are displayed in the upper part of the display unit 150, and the outgoing telephone number is displayed in the lower part. At this time, the telephone number list stored in a predetermined area of the memory 24 is searched, and if a name is registered for this telephone number, the registered name is displayed instead of the calling telephone number.

By rotating the dial unit 3, the incoming data stored in the memory 24 can be displayed on the display unit 150 in order from the newest one. If the displayed incoming data is recorded as a message, the display unit 156 lights up, and a message to that effect is displayed. Switch part 1
By pressing “04”, for example, the table showing the relationship between the message recorded on the flash memory 6 and the outgoing telephone number information created in the memory 24 is referred to, and the incoming data displayed on the display unit 150 is displayed. Only the corresponding message is played.

By the way, the answering machine 100 is
Voice can be registered for each of the caller information registered in the telephone number list. Then, when there is an incoming call of the registered calling number, the registered voice can be used as a ringing tone. In the answering machine 100, the ringing tone (wobble tone) differs depending on whether or not the calling telephone number matches the telephone number of the caller information registered in the telephone number list.

The registration of the calling voice is performed in the flash memory 6.
Made against. Since the answering machine message and the message are stored in the flash memory 6, the area where the calling voice is registered is limited. In addition, when many messages are registered, the number of call voices that can be registered is reduced. In this example, the time during which one call voice can be registered is limited to 2 seconds. When actually registering the calling voice,
It is difficult to accurately grasp the time of 2 seconds.
Therefore, in this embodiment, this problem is solved by visually displaying the progress of the two seconds together with the sound recording.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing an example of a procedure for registering the calling voice. FIG. 7 shows an example of a display on the display unit 150 made in accordance with this flowchart. First, in step S10, incoming data for registering a calling voice is searched. That is, when the dial unit 103 is rotated, the caller information registered in the telephone number list is sequentially displayed on the display unit 150. When a number for which a call voice is to be registered appears, the switch unit 104 is pressed (step S11). At this time,
The communication unit 7 is connected to the handset 101 and the answering machine 4 under the control of the microcomputer 20.

When the switch 104 is pressed, the display 150
A menu for selecting a process is displayed.
For example, following the example of FIG.
“Rokuon (recording)”, “Surface (correction)”, and “Show (delete)” are displayed. Rotate the dial unit 103 to select “Rokuon”.

By pressing the switch section 104, the selection is confirmed. In addition, for the target caller information,
If the calling voice has already been registered, the display unit 150 displays that fact. For example, a symbol “*” is added at the beginning of “Rokuon” and displayed as “* Rokuon”. If it is determined that the calling voice is not registered (step S13), the process proceeds to step S15. On the other hand, if it is determined that recording has been completed, the process proceeds to step S14.

In step S14, reproduction for confirmation is performed on the already-recorded calling voice. At this time, first, as shown in FIG. 7A, the lower part of the display unit 150 is filled with black tile display. In this example, since 12 characters can be displayed in the lower row, the lower row is filled with 12 black tile displays corresponding to 1 character. At the same time as the reproduction of the registered calling voice is started, these black tiles are erased one character at a time from left to right, and all the twelve characters are erased in two seconds. After 2 seconds, a confirmation sound is emitted. Upon completion of the confirmation reproduction, the process proceeds to step S15.

When "Rokuon" is selected and confirmed in step S12, if a preset upper limit of the number of registrations, for example, 50 ringing voices have already been registered, an error sound is displayed. Is displayed on the display unit 150 as shown in FIG. 7B. Similarly, when the capacity of the flash memory 6 is full, a display as shown in FIG. 7C is made on the display unit 150 together with an error sound to notify the fact. On the other hand, when the calling voice can be registered, as shown in FIG. 7D, the name set to the selected number is displayed in the upper part, and the telephone number is displayed in the lower part.

In step S15, recording for registering a calling voice is performed. The handset 101 is lifted, and a dial tone is emitted after a predetermined time has elapsed. At the same time, as shown in FIG.
Filled with two black tiles. After the dial tone ends,
The black tile display is erased one character at a time from left to right,
All characters for 12 characters are erased in 2 seconds. Handset 1 during 2 seconds when this black tile is erased
When a voice is issued to 01, the voice is recorded and registered as a calling voice. As described above, when the calling voice is recorded, the elapsed time is displayed on the display unit 150, so that the remaining recordable time can be easily grasped.

When the recording is completed and the handset 101 is placed, the process proceeds to step S16. Step S
At 16, the content recorded immediately before is reproduced. This confirmation playback is performed in exactly the same manner as the playback of the recorded calling voice described in step S14. When the confirmation reproduction is completed, registration of one ringing voice is completed.

Although the description has been made here assuming that the handset 101 is used for recording the calling voice, the present invention is not limited to this example. For example, recording may be performed using the microphone 111 and the speaker 114. By pressing the speakerphone button 112, these recording methods can be switched.

As described above, the answering machine 10
In the case of 0, the ringing tone (wobble tone) is different between the incoming call in which the outgoing telephone number matches the telephone number registered in the telephone number list and the other incoming call (normal incoming call). FIG. 8 shows examples of these two types of ring tones. In both of the two types of ring tones, the cycle of the ring tones is 3 seconds.

FIG. 8A shows an example of a ringing tone due to a normal incoming call. The ringing tone A for one second and the silent state for two seconds are repeated. The ringing tone A has a frequency of 600 Hz and 1
A 200 Hz sinusoidal sound is repeated every 40 msec.

FIG. 8B shows an example of a ring tone when the outgoing telephone number matches the number in the list. The ringing tone B for 0.4 seconds and the silent state for 2.6 seconds are repeated.
The ringing tone B is a sine wave having a frequency of 600 Hz and 1200 Hz repeated at 100 msec.

If the calling telephone number matches the number in the list, and the above-mentioned calling voice is registered for the corresponding number, the calling voice is reproduced during the silent state period of FIG. 8B. The answering voice function unit 4 reads out the corresponding calling voice from the flash memory 6 and supplies it to the adder 9 via the communication unit 7. The adder 9 adds the ringing sound B supplied from the microcomputer 20 and the ringing sound, and the speaker 114 is driven via the amplifier 10. The reproduction of the ringing sound is performed with the end of the ringing sound B as a trigger. Since there is an interval of 2.6 seconds before the next ringing tone B, a silent state of at least 0.6 seconds is secured after the reproduction of the ringing voice is completed.

The combination of frequencies in the ring tones A and B and the duration of each frequency are not limited to this example. Further, the duration of the ring tones A and B is not limited to this example.

Next, the processing at the time of an incoming call by the answering machine 100 and the display on the display unit 150 will be described.
This will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 9 and FIG.
In FIG. 9, the answering machine 100 waits for an information receiving terminal activation signal to be sent from the local exchange (step S20). When a signal is sent, step S21
, A primary response is received, and in step S22, the calling telephone number information sent from the local exchange is received. During reception,
As shown in FIG. 10A, a display indicating that incoming data is being received is displayed on display unit 150. Then, in the next step S23, the line is released and completion of reception is notified.

In step S24, the telephone number indicated by the outgoing telephone number information transmitted in step S22 is stored in the memory 24.
It is determined whether or not it matches the telephone number registered in the telephone number list. If they match, in step S25, the name registered in the list as the caller information corresponding to the telephone number is substituted for the variable n.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S24 that the call does not match the list, the process proceeds to step S26, and if the outgoing telephone number information is "P", the variable n is set to "notice (non-notification)" in step S27. ) "Is substituted. If the calling telephone number information is not "P", the process proceeds to step S28, and it is determined whether the calling telephone number information is "C". If it is "C", "KOUDENWA (public telephone)" is substituted for the variable n in step S29. If the outgoing telephone number information is not "C", the process proceeds to step S3.
The process proceeds to 0, and it is determined whether the outgoing telephone number information is “O” or “S”. If it is "O" or "S", "Normal display (out of display area)" is substituted for the variable n. If the calling telephone number information is not "O" or "S", it is determined that the information could not be received, and the process proceeds to step S32, where "chakshin (incoming)" is substituted for the variable n.

As described above, when the character string is substituted for the variable n, the date and time of the call arrival and the contents of the variable n are stored in the memory 24 and the Is displayed. Note that the expression “assigned to variable n” used above is for convenience.

FIGS. 10B to 10H show this display section 150.
5 shows an example of display of outgoing telephone number information with respect to. In step S24, it is determined that it matches the list.
When the name is substituted for the variable n in the above, as shown in FIG. 10D, the incoming date and time are displayed in the upper part, and the name registered corresponding to the telephone number is displayed in the lower part. Similarly, FIGS. 10E to 10H show examples of display in steps S27, S29, S31, and S32.

Although omitted in the flowchart, if the telephone number sent as the outgoing telephone number information does not match the telephone number list in step S24, the telephone number is substituted for a variable n. FIG. 10B shows an example of this display. At this time, if the telephone number is larger than the number of display digits in the lower part, as shown in an example in FIG.
The date and time display in the upper row is deleted, and the leading digits overflowing in the lower row are displayed right-justified in the upper row.

The incoming date and time and the outgoing telephone number information are stored in the memory 2
4 and displayed on the display unit 150, the process proceeds to step S34, an incoming call operation is performed, and a ringing tone is sounded in the next step S35 and subsequent steps.

In step S35, it is determined whether or not the incoming telephone number matches a telephone number registered in the telephone number list. If it is determined that they do not match, the process proceeds to step S36, and the normal ringing sound, that is, the ringing sound shown in FIG.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S35 that the number matches the telephone number list, the process proceeds to step S37.
Then, it is determined whether the calling voice is registered for the telephone number. If the calling voice has not been registered, the calling sound shown in FIG. 8B is sounded in step S38. At this time, only the ringing tone sounds. On the other hand, if the calling voice is registered, the calling sound shown in FIG. 8B is sounded together with the calling voice in step S39.

Although the present invention has been described above as being applied to an answering machine, the present invention is not limited to this example. The present invention can be applied to a telephone device that supports the calling telephone number display service and does not have the answering machine function. That is, a registering means for a telephone number list may be provided for such a telephone device, and if the outgoing telephone number matches the telephone number registered in the list, the ringing tone B may be sounded. By doing so, for example, unwanted calls can be prevented.

[0066]

As described above, according to the present invention, the case where the telephone number notified by the calling telephone number display service matches the telephone number registered in the telephone number list and the case where the telephone number does not match. The ring tones are different. Therefore, it is possible to recognize whether or not the call is from, for example, a known party without going to the telephone device and seeing the display of the calling telephone number or without actually picking up the handset.

Further, according to the present invention, for example, a name can be registered by voice for a telephone number registered in the telephone number list, and the telephone number notified by the calling telephone number display service and the telephone number When the telephone number registered in the list matches, the corresponding sound can be reproduced together with the ringing sound. Therefore, even if the user is away from the telephone device, it is possible to know from whom the incoming call came.

Further, according to the present invention, even if the telephone number notified by the calling telephone number display service coincides with the telephone number registered in the telephone number list and the ringing sounds are different, the period of the ringing sound is changed. Since it is not changed, the number of ringing tones can be counted.
Therefore, even if the answering machine function is set to be activated by a ringing tone of a predetermined number or more, there is an effect that it can be operated without any problem.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external view of an example of an answering machine to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of a display window.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing an example of a configuration of an answering machine.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of a method for storing incoming data in a memory.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram for explaining a method of reproducing a task.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a procedure for registering a calling voice.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a display at the time of registering a calling voice.

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram for explaining two types of ring tones.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a process at the time of an incoming call by the answering machine.

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram for explaining a display at the time of an incoming call;

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... line control unit, 3 ... outgoing telephone number receiving unit, 4
... Answering function part, 6 ... Flash memory, 7.
..Speaker, 20 ... microcomputer, 21 ... display,
23 operation unit, 24 memory, 100 answering machine, 102 display window, 103 dial unit, 104 switch unit, 150 display unit, 156 ... Display section for displaying "there is a requirement"

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A telephone device corresponding to an outgoing telephone number display service for notifying a telephone number of an outgoing line, comprising: a telephone number list storage means for pre-registering and storing one or more telephone numbers; Determining means for determining whether the telephone number matches the telephone number stored in the telephone number list storing means; and, based on the determination result of the determining means, the telephone number of the notified calling line and the telephone number A ring tone output for outputting a first ring tone when the telephone number stored in the list storage means does not match, and outputting a second ring tone different from the first ring tone when the phone number matches. And telephone means. 2. The telephone device according to claim 1, wherein said ringing tone output means makes the ringing period of said first ringing tone differ from said second ringing tone. Telephone equipment. 3. The telephone device according to claim 1, further comprising: voice registration means for registering voice for each of the one or more telephone numbers registered in the telephone number list; If the telephone number of the outgoing line matches the telephone number stored in the telephone number list storing means, the voice corresponding to the telephone number is reproduced from the voice registering means and the second calling is performed. A telephone device for outputting with sound.