JPS62293860A - Communication terminal equipment with telephone directory - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simply retrieve address items higher in the frequency of call in a short time by less number of times of retrieving operation by rearranging address items in order of higher number of times of selection at every time call is made, and displaying them on a display unit in order of higher frequency of call. CONSTITUTION:When an operator operates, for instance, an address item display key to make a call, a control circuit 5 reads out four address items of lower display priority order number out of address items stored in a memory 6 and displays on a display unit 8 and executes the input supervision of row carrying instruction and the input supervision of identification numbers repeatedly. When, for instance, the operator operates the shift 72 of a key inputting section 7 to retrieve an address item to be called the control circuit 5 shifts address items displayed on the display unit 8 row by row, and reads out a new address item from the memory 6 and displays it.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] 3. Detailed description of the invention [Purpose of the invention] (Industrial application field) The present invention relates to an improvement in a communication terminal device with a telephone directory.

(Prior art) In recent years, many communication terminals such as telephones and facsimile v devices have been added with various service functions due to the diversification of needs. There is something. This type of communication terminal device uses, for example, a multi-a (for example, 20II) consisting of a destination name and its telephone number.
l) The destination items are stored in memory in correspondence with respective identification numbers, and when a call is made, a fixed number (for example, four) of these destination items are displayed on the liquid crystal display by page turn operation, line feed operation, etc.; When the operator selects and designates the identification number of a desired destination item from among these destination items, a call can be automatically made to the corresponding destination. If such a device is used, the operator can simply place a call without having to write down the telephone number or consult a separately provided telephone directory each time the operator makes a call, which is extremely convenient.

However, this type of conventional device has the following drawbacks because the order of each destination item stored in the memory is fixed. In other words, if destination items are displayed on the display from, for example, the first identification number each time a call is made, when searching for a destination item stored in association with an identification number near the end, it is necessary to Page turning operations and line feeding operations must be performed many times. Therefore, there is a drawback that searching for a desired destination item requires a lot of effort and time on average.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) As described above, conventional VR devices have difficulties in operability when searching for destination items. The purpose of this invention is to make it possible to search for high-level destination items easily and in a short time, thereby providing a communication terminal H with a telephone directory that has high search operability.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problems) The present invention includes a counting means for counting the number of selections of a destination item selected and specified each time a call is made, and a display control means. Accordingly, the display priority of each destination item on the display is changed in order of the number of selections, depending on the count result of the counting means.

(Function) As a result, each destination item is rearranged in descending order of the number of times it has been selected each time a call is made, and displayed on the display in descending order of the frequency of calls. Destination items can be searched easily and in a short time with a small number of search operations, thereby greatly improving the operability required for searching.

(Embodiment) FIG. 1 is a circuit block diagram showing the configuration of a communication terminal device with a telephone directory according to an embodiment of the present invention. This device is a versatile female telephone device, and in addition to a telephone circuit 2 and a handset 3 connected to a subscriber line 1, a dial signal sending circuit 4 that automatically sends dial signals, a control circuit 5,
a memory 6 consisting of R, A, and M for storing destination items;
It is equipped with a key human power section 7 and a display 8. Of these, the keypad section 7 includes, for example, as shown in FIG. 2, a numeric keypad 71 for inputting destination names and telephone numbers, and a shift key 72 for moving the display position of destination items. The display 8 consists of a dot-type liquid crystal display, and the second
As shown in the figure, four destination items consisting of a destination name ID and a telephone number device can be displayed at one time, each with an identification number NO attached to its head.

By the way, the υ1111 circuit 5 is equipped with, for example, a microcomputer as its main control unit, and its functions include control means for telephone calls and automatic dial transmission control means, as well as destination item registration control means 51 and control means for controlling the number of calls. Counting means 5
2 and a display control means 53. Among these, the destination item registration control means 51 first stores a desired destination item in the memory 6 using the key manual section 7.

- The number-of-calls counting means 52 counts up the number of times the destination item selected and designated at the time of the call, that is, the number of calls, is counted up every time a call is made.

In addition, the display 1 control means 53 displays each destination item in descending order of the number of calls made, in accordance with the result of counting the number of calls for each destination item by the number of calls counting means 52, each time a call is made. It is a matter of changing priorities.

Next, the control circuit 5 controls the operation of the device configured as described above.
The system will be explained according to the procedures. It is assumed that a large number of destination items have already been registered in the memory 6.

In the standby state, the control circuit 5 repeatedly monitors the registration input of the destination item and the input of the display instruction for the destination item in steps 3a and 3b, respectively, as shown in FIG. 3(a). When the operator operates a destination item registration key (not shown), the process moves from step 3a to step 3C, where the destination item registration system 2 inputted from the key input section 7 is performed.

On the other hand, in the above-mentioned standby state, when the operator operates, for example, a destination item display key (not shown) in order to make a call, the control circuit 5 detects this in step 3b and proceeds to step 3d. First, among the destination items stored in the memory 6, the four destination items with the lowest display priority numbers are read out and displayed on the display 8. Then, in step 3e and step 3g, input monitoring of a line feed instruction and input monitoring of an identification number are repeatedly performed, respectively.

In this state, for example, when the operator operates the shift key 72 of the key operator section 7 in order to search for a destination item to which the operator wishes to make a call, the control circuit 5 detects this in step 3e and proceeds to step 3f, where the display is displayed. The destination items displayed in 8 are shifted line by line, and new destination items are read out from the memory 6 and displayed. That is, each destination item stored in the memory 6 is scrolled and displayed. Then, the destination item for which the call is desired is displayed on the display 8, and when the operator inputs the identification number corresponding to this destination item using the numeric keypad 71, the control circuit 5 moves from step 3Q to step 3h. First, the hook switch of the telephone circuit 2 is turned on, and then, in step 31, the destination telephone number corresponding to the selected identification number is read out from the memory 6, and in step 3j, a dial signal is sent in accordance with the above telephone number. The circuit is driven to send the dial number to subscribed branch line 1. In this way, an automatic call is made. If the other party responds to this call, it becomes possible to talk with the other party. In addition, after entering the above identification number,
The display form on the display 8 may be switched from displaying four destination items to displaying only the selected destination item.

Now, when the operator ends the call by, for example, putting the handset 3 on-hook during this call, the 11ilII 211 circuit 5 detects this in step 3 as shown in FIG. 3(b) and proceeds to step 32. First, in step 3, the display of the destination item on the display 8 is turned off,
Thereafter, in step 3m, the number of calls to the destination that has just been called is counted up.

Then, in step 3n, it is determined whether the number of calls after the count amplification has reached a predetermined maximum value, and if it has not reached the maximum value, the process directly proceeds to step 3p, and if the number of calls has reached the maximum value again. For example, in step 3o, the number of calls for each destination item is decreased at a constant rate, and then the process moves to step 3p. Then, when the process moves to step 3p, the control circuit 5 compares the number of calls for each destination item and assigns a display priority number in descending order of the number of calls. If the numbers are the same, numbers will be assigned without changing the rankings assigned up to that point. Thus, the display order of each destination item is rearranged depending on the number of calls made. Therefore, the destination items displayed on the display section 8 when the next call is made will be displayed in the new rearranged order. FIG. 4 shows an example of the display result, and shows a case where the identification number NO of each destination item is not changed.

In this embodiment, each time a call is made, the number of calls made to the destination item is counted, and the display priority of each destination item is rearranged in ascending order of the number of calls made. Therefore, the display 8 will display the destination items with the highest number of calls, that is, the destination items with the highest number of calls. You can search in a short time with a simple feed operation. Therefore, the overall number of operations required to search for destination items is reduced, and the time is also shortened, so that operability for the operator can be improved.

Note that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. For example, in the above embodiment, when rearranging the display priority of each destination item, the identification number of each destination item is not changed, but the identification number No. is renumbered in ascending order as shown in FIG. You can. Furthermore, in the embodiment described above, numbers indicating the display priority of each destination item are changed, but if the display is to be displayed in the order of addresses in the memory 6, the storage locations of each destination item in the memory 6 may be arranged. You may change it. Further, although the above embodiments have been described with reference to a telephone device, the present invention may also be applied to a facsimile device or a terminal device that transmits image and character information.

In addition, the configuration of the counting means for the number of calls, the control procedure and control contents of the display control means, the number of destination items that can be displayed at one time on the display, the number of destination items that can be registered in the memory, the means for searching for destination items, and the destination items The contents of the present invention can be modified and implemented in various ways without departing from the gist of the present invention.

[Effects of the Invention] As detailed above, according to the present invention, there is provided a counting means for counting the number of selections of a destination item selected and specified each time a call is made, and a display control means. By changing the display priority of each destination item on the display according to the counting result of the counting means in order of the number of selections, destination items with high call frequency can be searched easily and in a short time. As a result, it is possible to provide a communication terminal device with a telephone directory with high search operability.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a circuit block diagram showing the configuration of a telephone device which is a communication terminal device with a telephone directory in one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a plan view showing the configuration of the operation panel of the device, and FIG.
) and (b) are flowcharts showing the control procedure and control contents of the control circuit of the device shown in FIG. FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a pond of display results. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Subscriber line, 2... Telephone circuit, 3... Handset, 4... Dial signal sending circuit, 5... Control circuit, 51... Destination item registration control means, 52...・
Call number control means, 53...Display control means, 6...
Memory, 7... Key human power department, 71... Numeric keypad, 7
2...Shift key, 8...Display unit, No....Identification number, ID...Destination name, Position...Telephone number. Applicant's agent Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue School Figure 3 (
b) Figure 4 Figure 5

Claims (1)

[Claims] A large number of destination items, each consisting of a destination name and its telephone number, are stored in memory, and a fixed number of these destination items are variably displayed in a predetermined order on the display according to the operator's search operations. In a communication terminal device with a telephone directory, which includes means for automatically calling a corresponding destination when selected and specified for making a call, a counting means for counting the number of times a selected destination item is selected each time a call is made;
A communication terminal device with a telephone set, comprising display control means that changes the display priority of each destination item on the display device in descending order of selection frequency according to the counting result of the counting means.