JP2000270079A - Automatic telephone number search device and automatic telephone number search method - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [PROBLEMS] To enable a telephone number to be searched without the intervention of the name of the other party and without requiring an operation to shift to a search state. When a first few digits of a telephone number are input, a CPU (130) stores a first memory (110) storing a previously input telephone number and a second memory (170) storing a call history. And a telephone number stored in the third memory 180 which stores the incoming call history, and searches for a telephone number having the entered number at the beginning, and displays the searched telephone number on the display 120. I do.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an automatic telephone number search apparatus and a automatic telephone number search method applicable to, for example, a portable telephone, and more particularly to a support apparatus and method for inputting a telephone number of a destination. About.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A number of destination telephone number input devices have hitherto been disclosed, for example, in JP-A-2-79652 and JP-A-5-79652.
-95396, JP-A-8-321869,
JP-A-9-18573, JP-A-10-24306
No. 4, JP-A-10-308810, and the like.

As one example, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No.
FIG. 5 shows a counterpart telephone number input device described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 0.

FIG. 5 shows an example in which the destination telephone number input device described in the publication is applied to a mobile phone.
This destination telephone number input device includes an information input unit 1 having various keys for inputting a telephone number and other information to a mobile phone, and a liquid crystal displaying information and other information input via the information input unit 1. It comprises a display unit 2 comprising a screen and a storage unit 3 for storing the telephone number of the other party.

The conventional destination telephone number input device having the above-described configuration operates as follows.

First, a telephone number and the name of the other party corresponding to the telephone number are input via the information input unit 1. The storage unit 3 extracts the initials from the destination name input in this way, and stores the initials in a form corresponding to the telephone number and the destination name.

The display unit 2 displays a plurality of initials stored in the storage unit 3. When the user selects one of the initials displayed on the display unit 2, the telephone number and the destination name corresponding to the selected initial are read from the storage unit 3 and are displayed on the display unit 2. Is displayed.

[0008] When the user performs a calling operation on the telephone number corresponding to the selected initial, the calling is performed on the telephone number.

[0009]

However, the conventional destination telephone number input device shown in FIG. 5 has the following problems.

The first problem is that the user must store the name of the destination in the storage unit in advance in association with the telephone number of the destination.

The reason is that the information to be output as a search result is the telephone number of the destination while the search target is the name of the destination, so that it is necessary to associate the two in advance. It is because it becomes.

The second problem is that the operation up to the actual transmission is troublesome.

The reason is that, in the conventional telephone number input device shown in FIG. 5, a search is performed by using the initials of the telephone number displayed on the display unit, so that an operation for shifting to this search is required. This is because, at a minimum, three steps of a transition process to a search operation, a search process, and a transmission process are required.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems of the conventional destination telephone number input device, and requires an operation of shifting to a search state without passing through the destination name. It is an object of the present invention to provide a telephone number automatic search device and a telephone number automatic search method capable of searching for a telephone number without having to do so.

[0015]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, there is provided a storage medium for storing a telephone number, a display for displaying a telephone number, and a method for inputting a telephone number. Control means for searching a telephone number stored in the storage means for a telephone number having some numbers of the input telephone number at the beginning, and displaying the searched telephone number on the display means. Provide an automatic telephone number search device.

According to the telephone number automatic search apparatus according to the present invention, when the first few digits of a certain telephone number are input, the telephone number having the input numeral at the head is stored in the storage means. Searched from phone numbers. The searched telephone number is displayed on the display means. If the displayed phone number matches the phone number of the person the user is trying to call, the user can make a call to that phone number without entering any more phone numbers. it can.

If there are a plurality of searched telephone numbers,
All the telephone numbers can be sequentially displayed on the display means, and the user selects a desired telephone number from among them,
A call can be made to the telephone number.

When a new telephone number that is not stored in the storage means is newly input, no search result is displayed on the display means, so there is no problem in inputting the telephone number.

A second storage means for storing a telephone number input in advance, a second storage means for storing an outgoing call history, a third storage means for storing an incoming call history, and displaying the telephone number. Display means, and a telephone which stores a telephone number having some numbers of the input telephone number at the beginning during the input of the telephone number in the first storage means, the second storage means and the third storage means. Control means for searching from among numbers and displaying the searched telephone number on a display means.

According to the telephone number automatic search device of the present invention, when the first few digits of a certain telephone number are input, the telephone number having the input numeral at the head is stored in the first storage means, A search is made from the telephone numbers stored in the storage means and the third storage means. The searched telephone number is displayed on the display means. If the displayed phone number matches the phone number of the person the user is trying to call, the user can make a call to that phone number without entering any more phone numbers. it can.

If there are a plurality of searched telephone numbers,
All the telephone numbers are sequentially displayed on the display means, and the user can select a desired telephone number from them and make a call to the telephone number.

According to the telephone number automatic search device according to the present invention, since the search target is searched only by the number, not only the telephone number registered in advance but also the telephone numbers included in the outgoing call history and the incoming call history can be obtained. Can also be searched. For this reason, it is possible to search for the telephone number of the other party in an extremely wide range.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, the control means of the telephone number automatic search device selects a search target from at least one of the first storage means, the second storage means and the third storage means. You can do it.

By the operation of the control means, the search object can be arbitrarily selected or changed to an arbitrary range.

As described in claim 4, the control means displays the searched telephone number on the display means in a form of being added to the input telephone number, for example.

By displaying the searched telephone number in this manner, the user can recognize the number entered by the user and the number displayed as a search result as a series of telephone numbers. It is possible to immediately determine whether or not it matches the telephone number to be entered.

[0027] As described in claim 5, it is preferable that the retrieved telephone number is displayed on the display means in an inverted display form.

As described above, by changing the display form of the searched telephone number to the display form of the telephone number inputted by the user, the user can easily recognize which number is the search result. .

Further, as described in claim 6, it is preferable that the automatic telephone number searching apparatus further includes a search result storage memory for storing the telephone number searched by the control means.

According to the present invention, while a telephone number is being input, the present invention further provides:
A first step of searching among telephone numbers stored beforehand for a telephone number having some numbers of the telephone number being input, and a second step of displaying the searched telephone number, The present invention provides a telephone number automatic search method comprising:

According to the automatic telephone number search method according to the present invention, the same effect as the automatic telephone number search apparatus according to the first aspect can be obtained.

In a preferred embodiment, while the telephone number is being inputted, a first step of determining an object to be searched for a telephone number corresponding to the inputted telephone number, and a step of deciding in the first step A telephone number comprising: a second step of searching for a telephone number having some digits of the inputted telephone number at the beginning of the retrieved search target; and a third step of displaying the retrieved telephone number. Provide an automatic search method.

According to the automatic telephone number search method according to the present invention, the same effect as the automatic telephone number search apparatus according to the third aspect can be obtained.

As described in claim 9, in the third step, it is preferable that the searched telephone number is displayed in a form to be added to the telephone number being input.

According to the automatic telephone number search method according to the present invention, the same effect as the automatic telephone number search apparatus according to the fourth aspect can be obtained.

[0036] As described in claim 10, in the third step, it is preferable that the searched telephone number is reversely displayed.

According to the automatic telephone number search method according to the present invention, the same effect as the automatic telephone number search apparatus according to the fifth aspect can be obtained.

Preferably, the method further comprises the step of storing the searched telephone number.

[0039]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram when a telephone number automatic search device according to a first embodiment of the present invention is applied to a portable telephone.

The automatic telephone number search apparatus according to the present embodiment includes a first memory 110 as a storage means for storing a telephone number inputted in advance, a telephone number inputted by a user and a telephone number retrieved by the CPU 130 described below. And a telephone number corresponding to the telephone number being input is searched from among the telephone numbers stored in the first memory 110, and the searched telephone number is displayed on the display 120. CPU as control means
130, and a search result storage memory 140 as search result storage means for temporarily storing the telephone number searched by the CPU 130.

The automatic telephone number search device according to the present embodiment is incorporated in a portable telephone 150. The mobile phone 150 is provided with an information input unit 160 having numeric keys, a call start key 160a, a call end key, a scroll key 160b, and other keys. The user can input desired information to the automatic telephone number search device via the information input unit 160.

Next, referring to the flowchart of FIG.
The operation of the telephone number automatic search device according to the present embodiment will be described.

The mobile phone 150 initially has the information input unit 16
It is in a state of waiting for a key input to 0 (step 310).

When a numeric key of the information input section 160 is pressed (step 320), a number corresponding to the numeric key is displayed on the display 120 (step 330).

At the same time, CPU 130 uses the entered number as a search key to determine whether any of the telephone numbers stored in first memory 110 has a number whose leading number matches the number of characters of the search key. (Step 340).

If a matching telephone number exists (YES in step 350), CPU 130 sequentially stores the number in search result storage memory 140 (step 360).

If no matching telephone number exists (NO in step 350), the search by CPU 130 ends.

Next, the CPU 130 displays the number stored in the search result storage memory 140 on the display 12.
0 is displayed (step 370). In this case, the searched telephone number is displayed on the display 120 in a form to be added to the number input by the user.

Further, in order to make it easy to distinguish the number entered by the user from the searched number, the searched number is
As shown in FIG. 1, the display is reversed. In the example shown in FIG. 1, the number “0901” input by the user is normally displayed, and “2345678” displayed as a search result
Number is highlighted.

In this state, when the call start key 160a of the information input section 160 is pressed (Y in step 380).
ES), a call is made to the telephone number displayed on the display 120 (step 390). With this call, the search by the CPU 130 ends.

The telephone number initially displayed on display 120 is not the desired telephone number (N in step 380).
O) If there are a plurality of candidate numbers, the telephone number of the next candidate can be displayed on the display 120 by using the scroll key 160b of the information input section 160 (YES in step 400) ( Step 41
0).

As a result, it is possible to perform a search for all the telephone numbers stored in the first memory 110 without requiring an operation for shifting to the search state.

Further, by inputting a number key instead of the scroll key 160b, the search target can be further narrowed down.

Further, even when a telephone number is entered after the already entered telephone number, no operation such as clearing the search result is required, so that continuous entry of numbers is not prevented.

As described above, according to the telephone number automatic search apparatus according to the present embodiment, since only the number is searched, all the telephone numbers stored in the first memory 110 are stored without passing through the name of the other party. Phone numbers can be searched.

Further, since the present embodiment is configured so as not to require an operation for further shifting to the search state, the number of operation procedures can be reduced.

Next, the operation of the automatic telephone number search apparatus according to the present embodiment will be described using a specific example.

As shown in FIG. 1, four telephone numbers are input and stored in the first memory 110 in advance.

Here, when four numbers “0901” are input through the number keys of the information input unit 160, the CPU
130 searches the telephone numbers stored in the first memory 110 for a telephone number whose first four digits are “0901”.

As shown in FIG. 1, since the first telephone number and the fourth telephone number each have the number "0901" at the beginning, the CPU 130 stores the two telephone numbers in the search result storage memory 140. At the same time, and at the same time, the first telephone number “09012345467”
8 ”is displayed on the display 120.

In this case, since "0901" is a number input by the user, the number "0901" is normally displayed, and the remaining "2345678" is highlighted.

If the number that the user wants to call is the first telephone number, the first telephone number is already displayed on the display 120. By pressing 160a, a call can be made to this telephone number.

If the number that the user wants to call is not the first telephone number, pressing the scroll key 160b of the information input section 160 causes the next candidate stored in the search result storage memory 140 to be displayed on the display 120. Will be displayed. Therefore, by pressing the call start key 160a of the information input section 160 while the desired telephone number is displayed, it is possible to start calling the telephone number.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a case where the automatic telephone number search device according to the second embodiment of the present invention is applied to a mobile phone.

The automatic telephone number search apparatus according to the present embodiment has a second memory 170 for storing a call history in addition to the configuration of the automatic telephone number search apparatus according to the first embodiment.
And a third memory 180 for storing the incoming call history.

Further, the CPU 130 in the present embodiment
Determines which of the first memory 110, the second memory 170, and the third memory 180 is to be searched according to an instruction input by a user via a predetermined key of the information input unit 160. That is, the CPU according to the present embodiment
130 is capable of setting the following seven search targets in accordance with instructions from the user. (1) First memory 110 (2) Second memory 170 (3) Third memory 180 (4) First memory 110 and second memory 170 (5) Second memory 170 and third memory 180 (6) First Memory 110 and third memory 180 (7) First memory 110, second memory 170 and third memory 180 Next, the operation of the telephone number automatic search device according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. I do.

The mobile phone 150 initially has the information input unit 16
It is in a state of waiting for a key input to 0 (step 310).

Next, before the user presses the numeric key,
A memory to be searched is specified via a key of the information input unit 160 (step 315).

For example, if "#" and any number from "1" to "7" are continuously input, each of the memories listed in (1) to (7) above will be searched. So that the key and the search target corresponding to the key can be set in advance.

Further, if no designation is made in step 315, that is, if there is no input, for example, the above-mentioned mode (7) can be set so as to be designated ( That is, the first memory 1
10, the second memory 170 and the third memory 180 are search targets). The case where no designation is made in step 315 indicates a case where a number is input without inputting “#”. As described above, a number input without inputting “#” is regarded as a number input as a telephone number.

That is, without inputting “#”,
When the numeric key of the information input unit 160 is pressed (step 3
20), the number corresponding to the numeric key is displayed on the display 1.
20 is displayed (step 330).

At the same time, the CPU 130 uses the entered number as a search key to retrieve the telephone numbers stored in the memories (eg, the first memory 110, the second memory 170, and the third memory 180) specified in step 315. A search is made from the numbers to see if there is a number whose leading number matches the number of characters of the search key (step 3).
40).

The subsequent procedure is the same as the operation of the telephone number automatic search device according to the first embodiment.

The telephone number automatic search apparatus according to the present embodiment is configured so that all the telephone numbers held in the mobile phone 150 can be searched, so that the telephone number can be efficiently searched. You can search for numbers.

Next, the operation of the automatic telephone number search apparatus according to this embodiment will be described using a specific example.

As shown in FIG. 2, the first memory 110,
It is assumed that each of the second memory 170 and the third memory 180 stores four telephone numbers.

The user can search for the first memory 110, the second memory 170, and the third memory 180.
Is specified.

Here, when the user inputs four numbers “0901” through the information input unit 160, the CPU 1
30 searches the telephone numbers stored in the first memory 110, the second memory 170, and the third memory 180 for the telephone number whose first four numbers are "0901".

As shown in FIG. 2, the first telephone number and the fourth telephone number in the first memory 110, the fourth telephone number in the second memory 170, and the second telephone number in the third memory 180 are respectively "0
901 ”, the CPU 130 sequentially stores these four telephone numbers in the search result storage memory 140 and simultaneously displays the first telephone number“ 09012345678 ”in the first memory 110 on the display 120. I do.

In this case, since "0901" is a number input by the user, the number "0901" is normally displayed, and the remaining "2345678" is highlighted.

When the number that the user wants to call is the first telephone number, the first telephone number is already displayed on the display 120, and the user presses the call start key of the information input section 160. By pressing 160a, a call can be made to this telephone number.

If the number that the user wants to call is not the first telephone number, the next candidate stored in the search result storage memory 140 is displayed by pressing the scroll key 160b of the information input section 160. Will be displayed. Therefore, by pressing the call start key 160a of the information input section 160 while the desired telephone number is displayed, it is possible to start calling the telephone number.

As described above, according to the telephone number automatic search device according to the present embodiment, the search can be performed without the need to perform the operation for shifting to the search state.

Further, since the search can be performed for the outgoing / incoming call history, the search target can be set in a wide range.

[0085]

As described above, according to the automatic telephone number search apparatus and the automatic telephone number search method of the present invention, the following effects can be obtained.

The first effect is that the stored telephone number can be searched without requiring an operation to shift to the search state, so that it is not necessary to input all the telephone numbers. This is because during the input of the telephone number, the telephone number is automatically searched according to the input number.

The second effect is that since outgoing / incoming histories can be searched, not only phone numbers stored in advance but also phone numbers can be searched over an extremely wide range. .

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an automatic telephone number search device according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a telephone number automatic search device according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation of the automatic telephone number search device according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an operation of the automatic telephone number search device according to the second embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of an example of a conventional destination number input device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 110 first memory 120 display 130 CPU 140 search result storage memory 150 mobile phone 160 information input section 170 second memory 180 third memory

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[Submission date] February 4, 2000 (200.2.4)

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[0015]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, there is provided a storage medium for storing a telephone number, a display for displaying a telephone number, and a method for inputting a telephone number. Control means for searching a telephone number stored in the storage means for a telephone number having some numbers of the input telephone number at the beginning, and displaying the searched telephone number on the display means; Scrolling means for displaying on the display means the next candidate of the telephone number retrieved and displayed on the display means.

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If there are a plurality of searched telephone numbers,
By scrolling the telephone number through the scrolling means, all the telephone numbers can be sequentially displayed on the display means, and the user selects a desired telephone number from among them, and Outgoing calls can be made.

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A second storage means for storing a telephone number input in advance, a second storage means for storing an outgoing call history, a third storage means for storing an incoming call history, and displaying the telephone number. Display means, and during the input of the telephone number, the telephone number having some digits of the input telephone number at the beginning is stored in the first storage means, the second storage means, and the third storage means. Control means for searching from among the telephone numbers being displayed and displaying the searched telephone number on the display means, and scroll means for displaying on the display means the next candidate of the searched and displayed telephone number on the display means. ,
The present invention provides a telephone number automatic search device comprising:

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If there are a plurality of searched telephone numbers,
By scrolling the telephone number through the scrolling means, all the telephone numbers are displayed in order on the display means, and the user selects a desired telephone number from among them and makes a call to the telephone number. It can be performed.

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According to the present invention, while a telephone number is being input, the present invention further provides:
A first step of searching among telephone numbers stored beforehand for a telephone number having some numbers of the telephone number being input, and a second step of displaying the searched telephone number, And a third step of scrolling the searched and displayed telephone number and displaying the next candidate.

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Claim 8 is a first step of determining an object to be searched for a telephone number having several digits at the beginning of the entered telephone number while the telephone number is being entered; From the search target determined in the first step, a second step of searching for a telephone number having several digits of the input telephone number at the beginning, and a third step of displaying the searched telephone number A method for automatically searching for a telephone number, comprising: a fourth step of scrolling the searched and displayed telephone number and displaying the next candidate.

Claims (11)

[Claims] 1. A storage means for storing a telephone number, a display means for displaying a telephone number, and, during input of a telephone number, a telephone number having some of the inputted telephone number at the beginning. Control means for searching from among the telephone numbers stored in the storage means and displaying the searched telephone numbers on the display means. 2. A first storage means for storing a telephone number input in advance, a second storage means for storing a call history, a third storage means for storing a call history, and a display means for displaying a telephone number. During the input of the telephone number, the telephone number stored in the first storage means, the second storage means, and the third storage means having the telephone number having some numbers of the input telephone number at the beginning. Control means for searching from among the numbers and displaying the searched telephone number on the display means. 3. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control unit selects a search target from at least one of the first storage unit, the second storage unit, and the third storage unit. Phone number automatic search device described in. 4. The control device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit displays the retrieved telephone number on the display unit in a form in which it is added to the telephone number being input. Automatic telephone number search device described. 5. The automatic telephone number search device according to claim 4, wherein said control means displays the searched telephone number on said display means in an inverted display form. 6. The automatic telephone number search device according to claim 1, further comprising a search result storage memory for storing the telephone number searched by said control means. 7. A first method for retrieving a telephone number having several digits at the beginning of a telephone number being inputted from among telephone numbers stored in advance while the telephone number is being inputted. And a second step of displaying the searched telephone number. 8. A first step of determining an object to be searched for a telephone number having several digits at the beginning of the input telephone number while the telephone number is being input; From the search target determined in the process of the second step of searching for a telephone number having a number at the beginning of the input telephone number, a third step of displaying the searched telephone number, Phone number automatic search method provided with. 9. The telephone number automatic apparatus according to claim 8, wherein in the third step, the searched telephone number is displayed in a form added to the telephone number being input. retrieval method. 10. The automatic telephone number search method according to claim 9, wherein in the third step, the searched telephone numbers are displayed in reverse video. 11. The automatic telephone number search method according to claim 7, further comprising a step of storing the searched telephone numbers.