JP2002190860A - Phone - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a phone that allows a user to be able to recognize whether or not an opposite party is an opposite party whose call has arrived before at the arrival of an incoming call from an unknown opposite party no registered in a telephone directory memory. SOLUTION: When a caller number obtained by the caller number notice method is not registered in the telephone directory memory, the caller number is automatically registered to the telephone directory memory together with a 'fixed form registration name' (e.g. date and time of the arrival of an incoming call). The 'fixed form registration name' (date and time of the arrival of a preceding incoming call) is read from the telephone directory memory from the 2nd arrival of the incoming call and an LCD display section 19 displays the 'fixed form registration name'.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a telephone set such as a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly, to a function for confirming a called party when receiving a call.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Each telephone company provides a caller ID notification service. This caller ID service,
This service notifies the called telephone of the caller's number (telephone number) when receiving a call.

In this caller ID notification service, when a caller's number is notified to the called telephone at the time of an incoming call, if the number is registered in the telephone directory memory of the called telephone, it is displayed together with the number. The name (registered name) of the caller registered in the telephone directory memory is displayed on the LCD display unit of the called telephone, so that the called user can know who the other party is without responding.

[0004]

On the other hand, even if the caller ID is notified to the called telephone by the caller ID notification,
If the number is not registered in the phonebook memory of the called telephone, the number obtained by the caller ID notification is simply LC
D is only displayed on the display, so if you do not fully understand the relationship between that number and the name of the caller, you will not only know who the current call is from You may not even know if the other party was the one you received earlier.

[0005] A telephone has an incoming call history as a means for checking the past incoming call status. However, at the time of an incoming call, there is not enough time to refer to the incoming call history, and it is necessary to immediately proceed to answering and other operations. In addition, even if the incoming call history is referred to when receiving an incoming call, the incoming call history is discarded in the oldest order when the incoming call history memory is full,
Even if there is an incoming call in the past, it may not be recorded in the incoming call history, and may not be useful for confirming the past incoming call status.

[0006] The present invention has been made in view of the above points,
It is an object of the present invention to provide a telephone at a glance at the time of an incoming call from an unknown partner not registered in the telephone directory memory, at a glance whether or not the other party has previously arrived.

[0007]

A telephone according to the present invention comprises: first means for determining whether or not a caller number is registered in a telephone directory memory when a call is received by caller number notification; If the first means determines that there is no registration, the second means for automatically registering the caller number in the telephone directory memory together with the "regular registered name"; When the caller number is registered in the phonebook memory by the second means, the apparatus further comprises a third means for reading out the "regular registered name" from the phonebook memory and displaying it on a display unit. Features.

[0008] In the above telephone, the "regular registered name"
Is preferably set by the user by selecting from a plurality. The “regular registered name” is, specifically, the date and time of the incoming call (may be updated each time the same caller ID is received), a message indicating that the caller is unknown, or the caller It can be the number of incoming calls for each number. These “standard registration names” and caller numbers may be registered in the telephone directory memory as a specific group. Further, it is preferable that the “regular registered name” can be rewritten by another key name by key operation after being registered in the telephone directory memory.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the telephone according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a mobile communication terminal as an embodiment of the telephone according to the present invention. In this figure, a transmission / reception circuit unit 12 to which an antenna 11 is connected is a circuit that performs transmission / reception processing in a mobile communication terminal under the control of a control unit 13 having a built-in CPU. That is, the transmission / reception circuit unit 1
2 modulates a carrier with a voice message, a text message, a control signal, or the like from the control unit 13 and transmits a modulated wave as a transmission signal from the antenna 11;
And demodulates a voice message, a text message, a control signal, or the like from the signal received in step (1) and outputs the demodulated signal to the control unit 13.

The control unit 13 includes a key operation unit 16, a transmission / reception circuit unit 12, an audio processing unit 24, and a time / date generation unit 17
, And operates according to the program stored in the flash memory 14, and the transmission / reception circuit unit 12
D driver 18, lighting 20, incoming LED 21, ringer or speaker 22, vibrator 23, and sound processor 2
4 is controlled. The control unit 13 is connected to the RAM 15 and uses the RAM 15 as a work area when executing a program stored in the flash memory 14. The RAM 15 stores learning function data, which is one of dictionary functions for character input. On the other hand, the flash memory 14 stores character messages received from the message center and font information such as character patterns (including English and numeric characters) / icons (graphics). further,
The flash memory 14 is used as a telephone directory memory.
As shown in "003", the telephone numbers and names (registered names) of a plurality of destinations are stored. Further, in the case of the present invention, the telephone directory memory (flash memory 14) has, as shown in FIG. A number and a “regular registered name” (for example, the date and time at the time of incoming call, which can be also referred to as a predetermined registered name) are stored.

The time / date generator 17 generates time information and date information and supplies them to the controller 13.
The LCD driver 18 controls the LCD according to the control of the
The display unit 19 is driven. That is, the LCD driver 18
Displays the character pattern (including English and numeric characters) and the icon (graphic) pattern read from the flash memory 14 in response to the control signal from the control unit 13 on the LCD display unit 19. The audio processing unit 24 is connected to the speaker 25 and the microphone 26 and converts the audio signal input from the control unit 13 into a D signal.
A / D conversion and output from the speaker 25 and A / D conversion of an audio signal input from the microphone 26 and output to the control unit 13 are performed.

The illumination 20 is controlled to be turned on and off by the control unit 13 when a key is pressed or an incoming call is received, and when lit, the key operation unit 16 and the LCD display unit 19 are brightly illuminated. The vibrator 23 is connected to the control unit 13.
Under the control of, it vibrates at the time of an incoming call etc. to notify it. The ringer or loudspeaker 22 is controlled by the control unit 13 and sounds when an incoming call arrives to notify the user. The incoming LED 21 is connected to the control unit 13, and under the control of the control unit 13,
It flashes when there is an incoming call and informs you of it.

The above-described mobile communication terminal performs an incoming call display operation as shown in the flowchart of FIG. 3 particularly when an incoming call is made based on a caller ID notification. That is, when an incoming call occurs in the caller number notification (step S1), it is determined whether the caller number (telephone number) obtained in the caller number notification is registered in the telephone directory memory (flash memory 14). (Step S2).

If the caller number is registered in the telephone directory memory, the caller number and the corresponding registered name (name) read from the telephone directory memory are displayed on the LCD display section 19. (Step S3). LCD at this time
An example of the display state of the display unit 19 is shown in FIG. FIG.
In (a), “090− × △ × − × △” is used as the caller number.
"XX" is displayed as "Aoki" as the name.

On the other hand, if it is determined in step S2 that the caller ID obtained by the caller ID notification is not registered in the telephone directory memory, the flow advances to step S4 to perform a normal display process. ), The LCD display unit 19 displays the caller number (for example, 090) obtained by the caller number notification.
-Xxx-xxxx) is displayed.

If it is determined in step S2 that the caller ID obtained by the caller ID notification is not registered in the telephone directory memory, the process proceeds to step S5 at the same time as step 4 described above, and the "automatic registration function""" Is set. Here, for the “automatic registration function”, whether this function is used (set) or not used is set in advance by a key operation on a setting screen.

If it is determined in step S5 that the "automatic registration function" has not been set, the process proceeds to step S6 and ends, but if the "automatic registration function" has been set, the flow proceeds to step S5. If it is determined, the process proceeds to step S7, where it is determined whether or not there is still free space in the telephone directory memory.
The procedure goes to "end", but if there is an empty space in the telephone directory memory, the procedure goes to step S8 to execute "automatic registration processing".

This "automatic registration process" automatically stores the caller number not registered in the telephone directory memory and the "regular registered name" in the telephone directory memory obtained by the incoming call based on the current caller ID notification. In the registration operation, the date and time (date and time) at which the current incoming call to be registered occurs are used as the “standard registration name”. Therefore, when this "automatic registration process" is performed, the telephone directory memory contains
For example, as shown in the registration number “004” or “005”, the caller number (090- △△ ×-△△ xx or 0
90- × △△-× △△ ×) and the date and time of the incoming call by that number (October 18/23: 20 or October 19/1)
1:10) (registered name) is registered.

Then, if there is an incoming call again with the caller number, the caller number has already been registered in the telephone directory memory, and the process proceeds to steps S2 and S3 in FIG. , The date and time of the last incoming call, which is the registered name, is read out, and the incoming date and time and the caller ID are shown in FIG.
Is displayed on the LCD display unit 19 as shown in FIG.
In (c), the date and time of the last incoming call is “October 18/2
3:20 ”and the caller ID is“ 090- △△ ×-△△ ×
× ”). Therefore, from the displayed last incoming call date and time, it can be seen at a glance that the caller ID of the current incoming call is the number that was previously received.

As described above, according to the mobile communication terminal described above, when an incoming call is received from an unknown party not registered in the telephone directory memory, the date and time of the previous incoming call are displayed on the LCD display unit 19 from the second time.
, So you can see at a glance whether the unknown party is the one you received earlier.

Note that the incoming date and time registered in the telephone directory memory in the "automatic registration process" may be updated each time an incoming call with the same caller number is made. By doing so, the last incoming date and time is displayed on the LCD display unit 19 each time an incoming call is received from an unknown partner.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the date and time of arrival is used as the "regular registered name", but other contents can be used. For example, as shown in FIG. 5A, a message notifying that the caller is an unknown partner, specifically, the word “unconfirmed partner”, or FIG. 5B
, The number of incoming calls for each caller number (updated for each incoming call). Which of these “standard registration names” is used is selected by a key operation on the setting screen. In the case of a message such as “unconfirmed partner”, the message is stored in the flash memory 14.

Further, after the "standard registration name" is registered in the telephone directory memory by "automatic registration processing", it can be rewritten to another registration name by key operation. With this,
Phonebook registration becomes very easy. For example, when trying to register a friend's phone number in the phone book, first, a friend's phone calls the user's phone. Then, the friend's telephone number obtained by the caller ID notification and the "regular registered name" (for example, incoming date and time) are registered in the telephone directory memory of the own telephone by "automatic registration processing". Thereafter, the key operation replaces the “regular registered name” (for example, the date and time of the incoming call) with the name of a friend. By doing so, the telephone directory can be easily registered by simply rewriting the registered name, omitting the input of the telephone number.

Also, recent telephones can be divided into groups such as a company group and a friend group, and each number can be registered in a telephone directory.
Registration by the "automatic registration process" can be registered in the telephone directory memory as a specific group. In this way, the number registered by the "automatic registration process" can be easily searched using the group search as in the case of other general numbers.

Although the above is the case where the present invention is applied to a mobile communication terminal, the present invention can be applied to a home fixed telephone or a next-generation (3G) mobile communication terminal.

[0026]

As described above in detail, according to the telephone set of the present invention, when the caller ID obtained by the caller ID notification is not registered in the telephone directory memory, the caller ID is changed to a "fixed form". It is automatically registered in the phonebook memory together with the "registered name", and from the second incoming call, the "regular registered name"
Is read from the phonebook memory and displayed on the display, so when an incoming call is received from an unknown party that is not registered in the phonebook memory, it can be determined at a glance whether the other party has previously received the call can do.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a view showing a screen display of an LCD display unit and showing an operation of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a telephone according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a registration state of a telephone directory memory according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 shows a “regular registered name” used in the telephone of the present invention.
The figure which shows the other example of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 13 control unit 14 flash memory 16 key operation unit 17 time / date generation unit 19 LCD display unit

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. A first means for judging whether or not a caller number is registered in a telephone directory memory when an incoming call is received by a caller ID notification, and a judgment that no registration is made by the first means. Then, a second means for automatically registering the caller number in a telephone directory memory together with a "regular registered name", and when a call is received by caller ID notification, the caller number is changed to the second means. And a third means for reading out the "regular registered name" from the telephone directory memory and displaying the same on the display section when the telephone number is registered in the telephone directory memory. 2. The telephone according to claim 1, wherein the user can select and set the “regular registered name” from a plurality of types. 3. The telephone according to claim 1, wherein the “regular registered name” is a date and a time when an incoming call is received. 4. The telephone according to claim 3, wherein the date and time are updated each time the same caller number is received. 5. The telephone according to claim 1, wherein the “regular registered name” is a message notifying that the sender is unknown. 6. The telephone according to claim 1, wherein the “regular registered name” is the number of incoming calls for each caller number. 7. The telephone number memory according to claim 1, wherein the caller number and the “regular registered name” registered in the telephone directory memory by the second means are registered as a specific group in the telephone directory memory. 7. The telephone according to any one of 6. 8. The telephone according to claim 1, wherein the "regular registered name" can be rewritten by a key operation to another registered name after being registered in the telephone directory memory. .