JPH09321900A - Information processing device with telephone function and calling number processing method - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Problem] To associate a telephone function with an electronic notebook function and confirm a missed call history that was present as a telephone function as a checklist for the electronic notebook function. When a call is received, the telephone number of the other party is acquired, the calling number is displayed, and a ring tone is sounded (A11, A13). When the user does not pick up the call within the predetermined time (A14, A16), checklist information having the telephone number as a matter is created and registered in the checklist memory (A17 to A19). As a result, the missed call history that existed as a telephone function can be confirmed as a checklist for the electronic notebook function, and when the electronic notebook function is used, the user does not need to change the mode to the telephone function and the user can call The information of the other party, that is, the missed call history can be known.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a portable information processing apparatus having both a telephone function and a notebook function, and in particular, shows the telephone number (calling number) of the other party when the user does not pick up the telephone. The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus with a telephone function having a characteristic processing method and a calling number processing method.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a PDA (personal di
Some portable information processing devices such as digital assistants have various functions for managing personal information such as a document creation function, a memo function, a schedule function, and an address function.
You can enter the required information or display it on the screen everywhere.

Here, PIM (Personal In
A checklist function is provided in a portable information tool or an electronic notebook that has a notebook function called "formation manager". This is a function that manages a list of tasks that the user should do separately from the schedule function. Therefore, if you open (display) this checklist, you can check important matters that you should not forget.

Further, in this type of information processing apparatus, the PHS
(Personal handyphone system
em) etc., and can make and receive telephone calls while carrying the device (terminal device).

[0005]

For example, in the case of PHS, when a call comes in, the number of the other party can be notified without picking up the handset. This is called a calling number display function (caller number notification function). If the caller sets this function, his or her own telephone number will be displayed on the telephone of the other party. Furthermore, when a call is received from a telephone set with this calling number display, the telephone number is automatically registered if the call is not answered. This is called a missed call history function, and the user can know who made a call by referring to this missed call history.

However, such a telephone function (PH
S function) and the electronic notebook function (PIM function) as described above
And existed independently. For this reason, it was necessary to change the mode to the telephone function in order to view the missed call history when using it as an electronic notebook. To register the missed call history confirmed by the telephone function in the above checklist, either remember the missed call history or write it down in a memo and change the mode to enable the electronic notebook function checklist function. It required troublesome operations such as calling and registering.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and it is possible to correlate a telephone function and an electronic notebook function and confirm a missed call history that was present as a telephone function as a checklist of the electronic notebook function. An object is to provide an information processing apparatus with a telephone function and a calling number processing method that can be performed.

[0008]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

(1) According to the present invention, in an information processing device having a telephone function and an electronic notebook function, checklist storage means for storing checklist information displayed under the electronic notebook function, and a telephone call through the telephone function are provided. When an incoming call arrives, a telephone number acquisition means for obtaining the telephone number of the other party, a judgment means for judging whether or not the call is picked up within a predetermined time, and a result of this judgment means If there is not, the list creating means for creating the check list information using the telephone number obtained by the telephone number obtaining means, and the check list information created by the list creating means for the check list storing means. And a registration means for registering with.

According to such a configuration, if the user does not pick up the phone even after the lapse of a predetermined time, the check list information with the telephone number (calling number) of the other party as the subject is automatically registered. This checklist information is displayed under the electronic notebook function. Therefore, when the electronic notebook function is used, the user can know the information of the other party who did not answer the call, that is, the missed call history, without the need to change the mode to the telephone function.

(2) Further, the present invention has a telephone directory storing means for storing telephone directory information displayed under the electronic notebook function, and the registering means stores the telephone number when registering the telephone number.
The telephone number is registered in the check list storage means only when the telephone number exists in the telephone book information stored in the telephone book storage means.

According to this structure, since registration is performed according to the result of comparison with the telephone directory information, only the telephone number of the other party that exists in the telephone directory information, that is, the telephone number of the other party that needs to be redialed. You can register.

(3) Further, according to the present invention, when the display of the checklist information is instructed, the communication state confirmation means for confirming the current communication state, and the result of the communication state confirmation means are that the communication is possible. In the case of communication, the checklist information including the telephone number is displayed, and when the communication is impossible, the checklist information excluding the telephone number is displayed. And

According to such a configuration, when the list display instruction is given, the check list information including the telephone number is displayed in the communicable state, and the call is made in the communicable state, that is, the state in which the call cannot be made again. Since the checklist information excluding the number is displayed, the user can always confirm only the message that should be done at that time.

[0014]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of an information processing apparatus with a mobile phone function according to an embodiment of the present invention. This device uses PHS (pe
rsonal handyphone system)
It is composed of a battery-powered PDA with a built-in telephone function, and has an electronic notebook function (PIM function) for managing personal information such as a memo function, a schedule function, and an address function.

The present apparatus comprises an information processing control unit 1 for realizing an electronic notebook function and a wireless communication control unit 2 for realizing a telephone function. In the information processing control unit 1, 3 is a CPU unit (main control unit), which controls the entire apparatus. A detailed configuration of the CPU unit 3 is shown in FIG. The CPU section 3 includes a CPU 20, a ROM 21, and a RAM.
It is composed of memory chips such as 22. A program for controlling the system is stored in the ROM 21 or the RAM 22, and the CPU 20 executes the program to operate the device.

The RAM 22 also stores checklist information handled by the checklist function and telephone directory information handled by the telephone directory function, which exist as one of the electronic notebook functions.

Reference numeral 4 denotes a wireless communication control IF, which is an interface circuit with the wireless communication control unit 2. Voice and data transmission / reception operations such as incoming and outgoing calls are performed under the control of the CPU unit 3. A BEEP sound control unit 5 is a circuit for generating a sine wave having a designated frequency. Reference numeral 6 denotes a sounding device that sounds a sounding body using this sine wave as an input signal, and the volume can be adjusted by an instruction from the BEEP sound control unit 5.

Reference numeral 10 is an input unit, and 11 is an input control unit.
The input unit 10 is an input device for inputting and instructing data, and includes, for example, a transparent tablet device. The input control unit 11 controls input of data input from the input unit 10. Reference numeral 12 is a display unit, and 13 is a display control unit. The display unit 12 is a display device for displaying data,
For example, it is composed of an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display). The display control unit 13 controls the display of the data displayed on the display unit 12. Further, here, the input unit 10 and the display unit 12 are integrated, and both display and input (pen input) are performed on the same screen.

On the other hand, in the radio communication control unit 2, 14 is a radio unit, which is composed of a circuit for performing reception control and transmission control. The reception control circuit amplifies and frequency-converts the radio frequency signal (analog signal) received by the antenna,
Demodulate to baseband signal. The transmission control circuit modulates the baseband signal, converts the frequency, and then amplifies and transmits the radio frequency signal.

Reference numeral 15 is a communication control unit, the details of which are shown in FIG. The communication control unit 15 includes a baseband unit 30 that performs various types of digital signal processing, and a wireless control system CPU 31, ROM 32, RAM 33, and EEPROM 3 that controls these units.
4 Reference numeral 35 denotes an operation system CPU that controls the interface with the information processing control unit 1, and is connected to the CPU unit 3 via the wireless communication control unit IF4 of the information processing control unit 1.

Reference numeral 16 is an audio control section, which is 17,1.
8 between the handset 8 and the baseband unit 30. The handset 17 is a speaker that outputs a voice signal from the audio control unit 16, and here also outputs a signal (an alarm sound signal for notifying an alarm time) from the BEEP sound control unit 5 during a call. The transmitter 18 is a microphone for inputting a voice signal.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an external configuration of an information processing apparatus having a telephone function. On the front of the device body, the input unit 1
An input / output device including 0 and the display unit 12 is provided. The display unit 12 is composed of an LCD and is used as an output device for displaying various information such as a scheduler, and the input unit 10 composed of a tablet placed on top of the LCD is used as an information input device.

A receiver 17 and a transmitter 18 are provided on both sides of the input / output device (10, 12). When this device is used as a mobile phone, the device main body is held vertically and held like a mobile phone, the input / output devices (10, 12) are placed on the cheeks, and the earpiece 17 (speaker) located on the top of the device is ear-mounted. Touch and speak through the transmitter 18 (microphone) located at the bottom of the device.

A sounding device 6 is provided in the main body of the device. The sounding device 6 sounds a ring tone to notify the user that an incoming call has been received. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a checklist display screen displayed under the electronic notebook function. When a list display in the checklist function is instructed through the input unit 10, checklist information as shown in FIG. 5 is displayed on the display unit 12. This checklist information includes a plurality of items, and those items are registered through a list registration screen (not shown). here,
Two items such as "post mail" and "meeting after 10:00" are registered.

In addition to such a requirement, "042
A telephone number such as "8-33-XXXXX" is registered. This telephone number is the telephone number of the other party that the user did not pick up, and was automatically registered as one of the requirements of the checklist information.

FIG. 6 shows a calling number display screen displayed under the telephone function. When the caller sets the calling number display function (caller number notification function), the telephone number of the other party is displayed on the display unit 12, as shown in FIG. This display allows the user to know the other party before picking up the call. Further, when the call is not picked up after the elapse of the predetermined time, the telephone number of the other party is automatically registered in the check list information of FIG.

Next, the operation of the embodiment will be described. Figure 7
3 is a flowchart showing the operation of calling party number registration processing.
When a call is received, first, the wireless communication control unit 2 side receives the calling number, that is, the telephone number of the other party. This calling number is sent by the caller setting the calling number display function (caller number notification function) as described above.
If the calling number is received (Yes in step A11)
s), this is displayed on the display unit 12 as shown in FIG. 6 (step A12). Further, in order to inform the user that a call has been received, a ring tone is sounded through the sounding device 6 (step A13).

Here, it is determined whether or not the user has picked up the call, and if the user picks up the call, that is, if the user goes off-hook (Yes in step A14), the ring tone is stopped to enable the call (step A15). . Specifically, a telephone line is connected on the side of the wireless communication control unit 2 and the voice of the other party is received by the receiver 17
The voice of the user is input through the transmitter 18 and is transmitted to the other party.

On the other hand, if the user does not pick up the phone even after the lapse of a predetermined time, that is, if the user does not go off-hook (Yes in step A16), if the calling number is received at that time (step A17). Yes), the information processing control unit 1 side creates checklist information having the calling number as a subject (step A18), and registers it in the RAM 22 shown in FIG. 2 (step A19).

More specifically, it is assumed that when a call is received, a calling number (telephone number of the other party) such as "0428-33-xxxxxx" can be obtained. This calling number is displayed under the telephone function as shown in FIG. At this time, a ring tone sounds and the user is notified that a call has been received.

Here, if the user does not pick up the call after a predetermined time has elapsed, as shown in FIG.
Checklist information with a calling number such as "33-XXXXX" is created and registered. This checklist information is displayed under the electronic notebook function. Therefore, when the electronic notebook function is used, the user can know the information of the other party who did not answer the call, that is, the missed call history, without the need to change the mode to the telephone function.

In the above embodiment, all the telephone numbers of the user who was not on the phone were registered. However, when a large number of calls are received, the user need not call again. Even the telephone number is complicatedly registered, which may impair the original function of the checklist function. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 8, it is preferable to judge whether to register according to the other party and register only the telephone number of the other party who needs to call again.

FIG. 8 is a flow chart showing the operation of the calling party number registration processing as another embodiment. The process up to the generation of the checklist information with the calling number as the subject is the same as that of steps A11 to A17 in FIG. 7, and therefore the process after that will be described here.

That is, when creating the checklist information having the calling number as a requirement, the information processing control section 1 first compares the received calling number with each telephone number registered as telephone directory information. (Step B11). This telephone directory information consists of a name and a telephone number corresponding to it, and is stored in the RAM 22 shown in FIG.

As a result of this comparison, if the received calling number exists in the telephone directory information (Yes in step B12), checklist information having the calling number as a subject is created (step B13), and this is checked. It is registered in the RAM 22 shown in FIG. 2 (step B14).

In this way, by registering according to the result of comparison with the telephone directory information, it is possible to register only the telephone number of the other party that exists in the telephone directory information, that is, the telephone number of the other party that needs to be redialed. it can.

In the telephone directory information, an attribute "requiring / requiring redial" is added for each telephone number.
It is also possible to control the registration of the telephone number based on the attribute, and more effective registration can be performed.

When the checklist information registered in the RAM 22 is displayed, the following processing can be performed. FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the operation of the check list display processing. When the display of the checklist information is instructed through the input unit 10 (step C1
1) First, the wireless communication control unit 2 side confirms the current communication state (step C12). To check this communication status,
This is done by detecting the reception level of radio waves. In this case, if the reception level of the radio wave is equal to or higher than the predetermined level, it can be determined that the communication area is within the communication range, that is, the communication is possible.

Here, if the communication is possible (Yes in step C13), the RAM 2 is set in the information processing control section 1 side.
The checklist information registered in No. 2 is read and all the information, that is, the calling number is displayed on the display unit 12 (step C14). On the other hand, if communication is impossible (No in step C13), the information processing control unit 1 side
The check list information registered in the RAM 22 is read, and the calling number is excluded from the check list information and displayed on the display unit 12 (step C15).

As described above, when the list display instruction is given, the check list information including the calling number is displayed in the communicable state, and the check list information is displayed in the communicable state, that is, the call cannot be redialed. By displaying the checklist information excluding the number, the user can always check only the requirements that should be met at that time.

[0041]

As described above, according to the present invention, the telephone function and the electronic notebook function can be associated with each other, and the missed call history existing as the telephone function can be confirmed as a checklist of the electronic notebook function. Therefore, when the electronic notebook function is used, the user can know the information of the other party who did not answer the call, that is, the missed call history, without the need to change the mode to the telephone function.

By registering according to the result of comparison with the telephone directory information, it is possible to register only the telephone number of the other party existing in the telephone directory information, that is, the telephone number of the other party that needs to be redialed. .

When a list display instruction is given, the checklist information including the telephone number is displayed in the communication enabled state, and the checklist excluding the telephone number in the communication disabled state, that is, the state where the call cannot be redeemed. By displaying the information, it is possible to always confirm only the message that the user should do at that time.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of an information processing device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a detailed configuration of a CPU unit in FIG.

3 is a block diagram showing a detailed configuration of a communication control unit in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an external configuration of an information processing device having a mobile phone function.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a checklist display screen.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a calling number display screen.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the operation of calling number registration processing.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the operation of calling party number registration processing as another embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the operation of checklist display processing.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Information processing control part 2 ... Wireless communication control part 3 ... CPU part 4 ... Wireless communication control part IF 5 ... BEEP sound control part 6 ... Sounding device 14 ... Wireless part 15 ... Communication control part 16 ... Audio control part 17 ... Handset 18 ... Speaker 22 ... RAM

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. An information processing apparatus having a telephone function and an electronic notebook function, wherein checklist storage means for storing checklist information displayed under the electronic notebook function and a telephone call made through the telephone function. When the telephone number of the other party is obtained, a telephone number obtaining means, a determining means for determining whether or not the telephone has been picked up within a predetermined time, and a result of this determining means is that the telephone is not picked up within the predetermined time A list creating means for creating checklist information for the telephone number obtained by the telephone number obtaining means, and the checklist information created by the list creating means in the checklist storage means. An information processing apparatus with a telephone function, comprising: a registration unit. 2. A telephone directory storage means for storing telephone directory information displayed under the electronic notebook function, wherein the registration means stores the telephone number when the telephone number is registered. The information processing apparatus with a telephone function according to claim 1, wherein the information is registered in the check list storage means only when the information exists in the telephone directory information stored in. 3. The communication state confirmation means for confirming the current communication state when the display of the checklist information is instructed, and the telephone number when the communication state is confirmed as a result of the communication state confirmation means. The display means for displaying the checklist information including the checklist information and displaying the checklist information excluding the telephone number when the communication is impossible. Information processing device with telephone function. 4. A checklist memory for storing checklist information displayed under the electronic notebook function is provided, and when a call is received through the telephone function, the telephone number of the other party is acquired. A calling number processing method, characterized in that, when the telephone is not picked up within a predetermined time, checklist information is created with the telephone number as a requirement and the checklist information is registered in the checklist memory. 5. A telephone directory having a telephone directory memory storing telephone directory information displayed under the electronic notebook function, wherein the telephone number stored in the telephone directory memory when registering the telephone number. 5. The calling number processing method according to claim 4, wherein the calling number is registered in the checklist memory only when it exists in the information. 6. When the display of the checklist information is instructed, the current communication state is confirmed, and if the communication is possible, the checklist information including the telephone number is displayed, and communication failure is displayed. The calling number processing method according to claim 4, wherein the check list information is displayed excluding the telephone number when the telephone number is available.