JPS5915432B2 - phone number playback device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a telephone number reproducing device suitable for use with mobile telephones and the like.

Conventional telephone directories are made of type printed on paper or the like, and it is difficult for drivers to use them while driving a car in terms of safe driving. Alternatively, there is a method of storing frequently used numbers in the telephone or telephone exchange and recalling them using speed dial, but in this case, the number that can be stored is limited due to price and other constraints. In addition, the user must remember the relationship between speed dial numbers and destinations, or must read a symmetrical table written in letters or the like. Therefore, the driver has to take his eyes off the road ahead, which is inconvenient for safe driving. The present invention aims to eliminate these drawbacks. Specifically, instead of expressing the contents in text, the contents of the telephone directory are recorded on a magnetic tape, etc., and the user can listen to them with his ears to find the person he is looking for. By providing a voice telephone directory with a function of sending a dialed number by pressing a send button, etc., it is possible to safely make a call to an unspecified party even while driving a car.

This will be explained below along with examples.

In FIG. 1, numeral 1 is a voice telephone directory for reproducing prerecorded telephone numbers by voice, numeral 2' is a telephone, and numeral 3 is a car telephone main body. 11 is the iueo... selection button (
12 is a hold button (second switch), 13 is a write button (third switch),
It consists of 13a to 13d.

Next, the read operation of this device will be explained.

First, the handset of telephone 2 is linked to the hook switch, and when button 11 is pressed while the phone is hooked down, a voice will be heard in the order of "A, I, U, Engineering,...N" from the voice telephone directory. will appear, so if you press button 11 again at the sound you want to read, the names starting with that sound (first character) will be selected in order from the second character onward, and the names will be played one after another in voice order. The details of this operation will be described later with reference to FIG. In this case, the phone number does not appear in the voice, only the name or characteristics such as name and occupation are expressed. When the user presses the button 12 after speaking the desired name, the voice telephone directory 1 becomes ready to send out the number. Next, when you lift up the handset of phone 2, the car phone connects to the base station through a wireless line, and then automatically reads out the phone number corresponding to the name selected from the voice phone book and sends the phone number to the base station. Sends the corresponding code. The call operation after this is the same as that of a normal car phone. Next, we will explain how to write the phone number.

Using the same procedure as when reading, select "Aiueo..." according to the first letter of the name you want to write, and then press button 13 to write the note you selected earlier on the tape with the first letter. The tape stops at the unwritten part of the section, and preparation for writing is completed. Next, pick up the handset of telephone 2 and dial the telephone number corresponding to the name you want to write, then press button 13 again and immediately speak the name into the handset. The number corresponding to is written into the voice telephone directory. Next, the details of the recording and reproducing operations will be explained with reference to FIG. 3. Reference numeral J and 4 represent an audio name reproducing head, 5\ an amplifier, and 6'11 a speaker.

7 is a telephone number playback head, 8 is a random access memory (RAM) for temporarily storing the output of the playback head 7, and 9 is a number output terminal.

10 is a recording tape, 41 is a portion on the tape where names are recorded, 42 is a space between the names, 71 is a portion where a signal for erasing the contents of the RAM 8 is recorded, and 72 is a portion where a number is recorded.

In this configuration, when the tape runs from right to left, the head 4 reproduces the name 41 recorded on the tape 10, amplifies it with the amplifier 5, and then generates sound from the speaker 6. At the same time as this operation, the head 7 repeatedly records, erases, records, etc. the telephone number 72 corresponding to the name in the RAM.

Now, while a certain name is selected using button 12 in Fig. 1,
The tape stops at position 42, and the number corresponding to 41 is temporarily recorded in RAM 8, so that it can be read from terminal 9 at any time.

Next, referring to FIG. 4, the operation of the cueing function of the voice telephone directory will be described. 100 is the first tape stop position, and the tape always detects this position and waits here.

81, 82, 83...84 are A, B, U... respectively.
・・N's voice recorded part, 91, 92, 93...
Reference numeral 94 is a tape cue recording symbol corresponding to A, I, U, . . . U, and 911 is a mark read out with the cue symbol of A.

A stop position 100 is provided approximately at the center of the tape.
The tape always stops at position 10 when the power is turned on.
0, and when button 11 is pressed, playback starts from stop position 100 in the right direction, a, i, c...
・Sounds come out in the order c.

If you press the button again at the audio you want to read out, the tape cue recording symbols 91...94 at that position will be automatically read out and correspond to them (for example, 81 in the case of A).
from the recording cue symbol of 91 corresponding to the position of 911)
Tape position: Automatically rewinds or fast-forwards, and when a predetermined position is reached, the tape is played back at normal playback speed, followed by a cue symbol, and then the recorded name or characteristics such as name and occupation are played audibly. occur one after another. Next, an example of the structure of the voice telephone directory mentioned above will be explained with reference to FIG.

The symbols in the figure correspond to the symbols in FIGS. 1 to 4. When the button 11 is pressed while the tape control section 14 is receiving a lift-down signal from the terminal 21, the audio is played back from the audio registration playback head 4 in the order of A, A, D, O, as explained in FIG. After being amplified by the amplifier 5, the sound comes out from the noupika 6. When the button 11 is pressed again at the desired sound, the data recording/reproducing head 7 reproduces the data corresponding to the sound, and from this data the cue code reproducing circuit 15 generates the cue tape position information corresponding to the sound. decipher. This position information is added to the tape control section 14, and the tape control section 14 starts playback after setting the specified tape position in fast forward mode. Regarding the playback operation, as already explained in Fig. 3, the name, company name, occupation, etc. are output from the speaker 6 in the order of A, I, U, Engineering, and O. At the same time, the corresponding telephone number is temporarily stored in the RAM 8. be done. This memory 1 repeats recording, erasing, and recording by the output of the erase signal pickup circuit 16 while the tape is in operation. Next, when the desired name appears, the button 12 is pressed and the tape stops, and the telephone number corresponding to that name is recorded in the RAM 8, and is ready to be sent from the terminal 9.

The subsequent operations are as already described with reference to FIG. Next, the write operation will be explained.

As already explained with reference to FIG. 1, pick up the handset of telephone 2, dial the telephone number corresponding to the name you wish to write, and immediately after pressing button 13, speak the name into the transmitter. The voice is recorded from the terminal 18 through the switch 13, and is recorded from the playback head 4.The telephone number, which is temporarily stored in the telephone, is recorded from the terminal 17 through the switch 13, and then recorded from the playback head 7.
recorded. The erase head 19 performs an erase operation before writing. Further, instead of using a magnetic tape as the voice telephone directory 1 as in the above embodiment, the same effect can be obtained by using another recording medium such as a magnetic disk.

As is clear from the above explanation, iζ according to the present invention is 2 to 3
It is ideal for applications such as car telephones, as it is possible to find the desired recipient from among a large number of names and automatically send the telephone number using only the auditory sense by pressing a button.
This has the advantage of allowing you to safely call someone whose phone number you do not know while driving.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a telephone number reproducing device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a diagram showing writing sections on a tape.
FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram showing the state of recording and playback on a tape, FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining a tape cue function diagram, and FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a detailed configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. It is. 6... Speaker, 10... Recording tape, 14... Tape control unit.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A playback device that includes a recording medium such as a magnetic tape that stores the name and telephone number of a telephone subscriber, and a first switch that is linked to a hook switch of a handset of a mobile phone and starts playing back the name audibly. and a second switch for selecting a predetermined destination from among the reproduced names, stopping the reproduction, and temporarily storing a telephone number corresponding to the destination in a random access memory. and a telephone number reproduction system, wherein the mobile phone automatically reads out the contents of the random access memory in response to hook-up of a handset and sends it to a base station as a code corresponding to the telephone number. Device.