JP2006261743A - Portable communication terminal device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a portable telephone capable of receiving the transmitted image data even when incoming calls from the other telephones are transmitted by facsimile communication. <P>SOLUTION: The portable telephone 100 is provided with a communication control part 110, which executes communication in-between the other telephones and receives the image data when executing the facsimile communication, a data generation part 120 for generating character data by analyzing the received image data, and a display part 130 for displaying the generated character data. The received image data can be displayed as character data. The portable telephone 100 is also provided with a data storage part 150, in which the received image data and the generated character data are stored after being made to correspond to each other, an operation part 160 for executing output operation or the like of the image data to an external device, and an output control part 170 for outputting the stored data to the external device. The portable telephone 100 can output the received image data to the external device such as a printer for printing out the image data. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention belongs to a technical field related to communication of image data such as facsimile (FAX) in a portable telephone.

  In recent years, with the development of peripheral technologies such as wireless communication technology and the miniaturization of various circuit elements and display devices, portable telephones have rapidly spread. It is possible to perform transmission / reception or acquisition or browsing of document data such as a home page provided by a WWW (World Wide Web) server device, which further improves convenience.

  On the other hand, a service (hereinafter referred to as “forwarding service”) that forwards an incoming call from an arbitrary telephone to a telephone designated by a user has been provided by a telecommunications carrier that provides a telephone public network line. Even if there is no user in the vicinity of a normal telephone, if a setting is made to transmit to a predetermined telephone, a user in another location can receive a call. In particular, recently, in addition to general telephones, incoming calls from other telephones are often transferred to portable telephones.

  In the above transfer service, incoming calls from other telephones are not transferred by recognizing the communication type, so image data communication is also transferred from a telephone having a facsimile function such as a facsimile machine.

  However, since the portable telephone normally does not have a facsimile reception function, the transmitted image data cannot be received even if the incoming call from the facsimile apparatus is transferred to the portable telephone.

  In this case, as long as the transfer is set, the transmitted image data cannot be received even at the transfer source, that is, the transfer-set telephone, so the transmission is performed again to the sender. The user needs to perform various operations for receiving image data during facsimile communication, such as canceling the transfer settings and receiving the data at the transfer source telephone. Become.

  In order to solve an example of the above-described problem, the present invention can receive transmitted image data when the incoming call from another telephone is facsimile communication, and can display the contents thereof. In particular, even when an incoming call from a facsimile apparatus is set for a portable telephone, image data transferred from another facsimile apparatus can be received by the portable telephone without performing complicated operations. Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a portable telephone that can accurately receive a transfer service.

  In order to solve the above-described problem, the invention according to claim 1 is a portable communication terminal device capable of making a call with another communication terminal device, and detects an incoming call based on a call originating from the other communication terminal device. An incoming call detection means; a communication detection means for detecting whether the detected incoming call is a facsimile communication for transmitting two-dimensional image data; and, if the detected incoming call is a facsimile communication, The receiving means for receiving, the generating means for recognizing the character portion from the received image data and generating the character data, the display means for displaying the generated character data, and the received image data are associated with each other. Storage means stored in the memory.

  With this configuration, when the detected incoming call is facsimile communication, the invention according to the first aspect recognizes and displays character data from the received image data, and stores the received image data in association with each other. Is done.

  Usually, the display means of the portable communication terminal device is extremely smaller than the size of the image data received by facsimile communication, so that the received image data is reduced in the received data format or thumbnail or the like. The user cannot easily recognize the received image data at the portable communication terminal.

  Therefore, since the received image data can be displayed as character data, the invention according to claim 1 can be used as a display means of a portable communication terminal device such as the size and arrangement of characters when displaying them. It is also possible to display it in conformity, so that the user can understand the contents of the received image data and store the original image data that has been transmitted. When connected to the apparatus, the image data can be output to a medium such as paper, so that the same function as the facsimile apparatus can be exhibited.

  Furthermore, the invention according to claim 1 can receive all incoming calls transferred from a communication terminal device having a facsimile communication function that has received an incoming call based on a call from another communication terminal device. In the communication terminal apparatus for use, it is possible to accurately receive a transfer service for transferring an incoming call from a telephone having an arbitrary facsimile communication function to a telephone specified by the user.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the portable communication terminal device according to the first aspect, the generated character data is stored in the storage means in association with the received image data. It has the composition which is.

  With this configuration, in the invention described in claim 2, since the generated character data is stored in association with the received image data, after other operations are performed after the reception of the image data is completed. Even if there is, it is possible to display the character data again, and it can be used when generating data such as a list for displaying the incoming call history of facsimile communication, improving user convenience Can be made.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided the portable communication terminal device according to the first or second aspect, wherein an operation unit used for a user to operate the portable communication terminal device, and the operation unit An output control means for reading out the image data corresponding to the character data from the storage means and outputting the image data to the external device when a predetermined operation based on the display of the character data is performed; ing.

  With this configuration, the invention according to claim 3 reads out the image data corresponding to the character data from the storage unit and outputs it to the external device when a predetermined operation based on the display of the character data is performed. Therefore, by connecting to an external device such as a printing device that outputs the image data to a medium such as paper, the received image data can be output, and functions similar to those of a facsimile device can be exhibited.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the portable communication terminal device according to any one of the first to third aspects, when an incoming call based on an outgoing call from the other communication terminal device occurs, a user is notified. And a calling control means for causing the calling means to call when it is detected by the communication detecting means that the communication is not facsimile communication.

  With this configuration, the invention according to claim 4 makes a call when it is detected by the communication detection means that the communication is not facsimile communication, that is, in the case of facsimile communication, the call sound is not louded. Does not respond during facsimile communication.

  Therefore, since the invention according to claim 4 does not listen to the communication sound at the time of facsimile communication, the user is not uncomfortable.

  According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the portable communication terminal device according to any one of the first to fourth aspects, the display means receives the image data by the receiving means. , It is configured to display that the facsimile communication is in progress.

  With this configuration, the invention according to claim 5 displays that the facsimile communication is being performed when image data is being received, so that the operation of the facsimile communication can be confirmed. it can.

  The invention of the present application can display the received image data as character data, so that it can be displayed in conformity with the display means of the portable communication terminal device, and the user can receive the received image data. In addition to being able to understand the contents of the printer, it also stores image data, so if it is connected to an external device such as a printing device, the image data can be output to a medium such as paper. Functions similar to those of the apparatus can be exhibited.

  Further, the invention of the present application can receive all incoming calls transferred from a communication terminal device having a facsimile communication function that has received an incoming call based on a call from another communication terminal device. Therefore, it is possible to accurately receive a transfer service for transferring an incoming call of a telephone having an arbitrary facsimile communication function to a telephone designated by the user.

  Next, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  The embodiment described below is an embodiment when the portable communication terminal device of the present application is applied to a portable telephone to which an incoming call is transferred from a fixed telephone having a facsimile function.

  First, the configuration of the mobile phone of the present application will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing the configuration of the mobile phone according to the present application.

  The portable telephone 100 according to the present embodiment is designated as a transfer destination of an incoming call when an incoming call is made to a fixed telephone having a function of facsimile communication (hereinafter referred to as “facsimile apparatus”). Yes. In addition, when the portable telephone 100 is set as a transfer destination and the telephone number of the facsimile apparatus is received by another telephone such as a fixed telephone, the portable telephone 100 receives an incoming call. It has come to occur.

  The designation of the transfer destination is set by an exchange (not shown) connected to the facsimile apparatus by a telephone public network line based on a user instruction.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the portable telephone 100 of this embodiment communicates with other telephones via an antenna AT and receives a communication control unit 110 that receives image data when performing facsimile communication. The received image includes a data generation unit 120 that analyzes image data and generates character data, a display unit 130 that displays the generated character data, and a display control unit 140 that controls the display unit 130. Data is displayed as character data.

  In addition, the mobile phone 100 includes a data storage unit 150 that stores received image data and generated character data in association with each other, and various operations of the mobile phone 100 such as an output operation of image data to an external device. An operation unit 160 used when performing an operation and an output control unit 170 that outputs stored data to an external device. The external device such as a printing device that prints out image data is received by the external device. Image data can be output.

  Further, the mobile phone 100 includes a ringing sound amplifying unit 180 that amplifies a call when an incoming call occurs, a system control unit 190 that controls each unit when performing predetermined processing such as image data reception processing, And a ROM / RAM 200 used for controlling the microphone, and in order to make a call with the fixed telephone or the other portable telephone 100, the microphone M to which voice is input and the input voice to a predetermined signal. An audio processing unit 210 for processing, a speaker SP for amplifying the received audio data, and a loudspeaking control unit 220 for controlling the speaker SP are provided.

  Note that the communication control unit 110 of this embodiment constitutes an incoming call detection unit, a communication detection unit, and a reception unit of the present invention, and the data generation unit 120 constitutes a generation unit of the present invention. The display unit 130 of the present embodiment constitutes the display means of the present invention, the data storage unit 150 constitutes the storage means of the present invention, and the operation unit 160 constitutes the operation means of the present invention. Further, the output control unit 170 constitutes the output control means of the present invention, the ringing sound amplifying unit 180 constitutes the calling means of the present invention, and the system control unit 190 constitutes the call control means of the present invention. .

  The communication control unit 110 is connected to a telephone public network via an antenna AT, and performs communication control with other telephones such as a transfer source fixed telephone under the control of the system control unit 190. It has become.

  In particular, the communication control unit 110 according to the present embodiment is configured to establish a communication line with another telephone through an exchange (not shown) when an incoming call from the other telephone occurs. In addition, when the communication control unit 110 establishes a communication line with another telephone, the communication control unit 110 detects whether the incoming call is a facsimile communication under the control of the system control unit 190, and receives image data or a ringing tone. An incoming call process is performed to perform voice amplification. When image data is received, the image data is output to the data generation unit 120 and the data storage unit 150.

  Specifically, when the communication control unit 110 of this embodiment establishes a communication line with another telephone, has a predetermined communication sound indicating that the incoming call from the other telephone is a facsimile communication transmitted? If a predetermined communication sound is transmitted, it is detected that the incoming call from another telephone is facsimile communication, that is, the type of incoming call. When the communication control unit 110 detects that the incoming call from the destination telephone is facsimile communication, image data such as emulation that performs processing for adapting different communication methods or data formats between the transmission device and the reception device. The reception preparation process and the image data reception process are performed, and the communication line is disconnected after the reception is completed. Further, when the communication control unit 110 detects that the incoming call from the destination telephone is not facsimile communication, that is, detects that the call is an incoming call for making a call, the communication control unit 110 performs a system control unit to amplify the ringing sound. A message to that effect is output to 190.

  For example, when receiving image data, the communication control unit 110 according to the present embodiment receives predetermined binarized data as image data, and also assembles the received data into a GIF format (Graphics Image data in a predetermined data format such as Interchange Format (JPEG) or Joint Photographic Coding Experts Group (JPEG) format is generated, and the generated image data is output to the data generation unit 120 and the data storage unit 150.

  Note that the communication control unit 110 forms a call path with another telephone when a response based on the call is made after the ringing sound is amplified, and disconnects the communication line after the call is finished. .

  Further, in this embodiment, in principle, when detecting the type of incoming call, that is, whether or not the communication is facsimile communication, the ringing tone is not expanded. While detecting the type of incoming call, the ringing sound may be amplified.

  When the image data is received, the data generation unit 120 receives the image data, and the data generation unit 120 applies the character in the image data to the input image data. A process for recognizing a part (hereinafter referred to as “character recognition process”) is performed, and the recognized character part is converted into text data constituting character data by a character code. The data generation unit 120 outputs the converted text data to the data storage unit 150 and the display control unit 140 as character data.

  The display unit 130 is configured by a liquid crystal element or an EL (Electro Luminescence) element, and displays a predetermined image based on display data generated by the display control unit 140. In particular, in the present embodiment, display of text data generated by the data generation unit 120 and display indicating that the facsimile communication is in progress are performed during the facsimile communication.

  The display control unit 140 acquires data instructed by the operation unit 160 under the control of the system control unit 190, and generates display data to be displayed on the display unit 130 based on the acquired data. Thus, the generated display data is displayed on the display unit 130. In particular, in this embodiment, when the display control unit 140 instructs display of the image data received by the operation unit 160, the display control unit 140 acquires text data generated based on the instructed image data, and based on the text data. Display data is generated.

  In this embodiment, the display control unit 140 displays data (hereinafter, “list”) for displaying a list of image data stored in the data storage unit 150 by the operation unit 160 under the control of the system control unit 190. Table data ”) is generated, and when one image data is selected from the list data displayed in conjunction with the operation unit 160, the selected image data is displayed. Text data is acquired and display data is generated based on the text data.

  However, in the present embodiment, the display control unit 140 uses the data configured by displaying a plurality of partial character strings constituting the text data of each image data as the list data and the telephone number of the caller. Alternatively, when the caller's telephone number is registered in phonebook data, which will be described later, it is generated in association with the caller's name.

  The data storage unit 150 stores image data received by the communication control unit 110 and text data generated by the data generation unit 120 in association with each other. Under the control of the system control unit 190, text data is output to the display control unit 140, and image data is output to the output control unit 170.

  In the present embodiment, the received image data is stored in the data storage unit 150 while maintaining a predetermined data format such as the GIF format or the JPEG format generated by the communication control unit 110. It has become.

  The operation unit 160 includes a number of keys such as various confirmation buttons, operation buttons for inputting operation commands, a numeric keypad, and other numeric keys. In this embodiment, the operation unit 160 displays image data that is operated and received by a user. The selection or the output operation of the stored image data from the external device can be performed.

  The output control unit 170 has a connection terminal for connecting to an external device (not shown) such as a printing device or a wireless communication unit, and is based on the operation of the operation unit 160 under the control unit of the system control unit 190. The selected image data is output to an external device in accordance with a predetermined communication protocol.

  The ringing sound amplifying unit 180 includes an amplifier for amplifying the ringing tone to a predetermined signal level and a speaker SP for amplifying the ringing tone, and under the control of the system control unit 190, the communication control unit 110. When an incoming call is detected and it is detected that the communication is not facsimile communication, a predetermined ringing tone is amplified.

  The system control unit 190 is mainly configured by a central processing unit (CPU) and includes various input / output ports such as a key input port and a display control port, so as to control overall functions of the telephone. It has become.

  Specifically, the system control unit 190 reads out a control program stored in the ROM / RAM 200 and executes each process when controlling the overall operation of the mobile phone 100, and is currently processing the ROM / RAM 200. Data is temporarily stored. In particular, in this embodiment, the system control unit 190 performs the above-described incoming call processing when an incoming call from another telephone occurs.

  Details of the incoming call processing in the system control unit 190 of this embodiment will be described later.

  The ROM / RAM 200 stores control data for performing a predetermined operation and predetermined data such as telephone directory data in which a telephone number and a name corresponding to the telephone number are associated with each other. In particular, in the present embodiment, a control program for performing incoming call processing is stored.

  Next, the incoming call processing in the system control unit 190 of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the incoming call processing in the system control unit 190 of the present embodiment.

  Also, in this operation, it is assumed that the incoming call from another telephone is transferred to the portable telephone 100 by the facsimile apparatus in advance, and the incoming call processing is set to be performed when the incoming call comes from the other telephone. It shall be.

  First, the communication control unit 110 detects an incoming call based on an outgoing call from another telephone, and when an incoming call from the other telephone is detected, the communication control unit 110 outputs to the system control unit 190 that the incoming call has been detected (step S110). S11).

  Next, when the fact that an incoming call has been detected is input, the system control unit 190 causes the communication control unit 110 to establish a communication line with another telephone via the telephone public network line (step S12), and the communication The control unit 110 is made to detect whether an incoming call from another telephone is a facsimile communication, that is, an incoming call type (step S13).

  At this time, when the communication control unit 110 detects that the incoming call from another telephone is not facsimile communication, that is, an incoming call for making a call, the system control unit 190 causes the ringing sound amplifying unit 180 to perform a predetermined call. The sound is loudened (step S14), and this operation is terminated.

  On the other hand, when the communication control unit 110 detects that the incoming call from another telephone is facsimile communication, the system control unit 190 causes the communication control unit 110 to perform image data reception preparation processing (step S15). ), The received data is received, and a reception process for generating image data from the received data is performed (step S16). At this time, the display control unit 140 causes the display unit 130 to display that the facsimile communication is being performed under the control of the system control unit 190.

  Next, the system control unit 190 stores the image data generated by the reception process in the data storage unit 150, and causes the communication control unit 110 to disconnect the communication line with other telephones (step S17).

  Next, the system control unit 190 causes the data generation unit 120 to recognize the character portion of the image data generated by the communication control unit 110 and to perform character recognition processing to generate character data of the recognized character portion ( Step S18).

  Next, the system control unit 190 causes the display control unit 140 to generate display data from the character data generated by the data generation unit 120 and causes the display unit 130 to display the character data (step S19), thus ending this operation. Let

  As described above, the mobile phone 100 of this embodiment can receive transmitted image data when the incoming call from another phone is facsimile communication, and the received image data as character data. Since it can be displayed on the display unit 130, it is possible to receive all incoming calls transferred from a communication terminal device having a facsimile communication function that has received an incoming call based on a call from another telephone. In the apparatus, it is possible to enjoy a transfer service for transferring an incoming call of a telephone having an arbitrary facsimile communication function to a telephone designated by the user.

  In addition, since the mobile phone 100 of the present embodiment can display the received image data as character data, the user can understand the content of the received image data.

  Usually, the display unit 130 of the mobile phone 100 is much smaller than the size of the image data to be facsimile-communicated, so that the received image data is displayed in the received format or as a reduced image such as a thumbnail. Even so, the user cannot easily recognize the received image data.

  Therefore, the mobile phone 100 according to the present embodiment can display the mobile phone 100 by various display methods when the mobile phone 100 is displayed by converting the image data into character data. The content of the received image data can be understood.

  In addition, since the mobile phone 100 according to the present embodiment is configured such that received image data is also stored in the data storage unit 150, if the image data is connected to an external device such as a printing device, the image data is stored on paper or the like. Therefore, the same function as that of a facsimile machine can be exhibited.

  In the present embodiment, in the incoming call processing, the communication control unit 110 disconnects the communication line with another telephone after the received image data is stored. Of course, the display control unit 140 May be cut after the image data is displayed on the display unit 130.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the mobile telephone of one Embodiment which concerns on this application. It is a flowchart which shows the operation | movement of the incoming call process in the system control part of one Embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 ... Mobile telephone 110 ... Communication control part 120 ... Data generation part 130 ... Display part 140 ... Display control part 150 ... Data storage part 160 ... Operation part 170 ... Output control part 180 ... Ringing sound amplifying part 190 ... System control part 200 ... ROM / RAM
210 ... Voice processing unit 220 ... Amplification control unit

Claims (5)

A portable communication terminal device capable of talking with other communication terminal devices,
An incoming call detecting means for detecting an incoming call based on an outgoing call of the other communication terminal device;
Communication detection means for detecting whether the detected incoming call is a facsimile communication for transmitting two-dimensional image data;
A receiving means for receiving the image data when the detected incoming call is a facsimile communication;
Storage means for storing the received image data;
Generating means for recognizing a character portion from the received image data and generating character data;
Display means for displaying the generated character data;
A portable communication terminal device comprising: The portable communication terminal device according to claim 1,
The portable communication terminal apparatus, wherein the generated character data is stored in the storage means in association with the received image data. In the portable communication terminal device according to claim 1 or 2,
Operation means used for a user to operate the portable communication terminal device;
An output control means for reading out the image data corresponding to the character data from the storage means and outputting it to an external device when a predetermined operation based on the display of the character data is performed by the operation means;
A portable communication terminal device further comprising: The portable communication terminal device according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
Calling means for calling a user when an incoming call based on a call from the other communication terminal device occurs;
Call control means for causing the call means to call when it is detected by the communication detection means that the communication is not facsimile communication;
A portable communication terminal device further comprising: In the portable communication terminal device according to any one of claims 1 to 4,
The portable communication terminal apparatus, wherein the display means displays that the facsimile communication is in progress when the image data is received by the receiving means.

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