CN101018248A - Method for automatic dialing and speaking through wireless earphone microphone device - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for automatically dialing and speaking through a wireless earphone microphone device, in particular to a method for automatically dialing a specific number through a wireless earphone microphone device. The method is implemented in a wireless earphone microphone device and a mobile communication device respectively. When the wireless earphone microphone device is in a standby state, the earphone module of the wireless earphone microphone device is triggered by triggering the method, the earphone module is located in the host module of the mobile communication device through the wireless connection between the wireless earphone microphone device and the mobile communication device, and the host module immediately pronounces the telephone book records which are established in the mobile communication device in advance one by one to be listened by a user through the wireless earphone microphone device. When the host module recites the object to be dialed, the user triggers the earphone module again, so that the host module automatically dials the telephone number of the object.

Description

Method for automatic dialing and speaking through wireless earphone microphone device

technical field

The invention relates to a wireless earphone microphone device, in particular to a method for automatically dialing and speaking through the wireless earphone microphone device.

Background technique

In order to solve people's troubles in daily life such as driving, walking, handling housework and other situations that cannot take care of answering and calling mobile phones, wireless earphone microphone devices have become one of the most important equipment for mobile phones.

The current common wireless earphone microphone device is usually equipped with one ear of the user and has a wireless connection with the mobile phone which usually supports the Bluetooth protocol. Combined with the automatic answering mode provided by the mobile phone itself, the user can automatically answer incoming calls through the headset when driving, walking, typing on a computer or doing other work. It is certainly convenient to use the wireless earphone microphone device to answer incoming calls, but generally when using the wireless earphone microphone device to make a call, it is necessary to manually dial first on the mobile phone, and then the user talks by the wireless earphone microphone device. This makes the convenience of the wireless headset microphone device considerably limited.

In addition, some mobile phones provide a function of voice dialing (volce dialing), for users to directly read out simple digital codes or the name of the addressee to the mobile phone, and recognize these digital codes or pre-recorded name samples through the mobile phone After comparison, the corresponding phone number recorded in the mobile phone is automatically dialed. Although voice dialing provides a certain degree of convenience, it is not widely used because of the limitation of recognition ability and the misjudgment and automatic dialing often caused by external noises, which instead causes troubles for users.

Contents of the invention

Therefore, in order to make the wireless earphone microphone device also have considerable convenience in terms of dialing and speaking, the present invention proposes a method for automatically dialing and speaking through the wireless earphone microphone device. ) A method of automatically dialing a specific number.

The method includes two parts: the earphone module implemented in the wireless earphone microphone device, and the host module implemented in the mobile communication device (or computing device). These two modules operate in parallel and interact through the wireless connection between the wireless earphone microphone device and the mobile communication device (or computing device). When the wireless earphone microphone device is in a standby state, the user triggers the earphone module by activating a specific key combination on the wireless earphone microphone device. The earphone module then triggers the host module through a wireless connection. The host module then reads out the phonebook records previously established in the mobile communication device (or computing device) in the form of speech synthesis one by one, and listens to the user through the wireless earphone microphone device through the wireless connection. When the host module remembers the object to be dialed, the user triggers the earphone module again, and the earphone module then causes the host module to automatically dial the telephone number of the object.

By means of the aforementioned method, the user can easily complete the action of calling and dialing when driving, walking, typing on a computer, or doing other work, and then make a call through the wireless earphone microphone device.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1a is a flowchart of an earphone module according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 1b is a flowchart of a host module according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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Detailed ways

The present invention will be described in detail in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and embodiments.

The method is respectively implemented in a mobile communication device or computing device, and a wireless earphone microphone device of the mobile communication device or computing device. The so-called mobile communication device in the present invention refers to the handheld electronic device that can carry out two-way real-time voice communication through the public mobile communication network, such as general GSM, 3G, PHS mobile phone, or a smart phone (smart phone) with PDA function, Or a PDA with a mobile call function, or a WiFi mobile phone with a wireless local area network (WLAN) networking function. The wireless earphone microphone device may be a monaural, binaural, capacitive or piezoelectric earphone microphone device, and the present invention does not particularly limit the form and type of the wireless earphone microphone device. There is a short-distance two-way wireless connection between the wireless earphone microphone device and the mobile communication device. This connection usually conforms to the specification of the Bluetooth protocol, but the spirit of the present invention is not limited to the Bluetooth. If there is a similar Bluetooth in the future The technology of bud is developed, and the present invention should also be applicable. The computing device referred to in the present invention refers to a notebook computer, a desktop computer, or other similar devices with computing functions. Under the present invention, these computing devices need to be able to connect with the public mobile communication network and perform two-way real-time voice communication. These computing devices usually achieve such functions by installing specific peripherals or interfaces (such as GSM adapter cards). Alternatively, these computing devices need to be connected to the public data network and have the ability to conduct two-way real-time voice communication through a technology similar to Voice over IP (VolP). These computing devices usually achieve such functions by installing specific software programs. Alternatively, these computing devices need to be able to connect to the public telephone network (PSTN) and perform two-way real-time voice communication. These computing devices usually achieve this function by connecting a telephone line to their built-in voice/fax modem. These computing devices also need to have the function of connecting with a wireless earphone microphone device, for example, this is usually achieved by a built-in Bluetooth module of these computing devices or an additional Bluetooth dongle. The part of the method implemented in the wireless earphone microphone device is hereinafter referred to as the earphone module, and the part implemented in the mobile communication device or computing device is hereinafter referred to as the host module. These two modules operate in parallel and interact through the wireless connection between the wireless headset microphone device and the mobile communication device or computing device. As far as the present invention is concerned, there is no difference between a mobile communication device or a computing device, and they are all just platforms on which the host module operates. Therefore, in the following descriptions, for the sake of simplicity, the mobile communication device is taken as an example to explain the principle and spirit of the present invention, and the principle and spirit can be transplanted and applied to computing devices.

The earphone module is usually a part of the operating firmware of the wireless earphone microphone device, and is usually installed in the wireless earphone microphone device when it leaves the factory. The host module is usually additionally installed on the mobile communication device. The mobile communication device usually has a standard operating system, such as PalmOS(R), WinCE(R), Symbian(R), etc., but may also have a dedicated operating system, and the present invention is not limited thereto. In addition, taking Bluetooth as an example, the wireless connection between the wireless earphone microphone device and the mobile communication device generally needs to be established through procedures such as pairing. When the method operates, it is assumed that the wireless connection has been established and is operating normally.

The body of the wireless earphone microphone device generally has one or more buttons to provide controls such as opening, closing, and volume. Utilizing these existing keys, the earphone module receives triggers of at least two key combinations. The so-called key combination here refers to the simultaneous or continuous pressing of one or more keys, and the length of the pressing time. The activation of these two button combinations represent "start auto-dialing" and "immediate dialing" respectively. These two key combinations must be supported by all embodiments of this method. In addition, the embodiment of the method generally also supports key combination respectively representing "end automatic dialing" and "next record". The functions of these key combinations will be described in detail below.

The host module includes a phone book, which is usually stored in the non-volatile memory of the mobile communication device, so it will not be destroyed when the mobile communication device is turned off. A certain number of records can be accommodated in the phone book, and each record contains at least two fields of name and phone number. The name can record the name, alias, company name, etc. of the addressee in text (hereinafter referred to as the text label), or record the name, alias, company name, etc. of the addressee in the form of voice (hereinafter referred to as the voice tag). volume label). In some embodiments, the name field contains either text or audio tags, but in some embodiments, both text and audio tags are provided. The phone book can be directly added, modified, deleted, and recorded voice tags on the mobile communication device by the user, or it can be downloaded to the mobile communication device after the computer or other computing device is created. In some embodiments of the present invention, the host module directly uses the built-in phonebook function of the mobile communication device, instead of providing an additional function by the host module itself. There are also some embodiments based on the built-in phone book in the mobile communication device, but supplemented with the function of voice tagging.

1a and 1b are flowcharts of two parts of an earphone module and a host module according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the earphone module is quite simple. As long as the wireless earphone microphone device is in the standby state, that is, the wireless earphone microphone device is turned on, but there is no call, the aforementioned button combination will trigger the earphone module to enter step 100 , or, as long as the wireless earphone microphone device is in the standby state, the earphone module is constantly performing step 100 repeatedly. In step 100, the earphone module receives the button combination, converts it into a corresponding command, and transmits it to the host module via a wireless connection.

If the instruction "start auto-dial" sent by the earphone module, as long as the mobile communication device is in the standby state at that time, that is, the mobile communication device is turned on, but there is no call, and the host module is not in execution, The "start auto-dial" command transmitted from the earphone module will trigger the host module to enter step 200 . In step 200, the host module takes out the records in the phone book, and "reads" the name column in each record in a certain order to the wireless earphone microphone device through the wireless connection. If the name column contains a text label, the host module will utter each word in the text label in the form of software speech synthesis. Or it is also possible to first record the commonly used words into a recording file and store it on the mobile communication device, and then play the recording file corresponding to each character in the text label. If the name column contains voice tags, then the host module simply plays the voice tags. If the phonebook supports text tags and voice tags at the same time, the voice tags are usually played directly, and if the voice tags are not recorded, the text tags are read out by software speech synthesis. This method does not limit the practice of vocalization. There are already quite a lot of precedents for reference in related technologies, so I won't go into details here. During the execution of the host module, if the user still issues commands to "start auto-dial", these "start auto-dial" commands will be ignored.

Please note that the order of the chanting records can be the order when the records are added to the phone book, or the result of the user's arrangement of the name or phone number field, or the user's manual adjustment, or the dynamic of the host module According to the frequency of use, "read" the frequently used records first. The host module continues to read stroke by stroke until all the records are finished, that is, it will end automatically (as shown in Figure 1b); or after the last stroke is read, the host module will read from the first stroke again, and so on. Continuously (this method needs to be combined with the button combination of "End Autodial").

During the recitation process of the host module, if there is an instruction of "next record", the process will enter step 220, immediately end the recitation of the current record, proceed to the next record, and then return to step 200 to continue recite. Or, in the process of reciting by the host module, if an instruction of "immediate dialing" or "end of automatic dialing" is received, the host module immediately stops the reciting of the phone book. For the latter, the host module automatically ends the program. For the former (that is, the instruction of "dial immediately" is received), the process goes to step 210. In step 210, the host module takes out the phone number recorded in the phone book of the latest recitation (that is, the one that is being recited, or the one that has just been recited and the next one has not yet started), and then instructs the mobile communication device to dial and make a call , the host module automatically ends the program. Please note that the operations after dialing the mobile communication device, such as connecting, talking, hanging up, etc., are the same as when using the headset and the mobile communication device normally.

In other words, the typical use situation of this method is like this: the user wears the wireless headset microphone device that has established a wireless connection with the mobile communication device, and then when driving, walking, playing computer, or doing other work, the user only needs to Activate the key combination representing "start auto-dial" on the wireless headset microphone device, and you will hear a series of names read by the mobile communication device from the headset, and the user can activate the key combination representing "next record" at any time, Quickly skip to the next record. When the user hears the name of the object to be dialed, as long as the wireless headset microphone device activates the button combination representing "immediate dial", the mobile communication device will automatically dial the phone number of the object recorded in the phone book. Or if the user wants to give up the dialing action, just activate the button combination representing "end automatic dialing" at any time, and the mobile communication device will stop reading out the records of the phone book and end.

Please note that in some other embodiments of the present invention, this method also supports some other key combinations to provide additional functions, such as suspending/resuming the recitation of the phone book, immediately restarting recitation from the first record, speeding up /Slow down the speed of chanting etc. The processing of these button combinations and commands is actually very similar to "next record", "immediate dialing", or "end automatic dialing", etc., and the above description can be applied by analogy.

In addition, in this method, voice can also be used to replace the key combination control mode. In some embodiments, all key combinations are replaced with voice commands. In addition, in some embodiments, this method is activated in order to avoid misjudgment, so "start automatic dialing" is still represented by a key combination, and other key combinations are all adopted voice recognition by the user to the wireless earphone microphone device microphone to give commands by voice. Of course, because the host module is reading the phonebook records at the same time, the situation of misjudgment may not be avoided. Therefore, some embodiments still focus on button combinations, and only "immediate dialing" is represented by the volume that is transmitted to the host module after the microphone of the wireless earphone microphone device receives sound. That is to say, when the user hears the person to speak, just say "dial" loudly or make other sounds, and when the volume is greater than a certain energy, it will be recognized by the host module as an "immediate dial" command , the possibility of misjudgment in this way will be greatly reduced. Note that key combinations and voice commands can also be combined.

Through the above detailed description of the preferred embodiments, it is hoped that the features and spirit of the present invention can be described more clearly, rather than limiting the protection scope of the present invention with the preferred embodiments disclosed above. On the contrary, the intention is to cover various changes and equivalents, which all belong to the scope of protection of the claims of the present invention.

Claims (17)

1. A method for automatically dialing and speaking through a wireless earphone microphone device, at least including an earphone module and a host module, the host module is implemented in a mobile communication device or computing device to carry out two-way real-time voice communication through an appropriate network In one of them, the earphone module is implemented as a wireless earphone microphone device with an appropriate two-way wireless link between the aforementioned devices, the earphone module and the host module operate in parallel, and interact through the wireless link, the The earphone module at least includes the following steps: receiving an appropriate command of a command set from the wireless headset microphone device, and sending the command to the host module via the wireless link; And, the host module at least includes the following steps: When a "start auto-dial" command is received, the records are fetched one by one from a phone book in an appropriate order, each record includes at least a name field and a phone number field, and are connected to the wireless headset microphone through a wireless connection the device reads the name field; When a "dial immediately" command is received in the phone book, immediately end the phone book recitation, instruct the mobile communication device or one of the computing devices to use the most recently recited phone number field of the record Make a dial-up call for the destination number. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the wireless connection is in accordance with Bluetooth protocol. 3. The method of claim 1, wherein the command set includes at least one command represented by a key combination of the wireless headset microphone device. 4. The method of claim 1, wherein the instruction set includes at least one instruction represented by a voice signal collected by a microphone of the wireless headset microphone device. 5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the "dial immediately" command is represented by a voice signal collected by a microphone of the wireless headset microphone device exceeding a certain volume. 6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the appropriate order is dynamically according to the frequency of use of the phonebook records, with the highest frequency first. 7. The method of claim 1, wherein the name field contains text. 8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the manner in which the host module reads out the name field is to read out the text in the name field by software speech synthesis. 9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the host module reads out the name field by sequentially playing the recording files corresponding to each word in the name field. 10. The method of claim 1, wherein the name field contains a recorded voice. 11. The method of claim 10, wherein the host module reads the name field by playing a recorded voice contained in the name field. 12. The method of claim 1, wherein the phonebook is one of the built-in mobile communication device and the computing device. 13. The method of claim 1, wherein the phonebook is provided by the host module. 14. The method of claim 1, wherein the host module further comprises the steps of: When receiving an "end automatic dialing" command in the recitation of the phone book, immediately stop the recitation of the phone book and end the host module. 15. The method of claim 1, wherein the host module further comprises the steps of: When reciting the phonebook and receiving a "next record" command, immediately end the recitation of the current record and skip to the next record to continue reciting. 16. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein after the host module reads out the last entry in the phonebook, the host module is automatically terminated. 17. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein after the host module reads out the last entry in the phonebook, it automatically restarts from the first entry.

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