Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Toshiaki Sakiyama

Yuji Hirai

Hideyuki Matsuo

Hajime Sakai

Youji Manabe

Kentaro Oka

Keiko Sonoda

A received telephone number is classified into group and stored by a simple operation, and is used as the telephone number when making a call. It comprises a telephone number detector () for detecting an incoming telephone number from a telephone line, an operation unit () for specifying the group of the detected telephone number, a memory () for storing the information of the specified group and the telephone number in correspondence, and LED () for displaying multiple colors. In the incoming operation, the lamp color is changed to display which group the received telephone number belongs to, and the call receiver easily recognizes the call is from which specific group. Further, when dialing by making use of the stored telephone number, the telephone number is displayed and searched in each group.

Telephone apparatus

A telephone answering machine which includes a recording position memory for storing address data corresponding to a recorded leading position of each message on a recording medium and a number designation device such as a dial pad. When a number input is made by the number designation device at the time of a reproduction operation, the recording position corresponding to this number is indexed, and the message is reproduced. When a key corresponding to a given message is pushed down during reproduction of this message, the message is again reproduced from the start. According to this construction, a message to be reproduced can be designated from a plurality of messages by a one-touch operation, and a desired message can be immediately listened to. When the same key is simply pushed, the message corresponding to the key can be listened to once again.

Telephone answering machine

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Fukuoka, Japan

Toshiaki Sakiyama