Speakerphone for radio and, landline telephones

Details Speakerphone for radio and, landline telephones Speakerphone for radio and, landline telephones

1982-04-05

1983-08-23

Rubinson, Gene Z.

179 1VC, 179 1P, 179 2EA, H04M 162, H04M 908

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044005849

ABSTRACT:
An improved speakerphone (120 and 130 in FIG. 1) for radio and landline telephones is described. The improved speakerphone (120 and 130) includes a microphone (102 and 132), a speaker (104 and 134) and unique control circuitry (106 and 136). The control circuitry of speakerphone (200 in FIG. 2) interfaces a microphone (250) to a transmit signal (220) and speaker (260) to a receive signal (222) of a duplex communication path, such as a radio channel or telephone line. An audio switch (212) opens or closes the speaker audio path in response to a control signal (224) from control logic (230), and another audio switch (202) opens or closes the microphone audio path in response to the binary complement of the control signal (224). Transmit and receive signal detectors (206 and 207), each includes a logarithmic amplifier (240), an envelope detector (241), a smoothing filter (245 ), a valley detector (242), a summer (243) and a comparator (244) for detecting the presence of audio signals in environments that may be subject to high background noise. Binary output signals from the transmit and receive signal detectors (206 and 207) are applied to control logic (230) which generates the control signal (224) for opening and closing the transmit and receive audio paths. The control logic (230 in FIG. 3) includes delay circuitry (316 and 318) and logic circuitry (304, 306, 308, 310, 312 and 314) for setting and resetting a flip-flop (302) storing the control signal (224). The control logic (230) changes the state of the control signal flip-flop (302) for switching the audio path between the micorphone and speaker when audio signals from the presently closed audio path have not been detected for a time interval determined by the delay circuitry (316 and 318) and audio signals thereafter are detected on the other audio path.

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