Telecommunications – Transmitter and receiver at same station – Radiotelephone equipment detail
Reexamination Certificate
1998-03-18
2001-09-04
Maung, Nay (Department: 2681)
Telecommunications
Transmitter and receiver at same station
Radiotelephone equipment detail
C455S550100, C455S570000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06285891
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to a radio communication apparatus such as a potable telephone or the like, and more particularly to a radio communication apparatus in which communication functions such as an incoming call sound, an incoming call ringing pattern, an incoming call vibration, a received voice volume, a microphone sensibility, a noise canceling, a key confirming sound and a message recording are simultaneously set to a plurality of operation conditions suitable for a user's environment.
2. Description of the Related Art
2.1. Previously Proposed Art
A type of telephone such as a portable telephone and a personal handy phone which can be carried by a user has been recently developed. However, because a user receives a call even though the user stays in a public place, there is a social problem that the call troubles people placed near to the user. To solve this problem, a portable telephone in which a user does not receive any sound of an incoming call but a vibrator informs a user of an incoming call has been developed as a radio communication apparatus.
In a conventional portable telephone representing a conventional radio communication apparatus, because the vibration of a vibrator informs a user of an incoming call, it is required that a user sets the radio communication apparatus to a vibrator mode by operating a button and the user operates the radio communication apparatus to mute a sound of an incoming call. Also, in another conventional portable telephone, a user can set to a vibrator mode and a mute mode by operating a button.
2.2. Problems to be Solved by the Invention
However, because there are many environments in public places, the operation in the conventional radio communication apparatus is inconvenient even though the vibrator mode and the mute mode can be simultaneously set by operating a button. For example, in cases where a user is in an electric train as a type of public space, it is required that a volume of a received voice is turned up to listen to a caller's voice because the user is in a noisy place, a microphone sensibility is heightened to speak in a low voice, a noise canceler is set to an operation condition to reduce a surrounding noise mixing with a user's voice, and a key confirming sound informing the user of the pushing of a key is turned off. In contrast, in cases where a user is in a library or in a meeting room, it is not required to turn up a volume of a received voice because it is quiet in the library or the meeting room, and it is not required to set a noise canceler to an operation condition. Therefore, though a plurality of operation conditions required for a user's environment represented by an electric train differs from those required for another user's environment such as a library or a meeting room, there is a problem that a plurality of operation conditions cannot be simultaneously changed at an easy handling according to a user's environment.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the present invention is to provide, with due consideration to the drawbacks of such a conventional radio communication apparatus, a radio communication apparatus in which a plurality of operation conditions of communication functions are simultaneously changed at an easy handling according to a user's environment.
The object of the present invention can be achieved by the provision of a radio communication apparatus, comprising:
operation condition storing means for storing a plurality of operation conditions of communication functions corresponding to each of a plurality of operation modes which each are suitable for an environment;
mode selecting means for selecting a particular operation mode suitable for a particular environment from the operation modes according to a user's intention;
radio communication signal receiving means for receiving a radio communication signal from a caller;
radio communication performing means, having the communication functions, for performing a radio communication between the user and the caller according to the radio communication signal received by the radio communication signal receiving means; and
mode change control means for reading out a plurality of particular operation conditions of the communication functions corresponding to the particular operation mode selected by the mode selecting means from the operation condition storing means and setting the communication functions of the radio communication performing means to the particular operation conditions to perform the radio communication at the particular operation conditions.
In the above configuration, when a user inputs a mode selection request indicating the selection of a particular operation mode suitable for a particular environment, the particular operation mode is selected by the mode selecting means, a plurality of particular operation conditions of the communication functions corresponding to the particular operation mode are read out from the mode change control means, and the communication functions of the radio communication performing means are set to the particular operation conditions.
Thereafter, when a radio communication signal transmitted from a caller is received by the radio communication signal receiving means, a radio communication between the user and the caller is performed according to the radio communication signal by the radio communication performing means in which the communication functions are set to the particular operation conditions.
Accordingly, a plurality of operation conditions of communication functions corresponding to a particular operation mode suitable for a user's environment can be simultaneously changed at an easy handling.
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Connolly Bove & Lodge & Hutz LLP
Matsushita Electric - Industrial Co., Ltd.
Maung Nay
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