Telephonic communications – Diagnostic testing – malfunction indication – or electrical... – With blocking of normal usage
Patent
1988-12-28
1989-12-12
Schreyer, Stafford D.
Telephonic communications
Diagnostic testing, malfunction indication, or electrical...
With blocking of normal usage
379389, 379390, H04M 910
Patent
active
048872881
ABSTRACT:
An electrical calibration circuit in a voice switched adaptive speakerphone accurately determines the operating parameters of the speakerphone for optimal performance before operation. This is achieved by updating thresholds used to determine when the speakerphone should be in each of three possible operating states; transmit, receive or idle. During operation, these thresholds are compared with transmit and receive signal strength levels to determine the state of the speakerphone. The thresholds are updated to counteract the effects of variation and aging of hardware circuits in the speakerphone and are obtained by having the calibration circuit generate a test tone signal which is passed through speech processing circuitry in the speakerphone at two different levels and the resulting response measured. Since the calibration circuit has available the initial levels of the test tone signal that is passed through the speech processing circuitry and measures the relative levels of the signal that returns, the calibration circuit can adjust the speakerphone thresholds before operating to account for any variation in the circuitry. This test tone signal is passed through both a transmit speech path and a receive speech path in the speakerphone circuitry to separately adjust for variations in each speech path. In this manner, essentially equal thresholds are commonly set up for each path, even though the values of corresponding circuit components in the paths may differ considerably.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4608462 (1986-08-01), Blomley et al.
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
AT&T Information Systems Inc.
Schreyer Stafford D.
Williamson Samuel R.
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