Interoperable AM/FM headset and wireless telephone device

• US 20040029541A1
• Filed: 08/08/2003
• Published: 02/12/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Baranowski, Roger William Berg
• Original Assignee: Robert Baranowski, Roger William Berg
• Inventors: Berg, Roger William, Baranowski, Robert
• Application Number:
  US10/636,656
• Publication Number:
  US 20040029541A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/130
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/28 the receiver comprising at least one semiconductor device having three or more electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3805 with built-in auxiliary receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6066 including a wireless connection
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals

Abstract

An AM/FM radio receiver is integrated with a wireless phone unit. Preferably, a wireless headset communicates with the integrated unit to selectively provide both commercial radio audio and wireless telephony. A microphone unit allows the user to conduct a wireless telephone call from the headset.

Claims

1. An integrated commercial radio receiver and wireless telephone device comprising a phone unit including:

a broadband AM/FM radio signal receiver;

a wireless telephone transceiver for communicating with a wireless telephone system; and

a transmitter for selectively transmitting a commercial radio signal from said radio signal receiver or an incoming audio signal of a wireless telephone call to a headset unit.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein said transmitter is a wireless transmitter.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein said transmitter is an FM radio transmitter.

4. The device of claim 3, wherein said headset unit comprises an FM demodulator for demodulating an FM signal transmitted from said transmitter of said phone unit.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein said headset unit comprises:

a microphone for transducing spoken utterances of a user as an outgoing audio signal of said wireless telephone call; and

a transceiver for transmitting said outgoing audio signal to said wireless telephone transceiver for transmission to said wireless telephone system.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein said headset unit comprises a stereo decoder for decoding said commercial radio signal transmitted by said phone unit, when said commercial radio signal is in stereo.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein said phone unit further comprises a user input device for selecting a commercial radio station that is tuned by said radio receiver.

8. The device of claim 7, wherein said user input device further controls a frequency at which said transmitter communicates with said headset unit.

9. A method of integrating a commercial radio receiver and a wireless telephone device into a common unit including providing a broadband AM/FM radio signal receiver and a wireless telephone transceiver for communicating with a wireless telephone system within a single unit.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising selectively transmitting a commercial radio signal from said radio signal receiver or an incoming audio signal of a wireless telephone call to a headset unit.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein said transmitting is performed wirelessly.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein transmitting is performed with an FM radio transmitter.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising demodulating an FM signal transmitted from said FM radio transmitter with an FM demodulator of said headset unit.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

transducing spoken utterances of a user as an outgoing audio signal of said wireless telephone call with a microphone unit; and

transmitting said outgoing audio signal to said wireless telephone transceiver for transmission to said wireless telephone system.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising stereo decoding said commercial radio signal transmitted by said phone unit, when said commercial radio signal is in stereo, with a stereo decoder in said headset unit.

16. The method of claim 10, further comprising selecting a frequency at which said transmitter communicates with said headset unit.

17. An integrated device having a commercial radio receiver and a wireless telephone device comprising:

broadband receiving means for receiving commercial AM/FM radio signals; and

wireless telephone transceiver means for communicating with a wireless telephone system;

wherein said broadband receiving means and said wireless telephone transceiver means are integrated into a common unit.

18. The device of claim 17, further comprising means for selectively transmitting a commercial radio signal from said broadband receiving means or an incoming audio signal of a wireless telephone call from said wireless telephone transceiver means to a headset unit.

19. The device of claim 18, further comprising:

means for transducing spoken utterances of a user as an outgoing audio signal of said wireless telephone call; and

means for transmitting said outgoing audio signal to said wireless telephone transceiver means for transmission to said wireless telephone system.

20. The device of claim 18, wherein said means for selectively transmitting comprise a radio transmitter, said device further comprising means for selecting a frequency at which said radio transmitter communicates with said headset unit.