Electronic device with wireless communication module

• US 20050094838A1
• Filed: 09/09/2004
• Published: 05/05/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Iwasaki, Junichi, Nakasato, Shigemi, Yamashita, Makoto, Tomoda, Ichiro, Ide, Kenichi, Ushimaru, Chikara
• Application Number:
  US10/936,906
• Publication Number:
  US 20050094838A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/370
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6066 including a wireless connection
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface

Abstract

According to one embodiment of the invention, an electronic device comprises a speaker, a microphone, and a processor that executes pairing process with another electronic device, the processor outputs pairing signal during pairing process. The electronic device further comprises a converter coupled to the speaker, the microphone, and the processor. The converter converts the pairing signal to an audio signal when the speaker outputs audio signal to another electronic device, and converts an audio signal to pairing signal when the microphone receives the audio signal. Also, the electronic device includes a wireless communication module coupled to the processor, and the wireless communication module communicates with another electronic device after pairing process.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a wireless communication module;

a processor coupled to the wireless communication module, the processor initiates a pairing process with a second electronic device before commencing wireless communications with the second electronic device, the processor outputting a pairing signal during the pairing process;

a converter coupled to the processor, the converter converts the pairing signal output from the processor to an audio signal; and

a speaker coupled to the converter, the speaker outputs the audio signal converted by the converter during the pairing process.

2. An electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the converter adds an error detecting code to be used for detecting presence of an error to the pairing signal during conversion of the pairing signal.

3. An electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the converter adds an error correction code to be used for correcting an error to the pairing signal during conversion of the pairing signal.

4. An electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the pairing signal is a wireless device address converted to audio data according to a predetermined modulation scheme.

5. An electronic device according to claim 4, wherein the audio signal is a plurality of DTMF signals corresponding to a corresponding plurality of audio data bit sequences forming the audio data.

6. An electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the pairing process performed by the processor comprises exchanging a wireless device address of the electronic device, being the pairing signal converted to the audio signal, with the second electronic device

7. An electronic device according to claim 6, wherein the pairing process further comprises receiving the audio signal and reconverting the audio signal to a wireless device address of the second electronic device for placement within memory of the electronic device.

8. An electronic device according to claim 1 being a head set device.

9. An electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising a light emitting diode which emits light during the pairing process.

10. An electronic device, comprising:

a microphone;

a converter coupled to the microphone, the converter converts an audio signal to a pairing signal;

a processor coupled to the converter, the processor executes a pairing process with a second electronic device; and

a wireless communication module coupled to the processor, the wireless communication module enables wireless communications with the second electronic device after the pairing process.

11. An electronic device according to claim 10, wherein the converter determines presence of an error using an error detecting code attached to the pairing signal.

12. An electronic device according to claim 10, wherein the converter corrects an error using an error correction code attached to the pairing signal.

13. An electronic device according to claim 10, further comprising a light emitting diode which emits light during the pairing process.

14. An electronic device, comprising:

a speaker;

a microphone;

a processor executing a pairing process with a s electronic device, the processor outputs a pairing signal during pairing process;

a converter coupled to the speaker, the microphone and the processor, the converter converts the pairing signal to an audio signal when the speaker outputs audio signal to a second electronic device, and converts an audio signal to a pairing signal when the microphone receives the audio signal;

a wireless communication module coupled to the processor, the wireless communication module to enable wireless communications with the second electronic device after the pairing process.

15. A pairing processing method, comprising:

generating a pairing signal for transmission from a first wireless communication device, the pairing signal being a device address of the first wireless communication device in accordance with a predetermined wireless communication scheme;

converting the pairing signal to an audio signal; and

outputting the converted audio signal to a second wireless communication device.

16. A pairing processing method according to claim 15, wherein the predetermined wireless communication scheme is Bluetooth®

.

17. A pairing processing method according to claim 15 further comprising reconverting the audio signal received by the second wireless communication device back to the pairing signal for storage within the second wireless communication device.

18. A pairing processing method, comprising:

acquiring an audio signal from a wireless communication device;

converting the acquired audio signal to a pairing signal, the pairing signal being a device address of the wireless communication device; and

setting the device address of the wireless communication device into memory.

19. A pairing processing method according to claim 18, wherein the predetermined wireless communication scheme is Bluetooth®

.