Handsfree system and mobile phone

• US 20060052141A1
• Filed: 08/23/2005
• Published: 03/09/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Suzuki, Kunikazu
• Application Number:
  US11/210,009
• Publication Number:
  US 20060052141A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/569.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6091 including a wireless interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface

Abstract

In a handsfree system, when a mobile phone receives an incoming voice call from a mobile phone network while data communicating with a device that is an in-vehicle device (handsfree device), the mobile phone is automatically changed from a handset mode to a handsfree mode. Thereby, immediately after the mobile phone receives an incoming voice call from the mobile phone network, the mobile phone can be automatically changed from a handset mode to a handsfree mode without any user'"'"'s operation.

Claims

1. A handsfree system comprising:

a mobile phone that is switchable between a handset mode and a handsfree mode; and

a device that has a data communications function and a handsfree function, wherein the mobile phone and the device are able to conduct short range wireless communications,

wherein the mobile phone changes from the handset mode to the handsfree mode to then conduct a handsfree phone call with the device

in a case that the mobile phone detects that the device that communicates data with the mobile phone has a handsfree profile and is an in-vehicle device when the mobile phone receives an incoming voice call from a mobile phone network.

2. The handsfree system of claim 1,

wherein the mobile phone and the device are able to conduct Bluetooth communications with each other,

wherein the mobile phone associates, with a BD address obtained from the device, a vehicular flag that indicates whether the device has the handsfree profile and is the in-vehicle device, and

wherein the mobile phone determines whether the device has the handsfree profile and is the in-vehicle device by identifying the vehicular flag.

3. The handsfree system of claim 2,

wherein, when a user conducts a given operation, the mobile phone sets the vehicular flag to a state indicating that the device has the handsfree profile and is the in-vehicle device.

4. The handsfree system of claim 2,

wherein, when the device has the handsfree profile and is the in-vehicle device, the device notifies the mobile phone that the device has the handsfree profile and is the in-vehicle device, and

wherein when the mobile phone is notified by the device that the device has the handsfree profile and is the in-vehicle device, the mobile phone sets the vehicular flag to a state indicating that the device has the handsfree profile and is the in-vehicle device.

5. A mobile phone that is switchable between a handset mode and a handsfree mode and is able to conduct short range wireless communications with a device that has a data communications function and a handsfree function,

the mobile phone comprising:

detecting means that detects whether the device that communicates data with the mobile phone has a handsfree profile and is an in-vehicle device when the mobile phone receives an incoming voice call from a mobile phone network; and

changing means that causing the mobile phone to change from the handset mode to the handsfree mode to then conduct a handsfree phone call with the device when the detecting means detects that the device that communicates data with the mobile phone has a handsfree profile and is an in-vehicle device.