Wireless communication apparatus

• US 20060286975A1
• Filed: 06/13/2006
• Published: 12/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakagawa, Katsumi, Ito, Takatsugu, Fukuda, Shinji, Sugitani, Toshiyuki, Satoh, Etsuko
• Application Number:
  US11/451,521
• Publication Number:
  US 20060286975A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/426.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0291 Door telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/725 Cordless telephones user interfaces specially adapted therefor H04M1/724
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/025 Door telephones adapted for television H04N7/186
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/08 home cordless telephone systems using the DECT standard

Abstract

A wireless communication apparatus includes wireless communicating unit that carries out a wireless communication with a telephone base unit to be connected to a communication line and carries out the wireless communication with a telephone remote unit that performs the wireless communication with the telephone base unit, communicating unit connected to a communication remote unit, and control unit that communicates with the telephone base unit and the telephone remote unit by using a communication frame including a first slot pair having a descending slot to be used for receiving a signal from the telephone base unit which is disposed earlier on a time basis and an ascending slot to be used for transmitting a signal to the telephone base unit which is disposed later on the time basis, and a second slot pair having a descending slot to be used for transmitting data to the telephone remote unit which is disposed earlier on the time basis and an ascending slot to be used for receiving data from the telephone remote unit which is disposed later on the time basis.

Claims

1. A wireless communication apparatus comprising:

wireless communicating means for carrying out a wireless communication with a telephone base unit to be connected to a communication line and carrying out the wireless communication with a telephone remote unit for performing the wireless communication with the telephone base unit;

communicating means connected to a communication remote unit; and

control means for communicating with the telephone base unit and the telephone remote unit by using a communication frame including a first slot pair having a descending slot to be used for receiving a signal from the telephone base unit which is disposed earlier on a time basis and an ascending slot to be used for transmitting a signal to the telephone base unit which is disposed later on the time basis, and a second slot pair having a descending slot to be used for transmitting data to the telephone remote unit which is disposed earlier on the time basis and an ascending slot to be used for receiving data from the telephone remote unit which is disposed later on the time basis.

2. The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control means synchronizes a transmission start timing of the communication frame with a synchronizing signal received from the telephone base unit through the descending slot of the first slot pair, thereby carrying out a communication.

3. The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the communication remote unit is an intercom remote unit having a call button, and the intercom remote unit transmits a call signal to the communicating means when the call button is pressed down.

4. The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the communication remote unit is an intercom remote unit having a call button, the intercom remote unit transmits a call signal to the communicating means when the call button is pressed down, and the control means transmits the call signal to the telephone remote unit through the descending slot of the second slot pair.

5. The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the communication remote unit is an intercom remote unit having a call button, the intercom remote unit transmits a call signal to the communicating means when the call button is pressed down, and the control means transmits the call signal to the telephone base unit through the ascending slot of the first slot pair.

6. The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising talking control means connected to a second communication line which is different from the communication line and serving to carry out talking through the second communication line,

the control means using a voice signal received from the talking control means in order to transmit the descending slot of the second slot pair to the telephone remote unit.

7. The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the talking control means transmits an incoming call signal through the descending slot of the second slot pair when detecting an incoming call sent from the second communication line.

8. The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control means carries out a control to lessen a transmission frequency using the descending slot of the second slot pair with respect to a receipt of the synchronizing signal transmitted through the descending slot of the first slot pair.

9. The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the telephone remote unit is a plurality of telephone remote units, and

the call signal transmitted through the descending slot of the second slot pair includes information for identifying the telephone remote unit, and the control means sets the information for identifying the telephone remote unit to have a predetermined value when calling the telephone remote units at the same time.

10. The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the call signal transmitted through the ascending slot of the first slot pair includes information for identifying the telephone base unit, and the control means sets the information for identifying the telephone base unit to have a predetermined value when calling the remote units and the telephone base unit at the same time.

11. The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the intercom remote unit includes a camera for picking up an image,

the wireless remote unit includes a display portion, and

a call signal transmitted through the descending slot of the second slot pair includes image information picked up by the intercom remote unit, and the telephone remote unit displays the image.

12. The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the intercom remote unit includes a camera for picking up an image,

the wireless base unit includes a display portion, and

a call signal transmitted through the ascending slot of the first slot pair includes image information picked up by the intercom remote unit, and the telephone base unit displays the image.

14. The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the descending slot of the second slot pair included in a first communication frame and the ascending slot of the second slot pair included in a second communication frame which is subsequent to the first communication frame are subjected as a slot pair to be used to communicate with the telephone remote unit.

13. A wireless communication apparatus comprising:

wireless communicating means for carrying out a wireless communication with a telephone base unit to be connected to a communication line and carrying out the wireless communication with a telephone remote unit for performing the wireless communication with the telephone base unit;

communicating means connected to a communication remote unit; and

control means for communicating with the telephone base unit and the telephone remote unit by using a communication frame including a first slot pair having a descending slot to be used for receiving a signal from the telephone base unit which is disposed later on a time basis and an ascending slot to be used for transmitting a signal to the telephone base unit which is disposed earlier on the time basis, and a second slot pair having a descending slot to be used for transmitting data to the telephone remote unit which is disposed later on the time basis and an ascending slot to be used for receiving data from the telephone remote unit which is disposed earlier on the time basis.