INFORMATION TRANSMITTING METHOD, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

• US 20090270037A1
• Filed: 07/08/2009
• Published: 10/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: INOGUCHI, Makoto, IIDA, Izumi, IKEDA, Masayuki
• Application Number:
  US12/499,449
• Publication Number:
  US 20090270037A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.300
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/006 Details of the interface to the display terminal specific for a display terminal using a CRT G09G1/167; using a flat panel G09G3/2096; circuits for interfacing with colour displays G09G5/04
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0206 Portable telephones comprising a plurality of mechanically joined movable body parts, e.g. hinged housings

Abstract

An electronic apparatus is provided including a wireless communication unit transmitting first category information and a wire communication unit transmitting second category information, and the first and second category information items are transmitted in parallel by the wireless communication unit and the wire communication unit.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. An electronic apparatus comprising:

a wireless communication unit that transmits a first category of information between a first housing and a second housing by a wireless transmission;

a wired communication unit that transmits a second category of information, between the first housing and the second housing by a wired transmission, the second category of information supporting connectivity for the wireless transmission;

wherein the wired transmission is kept active while the wireless transmission is active.

8. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

an electromagnetic wave converting unit that converts the first category of information into the electromagnetic wave signal; and

an electromagnetic wave restoring unit that receives the electromagnetic wave signal to restore the signal to the first category of information.

9. The electronic apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein the electromagnetic wave converting unit and the electromagnetic wave restoring unit are driven with a carrier wave generated by the same carrier oscillator.

10. The electronic apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein the electromagnetic wave converting unit performs spectral spread modulation, and the electromagnetic wave restoring unit performs spectral reverse spread modulation, and

wherein synchronization information of the electromagnetic wave converting unit and the electromagnetic wave restoring unit is transmitted via a wire.

11. The electronic apparatus according to claim 8,

wherein the electromagnetic wave converting unit performs modulation to a UWB signal, and the electromagnetic wave restoring unit performs demodulation from the UWB signal, and

wherein synchronization information of the electromagnetic wave converting unit and the electromagnetic wave restoring unit is transmitted via a wire.

19. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the second category of information includes at least one of the carrier wave information and the synchronization information concerning the wireless communication of the first category of information.

20. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the second category of information includes information indicating a receiving state of the first category of information and is transmitted from a receiving side of the first category of information to a transmitting side thereof.

21. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the first category of information includes at least one of image data, text data, and voice data.

22. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2,

a storage unit that stores the first category of information;

a display body that displays the first category of information;

a display control unit that reads the first category of information from the storage unit according to an operating sequence of the display body and for outputting the read information; and

a display body driving unit that drives the display body, based on the first category of information read by the display control unit.

23. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

an image capturing element; and

an image capturing control unit that reads an image signal picked-up by the image capturing element as the first category of information and for outputting the signal.

24. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein information transmitted between an electronic circuit on an integrated circuit and outside the integrated circuit is wirelessly transmitted as the first category of information.

25. The electronic apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

a display unit;

a speaker unit; and

a data source unit that generates image data displayed on the display unit and sound data for driving the speaker unit,

wherein the image data and the sound data transmitted between the display unit or the speaker unit and the data source unit are wirelessly transmitted as the first category of information.

3-7. -7. (canceled)

12-18. -18. (canceled)

26. (canceled)