MOBILE PHONE AND ECHO REDUCTION METHOD THEREFORE

• US 20120135787A1
• Filed: 11/22/2011
• Published: 05/31/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: KUSUNOKI, Yoshiomi, OTANI, Masayuki
• Application Number:
  US13/302,464
• Publication Number:
  US 20120135787A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/575.8
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0214 Foldable telephones, i.e. with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/03 Constructional features of telephone transmitters or receivers, e.g. telephone hand-sets
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/18 Telephone sets specially adapted for use in ships, mines, or other places exposed to adverse environment H04M1/19 takes precedence

Abstract

A foldable mobile phone relating to the present invention includes: a first housing that includes a speaker, a receiver and a receiver hole; and a second housing that includes a microphone and a microphone hole, the receiver hole and the microphone hole each being covered with a waterproof film, and the waterproof film that covers the receiver hole facing the microphone hole in a closed state, and the mobile phone comprises: a low-pass filter that is connected to an output terminal of the microphone and has a cut-off frequency of 1 kHz; and an echo canceller that is connected to an output terminal of the low-pass filter, and is operable to cancel, from components of a signal output from the low-pass filter, components of a signal that has been input to the speaker.

Claims

1. A foldable mobile phone that includes:

a first housing that includes a speaker, a receiver and a receiver hole formed adjacent thereto; and

a second housing that includes a microphone and a microphone hole formed adjacent thereto, the receiver hole and the microphone hole each being covered with a waterproof film, and in a closed state where the first housing and the second housing overlap each other, the waterproof film that covers the receiver hole facing the microphone hole, the mobile phone comprising;

a low-pass filter that is connected to an output terminal of the microphone; and

an echo canceller that is connected to an output terminal of the low-pass filter, and is operable to cancel, from components of a signal output from the low-pass filter, components of a signal that has been input to the speaker.

2. The mobile phone of claim 1, wherein

the low-pass filter has a cut-off frequency of 1 kHz.

3. The mobile phone of claim 1, further comprising

a correction filter that is connected to an output terminal of the echo canceller, and is operable to correct frequency components of a signal output from the echo canceller such that frequency characteristics of the signal are substantially equalized.

4. The mobile phone of claim 3, wherein

the correction filter corrects the frequency components of 1 kHz or higher.

5. An echo reduction method for use in a foldable mobile phone that includes:

a first housing that includes a speaker, a receiver and a receiver hole formed adjacent thereto; and

a second housing that includes a microphone and a microphone hole formed adjacent thereto, the receiver hole and the microphone hole each being covered with a waterproof film, and in a closed state where the first housing and the second housing overlap each other, the waterproof film that covers the receiver hole and the microphone hole facing each other, the echo reduction method comprising;

a first step of cancelling high-frequency components from a signal output from the microphone; and

a second step of cancelling, from the signal from which the high-frequency components have been cancelled in the first step, components of a signal that has been input to the speaker.