TELEPHONE APPARATUS, TELEPHONE SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD

• US 20160269532A1
• Filed: 05/26/2016
• Published: 09/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Fukuda, Hikaru, Matsuo, Hideyuki
• Granted Patent: US 10,257,338 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 for remote control of appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72484 wherein functions are triggered by incoming communication events
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72502 with one base station connected to a single line
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4227 Providing Remote input by a user located remotely from the client device, e.g. at work
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43615 Interfacing a Home Network, e.g. for connecting the client to a plurality of peripherals home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] data switching networks H04L12/2805
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4396 by muting the audio signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6181 involving transmission via a mobile phone network arrangements for providing broadcast or conference services to substation in data switching networks in combination with wireless systems H04L12/189; wireless uplink channel access H04W74/004
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6187 involving transmission via a telephone network, e.g. POTS
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/632 using a connection between clients on a wide area network, e.g. setting up a peer-to-peer communication via Internet for retrieving video segments from the hard-disk of other client devices broadcast-related systems characterised by transmission among terminal devices H04H60/80; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8113 comprising music, e.g. song in MP3 format

Abstract

Provided is a telephone apparatus including a wireless communicator that performs wireless communication of data with a music reproducing device, a controller that remotely controls the music reproducing device through the wireless communicator, a speaker, a sound processor that reproduces sound data from the music reproducing device and outputs the sound data to the speaker, and a call controller that detects outgoing or incoming of a call through a telephone line and restricts output of sound data from the music reproducing device in a case where the incoming or outgoing of a call is detected while the sound data is output as a sound.

Claims

1. A telephone apparatus that is connected to a telephone line and handles outgoing and incoming of a call through the telephone line, the telephone apparatus comprising:

a first wireless communicator that performs wireless communication of data with a music reproducing device;

a first controller that manages a state of the music reproducing device through the first wireless communicator and transmits remote control information for remotely controlling the music reproducing device to the music reproducing device;

a speaker that outputs sound data as a sound;

a sound processor that reproduces sound data received from the music reproducing device and outputs the sound data to the speaker; and

a call controller that detects outgoing or incoming of a call through the telephone line and restricts output of sound data from the music reproducing device in a case where the outgoing or incoming of a call is detected while the sound data is output as a sound through the speaker.

2. The telephone apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the call controller instructs the first controller to notify the music reproducing device of the remote control information for restricting output of sound data in a case where the outgoing or incoming of a call through the telephone line is detected while sound data from the music reproducing device is reproduced and output to the speaker.

3. The telephone apparatus of claim 2,

wherein in a case where the outgoing or incoming of a call through the telephone line is detected, the remote control information notified to the music reproducing device is information for instructing the music reproducing device to stop or pause reproduction.

4. The telephone apparatus of claim 3,

wherein in a case where the outgoing or incoming of a call through the telephone line is detected, the call controller designates which of reproduction stop and reproduction pause the music reproducing device is instructed to perform, in accordance with program setting information stored in the telephone apparatus.

5. The telephone apparatus of claim 2,

wherein in a case where termination of the outgoing or incoming of a call is detected, the first controller gives notice of remote control information for instructing the music reproducing device to start reproduction, and the sound processor reproduces sound data received from the music reproducing device and outputs the sound data to the speaker.

6. The telephone apparatus of claim 5,

wherein the first controller instructs the music reproducing device to pause reproduction when the outgoing or incoming of a call through the telephone line is detected, and then instructs the music reproducing device to start reproduction in a case where termination of the outgoing or incoming of a call is detected, and

wherein the first controller instructs the music reproducing device to stop reproduction when the outgoing or incoming of a call through the telephone line is detected, and then does not instruct the music reproducing device to start reproduction in a case where termination of the outgoing or incoming of a call is detected.

7. The telephone apparatus of claim 1,

wherein in a case where the call controller detects incoming of a call through the telephone line while sound data from the music reproducing device is output to the speaker, the call controller stops reproducing the sound data received from the music reproducing device and outputs an incoming tone from the speaker.

8. The telephone apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a cordless telephone slave device and a cordless telephone master device,

wherein the cordless telephone master device includes the first wireless communicator, the first controller, the speaker, the sound processor, a second wireless communicator that performs wireless communication of data with the cordless telephone slave device, and a second controller that operates the cordless slave device as an operator for remotely controlling the music reproducing device through the second wireless communicator.

9. The telephone apparatus of claim 1,

wherein a communication system of the first wireless communicator includes a communication system based on an IEEE802.15.1 standard.

10. A telephone system comprising a telephone apparatus and a music reproducing device,

wherein the telephone apparatus includes

a first wireless communicator that performs wireless communication of data with the music reproducing device,

a first controller that manages a state of the music reproducing device and remotely controls the music reproducing device through the first wireless communicator,

a speaker that outputs sound data as a sound,

a sound processor that reproduces sound data from the music reproducing device received by the first wireless communicator and outputs the sound data to the speaker, and

a call controller that detects outgoing or incoming of a call through a telephone line and restricts output of sound data from the music reproducing device in a case where the outgoing or incoming of a call is detected while the sound data is output as a sound by the speaker, and

wherein the music reproducing device includes

a third wireless communicator that performs wireless communication of data with the telephone apparatus,

a sound data reproducer that reproduces sound data,

a sound data transmitter that transmits sound data reproduced by the sound data reproducer to the telephone apparatus as a sound stream, and

a third controller that restricts an operation of the music reproducing device in accordance with remote control information received from the telephone apparatus.

11. A control method in a telephone apparatus, the method comprising:

performing wireless communication of data with a music reproducing device;

managing a state of the music reproducing device and remotely controlling the music reproducing device through wireless communication;

reproducing sound data received from the music reproducing device and outputting the sound data to a speaker;

detecting outgoing or incoming of a call through a telephone line; and

restricting output of sound data from the music reproducing device in a case where incoming or outgoing of a call is detected while the sound data is output as a sound by the speaker.