Radio telecommunications apparatus

• US 5,201,068 A
• Filed: 07/10/1990
• Issued: 04/06/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Kawashima, Kazuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Eisenzopf, Reinhard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): KEOUGH, TIMOTHY
• Application Number:
  US07/550,443
• Time in Patent Office: 1,001 Days
• Field of Search: 455/79, 455/89, 455/116, 455/234, 381/107, 381/108, 381/109, 381/42, 381/43
• US Class Current: 455/550.1
• CPC Class Codes: H03G 1/02 Remote control of amplification, tone or bandwidth combined with remote tuning or selection of resonant circuits H03J
• CPC Class Codes: H03G 3/04 in untuned amplifiers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/271 controlled by voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6016 in the receiver circuit
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6041 Portable telephones adapted for handsfree use
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72466 with selection means, e.g. keys, having functions defined by the mode or the status of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/04 the ringing-current being generated at the substations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/042 with variable loudness of the ringing tone, e.g. variable envelope or amplitude of ring signal

Abstract

A radio telecommunication apparatus comprises a volume key for controlling volume, detecting means for generating a first detection signal in response to continuous push of the volume key, and generating a second detection signal in response to intermittent push of the volume key, and voice volume control means for performing control to increase the volume in response to one of the first and second detection signals, and performing control to decrease the volume in response to the other of the first and second detection signals.

Claims

1. A radio telecommunication apparatus comprising:

a volume key for controlling volume;

detecting means for generating a first detection signal in response to continuous depression of said volume key for a predetermined period, and generating a second detection signal in response to intermittent depression of said volume key, said predetermined period of the continuous depression being longer than a period during which said volume key is being depressed in intermittent depression; and

voice volume control means for increasing the volume in response to one of the first and second detection signals, and for decreasing the volume in response to the other of the first and second detection signals.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said voice volume control means includes:

output means for outputting a pulse having a first duty ratio in response to one of the first and second detection signals, and outputting a pulse having a second duty ratio in response to the other of the first and second detection signals,

a transmission gate for receiving a speech signal and selectively outputting a predetermined portion of the speech signal in response to the pulses, and

smoothing means for smoothing the output from said transmission gate.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said detecting means includes:

checking means for periodically checking a state of said volume key, setting a first flag in response to a depressed state of said volume key, and setting a second flag in response to a non-depressed state of said volume key, and

means for detecting a first event wherein a first flag is sequentially followed by a second flag and a second event wherein a first flag is sequentially followed by another first flag,

wherein said voice volume control means increases the volume in response to one of the first and second events, and decreases the volume in response to the other of the first and second events.

2. A radio telecommunication apparatus comprising:

a volume key for controlling volume;

detecting means for generating a first detection signal in response to continuous depression of said volume key, and generating a second detection signal in response to intermittent depression of said volume key; and

voice volume control means for increasing the volume in response to one of the first and second detection signals, and for decreasing the volume in response to the other of the first and second detection signals,

wherein said detecting means includes;

checking means for periodically checking a state of said volume key, setting a first flag in response to a depressed state of said volume key; and

setting a second flag in response to a non-depressed state of said volume key, and

means for detecting a first event wherein a first flag is sequentially followed by a second flag and a second event wherein a first flag is sequentially followed by another first flag, and

wherein said voice volume control means increases the volume in response to one of the first and second events, and decreases the volume in response to the other of the first and second events.