Radio having a recording and reproducing unit responsive to a radio wave of a predetermined frequency

• US 5,568,453 A
• Filed: 03/27/1995
• Issued: 10/22/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hudson Soft Co., Ltd. (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Hudson Soft Co., Ltd. (Konami Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Okada, Setsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): DINH, TAN X
• Application Number:
  US08/411,188
• Time in Patent Office: 575 Days
• Field of Search: 369/7, 369/6, 369/8, 455/89, 455/90, 455/345, 455/33.1, 455/33.2, 455/36.1, 455/38.1
• US Class Current: 369/7
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/20 for coupling gramophone pick-up, recorder output, or microphone to receiver

Abstract

A radio system has a detector detecting a required radio program, and supplying an instruction signal when the program is detected thereby. In accordance with the instruction signal, a recording unit begins to record the program.

Claims

1. A radio with recording and reproducing functions comprising:

a receiving unit including a tuning amplifier, said amplifier generating at least an indicating signal in response to a radio wave of a predetermined frequency;

a recording and reproducing unit including an optometric head unit and a disk driver;

a mini-disk for loading into said optometric head unit, said mini-disk being rotated within said head unit by said disk driver;

an input device for generating instruction signals for said recording and reproducing unit;

a controller responsive to said instruction signals and said indicating signal for controlling said recording and reproducing unit, said controller overriding the instruction signals of said input device to said recording and reproducing unit in the presence of said indicating signal, wherein

said controller controls the receiving unit so that radio waves of a predetermined frequency for a predetermined radio program are monitored at a predetermined interval in a predetermined area, and the predetermined radio program is recorded in preference to a currently broadcasted program by the recording and reproduction unit when the radio waves of the predetermined frequency are detected.

2. The radio of claim 1, wherein said input device is a key input unit.

3. The radio of claim 1, wherein said input device is a ROM.

4. The radio of claim 1, wherein said controller places said recording and reproducing unit into a recording mode in the presence of said indicating signal.

5. A radio with recording and reproducing functions comprising:

a receiving unit including;

a tuning amplifier for generating an indicating signal in response to radio waves of a predetermined frequency and for amplifying radio waves of a predetermined range of frequencies,

an oscillator for generating an oscillating frequency,

a frequency mixer for mixing the amplified radio waves of a predetermined range of frequencies and the oscillating frequency for converting a frequency of the amplified radio waves into a lower intermediate frequency,

an intermediate frequency amplifier for amplifying the intermediate frequency, and

a wave detector for detecting sound signals in an output signal of the intermediate frequency amplifier;

a recording and reproducing unit for operating in a recording mode in which said sound signals are recorded, and in a reproducing mode in which said recorded sound signals are reproduced, said unit including;

a switch unit for turning on and off one of the recording and reproducing modes,

an A/D converter coupled to said switch unit for converting said sound signal into digital signals,

an optometric head unit for recording said digital signals from the A/D converter on a recording medium, and

a D/A converter coupled to said optometric head unit for converting said digital signals stored on said recording medium into reproduced sound signals;

an input device for generating instruction signals for said recording and reproducing unit; and

a control unit responsive to said instruction signals and said indicating signal for controlling the switch unit of said recording and reproducing unit, said control unit overriding the instruction signals of said input device to said recording and reproducing unit in the presence of said indicating signal.

6. The radio of claim 5, wherein said input device is a key input unit.

7. The radio of claim 5, wherein said input device is a ROM.

8. The radio of claim 5, wherein the recording medium is a mini-disk, and wherein said recording and reproducing unit further includes a disk driver coupled to said optometric head unit for driving said mini-disk.