Apparatus and method for setting an ID number by sound in a cordless telephone
First Claim
1. A cordless telephone device comprising a master telephone set connected to a telephone line and a slave telephone set mounted on a cradle of said master telephone set to be electrically charged and connected to said master telephone set through a radio system during a call, and having memory means for storing mutual ID numbers in said master telephone set and said slave telephone set respectively;
- wherein said cradle of said master telephone set has a sound generating means, said slave telephone set has a sound receiving means located adjacent and opposing to said sound generating means when said slave telephone set is set on said cradle, and the mutual ID number read out from said memory means of said master telephone set is written via said sound generating means and said sound receiving means into said memory means of said slave telephone set for registration of said mutual ID number in said slave telephone set, wherein said sound generating means generates a pre-signal sound before an ID signal sound representing said mutual ID number, to prevent errors in establishing a mode of waiting for reception of said mutual ID number.
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Abstract
To make it possible to easily carry out registration of a mutual ID number (ID) in a slave telephone set in cordless telephone device by only operating a switch or buttons, in the cordless telephone device according to the present invention, a sound generating element and a sound receiving element located closer and opposing to each other when the slave telephone set is set on a cradle of the master telephone set are provided in the master telephone set and the slave telephone set respectively, and ID signal sound is transferred between the two elements, so that even an ordinary user can carry out the ID registration requiring very complicated operations in the conventional technology without fail.
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19 Claims
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1. A cordless telephone device comprising a master telephone set connected to a telephone line and a slave telephone set mounted on a cradle of said master telephone set to be electrically charged and connected to said master telephone set through a radio system during a call, and having memory means for storing mutual ID numbers in said master telephone set and said slave telephone set respectively;
- wherein said cradle of said master telephone set has a sound generating means, said slave telephone set has a sound receiving means located adjacent and opposing to said sound generating means when said slave telephone set is set on said cradle, and the mutual ID number read out from said memory means of said master telephone set is written via said sound generating means and said sound receiving means into said memory means of said slave telephone set for registration of said mutual ID number in said slave telephone set, wherein said sound generating means generates a pre-signal sound before an ID signal sound representing said mutual ID number, to prevent errors in establishing a mode of waiting for reception of said mutual ID number.
- View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A cordless telephone device comprising a master telephone set to be connected to a telephone line and slave telephone set to be placed on a cradle of said master telephone set in order to be electrically charged, said slave telephone set being communicated with said master telephone set through a radio system during call, said cordless telephone device having first and second memories to store ID information used in the communication between said master telephone set and said slave telephone set, further comprising:
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a sound generator to output a mutual ID number read from said first memory, and a sound receiver to receive said mutual ID number outputted from said sound generator; wherein said mutual ID number received by said sound receiver is written in said second memory, and said sound generator generates a pre-signal sound before an ID signal sound representing said mutual ID number, to prevent errors in establishing a mode of waiting for reception of said mutual ID number. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method of setting a mutual ID number for a cordless telephone device for setting a mutual ID number between a master telephone set to be connected to a telephone line and a slave telephone set to be placed on a cradle of said master telephone set in order to be electrically charged, said slave telephone set being communicated with said master telephone set through a radio system during a call comprising:
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a first step for outputting said mutual ID number from a sound generator; a second step for receiving said mutual ID number outputted from said sound generator by a sound receiver; and a third step for storing said mutual ID number received by said sound receiver, wherein said first step comprises generating a pre-signal sound before an ID signal sound representing said mutual ID number, to prevent errors in establishing a mode of waiting for reception of said ID number. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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