Portable electronic device with radio communication and controlled computer status

• US 5,604,928 A
• Filed: 06/02/1995
• Issued: 02/18/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Tanabe, Takayuki, Hamano, Soji
• Primary Examiner(s): Eisenzopf, Reinhard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): VO, NGUYEN THANH
• Application Number:
  US08/460,716
• Time in Patent Office: 627 Days
• Field of Search: 455/343, 455/38.3, 455/296, 455/298, 455/310, 455/311, 455/312, 455/34.1, 455/297, 455/63, 455/34.2, 455/226.1, 455/226.2, 455/317, 455/231, 455/67.1, 455/67.3
• US Class Current: 455/310
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/32 Means for saving power
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 15/04 the interference being caused by substantially sinusoidal oscillations, e.g. in a receiver or in a tape-recorder
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/725 Cordless telephones user interfaces specially adapted therefor H04M1/724
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/73 Battery saving arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0274 by switching on or off the equipment or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A radio transmit-receive unit can perform the communication processing stably without being affected by high frequency noise with the system activation of a computer unit, whereby if a communication processing request from the radio transmit-receive unit occurs, the computer unit sets the system state of a sub-CPU being activated to a rest state, a counter starts clocking the signal receive time of the radio transmit-receive unit when the system state of the sub-CPU is in a rest state, and a latch circuit holds electric field strength information of carrier received by the radio transmit-receive unit upon the termination of clocking by the counter. And the computer unit switches the system state of the sub-CPU being at rest to an active state, based on the end state of clocking by the counter, to restart the activation of the computer unit.

Claims

1. An electronic device having a radio transmit-receive unit for performing radio communication processing with an external device via an antenna, and a computer unit for processing desired information, comprising:

set control means for setting said computer unit to a rest state;

timer means for measuring a signal receive time of said radio transmit-receive unit in accordance with activation of said set control means and the computer unit in the rest state;

holding means for holding electric field strength information associated with at least one carrier received by said radio transmit-receive unit during the rest state of the computer unit; and

restart control means for switching the rest state of said computer unit to an active state after a predetermined period of time measured by said timer means.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein said set control means sets the computer unit to the rest state by shutting down a power supply to said computer unit.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein said set control means sets the computer unit to the rest state by resetting said computer unit.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein said set control means sets the computer unit to the rest state by keeping said computer unit itself in halt state.

5. An electronic device having a radio transmit-receive unit for performing radio communication processing with an external device via an antenna, and a computer unit for processing desired information, comprising:

set control means for setting said computer unit to a halt state;

timer means for measuring a signal receive time of said radio transmit-receive unit in accordance with activation of said set control means and the computer unit in the halt state;

holding means for holding electric information regarding at least one carrier received by said radio transmit-receive unit in the halt state; and

restart control means for switching the halt state of said computer unit to an active state after a predetermined period of time measured by said timer means.

6. An electronic device having a radio transmit-receive unit for performing radio communication processing with an external device via an antenna, and a first computer unit for processing desired information, comprising:

a second computer unit for communicating with said radio transmit-receive unit;

set control means for setting said second computer unit to a rest state;

timer means for counting a signal receive time of said radio transmit-receive unit in accordance with activation of said set control means and the second computer in the rest state;

holding means for holding receivable channel information of at least one carrier received by said radio transmit-receive unit in the rest state; and

restart control means for switching the rest state of said second computer unit to an active state after counting up to a desired count by said timer means to set said receivable channel information held in said holding means by said second computer unit to said first computer unit.

7. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein said set control means sets the second computer unit to the rest state by shutting down a power supply to said second computer unit.

8. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein said set control means sets the second computer unit to the rest state by resetting said second computer unit.

9. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein said set control means sets the second computer unit to the rest state by keeping said second computer unit itself in a halt state.

10. An electronic device having a radio transmit-receive unit for performing radio communication processing with an external device via an antenna, and a first computer unit for processing desired information, comprising:

a second computer unit for communicating with said radio transmit-receive unit;

set control means for setting said first computer unit and said second computer unit to a rest state;

timer means for counting a signal receive time of said radio transmit-receive unit in accordance with activation of said set control means and the first and second computer units in the rest state;

holding means for holding receivable channel information of at least one carrier received by said radio transmit-receive unit in the rest state; and

restart control means for switching the rest state of said first computer unit and said second computer unit to an active state after counting up to a desired count by said timer means to set said receivable channel information held in said holding means by said second computer unit to said first computer unit.

11. The electronic device according to claim 10, wherein said set control means sets the first computer unit and the second computer unit to the rest state by shutting down a power supply to said first computer unit and said second computer unit.

12. The electronic device according to claim 10, wherein said set control means sets the first computer unit and the second computer unit to the rest state by resetting said first computer unit and said second computer unit.

13. The electronic device according to claim 10, wherein said set control means sets the first computer unit and the second computer unit to the rest state by keeping said first computer unit and said second computer unit themselves in a halt state.