Cordless parent/slave telephone set with improved sidetone handling

• US 5,893,034 A
• Filed: 08/06/1997
• Issued: 04/06/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Uniden Corporation (Cornwall Capital Management LP)
• Original Assignee: Uniden Corporation (Cornwall Capital Management LP)
• Inventors: Tomono, Koichi, Tanaka, Kiyoshi, Hikuma, Hideo
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Wellington
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ferguson, Keith
• Application Number:
  US08/906,938
• Time in Patent Office: 608 Days
• Field of Search: 455/410, 455/553, 455/166, 455/566, 455/501, 455/63, 455/67.3, 455/570, 455/500, 370/62, 370/30, 348/15, 379/162, 379/202, 379/91, 379/391, 379/406, 379/410, 379/402, 379/413
• US Class Current: 455/501
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/585 implemented without inductive element
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/725 Cordless telephones user interfaces specially adapted therefor H04M1/724
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/76 Compensating for differences in line impedance

Abstract

A parent telephone set comprises a transformer, a sidetone level reducing circuit, and a first secret talk processing circuit for executing digital secret talk processing, a counterpart slave telephone set comprises a second secret talk processing circuit for executing digital secret talk processing, a delaying circuit for delaying an aural signal from the slave telephone set microphone by a specified delay time, and a level reducing circuit for reducing the level of output from the second secret talk processing circuit according to the output from the delaying circuit. The specified delay time in the delaying circuit is set according to the time required for digital secret talk processing in the first secret talk processing circuit as well as in the second secret talk processing circuit.

Claims

1. A cordless telephone set having a parent telephone set and a slave telephone set and having a radio transmitter/receiver executing bidirectional communications between said parent telephone set and said slave telephone set by subjecting an aural signal to digital talk processing, comprising:

a transformer which is an interface with a line and/or a receiver;

a sidetone level reducing circuit for reducing a level of sidetone from said transformer;

a first talk processing circuit for executing digital talk processing for an aural signal from said transformer or an aural signal received through an antenna of said parent telephone set;

a second talk processing circuit for executing digital talk processing for an aural signal from a slave telephone set microphone or an aural signal received through a slave telephone set antenna;

a delaying circuit for delaying an aural signal from said telephone set microphone by a specified delay time; and

a level reducing circuit for reducing a level of said aural signal from said telephone set microphone according to an output from said delaying circuit;

said specified delay time being set by said delaying circuit according to a time required for digital talk processing in said first talk processing circuit and said second talk processing circuit.

2. A cordless telephone set according to claim 1, wherein said transformer comprises a hybrid transformer.

3. A cordless telephone set according to claim 1, wherein said delaying circuit has an operational amplifier outputting a signal having a specified voltage level when a voltage level of said aural signal exceeds a specified reference voltage level and a delaying means for delaying the output signal from said operational amplifier by the specified delay time.

4. A cordless telephone set according to claim 1, wherein said level reducing circuit has a switch for controlling an ON/OFF connection between said aural signal from said telephone set microphone and a ground voltage according to an output from said delaying circuit.

5. A cordless telephone set according to claim 1, wherein said slave telephone set has a sidetone transfer circuit for transferring an aural signal from said slave telephone set microphone to a slave telephone set speaker.

6. A cordless telephone set according to claim 1, wherein said sidetone level reducing circuit comprises a phase shifter subjecting an output from said first talk processing circuit to phase inversion, and a mixer combining an output from said phase shifter with an output from said transformer, and supplying the combined output to said first talk processing circuit.

7. A cordless telephone set having a parent telephone set and a slave telephone set and having a radio transmitter/receiver executing bidirectional communications between said parent telephone set and said slave telephone set by subjecting an aural signal to digital talk processing,

wherein said parent telephone set comprises:

a transformer which is an interface with a line and/or a receiver;

a sidetone level reducing circuit for reducing a level of sidetone from said transformer; and

a first talk processing circuit for executing digital talk processing for an aural signal from said transformer or an aural signal received through an antenna of said parent telephone set;

and wherein said slave telephone set comprises;

a second talk processing circuit for executing digital talk processing for an aural signal from a slave telephone set microphone or an aural signal received through a slave telephone set antenna;

a delaying circuit for delaying an aural signal from said telephone set microphone by a specified delay time; and

a level reducing circuit for reducing a level of output from said second talk processing circuit according to an output from said delaying circuit;

said specified delay time being set by said delaying circuit according to a time required for digital talk processing in said first talk processing circuit and said second talk processing circuit.

8. A cordless telephone set according to claim 7, wherein said parent telephone set comprises a hybrid transformer.

9. A cordless telephone set according to claim 7, wherein said delaying circuit has an operational amplifier outputting a signal having a specified voltage level when a voltage level of an aural signal from said slave telephone set microphone exceeds a specified reference voltage level and a delaying means delays an output from said operational amplifier by the specified delay time.

10. A cordless telephone set according to claim 7, wherein said level reducing circuit has a switch for controlling an ON/OFF connection between an output from said second talk processing circuit or said talk processing circuit and a ground voltage according to an output from said delaying circuit.

11. A cordless telephone set according to claim 7, wherein said slave telephone set has a sidetone transfer circuit for transferring an aural signal from said slave telephone set microphone to a slave telephone set speaker.

12. A cordless telephone set according to claim 7, wherein said sidetone level reducing circuit comprises a phase shifter subjecting an output from said first talk processing circuit to phase inversion, and a mixer combining an output from said phase shifter with an output from said transformer, and supplying the combined output to said first talk processing circuit.