Wireless telephone apparatus

• US 6,510,324 B2
• Filed: 10/27/1998
• Issued: 01/21/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Fukumura, Ryoichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Vo, Nguyen T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, DUC M
• Application Number:
  US09/179,814
• Publication Number:
  US 20010041585A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,547 Days
• Field of Search: 455/556, 455/557, 455/426, 455/406, 455/458, 455/566, 455/414, 455/552, 455/553, 455/550, 370/493, 370/494, 370/495
• US Class Current: 455/550.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

The control unit of a wireless telephone apparatus includes transmission and reception control unit for controlling both transmission processor and reception processor, and received sound wave analyzing unit or data communication unit, so that character information can be simultaneously sent or received between wireless telephone apparatuses capable of making a call or data communication.

Claims

1. A wireless telephone apparatus comprising:

wireless communication means for bi-directional communication of character data and spoken data with a remote telephone apparatus through a wireless base station,

input means for entering said character data,

first data display means for displaying the character data transmitted,

second data display means for displaying the character data received

data communication means for bi-directional communication of the character data and the spoken data with said wireless communication means,

a control unit for controlling said data communication means during a wireless call through said wireless communication means, the control unit controlling both transmission of the character data and the spoken data entered through said input means and reception of the character data and the spoken data transmitted from the remote telephone apparatus through said data communication means, said control unit determining an input event and a reception event of said wireless telephone apparatus, in determining an input event said control unit sending the character data to said first data display means and the character data and the spoken data being sent simultaneously to said data communication means, and in determining a reception event said control unit receiving data from said data communication means and sending character to said second data display means when said data is recognized as character data.

2. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 1,

wherein said data communication means communicates data by converting the information entered through the input means into a tone signal and sending to the wireless communication means, and converting the tone signal received through said wireless communication means into data.

3. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 2,

wherein said data communication means sends and receives DTMF signal as tone signal.

4. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 1,

wherein said data communication means communicates data by sending the digital information entered through the input means to the wireless communication means as digital signal, and delivering the digital signal received through the wireless communication means.

5. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 4,

wherein digital communication of said data communication means conforms to the data transmission system of PIAFS (Personal Handyphone Internet Access Forum).

6. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 1,

wherein said data communication means includes first communication means for communicating data by converting the information entered through the input means into a tone signal and sending to the wireless communication means, and converting the tone signal received through said wireless communication means into data, and

second communication means for communicating data by sending the digital information entered through the input means to the wireless communication means as digital signal, and delivering the digital signal received through the wireless communication means, thereby communicating data by utilizing either communication means.

7. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 6,

wherein said data communication means sends and receives DTMF signal as tone signal.

8. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 6,

wherein digital communication of said data communication means conforms to the data transmission system of PIAFS (Personal Handyphone Internet Access Forum).

9. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 1,

wherein said data communication means communicates data by converting the information entered through the input means into a tone signal and sending to the wireless communication means, and converting the tone signal received through said wireless communication means into data.

10. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 9,

wherein said data communication means sends and receives DTMF signal as tone signal.

11. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 1,

wherein said data communication means communicates data by sending the digital information entered through the input means to the wireless communication means as digital signal, and delivering the digital signal received through the wireless communication means.

12. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 11,

wherein digital communication of said data communication means conforms to the data transmission system of PIAFS (Personal Handyphone Internet Access Forum).

13. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 1,

wherein said data communication means includes first communication means for communicating data by converting the information entered through the input means into a tone signal and sending to the wireless communication means, and converting the tone signal received through said wireless communication means into data, and

second communication means for communicating data by sending the digital information entered through the input means to the wireless communication means as digital signal, and delivering the digital signal received through the wireless communication means, thereby communicating data by utilizing either communication means.

14. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 13,

wherein said data communication means sends and receives DTMF signal as tone signal.

15. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 14,

wherein digital communication of said data communication means conforms to the data transmission system of PIAFS (Personal Handyphone Internet Access Forum).

16. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 1,

wherein the information entered through said input means is video data.

17. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 16,

wherein said data communication means communicates data by converting the information entered through the input means into a tone signal and sending to the wireless communication means, and converting the tone signal received through said wireless communication means into data.

18. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 17,

wherein said data communication means sends and receives DTMF signal as tone signal.

19. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 16,

wherein said data communication means communicates data by sending the digital information entered through the input means to the wireless communication means as digital signal, and delivering the digital signal received through the wireless communication means.

20. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 19,

wherein digital communication of said data communication means conforms to the data transmission system of PIAFS (Personal Handyphone Internet Access Forum).

21. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 16,

wherein said data communication means includes first communication means for communicating data by converting the information entered through the input means into a tone signal and sending to the wireless communication means, and converting the tone signal received through said wireless communication means into data, and

second communication means for communicating data by sending the digital information entered through the input means to the wireless communication means as digital signal, and delivering the digital signal received through the wireless communication means, thereby communicating data by utilizing either communication means.

22. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 21,

wherein said data communication means sends and receives DTMF signal as tone signal.

23. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 21,

wherein digital communication of said data communication means conforms to the data transmission system of PIAFS (Personal Handyphone Internet Access Forum).

24. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 1,

wherein said data display means also displays the information entered from said input means.

25. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

memory means for storing the data entered from said input means and the data received by said data communications means,

wherein said input means can instruct data reading or data conversion in accordance with input classification information of the contents of the memory unit, and

said control unit displays the data being read out by the instruction from said input means in said first display means, converts the data according to the input classification information when the instruction of the read infornation is made through said input means, and transmits the converted data through said data communication unit and said wireless communication unit.

26. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 25,

wherein the information stored in said memory means is controlled and displayed in said first or second display unit.

27. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

memory means for storing the data entered from said input means and the data received by said data communication means,

wherein said input means can instruct data reading or data conversion in accordance with input classification information of the contents of the memory unit, and

said control unit displays the data being read out by the instruction from said input means in said second display means, converts the content of data according to the input classification information when the instruction of the read information is made through said input means, and stores the converted data in said memory means.

28. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 27,

wherein the information stored in said memory means is controlled and displayed in said first display unit.

29. A wireless telephone apparatus of claim 1,

wherein said input means can also enter the instruction for changing over sound communication and data communication, and

said control unit controls to change over to communication by said data communication means when changeover to data communication is instructed from said input means during sound communication by the wireless communication means, and change over to sound communication by said wireless communication means when changeover to said sound communication is instructed while communicating through said data communication means.

30. A wireless telephone apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said controller converts said input data and said wireless data to character data if said input data and said wireless data correspond to character data.