Radio communication terminal

• US 8,203,446 B2
• Filed: 09/03/2009
• Issued: 06/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Tsubota, Keiji, Yoshida, Yutaka, Ohta, Yasunori, Nishino, Naoyuki, Kamiya, Takeshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Lu, Shirley
• Application Number:
  US12/553,112
• Publication Number:
  US 20100079273A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,020 Days
• Field of Search: 340/539.1, 340/572.1, 340/10.1
• US Class Current: 340/539.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/02 Access restriction performed under specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information

Abstract

A radio communication terminal includes a radio communication unit that performs radio communication with another device, a detector that detects radio waves in a predetermined frequency range emitted from a medical device that is used integrally with a human body, and a prohibition unit that prohibits radio communication by the radio communication unit when radio waves in the predetermined frequency range have been detected.

Claims

1. A radio communication terminal comprising:

a radio communication unit that performs radio communication with another device;

a detector that detects radio waves in a predetermined frequency range emitted from a medical device that is used integrally with a human body; and

a prohibition unit that prohibits radio communication by the radio communication unit when radio waves in the predetermined frequency range have been detected;

wherein the prohibition unit prohibits radio communication after causing information calling for prohibition of radio communication to be transmitted from the radio communication unit to the other device when radio waves in the predetermined frequency range have been detected;

wherein the medical device is a cardiac pacemaker or a capsule endoscope;

further comprising a wired communication unit that is capable of wired communication with the other device, wherein the prohibition unit prompts switching to communication by the wired communication unit and prohibits radio communication by the radio communication unit.

2. The radio communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising a communication unit that performs communication with the other device using light or sound waves,

wherein the prohibition unit prompts switching to communication by the communication unit and prohibits radio communication by the radio communication unit.

3. The radio communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising a warning unit that issues a warning when radio communication has been prohibited by the prohibition unit.

4. The radio communication terminal according to claim 1, further comprising

a generator that captures a radiographic image expressed by radiation with which the generator has been irradiated and generates image data representing the radiographic image, and

a storage unit that stores the generated image data when radio communication has been prohibited by the prohibition unit.

5. The radio communication terminal according to claim 4, wherein the prohibition unit prohibits radio communication after causing information calling for prohibition of irradiation of the generator with radiation to be transmitted from the radio communication unit when radio waves in the predetermined frequency range have been detected by the detector.

6. The radio communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined frequency range is either a frequency band allocated to a specific energy saving medical telemeter or a frequency band of the ISM bands.

7. A radio communication terminal comprising:

a radio communication unit that performs radio communication with another device; and

a prohibition unit that prohibits radio communication by the radio communication unit when information calling for prohibition of radio communication as a result of having detected radio waves in a predetermined frequency range emitted from a medical device that is implanted and used in a human body has been received by the radio communication unit;

wherein the prohibition unit prohibits radio communication after causing information calling for prohibition of radio communication to be transmitted from the radio communication unit to the other device when radio waves in the predetermined frequency range have been detected;

wherein the medical device is a cardiac pacemaker or a capsule endoscope;

further comprising a wired communication unit that is capable of wired communication with the other device, wherein the prohibition unit prompts switching to communication by the wired communication unit and prohibits radio communication by the radio communication unit.