Terminal apparatus for transmitting or receiving a signal including predetermined information

• US 8,923,183 B2
• Filed: 03/19/2012
• Issued: 12/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Nagai, Makoto, Okumura, Masaya
• Primary Examiner(s): Ngo, Ricky
• Assistant Examiner(s): JAHANGIR, KABIR U
• Application Number:
  US13/424,087
• Publication Number:
  US 20120230327A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,016 Days
• Field of Search: 370/310.2, 370/312, 370/328, 370/331, 370/389, 370/392, 709/206, 709/217, 709/218, 709/228
• US Class Current: 370/312
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/163 involving continuous checking
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/286 during data packet transmission, e.g. high speed packet access [HSPA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/288 taking into account the usage mode, e.g. hands-free, data transmission, telephone
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/005 Transmission of information for alerting of incoming communication

Abstract

An RF unit broadcasts a packet signal, and receives a packet signal broadcasted from another terminal apparatus. A processing unit generates a packet signal to be broadcasted and processes a received packet signal. A mode setting unit selects a first mode or a second mode as a broadcast mode. The RF unit sets first transmission power in case of the first mode and sets second transmission power lower than the first transmission power in case of the second mode. The processing unit includes an identification number uniquely allocated to the present terminal apparatus in a packet signal in case of the first mode, and includes an identification number commonly allocated to a system of terminal-to-terminal communication in a packet signal in case of the second mode.

Claims

1. A terminal apparatus adapted for inter-terminal communication comprising:

a communication unit configured to receive a packet signal which is a packet signal broadcasted from another terminal apparatus and includes an identification number for identifying the another terminal apparatus; and

a notifying unit configured to notify that a packet signal including the same identification number has been received more than once during a predetermined period when the communication unit has received the packet signal including the same identification number more than once during the predetermined period,

a processing unit configured to generate a packet signal to be broadcasted through the communication unit and to process a packet signal received by the communication unit; and

a selecting unit configured to select a first mode or a second mode as a broadcast mode of the communication unit, wherein

the communication unit sets first transmission power when the selecting unit selects the first mode and sets second transmission power lower than the first transmission power when the selecting unit selects the second mode,

the processing unit includes an identification number uniquely allocated to the present terminal apparatus in a packet signal when the selecting unit selects the first mode, and includes an identification number different from the uniquely allocated identification number in a packet signal when the selecting unit selects the second mode, and

the selecting unit selects the second mode when the communication unit has received the packet signal including the same identification number more than once during the predetermined period.

2. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a storage unit configured to store an identification number included in a packet signal received by the communication unit as a log.

3. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the identification number different from the identification number uniquely allocated to the terminal apparatus is an identification number commonly allocated to a communication system formed by terminal apparatuses.

4. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the selecting unit selects the first mode when a predetermined time elapses since the second mode is selected.

5. The terminal apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a detecting unit configured to detect activation of the terminal apparatus, wherein

when the detecting unit detects activation, the selecting unit selects the first mode regardless of an already selected broadcast mode.