Wireless transceiver set

• US 20020016188A1
• Filed: 06/22/2001
• Published: 02/07/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: J-Dot Incorporated
• Original Assignee: J-Dot Incorporated
• Inventors: Kashiwamura, Iwao
• Application Number:
  US09/886,619
• Publication Number:
  US 20020016188A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/575.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6033 for providing handsfree use or a loudspeaker mode in telephone sets arrangements for preventing acoustic echo H04M9/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6066 including a wireless connection
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0261 managing power supply demand, e.g. depending on battery level
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

This invention provides a wireless transceiver set for a cellular phone including a headset to be put on at a user'"'"'s ear or head and an adapter unit which is to be connected to a cellular phone and which improves power saving during a stand-by mode in order to extend the life of battery therein longer. The headset includes a microphone, an earphone, a battery and a transceiver circuit to communicate through the adapter unit with a radio frequency. The adapter unit of the wireless transceiver set includes a battery, a transceiver circuit, detection means for periodically detect a radio frequency from the head set, and switch means for cutting off electric power supply from a battery to the circuit in the adapter unit when no radio frequency from the headset is detected. The invention also provides a wireless transceiver set for a stationary phone or a personal digital assistance including a headset to be put on at a user'"'"'s ear so that a user can communicate over the standard phone or the PDA with hand-free condition.

Claims

1. A wireless transceiver set including an adapter unit adapted to be connected to a cellular phone and a headset adapted to be put on at a user'"'"'s head portion, comprising:

said adapter unit including a first CPU, a first battery, a first transceiver means for sending and receiving sound and control signals from and to the adapter unit through a radio frequency, a detection means for periodically detecting a radio frequency from the headset, and a first power switching means for supplying the adapter unit with electric power from the first battery when the detection means detects the radio frequency from the headset and for cutting off the electric power from the first battery when the detection means does not detect any radio frequency from the had set, and

said headset including a second CPU, a second battery, a second transceiver means for sending and receiving sound and control signals from and to the headset through a radio frequency, and a second power switching means for supplying the headset with electric power from the second battery and for cutting off the electric power from the second battery in order to start and end communication through the adapter unit.

2. The wireless transceiver set of claim 1, wherein said detection means detect a radio frequency from the headset every a few seconds.

3. The wireless transceiver set of claim 1, wherein said first and second batteries are batteries of button type.

4. The wireless transceiver set of claim 1, wherein said first and second batteries are rechargeable.

5. The wireless transceiver set of claim 1, wherein said first CPU converts protocols between control data of the cellular phone and the wireless transceiver set.

6. A child unit of a stationary phone adapted to communicate over the stationary phone through a radio frequency, comprising:

a headset adapted to be put on at a user'"'"'s ear and including a microphone, an earphone, a battery therein, a transceiver means for sending and receiving sound signals to and from the stationary phone through a radio frequency, and a switch means for switching on and off electric power supply to the transceiver means from the battery in order to start or end communication over the stationary phone.

7. A wireless transceiver set for a personal digital assistance (PDA) to communicate over the personal digital assistance through a radio frequency, comprising:

a headset adapted to be put on at a user'"'"'s ear and including a microphone, an earphone, a battery therein, a transceiver means for sending and receiving sound signal through a radio frequency, and a switch means for switching on and off electric power supply to the transceiver means from the battery in order to start or end communication over the personal digital assistance.