TELEPHONE DEVICE AND MOBILE-PHONE LINKING METHOD

• US 20160286022A1
• Filed: 06/10/2016
• Published: 09/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: MATSUO, Hideyuki, FUKUDA, Hikaru
• Granted Patent: US 10,116,782 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72502 with one base station connected to a single line
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/04 including near field communication means, e.g. RFID

Abstract

A telephone device includes a short-distance wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication of data with a mobile-phone, and a speaker from which audio data is output, in which a music playback function of the mobile-phone can be remotely operated from a place that is a distance away from the mobile-phone, and in which music playback is stopped by switching a radio resource to that for a telephone call and a smooth transition to a telephone call state can take place automatically without performing a playback stopping operation in a case where a mobile-destined call arrival or mobile-originated call-placing takes place while the music playback is in progress.

Claims

1. A telephone device that is connected to a landline telephone network, comprising:

a master-device control unit that controls the telephone device;

a short-distance wireless communication control unit that controls for performing short-distance wireless communication of data with a mobile-phone;

a speaker from which audio data is acoustically output; and

an audio processing unit that plays back audio data from the mobile-phone, which is received using the short-distance wireless communication, and that outputs the audio data to the speaker,

wherein, in a case where a signal indicating that a call arrival takes place in the mobile-phone is received when the audio data that is received from the mobile-phone which performs a music playback operation is played back, the short-distance wireless communication control unit starts processing that releases a radio resource for music playback and that sets a radio resource for a telephone call, and notifies the master-device control unit of the call arrival by starting a mobile-destined call arrival sequence with the master-device control unit in accordance with starting of the processing.

2. The telephone device according to claim 1,

wherein the master-device control unit performs control of emission of a call-arrival bell sound in accordance with the notification, and starts the emission of the call-arrival bell sound.

3. The telephone device according to claim 1,

wherein, in a case where an operation in response to the call arrival is detected in a state where the mobile-destined call arrival sequence is started, the master-device control unit notifies the short-distance wireless communication control unit of information on the operation.

4. The telephone device according to claim 1,

wherein the short-distance wireless communication control unit controls to transmit a control signal for stopping a playback by the mobile-phone using the short-distance wireless communication according to the releasing of the radio resource for the music playback.

5. The telephone device according to claim 1,

wherein, in a case where an operation of placing a call to a mobile-phone network is detected when the audio data that is received from the mobile-phone that performs the music playback operation, using the short-distance wireless communication, is played back, the master-device control unit notifies the short-distance wireless communication control unit of information on the operation, and according to the notification, the short-distance wireless communication control unit starts processing that releases the radio resource for the music playback and that sets the radio resource for the telephone call.

6. The telephone device according to claim 1,

wherein the telephone device is a cordless telephone device that includes a cordless telephone master device which is connected to the landline telephone network, and a cordless telephone slave device,

wherein the audio data that is received from the mobile-phone which performs the music playback operation, using the short-distance wireless communication, is transferred to the cordless telephone slave device.

7. The telephone device according to claim 6,

wherein the transferring of the audio data sent from the mobile-phone to the cordless telephone slave device can be remotely performed with an operation in which an operation unit of the cordless telephone slave device is used.

8. The telephone device according to claim 6,

wherein the cordless telephone slave device includes a display unit,

wherein the cordless telephone master device transfers information on a music piece that is received from the mobile-phone using the short-distance wireless communication, to the cordless telephone slave device, and

wherein the cordless telephone slave device displays the information on the music pieces on the display unit when necessary.

9. The telephone device according to claim 6,

wherein, in a case where the signal indicating that the call arrival takes place in the mobile-phone is received when the audio data that is received from the mobile-phone, using the short-distance wireless communication is played back, the short-distance wireless communication control unit of the cordless telephone master device releases the radio resource for the music playback, sets the radio resource for the telephone call, and transmits the signal indicating that the call arrival takes place in the cordless telephone slave device.

10. The telephone device according to claim 6,

wherein, in a case where a signal indicating that an operation of placing a mobile-originated call is performed by operating the cordless telephone slave device is received when the audio data that is received from the mobile-phone, using the short distance wireless communication is played back, the master-device control unit of the cordless telephone master device controls the short-distance wireless communication unit to release the radio resource for the music playback and to set the radio resource for the telephone call.

11. The telephone device according to claim 2,

wherein communication schemes for the short-distance wireless communication include a communication scheme that complies with IEEE 802.15.1 specifications.

12. A telephone device comprising:

a cordless telephone master device which is connected to a landline telephone network; and

a cordless telephone slave device,

wherein the cordless telephone master device includes

a master-device control unit that performs control within the cordless telephone master device,

a first wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication of data using short-distance wireless communication with a mobile-phone,

a short-distance wireless communication control unit that performs control of wireless communication through the first wireless communication unit,

a first speaker from which audio data is output,

an audio processing unit that plays back audio data from the mobile-phone, which is received by the first wireless communication unit, and that outputs the audio data to the first speaker, and

a second wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication of data with the cordless telephone slave device,

wherein the cordless telephone slave device includes

a third wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication of data with the cordless telephone master device,

a slave-device control unit that transmits a signal for remotely controlling the mobile-phone through the third wireless communication unit,

a second speaker from which audio data is output, and

a second audio processing unit that plays back audio data that is received by the third wireless communication unit, and outputs the audio data to the second speaker,

wherein, in a case where a signal indicating that a call arrival takes place in the mobile-phone is received when the audio data that is received from the mobile-phone which performs a music playback operation, through the first wireless communication unit, is played back, the short-distance wireless communication control unit starts processing that releases a radio resource for music playback and that sets a radio resource for a telephone call, and notifies the master-device control unit of the call arrival in accordance with starting of the processing, and

wherein the master-device control unit controls the second wireless communication unit in accordance with the notification, and transmits a signal indicating that the call arrival takes place, to the cordless telephone slave device.

13. The telephone device according to claim 12,

wherein in a case where an operation of placing a call to a mobile-phone network is detected when the audio data that is received from the mobile-phone that performs the music playback operation, using the short distance wireless communication, is played back, the master-device control unit controls the short-distance wireless communication control unit to release the radio resource for the music playback and set the radio resource for the telephone call.

14. A mobile-phone linking method for performing communication and performing a link with a mobile-phone using short-distance wireless communication in the telephone device that is connected to a landline telephone network, the mobile-phone liking method comprising:

a step of performing a connection for short-distance wireless communication with the mobile-phone;

a step of playing back audio data that is received from the mobile-phone, using the short-distance wireless communication and outputting the audio data with a speaker of the telephone device;

a step of releasing a radio resource for music playback in the short-distance wireless communication in a case where a signal indicating that a call arrival takes place in the mobile-phone is received when the audio data that is received from the mobile-phone which performs a music playback operation, using the short-distance wireless communication, is played back;

a step of starting processing that sets a radio resource for a telephone call in the short-distance wireless communication after the radio resource for the music playback is released; and

a step of notifying a control unit within the telephone device of the call arrival in accordance with starting of the processing.