Radio communication apparatus

• US 7,295,860 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2005
• Issued: 11/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Suwa, Yutaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Trinh; Sonny
• Application Number:
  US11/314,801
• Publication Number:
  US 20060099989A1
• Time in Patent Office: 692 Days
• Field of Search: 455/552.1, 455/67.11, 455/67.14, 455/41.2, 455/411, 455/456.1, 455/422.1, 455/435.1, 455/432.2, 455/515, 455/550.1, 455/73, 455/450, 370/338
• US Class Current: 455/552.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72505 Radio link set-up procedures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface

Abstract

A radio communication apparatus of the present invention comprises a radio unit capable of transmitting or receiving a first radio communication signal of a Bluetooth standard and a second radio communication signal of a cordless phone standard and a synchronism discriminator for discriminating a radio communication standard signal. The radio communication apparatus switches between first and second radio communication modes in response to a discrimination result of the synchronism discriminator, detects a type and a weight of a sound error every mode, and adds or subtracts the weight of the sound error in a present slot to or from a weight of a sound error in the previous slot in response to a degree of the sound error in the present slot. This structure allows a single apparatus to transmit or receive both of two kinds of radio communication standard signals, and the sound error is adequately and precisely handled in response to the type and weight of the sound error, thereby improving quality of the sound signal.

Claims

1. A radio communication apparatus communicating with another radio communication apparatus, the radio communication apparatus comprising:

a radio unit configured to receive a sound signal from the another radio communication apparatus;

a format discriminator configured to discriminate whether the received sound signal is utilized in a first mode or in a second mode;

a first processor configured to attenuate the discriminated first sound signal when a first difference between a level of a present first sound signal and a level of a previous first sound signal exceeds a first predetermined value in the first mode;

a second processor configured to attenuate the discriminated second sound signal when a second difference between a level of a present second sound signal and a level of a previous second sound signal exceeds a second predetermined value in the second mode; and

a controller configured to output, to a speaker of the radio communication apparatus, the attenuated first sound signal and the attenuated second sound signal.

2. A radio communication apparatus according to claim 1,

said second processor configured to attenuate the discriminated second sound signal when a difference between an average level of said second sound signal and a level of a present second sound signal exceeds a third predetermined value in the second mode.

3. A radio communication apparatus according to claim 1,

said second processor configured to filter the discriminated second sound signal when a second difference between a level of a present second sound signal and a level of a previous second sound signal exceeds a second predetermined value in the second mode.

4. A radio communication apparatus according to claim 1,

said first mode is according to Bluetooth standard and said second mode is according to a standard other than Bluetooth standard.