Patents Assigned to Icom Incorporated
  • Publication number: 20250047450
    Abstract: A frequency selector included in a radio station selects a target frequency for carrier sensing from within a bandwidth of one of a plurality of subcarriers for a channel specified for wireless communication in accordance with Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, at least a portion of the bandwidth of the one of the subcarriers being within a transmission band. A detector detects a signal level, at the target frequency, of a real signal obtained as a result of digitally converting an electric signal derived from a radio wave captured by an antenna. A determiner determines whether the transmission band is used for the wireless communication from the signal level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: ICOM Incorporated
    Inventors: Masanori KITABATA, Satoshi MATSUDA
  • Patent number: 11683756
    Abstract: A communication device that reduces power consumption is realized by appropriately setting a transmission output power value for DSC communication. A communication device (1) includes: an AIS receiving section (11) for receiving information related to an AIS; a DSC communication section (12) for performing DSC communication; and a transmission output power setting section (15c) configured to set a transmission output power value for communication performed on a conversation channel by the DSC communication section to a value corresponding to a distance, which is calculated based on the information, between the communication device and a communication target vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventor: Yoshio Sekiyama
  • Patent number: 11665503
    Abstract: A communication device includes: a display section; an AIS receiving section configured to receive automatic identification system (AIS) information; a list creating section configured to create, based on the AIS information about vessels existing in the vicinity of the communication device, a proximity order list in which pieces of specific information for identifying the vessels are arranged in increasing order of proximity to the communication device; and a display control section configured to, when the submersion of the communication device has been detected, control the display section so that the display section displays the proximity order list and so that any one of the pieces of specific information at the top of the proximity order list is in a selected state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventor: Yoshio Sekiyama
  • Patent number: 11239673
    Abstract: A charging holder for electronic devices is shared for a plurality of electronic devices having different thickness, and is stably fixed even under vibration conditions. The holder has a holder body, a rotation block and a lock unit. A pocket for inserting an electronic device is formed in the holder body. The rotation block is rotated and biased so that a tip portion can protrude inside the pocket, and has a contact terminal which can contact a charging terminal of the electronic device. The lock unit is for locking the upper side of the electronic device to the holder body when the electronic device is pushed into the pocket and rotated. The rotation block is configured so that the lower part of the electronic device can be inserted therein, holds the lower part of the electronic device regardless of the thickness of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventors: Ken Kawaki, Haruki Nishizawa
  • Publication number: 20210119457
    Abstract: A charging holder for electronic devices is shared for a plurality of electronic devices having different thickness, and is stably fixed even under vibration conditions. The holder has a holder body, a rotation block and a lock unit. A pocket for inserting an electronic device is formed in the holder body. The rotation block is rotated and biased so that a tip portion can protrude inside the pocket, and has a contact terminal which can contact a charging terminal of the electronic device. The lock unit is for locking the upper side of the electronic device to the holder body when the electronic device is pushed into the pocket and rotated. The rotation block is configured so that the lower part of the electronic device can be inserted therein, holds the lower part of the electronic device regardless of the thickness of the electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: Icom Incorporated
    Inventors: Ken KAWAKI, Haruki NISHIZAWA
  • Patent number: 10812096
    Abstract: A wireless communication device converts a signal component, which has one of distributed frequency bands in an analog RF signal and passes through one of a plurality of bandpass filters, into digital data with an AD converter that carries out undersampling. A sampling frequency of the AD converter is set so that frequencies which are integral multiples of a Nyquist frequency based on the sampling frequency do not fall within frequency bands of signal components which are of the RF signal and are to pass through the respective plurality of bandpass filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventors: Tadamune Birei, Yuta Morishita
  • Patent number: 10382865
    Abstract: An angle calculator calculates, based on acceleration detected by an acceleration sensor, a tilt angle of a transceiver with respect to the vertical direction. A selector (i) selects a first audio filter to operate if the tilt angle is less than a threshold angle, or (ii) selects a second audio filter to operate if the tilt angle is equal to or greater than the threshold angle. The second audio filter has a lower cutoff frequency that is higher than the lower cutoff frequency of the first audio filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventor: Yoshio Sekiyama
  • Patent number: 10263665
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a relaying device which performs the individual calling in response to not only a call incoming from a telephone but also a call incoming from a transceiver. When receiving a communication request from another device over a network, the relaying device determines if this communication request is accompanied by the wireless-device specifying information (ID). When the communication request is not accompanied by the ID, the relaying device sends a signal for prompting another device to input the ID. When the ID is sent in response to the sent signal, the relaying device instructs the relaying wireless device to call the wireless terminal device specified by this ID. In addition, when the communication request is accompanied by the ID, the relaying device instructs the relaying wireless device to call the wireless terminal device specified by this ID.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventor: Hirotaka Sonobe
  • Patent number: 10148342
    Abstract: [Problem] To enable the response audio signal of one transceiver to be heard by other transceivers, in cases when a plurality of subordinate transceivers (wireless handset) are present. [Solution] A relaying device is provided with: a wireless apparatus interface having a repeater connected thereto; a signal processing unit connected to the wireless apparatus interface; a network interface connected to a network; a packet processing unit connected to the network interface; and a mixing unit provided between the signal processing unit and the packet processing unit. The packet processing unit reads out an audio signal from a packet inputted from the network interface, and outputs the audio signal as a downlink audio signal. The mixing unit inputs the downlink audio signal into the signal processing unit, and inputs an uplink audio signal into the signal processing unit. The signal processing unit outputs, to the wireless apparatus interface, the downlink audio signal and the uplink audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventor: Hirotaka Sonobe
  • Patent number: 9742483
    Abstract: A relaying device includes a wireless apparatus interface, a signal processing unit connected to the wireless apparatus interface, a network interface, and a packet processing unit connected to the network interface. The relaying device is provided with multiple communication paths including the wireless apparatus interface, the signal processing unit, and the packet processing unit, and each communication path has a mixing unit configured to additively synthesize an uplink audio signal and a downlink audio signal of other communication path to the uplink audio signal and input the synthesized signal to the packet processing unit, and configured to additively synthesize an uplink audio signal and a downlink audio signal of other communication path to the downlink audio signal and input the synthesized signal to the signal processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventor: Keishiro Uwamori
  • Patent number: 9736622
    Abstract: The communication terminals each includes a communication controller for identifying the communication terminal to be reconnected as a communication destination after an inter-terminal connection is disrupted. The communication controller includes a first table and a second table. The first table is configured to, while placing a highest priority on the communication terminal most recently connected before the inter-terminal connection is disrupted, place a first connection priority on the other communication terminals according as a connection order in a direction of going back in time. The second table is configured to place a second connection priority on the other communication terminals by each device function thereof. The communication controller identifies, as the communication terminal to be reconnected as the communication destination, a communication terminal with the first connection priority ranked highest among the other communication terminals with the second connection priority ranked highest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventor: Futoshi Ota
  • Patent number: 9705585
    Abstract: A relaying device includes an uplink interface that continuously receives an audio signal in communication, a wireless apparatus interface to which a repeater acting as a wireless relaying apparatus is connected, a voice buffer that buffers the audio signal, and a control unit. The control unit performs a VOX processing of detecting whether or not a level of the audio signal is equal to or higher than a preset threshold. When the level of the audio signal is equal to or higher than the threshold, the control unit starts buffering the audio signal in the voice buffer, and requests the repeater to reserve a channel. After receiving, from the repeater, a reply indicating that a channel has been reserved, the control unit reads the buffered audio signal from the voice buffer, and transfers this audio signal to the repeater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventor: Hirotaka Sonobe
  • Patent number: 9705543
    Abstract: A wireless-device-end communicator transmits, to a remote-end communicator, an IF signal and a wireless-device-end AF signal, the wireless-device-end AF signal being generated by demodulating the IF signal on a basis of a wireless-device-end local frequency. A remote-end controller starts a tuning mode when an instruction obtainer obtains the start instruction for the tuning mode, and adjusts a remote-end local frequency in accordance with the obtained adjustment instruction. A remote end demodulator demodulates the received IF signal on a basis of the remote-end local frequency, and outputs a remote-end AF signal. An outputter outputs the remote-end AF signal in the tuning mode, and outputs the wireless-device-end AF signal in a normal mode. At an end of the tuning mode, the wireless-device-end local frequency is adjusted in such a way that the reception frequency of a wireless device becomes consistent with the reception frequency indicated by the last adjustment instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: ICOM Incorporated
    Inventor: Masaaki Nishihata
  • Patent number: 9705954
    Abstract: A relaying device is provided, which can mediate by using communications of a wireless apparatus without clipping off the beginning of verbal communication. The relaying device includes: a network interface that receives an audio signal as a group of packet trains via a network; a wireless apparatus interface to which a wireless apparatus is connected; a voice buffer that temporarily stores the audio signal; and a control unit that starts temporarily storing the audio signal in the voice buffer and requests the wireless apparatus to reserve a channel, when a leading packet of the group of packet trains is received, and that reads the temporarily stored audio signal from the voice buffer and transfers the audio signal to the wireless apparatus, after receiving from the wireless apparatus a reply indicating that a channel has been reserved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventor: Hisaaki Matsushima
  • Patent number: 9699235
    Abstract: A relaying device is provided, which can mediate by using communications of a wireless apparatus without clipping off the beginning of verbal communication. The relaying device includes: a network interface that receives an audio signal as a group of packet trains via a network; a wireless apparatus interface to which a wireless apparatus is connected; a voice buffer that temporarily stores the audio signal; and a control unit that starts temporarily storing the audio signal in the voice buffer and requests the wireless apparatus to reserve a channel, when a leading packet of the group of packet trains is received, and that reads the temporarily stored audio signal from the voice buffer and transfers the audio signal to the wireless apparatus, after receiving from the wireless apparatus a reply indicating that a channel has been reserved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventor: Hisaaki Matsushima
  • Patent number: 9584142
    Abstract: The calculator calculates the remainder of the division of which the dividend is the minimum accumulated value at which a carryover occurs in the ?? modulator and the devisor is a fractional set value, and calculates the quotient and remainder of the division of which the dividend is the devisor of the previous division and the devisor is the remainder of the previous division until the remainder becomes zero. The abnormal noise determiner determines that the fractional set value causes periodic abnormal noise based on the quotients calculated by the calculator using the fractional set value. The fractional setter sets in the ?? modulator the fractional set value changed to the extent that the output frequency of the VCO does not exceed a given value when the abnormal noise determiner determines that the changed fractional set value does not cause periodic abnormal noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventors: Yasuo Ueno, Hiroji Akahori
  • Publication number: 20170019164
    Abstract: [Problem] To provide an audio communication system wherein a relaying device is connected to terminal devices, which are communication devices, via a communication network and wherein the relaying device is caused to manage the group of the terminal devices. [Solution] An audio communication system comprises: a master relaying device; one or more slave relaying devices connected to the master relaying device via a communication network; and one or more terminal devices connected to each relaying device via a communication network. Each slave relaying device transfers, to the master relaying device, audio signals received from the terminal device in charge of the slave relaying device. The master relaying device transfers the audio signals, which were received from each slave relaying device, to the slave relaying devices other than that slave relaying device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2014
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: Icom Incorporation
    Inventor: Hirotaka SONOBE
  • Patent number: 9503910
    Abstract: A relaying device is provided, which can mediate by using communications of a wireless apparatus without clipping off the beginning of verbal communication. The relaying device includes: a network interface that receives an audio signal as a group of packet trains via a network; a wireless apparatus interface to which a wireless apparatus is connected; a voice buffer that temporarily stores the audio signal; and a control unit that starts temporarily storing the audio signal in the voice buffer and requests the wireless apparatus to reserve a channel, when a leading packet of the group of packet trains is received, and that reads the temporarily stored audio signal from the voice buffer and transfers the audio signal to the wireless apparatus, after receiving from the wireless apparatus a reply indicating that a channel has been reserved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventor: Hisaaki Matsushima
  • Patent number: 9503908
    Abstract: A relaying device includes an uplink interface that continuously receives an audio signal in communication, a wireless apparatus interface to which a repeater acting as a wireless relaying apparatus is connected, a voice buffer that buffers the audio signal, and a control unit. The control unit performs a VOX processing of detecting whether or not a level of the audio signal is equal to or higher than a preset threshold. When the level of the audio signal is equal to or higher than the threshold, the control unit starts buffering the audio signal in the voice buffer, and requests the repeater to reserve a channel. After receiving, from the repeater, a reply indicating that a channel has been reserved, the control unit reads the buffered audio signal from the voice buffer, and transfers this audio signal to the repeater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventors: Keishiro Uwamori, Hirotaka Sonobe
  • Patent number: 9461605
    Abstract: An electronic device with a speaker, an amplifier for driving the speaker and a speaker grill provided on the front surface of the speaker includes a pickup detection unit for detecting that the electronic device has been picked up from water and a water discharge sound generation unit for generating a water discharge sound signal for discharging water having entered inside the speaker grill according to the detection of the pickup from the water and inputting the generated water discharge sound signal to the amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventor: Yoshio Sekiyama