Patents Assigned to Icom Incorporated
  • 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: 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: 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: 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
  • Patent number: 9577719
    Abstract: The data to be supposed to be processed by a microcontroller unit (MCU) of the near-field wireless communication module in a wireless device is processed by a digital signal processor (DSP) of the module instead of the MCU in order to expedite processing of commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: ICOM INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Futoshi Ota
  • 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: 9479376
    Abstract: A modulator generates a modulation signal from an input signal by, and a serial-parallel converter generates a subcarrier modulation signal from the modulation signal. A shifter shifts a predetermined data series to generate a shift sequence. Two IFFT units perform an IFFT on data sent thereto to generate first data and second data. An operator generates baseband signals from at least one of the sum of the first data and the second data and the difference therebetween. The foregoing processing is repeated with a predetermined number of times to shift the predetermined data series being changed. A PAPR determiner sends the baseband signal matching with a predetermined reference for determining a transmission signal to a transmitter. The transmitter generates a transmission signal from the baseband signal, and transmits the transmission signal to another communication apparatus via an antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: ICOM INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Nobuyoshi Nishikawa
  • 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
  • Patent number: 9385908
    Abstract: A communication apparatus comprises an inserter that inserts an element having a value of 0 or nearly 0 into a predetermined position of a modulated signal to generate inserted data; an operator that adds a pilot signal comprising a data series of which the elements at the positions corresponding to the predetermined positions in the modulated signal are multiplied by a first amplitude coefficient and the elements other than the elements multiplied by the first amplitude coefficient are multiplied by a second amplitude coefficient to the inserted data to generate a post-operation data; an IFFT unit that performs IFFT on the post-operation data; and a transmitter that generates a baseband signal based on the post-operation data on which the IFFT is performed and transmits a transmission signal generated from the baseband signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventor: Nobuyoshi Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 9374472
    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: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Icom Incorporated
    Inventor: Hirotaka Sonobe
  • Patent number: 9369324
    Abstract: The communication apparatus comprises a modulator that modulates an input signal to generate a modulated signal; an inserter that inserts a predetermined element into the modulated signal at a predetermined position to generate inserted data of which the number of elements is equal to a size of Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT); a calculator that calculates Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) of a baseband signal corresponding to the inserted data; and a transmitter transmits a transmission signal corresponding to the baseband signal based on the calculated PAPR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: ICOM Incorporated
    Inventor: Nobuyoshi Nishikawa
  • Patent number: 9166672
    Abstract: A wireless communication system comprises a relay system including a plurality of relay devices and a plurality of wireless terminal devices. Each relay device transmits control information to the wireless terminal device which is registered in the own relay device, and each wireless terminal device selects, based on the control information received from the relay device which registers the own wireless terminal device, a channel which is currently able to relay a communication among channels respectively allocated to the relay devices to establish a communication between the wireless terminal devices. Each relay device acquires information configuring the control information via a communication line and causes a downlink signal wirelessly transmitted by the own relay device to synchronize with a communication signal, and each wireless terminal device maintains, when shifting a channel for communication to another channel, a synchronized state established in a channel prior to shifting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: ICOM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shoji Fukuzawa, Yoshiyuki Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9160588
    Abstract: Provided is a radio receiver using a modulation scheme such as FSK or QPSK in which a transmission and reception frequency shift appears as DC offset in a demodulated signal, capable of increasing noise immunity while suppressing deterioration in sensitivity. A high-speed pull-in processing unit 102 that performs offset correction by subtracting a correction value Adj_DC obtained from transmission and reception frequency deviation from the demodulated (detected) signal and a low-speed pull-in processing unit 104 that feedbacks a correction value Adj_local(t) obtained from an average value of the demodulated (detected) signal to a local oscillator 1012 are used in combination. The correction value Adj_DC for the high-speed pull-in processing is reduced over time by subtracting a correction amount Adj_Del(t) from the correction value Adj_DC and the feedback is performed, so that, as a result, the correction value Adj_DC for the high-speed pull-in processing is given to the low-speed pull-in processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: ICOM Incorporated
    Inventor: Kazunori Shibata
  • Patent number: D742369
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: ICOM INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Haruki Nishizawa
  • Patent number: D771618
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: ICOM INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Tetsuro Nishida
  • Patent number: D778251
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: ICOM INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Haruki Nishizawa
  • Patent number: D792367
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: ICOM INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Tetsuro Nishida