Abstract: A radio communication apparatus including a local communication circuit and a public communication circuit is connected with an image storing apparatus by local radio communication with the local communication circuit. The radio communication apparatus receives data from the image storing apparatus, and starts a mail program for transferring data through a public network according to the received data. The radio communication apparatus transmits image data received from the image storing apparatus to a server through the public network by means of the mail program. Moreover, the radio communication apparatus stores the image data received from the image storing apparatus in response to a request from the image storing apparatus.

Abstract: In a communication system including plural communication apparatuses that communicate each other using a single communication path, the state of the communication path is detected for communication. If the communication path is busy, a first control method is performed for controlling access to the communication path using a back off time selected at random. A second control method secures the communication path by transmitting and receiving the predetermined signal at transmission of a signal so as to control access to the communication path. In accordance with the kind of the signal to be transmitted, the first or the second control method is selected for communication. Thus, plural communication apparatuses can perform efficient communication.

Abstract: When a communication program starts, it operates to transmit inquiry signals to detect available terminals. After the inquiry signals are transmitted, a selection state of a program is detected. If the communication program is selected, inquiry signals are again transmitted. If detected terminals are displayed as a result of the transmission of inquiry signals and one of them is selected, inquiry signals are transmitted, the selected terminal is detected, and data is input from the detected terminal. If a print is selected, inquiry signals are transmitted, and if a printer selection process is selected after the inquiry signals are transmitted, inquiry signals are transmitted.

Abstract: In an image pickup apparatus capable of mounting a media card 101 having a nonvolatile memory and a communication circuit, when image data of a captured image is transmitted to an external, the image data corresponding to a data length of a packet is stored in the nonvolatile memory of the media card, and the image data is sent to the communication circuit 103 of the media card and divided into a plurality of packets to be transmitted to the external. When transmission of the image data is aborted, the image data still not stored in the nonvolatile memory is stored in the nonvolatile memory.

Abstract: A multiple communicating apparatus has a multiple communicating unit for communicating data through a plurality of channels and a control circuit for controlling the multiple communicating unit in a manner such that the transmission electric power of each channel is inversely proportional to the number of channels which are used by the multiple communicating unit. The control circuit includes a channel control circuit for controlling the number of channels which are used by the multiple communicating unit in accordance with a transmission speed. The multiple communicating unit includes a diffusion circuit for diffusing parallel data by a plurality of diffusion code series. The multiple communicating unit transmits a multiple number for a preamble period of time provided for the reception side to synchronize the plurality of code series which are used for a code division multiple with the transmission side.

Abstract: A spread spectrum receiving apparatus is constructed by a generator for generating a reference clock, a phase shift circuit for shifting the phase of the reference clock generated by the generator in accordance with a code timing in a reception signal and the reference clock, and a de-spreading circuit for de-spreading the reception signal in accordance with the reference clock whose phase is shifted by the phase shift circuit. The de-spreading circuit generates a code for de-spreading in accordance with the phase shifted reference clock. The phase shift circuit has a calculator for calculating a phase shift amount so as to synchronize the code timing in the reception signal with the code for reception in accordance with a deviation between the code timing in the reception signal and the reference clock.

Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes a base-band conversion circuit, a synchronizing circuit/code generator and a demodulator. The base-band conversion circuit converts a received signal into a base-band signal. The synchronizing circuit/code generator detects a spread code included in the received signal to generate a plurality of spread codes in synchronization with the spread code included in the received signal. The demodulator uses the plurality of spread codes supplied by the synchronizing circuit/code generator to demodulate the base-band signal.

Abstract: A spread spectrum reception apparatus generates a local reference code and a timing signal having 1/2 the period of the reference code. Correlation calculation between a received spread spectrum signal and the local reference code is performed. Upon reception of the correlation calculation result, a peak detector detects a correlation peak signal. The rate of a code generation clock is adjusted in accordance with the phase difference between the timing signal and the correlation peak signal to perform de-spread processing of the received signal.

Abstract: A spread spectrum receiving apparatus comprises: a reproducing circuit to reproduce a carrier signal from a reception signal and a diffusion code; a demodulation circuit to demodulate the reception signal into a base band signal on the basis of the carrier signal reproduced by the reproducing circuit; and a judgment circuit to judge the reception data from the base band signal from the demodulation circuit. The reproducing circuit has an operation circuit to arithmetically operate the reception signal and the diffusion code and a detection circuit to detect a difference between the phases of an output of the operation circuit and an output of an oscillator. The oscillator oscillates at a carrier frequency in accordance with a phase difference detected by the detecting circuit.

Abstract: A diffusion code generating method for a code division multiplex communication by a spread spectrum system is provided. A receiving apparatus according to the above method receives the signal which was multiplexed by using a plurality of sets of diffusion codes and comprises: a generator to generate a sync code and a plurality of sets of diffusion codes other than the sync code; a correlator to obtain a correlation between a reception signal and the sync code generated from the generator; and a receiver to receive the reception signal on the basis of the plurality of sets of diffusion codes generated from the generator. The generator generates the sync code in a manner such that the cross-correlation values are set to very small values at positions near a code sync point or are enough smaller than the autocorrelation peak of the sync code or are set to very small values at both of or either one of the positions before and after the code sync point.

Abstract: A spectrum diffusion communication receiving apparatus includes a first generating unit for generating a reference code, a second generating unit for generating a reference signal in synchronism with the reference code, a correlating unit for obtaining a correlation between a received signal and the reference code, and a decoding for decoding the received signal in accordance with the reference signal and a correlation output from the correlating unit.

Abstract: This invention relates to a wireless communication system, which comprises plural wireless communication units having different communication protocols, and in which a proper wireless communication unit is automatically selected from the plural wireless communication units in accordance with the operation states of the plural wireless communication units to make communication possible. Thereby, troublesome operation is not required, an optimum wireless communication method can be automatically selected, and communication cost can be reduced. In the wireless communication system of the present invention, when mobile stations are registered in a fixed station, preferential orders of the mobile stations are stored, and calling/call-reception and communication processings are controlled according to the preferential orders.