Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Gen-Ichiro Ota

Osamu Kato

Taku Nagase

A spread spectrum portable telephone apparatus operates with long wait times and with little battery depletion while waiting. A mobile unit receiver receives and detects radio signals, analog-to-digital (AD) converts the detected reception signals, waveform-shapes the converted signals, despreads and decodes the waveform-shaped signals with a spread signal, frame-resolves the decoded signals, and extracts reception date from the frame-resolved signals. A data receiver is included which has, for both a pager channel and a communications channel, a narrow band AD converter circuit, a narrow band reception filter for waveform-shaping the AD converted signals, and a correlator which despreads and decodes the waveform-shaped signal using a spread code generated by a low speed spread code generator circuit. When waiting, calls to the apparatus are waited for with the power turned on only to the paging channel data receiver.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Gen-Ichiro Ota