Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Hajime Sakai

Yuji Hirai

Hideyuki Matsuo

Toshiaki Sakiyama

Kentaro Oka

Youji Manabe

A cordless telephone system comprises a base unit which cam accept information services for stationary telephone sets, and which can transmit and receive various signals by way of networks, and a wireless handset which wirelessly communicates with the base unit in two-ways, wherein the wireless handset can accept information services for stationary telephone sets in pair with the unit. With this arrangement, information obtained from the information services for stationary telephone sets can be seen even at a position remote from the base unit.

Cordless telephone system

A received telephone number is classified into group and stored by a simple operation, and is used as the telephone number when making a call. It comprises a telephone number detector () for detecting an incoming telephone number from a telephone line, an operation unit () for specifying the group of the detected telephone number, a memory () for storing the information of the specified group and the telephone number in correspondence, and LED () for displaying multiple colors. In the incoming operation, the lamp color is changed to display which group the received telephone number belongs to, and the call receiver easily recognizes the call is from which specific group. Further, when dialing by making use of the stored telephone number, the telephone number is displayed and searched in each group.

Telephone apparatus

A facsimile apparatus is operable in a facsimile mode, a telephone conversation mode or an automatic telephone answering/recording mode when a presence operation mode is set. When a CNG signal is received within a first given time, the facsimile mode is selected. On the other hand, when no CNG signal is received within the first given time and a telephone handset is off-hooked within a second given time, the telephone conversation mode is selected. When no CNG signal is received within the first given time and the telephone handset is not off-hooked within the second given time, the automatic telephone answering/recording mode is selected. Further, when no voice signal is received within a third given time during the automatic telephone answering/recording mode being selected, the facsimile mode is selected. It may be arranged that, when no CNG signal is received within the first given time and the telephone handset is not off-hooked within the second given time, one of the automatic telephone answering/recording mode and the facsimile mode is selected depending on whether the voice signal is received or not.

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Onojo, Japan

Hajime Sakai