Uniden Corporation

Isao Ohki

Masato Suzuki

Jun Yoshida

Yoshihiko Baba

Mikio Iwakuni

Hitoshi Hachiga

Masaru Akiyama

Toshiaki Yuasa

Shuji Konishi

Norio Abe

Tadashi Kogure

Teruhide Kunimitsu

Katsuhiro Miyamoto

Katsuya Kaneda

Kenji Sekine

Toshihiro Takahashi

Yoshikazu Noritake

The object of the present invention is to provide a cellular phone to be used for emergency reports that performs GPS positioning by means of remote control from an emergency report center, and transmits positional information to the emergency report center. The emergency report cellular phone according to the present invention is constituted such that when an emergency report switch thereof is depressed, a call request is made to the emergency report center. The emergency report center transmits a response signal with the result that a call link is formed between the emergency report cellular phone and the emergency report center. Following completion of the telephone call, the emergency report center transmits a position recalculation command message, by means of a DTMF signal. The emergency report cellular phone, which has received this command message, performs GPS positioning and then converts latitudinal and longitudinal information to a DTMF signal before transmitting same to the emergency report center. As a result, even in a case where, in a time of emergency, a reporting party is unable to perform GPS positioning manually as a result of a poor physical condition, for example, since GPS positioning is possible by means of remote control, it is possible to rescue the reporting party in a rapid and reliable manner.

Emergency report cellular phone, cellular connection switching method and GPS positioning method

A selective call signal detection circuit comprises a channel free/busy state detection circuit for scanning a plurality of communication channels to determine their respective free/busy states, a present-time channel free/busy state memory circuit for temporarily storing channel free/busy detection signals resulting from the aforementioned scanning of communication channels, a past-time channel free-busy state memory circuit for receiving into storage therein in the subsequent channel scanning cycle the channel free/busy detection signals of the previous scanning cycle formerly stored in the aforementioned present-time channel free/busy state memory circuit, and a comparison circuit for comparing the signals from the aforementioned present-time past-time channel free/busy state memory circuits thereby discriminating between a selective call signal addressed to a given receiving station and selective call signals addressed to other receiving stations. Since this selective call signal detection circuit permits quick discrimination between a channel in the state of normal communication and a channel in the state of selective call, it serves to enhance the efficiency of channel scanning.

Selective call signal detection circuit for multi-channel access type

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Yachiyo, Japan

Isao Ohki