Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Kazuhiro Kuwabara

Tetsuya Ouchi

Tokunori Kato

Fumihiro Minamizawa

Shuji Otsuka

Susumu Chida

Kouichi Mino

Masaaki Terazawa

Koji Matsumura

Hideaki Takahashi

Katsunori Enomoto

Shozo Kabeya

Suzuyo Murai

Katsuhiro Sato

Tetsuo Harano

Yutaka Nonomura

Chikamasa Hattori

Tatsuya Satou

Michio Tsuchiya

Koji Takeyama

Takayuki Matsumoto

Kouzi Takeyama

A mobile phone apparatus is provided. The mobile phone apparatus includes a charger for supplying power to a rechargeable battery including a connection portion and a main telephone unit. The main telephone unit includes a rechargeable battery detection unit which detects whether the connection portion of the rechargeable battery is connected to the main telephone unit; an overvoltage protection unit which is coupled to the connection portion of the rechargeable battery and switches between an active state of supplying power output from the connection portion and an inactive state of not supplying power output from the connection portion; and a controller which controls the overvoltage protection unit to switch the overvoltage protection unit into the active state if the rechargeable battery detection unit detects that the rechargeable battery is connected.

Mobile phone apparatus with over voltage protection device

A call system for performing a voice call by an Internet call function using a known telephone terminal. In a multifunction machine serving as the telephone terminal, the output destination and the input source of audio signals input/output from/to a transmitter/receiver may be switched to an audio I/F. In the switched state, audio based on audio signals input/output from/to an outside source through the audio I/F is output/input from the transmitter/receiver. Therefore, when the multifunction machine is connected to a PC having the Internet call function such that audio signals can be input/output through an audio cable, an indirect audio call by the Internet call function with the transmitter/receiver is available. When an incoming call from a telephone line network is received, reception of the incoming call is notified so that a user can confirm the reception of the incoming call during the voice call by the Internet call function.

Telephone terminal, call system, internet terminal and terminal control program

To facilitate calls made by Internet telephony through a computer, an IP phone system is provided with an audio I/Ffor inputting and outputting audio signals for communications to and from a PCover the Internet, in accordance with Internet telephony execution commands; a user I/Ffor inputting Internet telephony call start instructions; and a path switching portionfor switching the output destination of audio signals that are input though a handsetand the input source of audio signals to be output as sounds from the handset, between an NCUand the audio I/F, if a call start instruction for Internet telephony is input. If a call start instruction for Internet telephony is input from the user I/F, a control portionoutputs a control command for executing Internet telephony with respect to the PC, as an audio signal from the audio I/F

IP phone device capable of remote controlling associated PC with control command in audio signal format

During a normal update process, a password transmitted from a personal computer is compared with password already stored in a flash memory. When the passwords match, a transmitted program is written over the stored program. When a change mode is set by a user, the transmitted password is not compared with the stored password. The transmitted program is written over the stored program. Alternatively, even when the two passwords are compared and the two passwords do not match, if the change mode is being set, the transmitted program is written over the stored program. Accordingly, during the change mode, regardless of whether or not the transmitted password matches the stored password, the transmitted program is written over the stored program.

Data storage device having download notification means

During a normal update process, a password transmitted from a personal computer is compared with password already stored in a flash memory. When the passwords match, a transmitted program is written over the stored program. When a change mode is set by a user, the transmitted password is not compared with the stored password. The transmitted program is written over the stored program. Alternatively, even when the two passwords are compared and the, two passwords do not match, if the change mode is being set, the transmitted program is written over the stored program. Accordingly, during the change mode, regardless of whether or not the transmitted password matches the stored password, the transmitted program is written over the stored program.

Data storage device

While the answering machine is recording a message from a remote caller, if it is determined that an automatic reproduction request code has been inputted over the telephone, the time and day designated by the remote caller on which the message is to be reproduced is inputted as reproduction time data. Afterward, the message spoken by the remote caller is recorded as sound data. Also the time and day designated for reproduction is stored as automatic reproduction time data. When, by passage of time, the time registered by the clock circuit matches the time and day designated for reproduction, an alarm is sounded by the speaker 14. Then the message is reproduced.

Information transmission/reception device

A facsimile device stores a list of a caller ID (i.e., telephone number of the calling station) and a signal reception procedure to be used for receiving signal transmitted from the calling station. If the signal reception procedure on the list does not correspond to the transmitted signal, an appropriate reception procedure is determined based on the transmitted signal, and the list is updated. The updated list is used for the next calling from the calling station. If the calling station is not on the list, the signal reception procedure is determined based on the transmitted signal, and the telephone number and corresponding reception procedure is registered in the list.

Communication device with automatic signal discrimination and method

A scanner device can be used in a facsimile machine or the like for reading a document on line basis. Each line of the document is read on pixel basis while irradiating a light onto the document. The scanner device includes an image sensor which receives a light reflected from the document and converts the light to an analog electrical signal. A controller controls the reading operation of the image sensor. A comparator translates the analog electric signal into a binary signal. The binary signal is stored in a shift register wherein the contents therein represents an image of a preceding line with respect to the present line being read by the image sensor. A threshold value applied to the comparator to read the present line image is varied depending upon the preceding line data stored in the shift register. As such, images on the document can be read with excellent fidelity, particularly when a fine line extending in a main scanning direction is present on the document.

Scanner device having a binary signal depending upon density level of

An optical reading including a device for effecting discrimination between a dither-matrix reading area and a non-dither-matrix reading area on a subject copy, an irradiating device for irradiating local segments of the subject copy with light beams having different intensities, a reading device for obtaining image data representative of the presence or absence of an achromatic tone in each local segment based on an amount of the light beam reflected by each local segment, a control device for operating the irradiating and reading devices to irradiate the local segments in a predetermined discriminating zone of the subject copy with the light beams having different intensities at different times, to obtain first and second image data, a device for comparing the first and second image data of each local segment in the discrimination zone, to determine whether the first and second image data agree with each other or not for each local segment, and a device for determining that the discrimination zone is the dither-matrix reading area, if a degree of disagreement of the first and second image data exceeds a predetermined reference value, and determining that the discrimination zone is the non-dither-matrix reading area, if the degree of disagreement does not exceed the reference value.

Optical reader having apparatus for discrimination between dither-matrix

A thermal printer for printing on a planar recording medium, by heating and thereby coloring a thermally fusible material on the medium. The printer has a thermal print head having heat-generating elements each of which produces heat in contact with the surface of the recording medium, a feeding device for feeding the print head and the recording medium relative to each other, and an anti-sticking device for moving the print head and the recording medium relative to each other, to thereby prevent the print head and the surface of the recording medium from sticking to each other, when the heated thermally fusible material is solidified.

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Kazuhiro Kuwabara