IP Library Granted Patent US 8,374,322
Granted Patent B2
US 8,374,322 · App. 12/538,420 · Granted Feb 12, 2013

Telephone communications system increasing a reception count twofold

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Patent No.
US 8,374,322
App. No.
12/538,420
Granted
Feb 12, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A telephone communications system includes a quantizing device quantizing a multifrequency signal at a sampling frequency which is twice or more as larger as a sampling frequency necessary for sampling the multifrequency signal to produce quantized data, a low-pass filter low-pass filtering the quantized data at a cutoff frequency higher than a maximum frequency of the multifrequency signal to produce low-pass filtered data, and a multifrequency signal receiver alternately performing an odd-numbered receiver processing and an even-numbered receiver processing on the low-pass filtered data.

Claims (38)

1. A telephone communications system having a function for receiving a multifrequency signal, comprising:

a quantizing device quantizing said multifrequency signal at a sampling frequency which is twice or more as large as a sampling frequency necessary for sampling said multifrequency signal to produce quantized data;

a low-pass filter low-pass filtering said quantized data at a cutoff frequency higher than a maximum frequency of said multifrequency signal to produce low-pass filtered data; and

a multifrequency signal receiver alternately performing an odd-numbered receiver processing and an even-numbered receiver processing on said low-pass filtered data,

wherein said multifrequency signal receiver comprises:

a numbering processing unit numbering said low-pass filtered data to produce numbered data with a data number;

a least significant bit discriminating unit discriminating a least significant bit of the data number added to said numbered data;

an even-numbered receiver processing performing unit performing the even-numbered receiver processing on said numbered data when the least significant bit of the data number is “0”; and

an odd-numbered receiver processing performing unit performing the odd-numbered receiver processing on said number data when the least significant bit of the data number is “1”.

2. The telephone communications system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the sampling frequency of said quantizing device is 8 kHz or more.

3. The telephones communication system as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the cutoff frequency of said low-pass filter is equal to 2 KHz.

4. A method of receiving a multifrequency signal, comprising:

quantizing said multifrequency signal at a sampling frequency which is twice or more as large as a sampling frequency necessary for sampling said multifrequency signal to produce quantized data;

low-pass filtering said quantized data at a cutoff frequency higher than a maximum frequency of said multifrequency signal to produce low-pass filtered data; and

alternately performing an odd-numbered receiver processing and an even-numbered receiver processing on said low-pass filtered data,

wherein said performing of the receiver processing comprises:

numbering said low-pass filtered data to produce numbered data with a data number;

discriminating a least significant bit of the data number added to said numbered data;

performing the even-numbered receiver processing on said numbered data when the least significant bit of the data number “0”; and

performing the odd-numbered receiver processing on said number data when the least significant bit of the data number is “1”.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the sampling frequency in said quantizing is 8 kHz or more.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the cutoff frequency in said low-pass filtering is equal to 2 KHz.

7. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium for storing a program for use in a telephone communications system having a function of receiving a multifrequency signal, said telephone communications system comprising a quantizing device for quantizing said multifrequency signal at a sampling frequency which is twice or more as large as a sampling frequency necessary for sampling said multifrequency signal to produce quantized data, said program causing said telephone communications system to execute the steps of:

low-pass filtering said quantized data at a cutoff frequency higher than a maximum frequency of said multifrequency signal to produce low-pass filtered data; and

alternately performing an odd-numbered receiver processing and an even-numbered receiver processing on said low-pass filtered data,

wherein said performing step of the receiver processing comprises the steps of:

numbering said low-pass filtered data to produce numbered data with a data number;

discriminating a least significant bit of the data number added to said numbered data

performing the even-numbered receiver processing on said numbered data when the least significant bit of the data number is “0”; and

performing the odd-numbered receiver processing on said number data when the least significant bit of the data number is “1”.

8. The non-transitory computer readable recording medium as claimed in claim 7 , the sampling frequency of said quantizing device is 8 kHz or more, wherein the cutoff frequency in said low-pass filtering is equal to 2 KHz.

9. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium for storing a program for use in a telephone communications system having a function of receiving a multifrequency signal, said telephone communications system comprising a quantizing device for quantizing said multifrequency signal at a sampling frequency which is twice or more as large as a sampling frequency necessary for sampling said multifrequency signal to produce quantized data and a low-pass filter for low-pass filtering said quantized data at a cutoff frequency higher than a maximum frequency of said multifrequency signal to produce low-pass filtered data, said program causing said telephone communications system to execute the step of:

alternately performing an odd-numbered receiver processing and an even-numbered receiver processing on said low-pass filtered data,

wherein said performing step of the receiver processing comprises the steps of:

numbering said low-pass filtered data to produce numbered data with a data number;

discriminating a least significant bit of the data number added to said numbered data;

performing the even-numbered receiver processing on said numbered data when the least significant bit of the data number is “0”; and

performing the odd-numbered receiver processing on said number data when the least significant bit of the data number is “1”.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 3, 2015
From: NEC INFRONTIA CORPORATION
To: NEC PLATFORMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 034881/0078 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 10, 2009
From: YAMAGISHI, JUNICHI
To: NEC INFRONTIA CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 023072/0905 →