Patent ID: 7680519
Filing Date: 2010-03-16
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A handsfree apparatus for a vehicle to communicate with a cellular phone, the apparatus comprising: a sound output unit for outputting a sound; means for receiving, from the cellular phone, phoning state information indicating a plurality of phoning states of the cellular phone; means for storing a separate sound volume corresponding to each of the plurality of phoning states; wherein the storing means further stores a sound volume corresponding to each of the plurality of phoning states with respect to each of a plurality of phone communications kinds, the plurality of communications kinds including a usual phone communications kind and an emergency phone communications kind; the identifying means further identifies a phone communications kind of the cellular phone from the plurality of phone communications kinds, and the causing means causes the sound output unit to output a sound corresponding to the identified phoning state with respect to the identified phone communications kind in a sound volume, which is stored in the storing means and corresponds to the identified phoning state with respect to the identified phone communications kind, and when the identifying means identifies a communicating state as one of the plurality of phoning states with respect to the emergency phone communications kind, the causing means causes the sound output unit to switch a sound to a sound volume, which is stored in the storing means and corresponds to the communicating state with respect to the emergency communications kind.