Patent ID: 7302275

Claim:
A transmit power control method for a communication apparatus, the method comprising: a transmit power control step of receiving a transmit signal transmitted from a mobile station or base station per slot and controlling a transmit power value of a signal to transmit to the mobile station or base station based on the received signal; a transmit power value storing step of storing a predetermined number of past transmit power values for use in the transmit power control step; a synchronization determining step of detecting a synchronous state of the received signal per frame comprised of N slots; and a transmit power selection step of determining whether or not to select the transmit power value controlled in the transmit power control step based at least on the synchronous state, and, in a frame where the transmit power value controlled in the transmit power control step is not selected, changing the transmit power value from a transmit power value immediately before to a transmit power value N slots before, gradually over a predetermined plural number of steps.