Patent ID: 8270386

Claim:
A time slot control method wherein in a communication system having a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus, the first communication apparatus transmits time slots to the second communication apparatus by time division multiplex, the time slot control method comprising: a transmitting step of sequentially transmitting time slots having a communication signal from the first communication apparatus to the second communication apparatus; a receiving environment information acquisition step of acquiring receiving environment information that indicates a receiving environment of each of the transmitted time slots in the second communication apparatus; a determining step of determining whether or not the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus are to communicate in a continuous plurality of time slots and that all of control bit sequences for the continuous plurality of time slots are to be represented by a control bit sequence of a single time slot on the basis of an amount of variation in the receiving environment indicated by the acquired receiving environment information among the time slots; and a time slot control step of operating so that all of the control bit sequences for the continuous plurality of time slots are represented by the control bit sequence of the single time slot when the first communication apparatus transmits the time slots in the transmitting step, in accordance with the determination results in the determining step.