Wireless communication device and wireless communication method

A wireless communication device comprising:

• a device state detector that detects a device state, associates the detected device state with whether the device state is a transmission standby state where the user of the wireless communication device can transmit immediately, and outputs the association result as device state information;
• a signal processor that encodes and decodes a voice signal and the device state information;
• a transmitter that transmits a transmission voice signal and the device state information of the wireless communication device encoded by the signal processor to a counterpart device as radio waves;
• a receiver that receives the radio waves from the counterpart device and outputs the received signal to the signal processor that decodes the received signal into a reception voice signal and the device state information of the counterpart device;
• a recorder that records the transmission voice signal and the reception voice signal;
• a memory unit that stores the device state information of the wireless communication device output from the device state detector and the device state information of the counterpart device decoded by the signal processor;
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• a recording determination unit that determines whether to continue or stop recording performed by the recorder based on the device state information of the wireless communication device and the device state information of the counterpart device that are stored in the memory unit, wherein
• the recording determination unit determines to stop the recording performed by the recorder if both of the device state information of the wireless communication device and the device state information of the counterpart device stored in the memory unit do not indicate a transmission standby state at the time of termination of transmission of a radio wave pertaining to a voice signal performed by the transmitter or termination of reception of a radio wave pertaining to a voice signal performed by the receiver.