Hands-free phone converter
AssigneeCotron Corporation
InventorBill Yang
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Abstract
A portable hands-free telephone converter that allows a user to speak on the telephone without using the hands to hold a handset or the like. The telephone converter includes a first coupler for coupling the telephone converter to the receiver of the handset, a second coupler for coupling the telephone converter to the transmitter of the handset, a converter, coupled via the first coupling means and the second coupling means to the handset, for receiving the incoming voice from the receiver and outputting the user's voice to the transmitter, and a controller, coupled to the converter, for amplifying the user's voice signal and for amplifying the incoming voice signal received by the converter from the handset receiver.
Claims14
A telephone converter for use with a telephone handset having a handset transmitter for transmitting a user's voice signal and a handset receiver for receiving an incoming sound signal, the telephone converter comprising:
- (a) first coupling means for adhesive connection to the handset receiver;
- (b) second coupling means for adhesive connection to the handset transmitter;
- (c) converting means, coupled to the handset via said first coupling means and said second coupling means, for receiving the incoming sound signal from the handset receiver and providing the user's voice to the handset transmitter;
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- (d) control means, coupled to said converting means, for amplifying the user's voice signal and for amplifying the incoming sound signal received by said converting means from the handset receiver.
A telephone converter for use with a headset and a telephone handset having a handset transmitter for transmitting a user's voice signal and a handset receiver for receiving an incoming sound signal, the telephone converter comprising:
- (a) first coupling means for adhesive connection to the handset receiver;
- (b) second coupling means for adhesive connection to the handset transmitter;
- (c) a microphone unit, coupled to said first coupling means, for picking up the incoming sound from the handset receiver;
- (d) a speaker unit, coupled to said second coupling means, for reproducing the user's voice signal to the handset transmitter;
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- (e) control means, coupled to said converting means, for amplifying the user's voice signal and for amplifying the incoming sound signal received by said converting means from the handset receiver.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.