Claims
- 1. A radio communication apparatus comprising:
- receiving means for receiving call signals, a first number of said call signals being addressed to the radio communication apparatus, each of said first number of call signals being a specific call signal, and a second number of said call signals not addressed to the radio communication apparatus, each of said second number of call signals being other than a specific call signal;
- determining means for determining whether or not the received call signal is a specific call signal and for producing a received signal whenever it is determined that the received call signal is a specific call signal;
- counting means connected to said receiving means and given an initial count for counting up from said initial count one by one in response to said received signal to produce a reception count signal representative of a reception count of said specific call signal and indicative of the number of times said specific call signal has been received;
- audibly notifying means for giving notice of receiving said specific call signal with a perceptually changeable notifying mode which is perceptually changed and which is specified by increasing a volume of an audible tone determined by said reception count of the specific call signal;
- a reset switch for manually resetting said audible tone; and
- controlling means connected to said counting means and responsive to said reception count signal for controlling the volume of said audible tone to vary said volume of the audible tone from one to another in accordance with said reception count represented by said reception count signal to keep the volume of the audible tone constant and to stop the audible tone after lapse of a predetermined duration even when said apparatus is not reset by the reset switch.
- 2. A radio communication apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:
- initializing means connected to said reset switch and said counting means for initializing the counting means into the initial count when said apparatus is reset by said reset switch.
- 3. A radio communication apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising light emitting means connected to said controlling means for emitting visible light and a silent mode switch connected to said controlling means for producing a silent mode signal indicative of silence, wherein said controlling means is responsive to said received signal and to said silent mode signal to make said light emitting means emit said visible light while keeping the controllable volume of said audible tone substantially zero if said count is less than a first predetermined count.
- 4. A radio communication apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein said controlling means is responsive to said received signal and to said silent mode signal to make said tone generating means generate the audible tone with a quiet volume if said count is not less than said first predetermined count and is less than a second predetermined count greater than said first predetermined count, said controlling means being responsive to said received signal and to said silent mode signal to make said tone generating means generate the audible tone with a normal volume greater than said quiet volume if said count is not less than said second predetermined count and is less than a third predetermined count greater than said second predetermined count.
- 5. A radio communication apparatus as claimed in claim 4, wherein said controlling means is responsive to said received signal and to said silent mode signal to make said tone generating means generate the audible tone with a loud volume greater than said normal volume if said count is not less than said third predetermined count.
- 6. A radio communication apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said controlling means indicates a controllable audible notifying mode as said controllable perceptual notifying mode and comprises means for producing a mode indication signal representative of said controllable audible notifying mode.
- 7. A radio communication apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein said notifying means is supplied with said mode indication signal to be put into said controllable audible notifying mode and comprises:
- tine generating means supplied with said mode indication signal for augmenting the audible tone in a controllable volume with an increase of the reception count.
- 8. A radio communication apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein said controlling means is responsive to said received signal to make said tone generating means generate said audible tone in a normal volume when said count is less than a first predetermined count, said controlling means being responsive to said received signal to make said tone generating means generate said audible tone in a loud volume greater than said normal volume when said count is not less than said first predetermined count.
- 9. A radio communication apparatus as claimed in claim 7, comprising a volume mode switch connected to said controlling means for producing a volume mode signal indicative of one of a normal volume and a quiet volume smaller than said normal volume, wherein said controlling means is responsive to said received signal and to the volume mode signal indicative of said quiet volume to make said tone generating means generate the audible tone in said quiet volume if said count is less than a first predetermined count, said controlling means being responsive to said received signal and to the volume mode signal indicative of said normal volume to make said tone generating means generate the audible tone in said normal mode if said count is not less than said first predetermined count and is less than a second predetermined count greater than said first predetermined count.
- 10. A radio communication apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein said controlling means is responsive to said received signal and to the volume mode signal indicative of said quiet volume to make said tone generating means generate the audible tone in a loud volume greater than said normal volume if said count is not less than said second predetermined count.
- 11. A radio communication apparatus comprising:
- receiving means for receiving call signals, a first number of said call signals being addressed to the radio communication apparatus, each of said first number of call signals being a specific call signal, and a second number of said call signals not addressed to the radio communication apparatus, each of said second number of call signals being other than a specific call signal;
- determining means for determining whether or not the received call signal is a specific call signal and for producing a received signal whenever it is determined that the received call signal is a specific call signal;
- counting means connected to said determining means and given an initial count for counting up from said initial count one by one in response to said received signal to produce a reception count signal representative of a reception count of said specific call signal and indicative of the number of times said specific call signal has been received;
- visibly notifying means for giving visual notices of receiving said specific call signal with a controllable visual notifying mode which is perceptually changed and which is specified by dynamically changing the visual notices from one to another in accordance with said reception count of the specific call signal;
- a reset switch for manually resetting said visual notices;
- controlling means connected to said counting means and responsive to said reception count signal for controlling the visibly notifying means to dynamically vary the visual notices from one to another in accordance with said reception count represented by said reception count signal and to stop each of the visual notices after lapse of a predetermined duration even when said apparatus is not reset by the reset switch.
- 12. A radio communication apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein said visibly notifying means is supplied with said mode indication signal to be put into said controllable visual notifying mode and comprises:
- a first light emitting diode supplied with said mode indication signal for emitting first light of a first color; and
- a second light emitting diode supplied with said mode indication signal for emitting second light of a second color different from said first color.
- 13. A radio communication apparatus as claimed in claim 12, said controllable visual notifying mode being selected from first through n-th visual modes different from one another, wherein said controlling means comprises:
- threshold signal producing means for producing a selected threshold signal selected from first through n-th threshold signal representative of first through n-th threshold levels which have levels increased in an ascending order and which correspond to said first through said n-th visual modes, respectively;
- comparing means supplied with said count signal and said selected threshold signal for successively comparing said count signal with said selected threshold signal to produce a comparison signal specifying a selected one of said first through said n-th visual modes; and
- signal supplying means for supplying said comparison signal to said visibly notifying means to drive said first and said second light emitting diodes into said selected one of said first through said n-th visual modes and to dynamically vary the visual notices from one to another.
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Parent Case Info
This is a Continuation of application Ser. No. 07/782,768 filed Oct. 28, 1991, abandoned which is a Continuation of application Ser. No. 07/419,360 filed Oct. 10, 1989, abandoned which is a Continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 07/335,349 filed Apr. 10, 1989, now abandoned.
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