1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a communication system and, more particularly, to a vehicle communication system.
2. Description of Related Art
Therefore, it is desirable to provide a vehicle communication system that eliminates the aforesaid drawbacks.
The present invention has been accomplished under the circumstances in view. It is therefore the main object of the present invention to provide a vehicle communication system, which adds data to voice and then transmits the data-carrying voice signal thus obtained to a remote side by a GSM module and, which demodulates data-carrying voice signal received by the GSM module from a remote side into packet data and voice for output separately.
To achieve these and other objects of the present invention, the vehicle communication system comprises a voice pick-up device adapted for picking up external voice signal; a carrier wave modulator circuit adapted for modulating a data into an analog signal and adding the modulated analog signal to the voice signal provided by the voice pick-up device, forming a data-carrying voice signal; a GSM (Global System for Mobile) module adapted for transmitting the data-carrying voice signal provided by the carrier wave modulator circuit to a remote side wirelessly, and receiving an another data-carrying voice signal from a remote side; a voice output device; and a demodulator circuit adapted for demodulating the another data-carrying voice signal received by the GSM module, and discriminating the signal into a voice signal for enabling the voice signal to be outputted through the voice output device, and a data.
Other objects, advantages, and novel features of the invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
A vehicle communication in accordance with the present invention, as shown in the functional block diagram of
The voice pick-up device 2 can be a microphone adapted for picking up external voice signal. Output and input of every vehicle supplementary system 5 are of data type. The vehicle supplementary systems 5 include, for example, GPS (Global Positioning System) system 51, auto-navigation system 52, burglar alarm system 53, or PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) system 54, . . . etc. Every vehicle supplementary system 5 can be separately operated, and several vehicle supplementary systems 5 can simultaneously be used. All the vehicle supplementary systems 5 can respectively transmit data to the packet assembler/disassembler unit 4 through the data bus 50. The packet assembler/disassembler unit 4 assembles or disassembles received data. The carrier wave modulator circuit 11 receives assembled packet data from the packet assembler/disassembler unit 4 and voice signal from the voice pick-up device 2, modulates the data into an analog signal, and adds the analog signal to the voice signal, forming a data-carrying voice signal. The GSM module 3 sends the data-carrying voice signal from the carrier wave modulator circuit 11 to the remote side wirelessly, and receives another data-carrying voice signal from the remote side. The demodulator circuit 12 demodulates the data-carrying voice signal received by the GSM module 3, enabling data to be separated from the voice signal, and then directly transfers the data to the packet assembler/disassembler unit 4 for disassembling. The packet assembler/disassembler unit 4 disassembles the data outputted from the demodulator circuit 12, and then sends the disassembled data to the vehicle supplementary systems 5 through the data bus 50. The voice output device 6 can be, for example, a speaker adapted for output of demodulated voice signal.
As indicated above, the invention uses a packet assembler/disassembler unit to assemble different vehicle supplementary system data into respective packet data or disassemble demodulated packet data into corresponding vehicle supplementary system data, a GSM module to transmit/receive data-carrying voice signal, a carrier wave modulator circuit to modulate packet data into analog signal and to add the modulated analog signal to a voice signal to form a data-carrying voice signal for transmitting to a remote side through the GSM module, and a demodulator circuit to demodulate data-carrying voice signal and discriminate the signal into packet data and voice signal.
Although the present invention has been explained in relation to its preferred embodiment, it is to be understood that many other possible modifications and variations can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed.
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