Communication apparatus capable of announcing reception of a call by a melody sound composed by a user

摘要

In a communication apparatus which announces reception of a call by a melody sound, a memory (7) preliminarily memorizes a plurality of musical tone information data representing tone names of a plurality of musical tones and tone name frequencies of the tone names of the plurality of musical tones, respectively, and preliminarily memorizes a plurality of musical note information data representing a plurality of musical notes and time values of the plurality of musical notes, respectively. Supplied with a radio signal carrying a specifying signal which specifies a sequence of information pairs, each information pair comprising one of the plurality of musical tone information data and one of the plurality of musical note information data, a radio signal processing part (1-3) processes the radio signal into the specifying signal. A producing part (5) produces a musical tone pattern signal comprising a sequence of frequency-time value pairs by reading, from the memory, each frequency-time value pair comprising one of the tone name frequencies and one of the time values in response to each information pair specified by the specifying signal. The musical tone pattern signal is for use in deciding the melody sound on generation of the melody sound. The specifying signal may be carried by an infrared signal. In this case, an infrared signal processing part processes the infrared signal into the specifying signal. IMAGE