JP2001045530A - Message receiver - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To optionally set display and notice in the case of receiving a message. SOLUTION: The message receiver uses a display notice setting means 13 to set a message type for display and notice at the reception and uses an analysis means 13 to discriminate a type added to a received message upon receiving the message. When the message receiver receives a message of the type set by the display notice setting means 13, a display notice control means 13 displays the received message on a screen of a display device 8 and drives notice means 10, 11 to produce sound, vibration or light or the like for the notice to a user. Thus, the user can surely confirm the received message with high emergency.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a message receiver configured as a mobile communication device such as a pager (radio call receiver) or a portable telephone, and more particularly to display and notification control when receiving a message.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A pager as an example of a message receiver has a screen formed of a liquid crystal panel (LCD) or the like.
It is possible to receive not only a call notification but also a message addressed to an individual transmitted by a caller and display it on a display screen. Further, in recent years, various types of information messages such as "news", "weather forecast", and "traffic information" distributed from an information provider can be automatically received and displayed on a screen. It has become.

[0003] Further, a portable telephone (including a PHS) as another example of a message receiver has a similar screen. Not only voice communication but also an individual message and "news" as well as a pager. "And the like, and can be displayed on the liquid crystal screen.

Here, in a portable radio communication device having such a message receiving function, as a memory management method for storing received messages so as to be easily managed, a method of classifying the same type of messages into the same folder and storing the same in a memory is known. Used. For example, a folder holding a message addressed to an individual, a folder holding a “news” message among distribution information messages, a folder holding a “weather forecast” message among distribution information messages, and a “traffic information” within a distribution information message As in a folder for holding a message, a folder is formed in a memory, and messages of the same type are classified and stored in the same folder.

[0005] Such a folder is formed by dividing the memory area for each folder or by associating stored messages of the same type with each other by a pointer or the like. Also, the signal wirelessly transmitted to the message receiver includes address information for specifying the message receiver to be transmitted, type information indicating the type of the information addressed to the individual or the distribution information, and further, the type of the distribution information message, and character string data. The message has a frame structure for transmitting message information.

Therefore, in a message receiver which classifies received messages into folders and stores them, the messages included in the received signal are classified into corresponding folders according to their addresses and information types and stored in a memory. Then, when the user operates a switch provided in the message receiver, the message in the designated folder is read out from the memory and displayed on a screen also provided in the message receiver.

[0007]

In a conventional message receiver, when a received message is displayed on a screen, the received message is displayed on the screen for a fixed time (for example, 15 seconds) and stored in a memory. Alternatively, when the message is received, the received message is stored in the memory without displaying the screen, and the stored message is displayed on the screen by a subsequent read switch operation by the user.

In particular, in a message receiver for receiving a distribution information message, a large number of messages, for example, several tens of messages per day, are frequently received. Then, the notification may be troublesome for the user (and if the notification is made by ringing, etc.). To avoid this, the latter display mode is adopted, and the received message is used as it is. The information is stored in the memory, and the screen display is not notified at the time of reception. However, if such a display mode is adopted, the user must perform a read switch operation to read and display a large number of messages stored in the memory, and the operation for confirming the received message becomes extremely complicated. In some cases.

[0009] In recent years, an emergency information message relating to disaster prevention such as an earthquake or a typhoon has also been sent from an information provider to a “weather forecast”.
And information messages such as "traffic information" which are not very urgent.
When an information message having a difference in urgency is received, the message is not displayed on the screen at the time of reception (further,
In the latter display mode, the user may fail to confirm a highly urgent information message. In the former display mode in which the message is displayed on the screen at the time of reception, the urgency is low. An information message is frequently displayed (and further informed), and the user is troubled.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional circumstances, and provides a message receiver capable of selecting whether or not to display a message at the time of reception according to a use request of a user. Aim. In addition, the present invention performs display and notification at the time of reception according to the type of a received message, so that, for example, a message of a high urgency type is easily and reliably confirmed by a user at the time of reception. It is intended to provide a receiver. Further objects of the present invention will be apparent in the following description.

[0011]

In the message receiver according to the present invention, whether or not to display a message at the time of reception can be set by the display setting means, and the display at the time of reception is set by the display setting means. When the message is received, the display control means displays the received message on the screen when the message is received. When the display at the time of reception is not set by the display setting means, the display at the time of reception is not performed. Therefore, whether or not to display at the time of reception can be selected and arbitrarily set, and the message can be received in a mode according to the use request.

Further, a message receiver according to the present invention comprises:
The message type for displaying and notifying at the time of reception can be set by the display notification setting means. When the message is received, the analysis means determines the type added to the received message, and is set by the display notification setting means. When a message of the type is received, the display notification control means displays the received message on a screen and drives the notification means to emit a sound, vibration, light, or the like to notify the user. Therefore, the message can be received in a manner according to the use request, and in particular, even when there is a difference in the urgency of the message, the user can be surely confirmed the received message with high urgency. .

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A specific description will be given of an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a pager. As shown in FIG. 1, the pager according to the present embodiment includes: a receiving unit 2 that wirelessly receives a signal transmitted from a base station via an antenna 1; a demodulation circuit unit 3 that demodulates a received signal; A decoder unit 4 for decoding a received signal, and a memory (ID-ROM) 5 for storing its own ID (address information) in a readable manner.
And a memory (ROM) 6 for storing a processing program executed by the control unit 13 in a readable manner, and a memory (RAM) 7 for storing a wirelessly received message in a readable and writable manner.
And a display 8 comprising a liquid crystal panel for displaying a received message
A display driving unit 9 for driving the display 8; a sound generating unit 10 including a speaker for generating a sound for receiving notification; and an optical vibration generating unit including an IED or a vibrator for generating light or vibration for receiving notification. And a key input unit 12 including a key switch for receiving various inputs from the user, and a control unit 13 for integrally controlling these functional units 1 to 12 and executing various processes.

The control unit 13 refers to the self-ID stored in the memory 5 and displays only the ones of the received signals that match the self-ID in a screen display, memory storage,
Performs reception notification. In order to perform these processing functions, the control unit 13 includes, in accordance with a user's instruction input from the key input unit 12, display setting means for setting whether to display a message on the display 8 when receiving a message, There is provided a display control means for immediately outputting the received message to the display unit 8 in response to the setting of the display at reception by the display setting means.

Here, the frame of the message signal in this example is configured as shown in FIG. 2, and the address information (ID) and the type information of the message (disaster prevention with high urgency) , A non-urgent weather forecast, etc.) is wirelessly transmitted to the pager. In this example, the address information is information for identifying each pager, and the message type information is information for identifying the type of each message. However, the address information is information for identifying the type of each message. The information and the type information may be unified (that is, the special type information is discarded and only the address information for each type information is used). In such a case, the ID-ROM 5 It is sufficient to set only necessary address information on the type of the message received by the pager, so that the message of the type to be received can be selectively received.

The pager of this embodiment also has a reception processing function using this type information. In order to perform this processing function, the control unit 13 displays and notifies the received message when a message is received. The display notification setting means for setting the type of message to be performed in accordance with the user's instruction input from the key input unit 12, the analysis means for determining the type information added to the received message, and the display notification setting means When a message of the type is received, the received message is displayed on the display 8 and the sound generator 1 is output.
There is provided a display notification control means for driving the optical vibration unit 11 to perform a notification operation to the user.

In this embodiment, the display setting means, the display control means, the analyzing means, the display notification setting means, and the display notification control means are constituted by the CPU 13 executing a program stored in the ROM 6. It is a program module. It is configured as Of course, these functional units may be configured by hardware circuits.

Next, a message receiving process by the pager having the above configuration will be described with reference to FIGS. Here, the pager in this example, besides a message addressed to an individual,
A non-urgent distribution information message such as "Today's News" and a highly urgent urgent information distribution message such as disaster prevention information are also received. Further, the pager of this example stores received messages in folders for each of these message types and stores them in the RAM 7. In the example described below, when a non-urgent distribution information message “Today's News” is received, “ 111 "in a folder named
When an emergency information message with high urgency is received, "99
9 ".

FIG. 3 shows a processing procedure when a non-urgent distribution information message "Today's News" is received. First, a signal is received by the receiving unit 2 via the antenna 1, and the signal is demodulated by the demodulation circuit unit 3 and decoded by the decoder unit 4. The control unit 13 stores the address information in the received signal and the ID-ROM 5 in the ID-ROM 5. A comparison is made with the stored address information to determine whether the received signal is a signal addressed to itself (step S1). As a result, if the two address information do not match, the signal is not addressed to itself, so the reception processing is terminated. If the two address information match, a message is extracted from the signal addressed to itself (step S2). The following message receiving process is performed.

That is, the analyzing means 13 analyzes the type information of the header part added to the message (step S 3), and stores the received message “today's news” in the RAM 7 by using the storage function of the control unit 13. 11
1 "folder (step S4). When the display at receiving is set in the display setting means 13 (step S5), the received message, which is the latest received message, is displayed on the display unit 8. On the other hand, if the display at the time of reception is not set, the reception process is terminated as it is, so that the user gives an instruction from the key input unit 12 to make the setting related to the display at the time of reception in the display setting means 13. By doing so, it is possible to arbitrarily select whether or not to display a message with low urgency when receiving.

FIG. 4 shows a processing procedure when a highly urgent distribution information message “urgent information” is received.
In response to an instruction from the key input unit 12 by the user who has designated the type of the message, the display notification setting means 13 is preset to perform display notification at the time of reception in response to reception of the "emergency information" message. ing. First, after receiving a signal in the same manner as described above, the control unit 13 determines whether the received signal is a signal addressed to itself by comparing address information (step S11). As a result, if the signal is not addressed to itself, the reception process is terminated. If the signal is addressed to itself, a message is extracted from the received signal (step S12), and the following message reception process is performed. I do.

That is, the analyzing means 13 analyzes the type information of the header portion added to the message (step S13), and stores the received message "urgent information" in the RAM 7 by the storage function of the control section 13 in accordance with "999". "Folder (step S14). Since the display notification at the time of reception is set in the display notification setting means 13, the display notification control means 13 displays the received message on the display 8 (step S15), and outputs the sound generation unit 10 and the light. The vibrating unit 11 is driven to notify the user of reception (step S16). In this example,
For an emergency information message, a certain time (for example, 1
Instead of outputting the display (for 5 seconds), the display notification control means 13 performs a screen saver display in which the received message is continuously displayed on the display 8 until the user inputs a clear deletion instruction from the key input unit 12. Therefore, the user gives an instruction from the key input unit 12 and the display information setting means 1
By performing the type setting related to the display notification at the time of reception in 3, a message with high urgency can be displayed and notified at the time of reception, and the user can surely confirm the received message.

Although a pager has been described above as an example, the present invention can be widely applied to a portable wireless communication device having a message receiving function such as a portable telephone or a PHS.

[0024]

As described above, according to the message receiver of the present invention, it is possible to arbitrarily set whether or not to display a message at the time of receiving a message according to the user's will by the display setting means. It is possible to select whether to display the received message according to the use request of the user,
Flexible reception processing can be executed according to the use request. In addition, according to the message receiver of the present invention, the message type for performing display notification at the time of receiving a message can be set by the display notification setting means. Can be surely confirmed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an internal configuration diagram of a pager according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an example of a radio frame configuration of a message.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a procedure for receiving a message having a low urgency;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a procedure for receiving a message with high urgency.

[Explanation of symbols]

8: display device, 10: sound generation unit (notification unit), 11: light vibration unit (notification unit), 12: key input unit, 13: control unit (display setting unit, display control, analysis unit, display notification setting unit) , Display notification control means),

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Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A message receiver for receiving a message transmitted wirelessly and displaying and outputting the received message on a screen, a display setting means for setting whether or not to display a message at the time of reception, and a display setting. And a display control means for displaying the received message on a screen when the message is received in response to the setting of the display at reception by the means. 2. A message receiver for receiving a message transmitted wirelessly and displaying and outputting the received message on a screen. Informing means for notifying a user by emitting sound, vibration, light or the like; Analysis means for determining the type added to the message; display notification setting means for setting a message type for displaying and notifying at the time of reception; and receiving when the message of the type set by the display notification setting means is received. And a display notification control means for outputting a message on a screen and driving the notification means.