JP2818570B2 - Wireless paging receiver with display function - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a radio paging receiver having a display function, and more particularly to a radio paging receiver using a general public network, which receives code information of fixed phrases, illustrations, and matrix characters. The present invention relates to a radio call receiver with a display function that can be performed.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, this type of radio paging receiver with a display function (hereinafter referred to as a receiver) has been used as a receiving terminal of a radio paging system or a system called a pager system or a paging system. When receiving the radio wave emitted from the radio base station and receiving the address addressed to the local station, the corresponding fixed phrase, illustration, matrix character, etc. are read from the memory from the code information in the message signal, and this is combined with the numerical information. The displayed message is restored and displayed.

FIG. 4 shows an example of a call data signal composed of the message signal and the selective call signal. In this figure, (a) is a signal configuration example, (b) is a message sentence displayed on the receiver according to the message signal example of (a),
(C) shows a code example corresponding to an illustration, (d) shows a code example corresponding to a fixed phrase, and (e) shows a code example corresponding to a matrix character.

As described above, in the respective code examples shown in FIGS. 4C, 4D, and 4E, combinations of types considered necessary are prepared in advance and stored in the memory of each receiver.

On the other hand, in the case of a call transmitting side, that is, a system using a public network in general, when calling from a subscriber's telephone, a normal individual call signal is first transmitted, and then a communication message is issued in accordance with an instruction from the exchange. Is transmitted.

At the time of this encoding, the same code information as a fixed phrase, an illustration or a matrix character stored in the receiver is used. For this purpose, a code table in which the code information is prepared is prepared in advance, and a predetermined message is coded using the code table to create a message signal.

As an example of a system similar to the radio paging system of this receiver, there is an information transmitter, an information receiver, an information transmitter, and a paging system having the information receiver disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H5-235832. This system is intended to improve communication efficiency by creating and registering freely set standard information and transmitting the code, and as a receiving terminal, various functional programs that execute creation, registration, calling, compression, etc. of the standard information are implemented. The code information is transmitted and received by using a personal computer provided. Therefore, the receiving terminal is equipped with a transmission function, so that at the time of transmission, it is possible to edit the message text of the standard information using each function program, create a coded message signal, and immediately transmit it. I have.

[0008]

As described above, since the conventional paging receiver with a display function has no function relating to the transmitting side, the message text required on the transmitting side and the creation of a coded message signal are as follows. A code table and the like must be prepared in advance and created using this, which is troublesome.

However, Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. Hei 5-235832 discloses a transmitting / receiving terminal provided with such a function of creating a message text and a message signal on the transmitting side, but also having a transmitting function. There is a problem that it cannot be used as this receiver.

[0010] In addition, since only a single illustration can be sent as shown in FIG. 4 (c), when a complicated and large composite illustration combining a plurality of illustrations is sent, each corresponding single illustration is sent. Must be transmitted repeatedly, which causes a problem that the code information becomes longer and the transmission efficiency becomes worse.

[0011]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A radio call receiver with a display function of the present invention has a memory for storing a plurality of fixed texts, illustrations, matrix characters and code information corresponding to each of them. When the following message signal is received, one or a combination of any of the fixed phrase, illustration, and matrix character corresponding to the message is read out from the memory according to the code information in the message signal. In a radio paging apparatus having a display function including a restoring means for restoring and displaying a message by adding numeric information in a signal, a predetermined switch operation is performed when the selective calling signal and the message signal are not received from the memory. One of the above fixed phrases, illustrations and matrix characters, or any of these An editing means for reading out the combined code information and the corresponding code information and creating an arbitrary message containing numerical information in addition to the read data and a message signal consisting of the corresponding code information. /> Remarks for example, the illustration is composed of a plurality of unit illustrations
And the memory contains the unit illustration.
And storing the restoring means with code information of the composite illustration.
Is received from the memory by this code information.
The unit illustrations are read sequentially and displayed on one screen.
Go to the predetermined position and restore the composite illustration,
The editing means operates the memo by operating a predetermined switch.
Sequentially read out the unit illustrations from the
Arbitrary composite illustration and corresponding code
Create information and .

[0012]

[0013]

Further, the code information of the composite illustration is composed of a development code for identifying the composite illustration and a plurality of designation codes for designating the plurality of unit illustrations. It may be determined at a predetermined position according to the arrangement order of the codes.

[0015]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, a radio unit 1, a decoder 2 for receiving data from the radio unit 1 and detecting its own ID number, and a function control unit 3 for controlling all functions such as restoring, editing, and reporting operations of a call message sentence. An ID-ROM 4 for storing its own ID number, an illustration memory 5 for storing illustration information corresponding to an illustration code, a fixed sentence memory 6 for storing fixed text information, and a matrix for storing character codes of matrix characters A sentence memory 7, a display unit 8 for displaying a call message, etc., a notification unit 9 for notifying a user of a self-call, a program memory 10 for storing a program, storage of a received message, and restoration and editing of a call. Message memory 1 for storing messages
1, a switch operation unit 12 including a selection switch, a decision switch, a menu switch, and the like.

The operation of the receiver is as follows. The radio unit 1 receives radio waves from the radio base station and outputs a call data signal as shown in FIG. The decoder 2 identifies the selected call signal arranged at the head of the call data signal. If the selected call signal is the self ID number, the function control unit 3 controls the speaker of the notification unit 9 to sound to notify the call. Subsequently, a corresponding illustration or sentence is read out from one of the illustration memory 5, the standard sentence memory 6, and the matrix character memory 7 according to the code information in the received message signal, and numerical information is added to the read out illustration or sentence.
The message text as shown in (b) is restored and displayed.

Next, the call message editing operation used at the time of transmission will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

First, a menu mode is entered by pressing a menu switch of the switch operation section 12, a menu item is selected by pressing a selection switch, and a menu item is confirmed by pressing a confirmation switch, thereby activating a call message editing mode. Editing of the call message is controlled by the function control unit 3 according to a program stored in the program memory 10.

When the edit mode of the call message is started, the call message number is selected by operating the selection switch in step S1, and the call message number is determined by pressing the enter switch. Here, if the determined call message number has already been registered in the call message, the call message is read from the message memory 11, and the call message is displayed in step S2. Subsequently, when the menu switch is pressed, the code information of the call message is displayed in step S3.

When the enter switch is pressed in step S3, the process shifts to step S4. In step S4, it is determined whether to newly edit or use a registered message by operating a selection switch. When the currently registered call message is to be used, the editing is terminated with the call message information left. When editing a new message, the currently registered call message data is deleted in step S5, and the
The process proceeds to message 6 input mode selection. In the input mode selection, first, in step S6, an illustration
In step 9, a fixed sentence, a matrix character in step S11, and a number in step S13 are selected by a switch operation.

When an illustration is selected in step S6, the illustration is selected in step S7 from the illustration numbers of the embodiment of the illustration in FIG. In step S8, an IV is selected.

When a fixed sentence is selected in step S9, a message is selected by a switch operation from the fixed sentence contents example in FIG. 4D in the fixed sentence selection in step S10. Step S
If a matrix character is selected in step 11, step S12
The matrix character is selected by a switch operation from the matrix character example of FIG. When a numeral is selected in step S13, the numeral is selected and confirmed by a switch operation in numeral selection in step S14.

The determined illustrations, fixed sentences, matrix characters, and numbers are displayed on the display unit 8. Subsequently, when a message is input, the operations of steps S6 to S15 are repeated. When the editing is to be terminated, the end of the editing of the calling message is selected by a switch operation in the selection of the end of the editing of the calling message in step S15, and the code information of the edited result of the calling message is displayed in step S16. This displayed code information is used as a message signal at the time of calling transmission. At the same time, the selection switch is pressed in step S16, and the calling message information of the editing result in step S17 is registered in the message memory 11 for editing work. To end.

Normally, at the time of calling transmission, selection of a calling message number and display of a calling message (S3) are repeated to search for a necessary calling message, and a necessary calling message cannot be found. If you want to edit.

As for illustrations, a composite illustration can be transmitted. Fig. 4
The illustration example shown in (c) is a unit illustration, and a plurality of the unit illustrations are combined to synthesize a single illustration. If a large number of unit illustrations are prepared and stored in the memory,
With this combination, an arbitrary composite illustration or one large illustration can be transmitted.

The transmission of the composite illustration can be realized by arranging a plurality of illustration code parts shown in FIG. 4A in combination, but in this case, the message signal becomes longer and the communication efficiency is reduced. FIGS. 3A and 3B show code information when a composite illustration is transmitted, where FIG. 3A shows a code pattern and FIG.

The code pattern shown in FIG. 3A is composed of a development code # for identifying a composite illustration and a setting code for designating the type and position of the four unit illustrations.
The combination position of each unit illustration is determined to the position shown in FIG. Thus, the composite illustration can be transmitted with the code information of the short code pattern.

[0030]

According to the present invention, a radio call receiver with a display function is provided.
Although it is a portable and small-sized receiver only, it has a calling message editing unit that edits a calling message in which illustrations, fixed phrases, and matrix characters are mixed. There is an effect that a message can be easily created.

In addition, as for the illustration, there is an effect that a composite illustration in which a plurality of unit illustrations are arbitrarily combined can be transmitted, and transmission can be performed with short code information.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a call message editing procedure in FIG. 1;

3A shows a code pattern of the code information for a combined illustration in FIG. 1, and FIG. 3B shows a combined position.

FIG. 4 (a) is an example of a signal configuration of a call data signal;
(B) shows a display message, (c) shows a code table of an illustration, (d) shows a code of a fixed form, and (e) shows a code table of a matrix.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 radio unit 2 decoder 3 function control unit ^{4 ID-ROM (E 2 PROM} ) 5 Illustration memory 6 fixed sentence memory 7 matrix character memory 8 display unit 9 notification unit 10 a program memory 11 message memory 12 the switch operation portion

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Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. A memory for storing a plurality of fixed-form sentences, illustrations, and matrix characters and code information coded for shortening information corresponding to each of the fixed-form sentences, illustrations, and matrix characters. A fixed phrase corresponding from the memory according to the code information in the message signal,
A display function provided with a restoring means for restoring and displaying a message text by reading one of the illustrations and the matrix characters or a combination thereof arbitrarily and adding the numerical information in the message signal to the one thus read out. In the radio paging receiver, any one of the fixed phrase, the illustration, and the matrix character from the memory or any combination of these can be selected by operating a predetermined switch when the selective paging signal and the message signal are not received. e Bei editing means for creating a message signal comprising a corresponding optional message text further including the numerical information added to those read thus reading out the code information and the code information corresponding thereto, before
The illustration is a composite image composed of multiple unit illustrations.
Including the last, the memory stores the unit illustration,
The restoration means receives code information of the composite illustration.
When the unit information is
The last is read out sequentially, and is read out at a predetermined position on one screen.
To restore the composite illustration, and
The editing means can be moved from the memory by a predetermined switch operation.
The unit illustrations are read sequentially and placed at
Any composite illustration and the corresponding code information
A radio call receiver with a display function, characterized by being created . 2. The code information of the composite illustration is composed of a development code for identifying the composite illustration and a plurality of designation codes for designating a plurality of unit illustrations. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined position is determined by the order of arrangement of the codes.
The radio call receiver with display function described in the above.