JPH06237206A - Radio selective calling receiving and its control method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To prevent a received message from being processed as a confirmed message, even if a report stopping operation and a message confirming operation are executed under such dark environment as the received message cannot be read, in the radio selective calling receiver. CONSTITUTION:The receiver is provided with a photosensor 151 for detecting a bright or dark state of the message display environment. If a report stopping operation is executed under the dark environment, a received message is stored as an unconfirmed message in a RAM 5. Therefore, a user can look at the received message in a bright place after the environment is varied. Also, when it is detected by a photosensor 152 that the environment in the periphery of the radio selective calling receiver is varied from a dark state to a bright state, if the unconfirmed message is stored in the RAM 5, a microcomputer 8 informs a user about this fact.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a radio selective calling receiver capable of reliably transmitting an unconfirmed message in reception information notification to a user and a control method thereof.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a radio selective call receiver, when called by a base station, informs the user of this call by a notification (for example, a notification sound) and a display.
When the user confirms the display message (for example, pushes the notification reset switch), the notification is stopped.
Therefore, if the user performs this confirmation operation in a dark environment, the message was processed as confirmed even though the user could not actually read the displayed message.

Also, various types of radio selective call receivers have been proposed in recent years. In particular, in the case of a radio selective call receiver having a case or cover for covering the display, at the time of call notification, if the user performs the above message confirmation operation without opening such a case or cover, the user will The display message is processed as a confirmed message even though the display message cannot be seen.

On the other hand, in another conventional radio selective call receiver, the presence of the unconfirmed message is notified to the user by pressing the switch. That is, unless you press the switch
The user could not confirm the existence of such an unconfirmed message. Therefore, in the case of a radio selective call receiver without display lighting, when operating the radio selective call receiver to see an unconfirmed message, all these messages are confirmed even if the surroundings are too dark to see the message. It will be processed as a completed message.

[0005]

As described above, in the conventional radio selective call receiver, the displayed message is not displayed even if the display message is operated in a dark environment or the display is covered. There was a problem of processing all as confirmed messages.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems, and to provide a radio selective call receiver and a control method thereof that do not delete messages that could not be confirmed due to a dark environment. There is a thing.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a radio selective call receiver capable of notifying a user of the presence of an unconfirmed message without pressing a switch when the surrounding environment changes from dark to light, and the same. It is to provide a control method.

A radio selective calling receiver according to the present invention is called by a receiving means for receiving a radio signal including a message signal, a first bright / dark detecting means for detecting a bright / dark state of a message display environment, and a received wireless signal. A notification control means for generating a notification signal, a notification means for making a notification to the user in response to the notification signal, and a notification for stopping the notification when a notification stop operation is performed by the user during the notification. A stop means and a message storage means for storing the received message in the memory as an unconfirmed message when the light / dark detection means detects a dark state when the notification stop operation is executed. To do.

The control method of the radio selective call receiver according to the present invention includes (a) a step of receiving a message displayed by the radio selective call receiver, and (b) this reception by the user of the radio selective call receiver. Step (c)
The step of detecting the operation of stopping the notification, (d) the step of detecting the brightness of the message display environment when the step (c) is executed, and (e) the case where the bright state is detected in the step (d). A step of displaying the received message, and (f) storing the received message in a memory as an unconfirmed message when a dark state is detected in the step (d). Is characterized by.

[0010]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1, in the present embodiment, a radio unit 17 is shown separated by a broken line, and a control unit 16 that receives the output of the radio unit 17 and controls the receiving operation of the radio selective calling receiver. Is equipped with.

The radio section 17 comprises an antenna 1 for receiving an incoming radio wave and a receiving section 2 for demodulating a received signal.

The control section 16 includes a decoder 3 for decoding demodulated signals, a 1-chip microcomputer 8 for controlling the overall operation of the radio selective call receiver, and a CPU 6 built in the 1-chip microcomputer 8. A switch sensor 14 having a report reset switch 141 for making an interrupt and a power switch (not shown) for powering on, a photo sensor 151 for identifying whether the message display environment is bright or dark, and a radio selective call receiver. A photo sensor 152 for identifying whether the surrounding environment is bright or dark, an alert driver 12, an LED 9, a speaker 10, a vibrator 11 that vibrates by a motor, and an LCD display (Liquid Crystal) for displaying a message.
Diode) 13.

The one-chip microcomputer 8 stores a program and is used for selecting an optional function.
OM4 and RAM5 for storing received messages
And L for driving the CPU 6 and the LCD display 13.
It has a CD driver 7.

The LED 9, the speaker 10 and the vibrator 11 are provided to notify the user of the reception of the message.
It is driven by the alert driver 12 according to the setting of the user.

The structure of this embodiment is shown in FIGS. In this embodiment, the calculation function, the schedule management function,
A wireless selective call receiver is built into an electronic notebook that also has other functions such as a telephone number storage function. This electronic notebook type wireless selective call receiver has a lid 18 and a keyboard 19.

The photo sensor 151 is provided to detect whether the lid 18 is closed (FIG. 2) or open (FIG. 3). That is, if the photo sensor 151 detects a bright state, the CPU 6 recognizes that the lid 18 is open. When the lid 18 is closed, the user cannot see the display 13 and of course cannot read the display message.

The photo sensor 152 is provided to detect a change in the surrounding environment of the radio selective calling receiver.
That is, when the user changes from a dark state in which the display message cannot be read to a bright state in which the display message can be read, the CPU 6 detects this change by the photo sensor 152.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. The user of this radio selective calling receiver turns on the power by using the power switch of the switch sensor 14. After that, the radio selective calling receiver shifts to a radio signal reception waiting state.

When the photo sensor 152 detects the change from the dark state to the bright state (step S1), if there is an unconfirmed message (step S2), the CPU 6 outputs a notification signal to the alert driver 12. In response to this notification signal, the alert driver 12 causes the notification device, that is,
At least one of the LED 9, the speaker 10 and the vibrator 11 is driven to notify the user that there is an unconfirmed message that can be read now that the display environment is bright (step S4). The user presses the notification reset switch 141 to stop the notification operation, and executes the unconfirmed message reading operation from the RAM 5. That is, the user opens the lid 18 and operates the keyboard 19 to display the unconfirmed message.

On the other hand, the FSK (F
The frequency shift keying wave is received by the receiving unit 2, demodulated, decoded by the decoder 3, and supplied to the 1-chip microcomputer 8 and the alert driver 12 (step S3).

When the decoder 3 recognizes that it has called itself, the one-chip microcomputer 8 determines that a call addressed to itself has been received and performs a notification operation (step S4). That is, when the decoder 3 detects that the address included in the received call matches the address stored in the decoder 3, the received call is processed as a call addressed to itself. After that, the received message following the address is processed by the CPU 6. Report operation (step S
During 5), the CPU 6 is pressed by the report reset switch 141.
When the call is interrupted, the notification will stop.

Next, the CPU 6 detects whether the message display environment is bright or dark by the photo sensor 151 (step S7). If it is in the dark state in step S7, the received message is stored in the RAM 5 as an unconfirmed message that has not been confirmed under the control of the CPU 6 (step S11).

If the message display environment is in the bright state in step S7, the received message read procedure is executed and the received message is displayed (step S7).
8).

After the received message is read, this message is stored in the RAM 5 as a confirmed message (step S9). After that, the program returns to the message waiting state.

If the CPU 6 is not interrupted during the notification procedure (the notification continues for a predetermined time) in step S5, the CPU 6 automatically terminates the notification procedure (step S10) and receives the received message. Is stored as an unconfirmed message (step S11), and then another message is waited for.

Although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the embodiments and the drawings, various modifications and changes can be made.

[0028]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Even if notification stop operation or message confirmation operation is performed in a dark environment where the received message cannot be read, the received message is not processed as a confirmed message. You can check.

Further, when the environment around the radio selective calling receiver changes from dark to light, it is possible to inform the user of the existence of the unconfirmed message without the troublesome switch operation.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a radio selective call receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a state in which a lid of the radio selective calling receiver is closed in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a state in which a lid of the radio selective calling receiver is opened in the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Antenna 2 Receiver 3 Decoder 4 PROM 5 RAM 6 CPU 7 LCD Driver 8 1 Chip Microcomputer 9 LED 10 Speaker 11 Vibrator 12 Alert Driver 13 LCD Display 14 Switch Sensor 16 Control Part 17 Wireless Part 18 Lid 19 Keyboard 141 Notification Reset Switch 151,152 photo sensor

Claims (10)

[Claims] 1. Receiving means for receiving a wireless signal including a message signal, first bright / dark detecting means for detecting a bright / dark state of a message display environment, and generating a notification signal when called by the received wireless signal. Notification control means, notification means for making a notification to the user in response to the notification signal, and when the user performs a notification stop operation during the notification,
A message stopping means for stopping the notification, and a message storing means for storing the received message in the memory as an unconfirmed message when the light / dark detecting means detects a dark state when the notification stop operation is executed. A radio selective calling receiver characterized by being provided. 2. The radio selective call receiver according to claim 1, wherein the first light-dark detection means is composed of a photo sensor. 3. The radio selective calling receiver according to claim 2, further comprising a lid that covers the photo sensor and the display. 4. The radio selective calling receiver according to claim 3, further comprising a second brightness / darkness detecting means for detecting the brightness of the environment around the radio selective calling receiver. 5. The notification means generates a notification if the unconfirmed message is stored in the memory when the second light / dark detection means detects a change from dark to light in the surrounding environment. 5. The radio selective call receiver according to claim 4, wherein: 6. The radio selective call receiver according to claim 5, wherein the second light-and-darkness detecting means is composed of a photosensor which is not covered with the lid. 7. A reporting means for reporting the presence of a received message, a message identifying means for identifying whether or not the received message has been confirmed by a user's operation, and a light / dark detecting means for detecting a light / dark state of a message display environment. Message storage means for storing the received message in the memory as an unconfirmed message when the brightness detection means detects a dark state when the operation for confirming the received message is executed. Characteristic radio selective call receiver. 8. The notification means executes a notification operation if the unconfirmed message is stored in the memory when the brightness detection means detects a change from dark to bright in the environment. The radio selective calling receiver according to claim 7. 9. (a) receiving a message displayed by a radio selective call receiver, (b) notifying a user of the radio selective call receiver of this reception, and (c) stopping this notification. An operation is detected; (d) a step of detecting the brightness of the message display environment at the time of executing the step (c); and (e) a case where a bright state is detected in the step (d). Displaying the message, and (f) storing the received message in the memory as an unconfirmed message when a dark state is detected in the step (d). Radio selective call receiver control method. 10. (g) detecting the brightness of the environment around the radio selective call receiver; (h) detecting the environment change from the dark state to the bright state in step (g); 10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising: (i) notifying a user when the environmental change is detected in step (h) when the unconfirmed message exists in the memory. Control method for wireless selective call receiver of the above.