JPH0819019A - Receiver - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To effectively utilize the received information service by displaying message data when identification information to identify a type of message data and identification information of the message data during display are identical to each other. CONSTITUTION:A control section 7 consists of a CPU or the like. When the control section 7 receives new information service data during the display processing of the display content based on the information service data stored in a message memory 10 in the read mode in the reception processing, the display format data of the information service displayed as the identification information and the data of the display format of th received information service data are detected and collated, and when they are coincident, the reception of the new information service data is informed by a call tone different from usual reception notice and the display content by the received information service data is displayed on a display section 11 with priority.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a display device and a notification device for displaying received information in a receiving device represented by a paging receiver.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, pagers are cheaper to use than car phones and mobile phones, so not only companies have them for phone calls from outside offices but also friends who are out and about. The number of cases where it is used as an easy communication tool with is rapidly increasing. As a conventional access method to a pager, there is a telephone for an individual, a company, and an operation service company, a personal computer input, an information processing company, etc. for an individual information provider.

The information created by these access means is sent to the pager service company via the public line network, and the pager service company creates and sends the send information for each page number of the pager owned by the individual or the company. It The pager includes an NP (Numeric Pager) type capable of receiving numerical information and an IP (Information Pager) type capable of receiving character information.

In these pagers, when the reception of normal message data is detected while waiting for an incoming call,
The incoming call is sounded and the display content is displayed on the display unit based on the received message data to notify the user. When information service data is received from a pager service company, the information service data is not immediately notified, but the received information service data is stored in a memory and the stored information service is stored when a predetermined key operation is performed. The display contents based on the data are displayed.

[0005]

However, in such a conventional pager, when the information service data is received from the pager service company, the information service data is not immediately notified but is stored in the memory. In addition, since the display contents based on the stored information service data are displayed when a predetermined key operation is performed, there are problems as described below.

That is, even if a new reception of this information service is received while displaying the display contents based on the information service data, the display is not immediately performed, so that the user of the pager can receive the new information service. There was a problem that the confirmation was delayed without realizing it. An object of the present invention is to provide a receiving device having a notification function that immediately displays the received information service and informs the user when the information service is newly received while the information service is being displayed. is there.

[0007]

According to the first aspect of the present invention,
Receiving means for receiving message data, display means for displaying the message data received by the receiving means, type information for identifying the type of the message data when the message data is received by the receiving means, and the display It is determined whether or not the type information of the message data being displayed on the means is the same, and if they are the same, the message data received by the receiving means is replaced with the message data being displayed, and the display means is displayed. And a control means for displaying on.

Further, in this case, as described in claim 2, when the type information of the received message data is the same as the type information of the message data being displayed on the display unit, the control means is the same. It is effective to provide an informing means for informing that fact.

Further, as described in claim 3, it is effective that the type information is information defining a display format of the message data displayed on the display means.

[0010]

According to the invention described in claim 1, when the receiving means receives the message data, the control means identifies the type of the message data and the type information of the message data being displayed on the display means. Are determined to be the same, and if they are the same, the message data received by the receiving means is displayed on the display means instead of the message data being displayed.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, when the type information of the received message data and the type information of the message data being displayed on the display unit are the same, the control means sets the same. According to the invention of claim 3, the type information is information defining the display format of the message data displayed on the display means. Therefore, surely inform the user of the receiving device that the new information service has been received,
The information service received can be used effectively.

[0012]

EXAMPLES Examples will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2. 1 and 2 are views showing an embodiment of a pager to which the present invention is applied. First, the configuration will be described. Figure 1
FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a main part inside a pager. In this figure, a pager 1 includes an antenna 2, an RF receiver 3,
It comprises a decoder 4, an ID-ROM 5, a key input unit 6, a control unit 7, a ROM 8, a RAM 9, a message memory 10, a display unit 11 and a sounding unit 12.

The antenna 2 receives a call signal wirelessly transmitted from an information service company (not shown) and the like, and the RF receiving unit 3
Output to. The RF receiving unit 3 is controlled by the intermittent signal input from the decoder 4, intermittently receives the calling signal input from the antenna 2, demodulates the calling signal, converts the calling signal into digital data, and outputs the digital data to the decoder 4.

The decoder 4 collates the calling signal demodulated by the RF receiving unit 3 with the frame data and address data stored in the ID-ROM 5, and only when they match, the message data following the calling signal. Is output to the control unit 7.

The ID-ROM 5 stores data such as frames and addresses individually assigned to the pager 1, and outputs the data such as frames and addresses stored under the control of the decoder 4 to the decoder 4. .

The key input section 6 is composed of an operation key section and various switch sections. With respect to the operation key section, when a certain input operation is performed, a display control signal processed by the control section 7 causes the display section 11 to operate. Is displayed. In addition, various switch parts switch the mode between a ringing mode in which a ringing tone is generated when a ringing signal is received and a silent mode in which the ringing tone is not generated, and the generation of ringing tone is stopped. It is composed of a reset switch that is operated from time to time, a switch that switches between an incoming mode and a read mode for reading previously received messages.

The control unit 7 includes a CPU (Central Processing).
Unit) and the like, and stores message data input from the decoder 4 in the message memory 10 based on various control programs stored in the ROM 8 and a pager in response to a control signal input from the key input unit 6. 1 controls each circuit unit.

Further, in the receiving process described later, the control unit 7 receives new information service data during the display process of the display content based on the information service data stored in the message memory 10 in the read mode, If the display format data of the information service being displayed as the type information and the display format data of the received information service data are detected and collated, and they match,
The reception of the new information service data is notified by a ringing sound different from the normal reception notification, and the display content by the received information service data is preferentially displayed on the display unit 11.
To display.

A ROM (Read Only Memory) 8 stores various control programs executed by the control unit 7, and
The conditions and the like relating to the control of the display unit 11 of the reception processing of the information service data according to the present invention are stored.

A RAM (Random Access Memory) 9 forms a memory area for storing display format data of the received information service data. Message memory 1
0 stores message data and the like including the received address data and information service data.

The display section 11 has a function as a display means, and is composed of a circuit section driven by a control signal input from the control section 7, a liquid crystal display panel, and the like.
Display the display contents based on the received message data. When the ringing mode is set, the ringing unit 12
It is driven by a control signal input from the control unit 7 when the call signal is received, and notifies the call sound.

Next, the operation will be described. First, the reception process executed by the pager 1 of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.
It will be described according to the flowchart shown in FIG. When a radio signal is transmitted from the base station (not shown) to the pager 1, the radio signal is intermittently received by the antenna 2, demodulated by the RF reception unit 3, digitally encoded, and then transmitted to the decoder 4. Is output. In the decoder 4, the frame data and address data of the received call signal are compared with the frame data and address data input from the ID-ROM 5 of the pager 1 by the decoder 4, and if they match, the call signal follows. The message data is fetched and reception processing is performed (step S1).

Next, it is determined whether the pager 1 is currently set to the information service data read mode (step S2), and the pager 1 is set to the read mode and the information service data is read from the message memory 10 to display the information. When the display content based on this service data is displayed in 11, the display format data of the information service data being displayed is read from the RAM 9 and collated with the display format data detected from the information service data of the received message data. Yes (step S3). If they match as a result of the collation, a notification means (alarm sound, etc.) different from the normal reception notification notifies the reception of this information service data, and the received new information service data is sent to the message memory 1
After being stored in 0, the display content based on the information service data being displayed on the display unit 11 is switched to the display content based on the new received information service data and displayed (step S4), and this processing is ended.

In the process of step S3, if the display format data do not match as a result of the collation, the message data is received by a notification means (alarm sound or the like) different from the normal notification or no reception. This is notified (step S5), and this processing ends.

If the read mode is not set in the process of step S2, it is determined whether the address data included in the received call signal is for information service or for normal call ( Step S6). When the received address data is for information service, the received information service data is fetched and stored in the message memory 10 (step S7), and then this process is terminated without notifying.

When the received address data is for normal calling, the reception is notified by a normal notification means (a ringing sound), and the received message data is temporarily stored in the message memory 10. ,
The display is displayed on the display unit 11 (step S8), and this processing ends. Through the above receiving process, the pager 1 of this embodiment performs the following receiving patterns (1) to (4).

(1) Processing in the case of normal message data reception When normal message data is received while waiting for a normal incoming call, the ringing section 12 receives a call detection signal from the decoder 4, The control unit 7 notifies the ringing sound from the sounding unit 12, and the received message data is
After being stored in the message memory 10 once, the display content based on the message data is displayed on the display unit 11.

(2) Processing in the case of receiving information service data in the states of (1) Even if an information service is received, no sound alert is given, and the received information service data is stored in the message memory 10.

(3) Processing when normal message data arrives in the read mode When normal message data is received during the read mode in which message data including information service data is read from the message memory 10, The sounding unit 12 is
A ringing tone different from the case of the above (1) is sounded to notify. The received message data is stored in the message memory 1
Although it is stored in 0, it is displayed on the display unit 11 when the read mode is exited without immediately displaying it.

(4) Processing when new information service data is received in the read mode In the read mode, the display format data of the display contents based on the information service data currently displayed in association with the read are displayed. When new information service data of the same display format data is received, the sounding unit 12
Gives a ringing tone different from the cases of the above (1) and (3) to notify. The received information service data is once stored in the message memory 10, and then the display content based on the information service data is immediately displayed on the display unit 11.

As described above, the pager 1 of this embodiment
As a reception condition of the information service data, when the display content based on the information service data stored in the message memory 10 is being displayed on the display unit 11 in the read mode, when the information service data is newly received, the display unit 7 Since the display content displayed on the screen is switched to that of new information service data and the notification sound is made different from the normal reception notification, the pager 1
The user of can always check the new information service and can effectively use the received information service.

In the present embodiment, the display format data of the information service is used as the type information, but the present invention is not limited to this, and may be address data as long as the information service can be typed and may be changed appropriately. .

[0033]

According to the first, second and third aspects of the present invention, the user of the receiving device is surely notified that a new information service has been received, and the received information service is validated. Can be used for.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a main part of a pager to which the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a reception process executed by the pager of this embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 pager 2 antenna 3 RF receiving unit 4 decoder 5 ID-ROM 6 key input unit 7 control unit 8 ROM 9 RAM 10 message memory 11 display unit 12 sounding unit

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A receiving means for receiving message data, a display means for displaying the message data received by the receiving means, and a type of the message data when the message data is received by the receiving means. It is determined whether or not the type information and the type information of the message data being displayed on the display means are the same. If they are the same, the message data received by the receiving means is changed to the message data being displayed. A receiving device comprising: a control unit that causes the display unit to display instead. 2. The control means, if the type information of the received message data and the type information of the message data being displayed on the display means are the same, the control means is provided with a notification means to that effect. The receiving device according to claim 1, wherein 3. The receiving apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the type information is information defining a display format of message data displayed on the display means.