JPH09233515A - Selective radio call receiver with display function - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable effective illustration display by editing a calling message, in which an illustration and characters are mixed, storing and holding the edited result. SOLUTION: A decoder 102 detects its own calling from the received data of a radio part 101, and a function control part 103 controls the entire present selective radio call receiver. An ID-ROM 104, illustration information storage part 110, routine sentence information storage part 109, matrix character information storage part 108, program memory 106, display position storage part 112 and transmission data storage part 107 respectively store their own ID numbers, illustration information, the sentence information of routine sentences, the character code information of matrix characters, the display positions of programs, illustrations and messages and edited transmission messages. A switch operation part 105 is provided with various kinds of select switches, etc., and when a transmission data generation part 113 translates edited calling message data into code information and transmits it to a display control part 112, the calling message including the illustration is displayed on a display part 114.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a radio selective call receiver with a display function, and more particularly, when call message information including an illustration is edited, the call message information is stored, and when received, the call message information is used as display information. The present invention relates to a radio selective call receiver with a display function for expanding and displaying.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a conventional radio selective call receiver of this kind, a call message is edited by combining characters such as numbers, alphabets, and kana by a switch operation and a fixed sentence.

As a technique close to the conventional call message editing method, there is an "auto dialer device and a paging receiver with a message transmitting function" described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2-82824.

The above-mentioned conventional paging receiver with a message transmitting function is provided with a memory for storing a plurality of fixed phrase messages and a display means for displaying the fixed phrase messages stored in this memory together with the corresponding shortened codes. However, it was not possible to edit the sent message in which the illustration and the text were mixed, and the edited result could not be stored in the memory.

[0005]

In the conventional radio selective calling receiver described above, when a message containing characters and illustrations is received, it can be expanded and displayed.
There was a problem that only the fixed text, matrix characters, numbers and other characters could be edited as the sent message.

Further, even with the conventional paging receiver with a message transmitting function, it is not possible to edit a transmission message in which an illustration and a sentence are mixed, and when a transmission message including an illustration is edited, a message containing only characters is edited. There was a problem that the message including the illustration and the message had to be edited separately.

Further, since the conventional paging receiver with a message sending function does not have a means for storing a message once edited, even if a message having the same content is sent when sending a sent message including an illustration, There was a problem that the sent message had to be edited from the beginning every time it was sent.

It is an object of the present invention to edit a call message in which illustrations and characters are mixed and store the edited result in memory, thereby making it possible to effectively display the illustration. To provide.

[0009]

According to the present invention, transmission message editing means for editing transmission message information using code information in which a fixed sentence, matrix characters and characters including numbers and figures and illustrations are mixed, and this editing. Transmission data storage means for storing the result transmission message information,
When the message information following the selective call number received from the wireless selective call receiver of the transmission source includes the code information of the fixed phrase, the illustration and the matrix character, the message information including the illustration is added to the selective call number. The transmission message editing means is provided with call message expansion means for expanding the display data of the corresponding fixed text, illustration and matrix characters, and display means for displaying the expanded display data. There is provided a radio selective call receiver with a display function, characterized in that the transmission message information is read from the transmission data storage means and re-edited.

Also, a decoder section for receiving data from the radio section and detecting a call of the own radio selective call receiver,
An ID-which stores the ID number of the self radio selective calling receiver
ROM, an illustration information storage unit that stores illustration information corresponding to the code information of the illustration, a fixed sentence information storage unit that stores the sentence information of the fixed phrase, and matrix character information that stores the character code of the matrix character. A storage unit, a program memory for storing a program, a transmission data storage unit for storing the result of editing by the message editing unit, a display unit for displaying a calling message, and the message read by executing the program read from the program memory. A radio selective call receiver with a display function, comprising: a function control unit for performing sequence control in the own radio selective call receiver including editing of information and expansion of message information into the display data.

[0011]

Next, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a radio selective calling receiver with a display function of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a radio selective call receiver with a display function of this embodiment has a radio section 101 for transmitting and receiving radio waves to and from a base station through an antenna, and a radio section 1.
Decoder unit 102 that receives data from 01 to detect its own call, function control unit 103 that controls all functions in the own wireless selective call receiver such as editing of call message information, and its own ID number ID-RO to remember
An M (EEPROM) 104 and an illustration information storage unit 110 that stores illustration information corresponding to the illustration code.
And a fixed phrase information storage unit 10 for storing sentence information of fixed phrases
9, a matrix character information storage unit 108 that stores character code information of matrix characters, a program memory 106 that stores a program, a transmission data storage unit 107 that stores an edited transmission message, a selection switch, a confirmation switch, and a menu. A switch operation unit 105 including a push switch such as a switch, a transmission data generation unit 113 that converts a code of an edited transmission message into message information, a display position storage unit 112 that stores a display position of an illustration and a message, A display control unit 111 that drives the display unit 114 based on the message information created by the transmission data generation unit 113 and the position information stored in the display position storage unit 112 to display the transmission message.
And

Next, the call message editing operation of the radio selective call receiver with the display function of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the procedure of a call message editing operation of the radio selective call receiver with a display function shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a display example of message information including illustration information on the display section shown in FIG.
4 is a diagram showing an example of fixed phrase contents in the fixed phrase information storage unit in FIG. 1, FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of matrix characters in the matrix information storage unit in FIG. 1, and FIG. 6 is an illustration information storage unit in FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the illustration content of.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a code configuration example of the illustration information in FIG. 6, (a) showing designation of illustration display position, (b) showing display switching timing of illustration display pattern, and (c). Indicates the structure of illustration data.

First, when the operator presses a menu switch in the switch operating section 105 to enter a menu mode, then the selection switch is pressed to select a menu item, and further, the decision switch is pressed to select the selected menu item. Is confirmed and the edit mode of the transmitted message is activated (step S201).

The editing of the transmitted message is performed by the function control unit 103 according to the program stored in the program memory 106.

When the send message edit mode is activated in S201, the operator first operates the selection switch to select the send message number (S202).
The confirmation switch is pressed to determine the transmission message number.

Here, when the transmission message is already registered in the determined transmission message number, the function control unit 103 reads the data of the transmission message from the transmission data storage unit 107, the transmission data generation unit 113, and the display control. The transmission message is displayed on the display unit 114 through the unit 111 (S203).

Subsequently, when the operator presses the menu switch, the code information of the transmitted message is displayed on the display unit 114 (S204). After that, when the confirmation switch is pressed, the process proceeds to S205, and in S205, the selection switch is operated to select new editing or re-editing of the registered message. Here, if the message is not registered, it is newly edited.

In S205, Y, that is, when newly editing, the transmission message data currently registered in the transmission data storage unit 107 is deleted (S206), and S205
N, that is, when the currently registered transmission message is used, this transmission message data is left in the transmission data storage unit 107 and the message input mode is selected (S20).
Go to 7).

In the selection of the input mode, one of the illustration (S207), the fixed text (S212), the matrix character (S214) and the numeral (S216) is selected by the operation of each selection switch by the operator.

Here, the code structure of the illustration information will be described. Since the illustration and the fixed phrase are mixed in the same message, the illustration expansion code is set to distinguish this illustration from the fixed phrase.

Referring to FIG. 7C, when the illustration development code is, for example, "[[", the data following this illustration development code [[becomes illustration data.

Next, the illustration font number is set by the numbers "01" to "04" shown in FIG. 6, and the illustration display position designation shown in FIG. 7A is "1": upper left, "2": upper right,
"3": set at the lower left and "4": patterns at the lower right.

Subsequently, the display switching timing of the illustration display pattern shown in FIG. 7B is "1": no illustration switching, "2": illustration switching at 1 second cycle and "3": illustration switching at 2 second cycle. Set with. Here, when "1": no illustration switching is set, the second illustration is not set.

Finally, the second illustration font number is set by the numbers "01" to "04" shown in FIG.

In FIG. 7 (c), the illustration development code [[of the illustration data following [the two digits is the first illustration number ("01" to "04"), and the illustration display position (" Reference numerals 1 "to" 4 "indicate display switching timings (" 0 "to" 2 "), and two digits indicate the second illustration number (" 01 "to" 04 ").

Returning to FIG. 2, the operator presses the illustration selection switch in the input mode selection (Y in S207), and then operates the switch to select one of the illustration numbers ("01" to "04") shown in FIG. One of the illustration fonts is selected from (S208), and the switch display is operated to specify the illustration display position shown in FIG.
7 to “4”), one of the illustration display positions is selected (S209), and the illustration display pattern switching timing (“0” to “2”) shown in FIG. 7B is selected.
Select one of the illustration display patterns from (S
210) and then the second illustration number is selected from the illustration numbers (“01” to “04”) shown in FIG. 6 (S211).

In S208, the illustration number "0" shown in FIG.
2 "is selected, and then, in S209," 1 "," 2 "," 3 "," 4 "of the illustration display position designation shown in FIG.
When is selected, the illustration display 3 shown in Fig. 3 is displayed.
01, 302, 303, 304 are displayed on the display unit 114.

Note that referring to FIG. 3, the illustration display 301, 302, 3 of the calling message including the illustration information.
Code information when displaying 03 and 304 is code information 305 “[[0210]] 0201
2-3456 ", code information 306" [[0220]]
02012-3456 ", code information 307" [[02
30]] 02012-3456 "and code information 30
8 “[[0240]] 02012-3456”.

Further, in S208, the illustration number "02" shown in FIG. 6 is selected and registered as the first sheet, and in S211 the illustration number "04" is selected and registered as the second sheet.
For example, when the display switching timing number “1” is selected in 210, the illustration display 309 and the illustration display 310 in FIG. 3 are alternately displayed in a cycle of 1 second.

The code information for this alternate display is code information 311 "[[021104]] 0201.
2-3456 ".

In S207, N, that is, when the operator does not select an illustration in the input mode selection and selects a fixed phrase (Y in S212), the operator operates the switch to input the fixed phrase number "shown in FIG. One of the messages with the fixed phrase content is selected from "01 to 04" and confirmed (S213).

Further, when N is selected in S212, that is, when the operator has not selected a fixed phrase in the input mode selection (Y in S214), the operator operates the switches to display the lines shown in FIG. The matrix character by the number and the column number is selected and confirmed (S215).

Further, when N is selected in S214, that is, when the operator does not select the matrix character in the input mode selection (Y in S216), the operator operates a switch to input a numeral not shown. It is selected and confirmed (S217).

The display control unit 111 displays the confirmed illustrations, fixed phrases, matrix characters, numbers and the like on the display unit 1.
14 is displayed.

When inputting a message subsequently, S
The procedure from 207 to S217 is repeatedly executed, and the function control unit 103 edits these code information.

When the editing is finished, the operator selects the editing end by operating the switch (Y in S218), and further operates the selection switch to specify the registration number of the display of the edited result of the call message, When the registration number is determined by the confirmation switch, the code information of the edited result is displayed (S219), and the edited result is displayed in the transmission data storage unit 107.
Is registered in (S220), and the editing work is completed (S220).
221).

[0042]

As described above, the radio selective call receiver with a display function of the present invention edits transmission message information using code information in which fixed characters, matrix characters and characters including numbers and illustrations are mixed. Sending message editing means, sending data storing means for storing the sending message information of the edited result, and fixed message, illustration, and matrix character in the message information following the selective calling number received from the source wireless selective calling receiver. When the code information is included, the message information including the illustration is expanded to display data of the fixed text, illustration and matrix characters corresponding to the selected calling number, and display means for displaying the expanded display data. When the message is edited again, the send message editing means By reading the transmission message information from the means and re-editing it, and as an embodiment thereof, a decoder section for receiving data from the radio section and detecting a call of the own radio selective call receiver, and a self radio selective call receiver. An ID-ROM that stores an ID number, an illustration information storage unit that stores illustration information corresponding to the illustration code information, a fixed sentence information storage unit that stores text information of a fixed sentence, and a character code of a matrix character A matrix character information storage unit, a program memory for storing a program, a transmission data storage unit for storing the edited result by the message editing means, a display unit for displaying a calling message, and a program read from the program memory for execution. Self-radio including editing of message information and expansion of message information to display data By including the function control unit that controls the sequence in the selective call receiver, it is possible to reuse the message data once edited and to send the message of the same content easily, and the message content similar to the message once edited. This has the effect of making editing extremely simple.

Further, since the fixed texts and illustrations stored in the radio selective calling receiver can be displayed in an arbitrary arrangement and the display pattern of the illustrations can be set arbitrarily, a calling message including the illustrations can be effectively provided. It has the effect that it can be used.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a procedure of a paging message editing operation of the radio selective paging receiver with a display function in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a display example of message information including illustration information on the display unit shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of fixed phrase content in a fixed phrase information storage unit in FIG. 1.

5 is a diagram showing an example of matrix characters in a matrix information storage unit in FIG.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of illustration contents of an illustration information storage section in FIG. 1.

7 is a diagram showing a code configuration example of the illustration information in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

101 wireless unit 102 decoder unit 103 function control unit 104 ID-ROM (EEPROM) 105 switch operation unit 106 program memory 107 transmission data storage unit 108 matrix character information storage unit 109 standard sentence information storage unit 110 illustration information storage unit 111 display control unit 112 Display Position Storage Unit 113 Transmission Data Generation Unit 114 Display Unit 301, 302, 303, 304, 309, 310
Illustration display 305, 306, 307, 308, 311 Code information

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A transmission message editing means for editing transmission message information using code information in which fixed phrases, matrix characters and characters including numbers and illustrations are mixed.
Transmission data storage means for storing the transmission message information of the edited result, and a fixed text in the message information following the selective call number received from the wireless selective call receiver of the transmission source,
When the code information of the illustration and the matrix character is included, call message expansion means for expanding the message information including the illustration into display data of the fixed form sentence, illustration and matrix character corresponding to the selective call number, and expanded. And a display unit for displaying the display data, wherein when the message is edited again, the transmission message editing unit reads the transmission message information from the transmission data storage unit and re-edits it. Wireless selective call receiver with. 2. A decoder section for receiving data from the radio section to detect a call of the local radio selective calling receiver, and an ID-RO for storing an ID number of the self radio selective calling receiver.
M, an illustration information storage unit that stores illustration information corresponding to the code information of the illustration, a fixed sentence information storage unit that stores the sentence information of the fixed sentence, and matrix character information that stores the character code of the matrix character. A storage unit, a program memory for storing a program, a transmission data storage unit for storing the result of editing by the message editing unit, a display unit for displaying a calling message, and the message read by executing the program read from the program memory. The radio selective call reception with a display function according to claim 1, further comprising: a function control unit for performing sequence control in the own radio selective call receiver including editing of information and expansion of message information into the display data. Machine.