JPH09284825A - Information communication system and information communication terminal equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information communication system capable of relieving the burden of the user relating to setting of data and time in the information communication terminal equipment incorporating a clock and calendar function and accurately adjusting the date and time. SOLUTION: In the case that the information communication system is configured by a host device 3 sending information to an external equipment and a terminal equipment 1 receiving information from the host device 3, the host device 3 sends the transmission information added with date and time information when the information is sent. The terminal equipment 1 incorporates clock means 11, 12 and also is provided with a control means 14 to adjust the clock means 11, 12 based on the received date and time information upon the receipt of the information to which the date and time information is added.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information communication system and information including a base station for transmitting information and an information communication device having a clock and a calendar and a receiver for receiving information transmitted from the base station. The present invention relates to a communication terminal device, and more particularly, to setting the date and time of each information communication device in such a system and device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there has been known an information communication device such as a pager which has a clock and a calendar function and receives information transmitted from a base station.

[0003]

In such an information communication device, the built-in clock or calendar may be out of order due to, for example, exhaustion of the battery or may be reset when the battery is replaced. It was necessary to reset the time and date each time. Moreover, in general, in portable information devices, it is necessary to make the outer shape compact, and the number of operation buttons, etc. is suppressed to the minimum necessary, so setting the time and date that are not used daily is It is often designed to be operated by combining operation buttons for performing other functions. Therefore, a complicated operation is required to set the time and date.

In view of the above circumstances, the present invention reduces the burden on the user regarding the setting of the date and time in an information communication device having a clock and a calendar function, and the information such that the date and time are adjusted appropriately. It is intended to provide a communication system.

[0005]

Therefore, the information communication system according to claim 1 is composed of a host device for transmitting information to an external device and a terminal device for receiving information from the host device. In addition, when the host device transmits the information with the date and time information added, the terminal device has a built-in clocking means, and when the information with the date and time information is received, the timekeeping is performed based on the date and time information. And a control means for adjusting the setting of the means.

Here, the terminal device may have a display means for displaying the date and time measured by the time measuring means. Further, the date and time may be notified to the user by voice instead of being displayed. Further, the display means may be configured to display not only the date and time information but also other information transmitted from the host device.

The control means of the terminal device comprises a reception state judging means for judging whether or not the information from the host device is normally received, and the time counting is performed only when the information is normally received. The setting of the means can be adjusted. Further, the control means can be configured to have an extracting means for extracting date and time information from the received information from the host device.

In the information communication system, the transmission of information from the host device to the terminal device may be performed by wireless communication. Here, the wireless communication may be by radio waves or by light. The host device has a receiving means for receiving information to be transmitted to the terminal device from another device, and when the receiving means receives the information, the host device adds the date and time information to the information received by the receiving means. The information can be transmitted to the terminal device.

The host device may be configured to periodically transmit at least date and time information to the terminal device.

Further, the information communication terminal device according to claim 8 is an information communication terminal device which receives information transmitted at least by date and time information and information other than the date and time information, and which is built-in. The calendar and the clock circuit, and the calendar and the clock circuit based on the date and time information extracted by the extracting means, the extracting means extracting the date and time information from the information received from the host device. And a control unit that adjusts the date and time indicated by.

[0011]

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a schematic system configuration of a pager system as an embodiment of the present invention. The pager system is a public line 2 to which a general telephone is connected and a message conversion device 3,
It has an antenna 4 and a pager 1.

The public line 2 is a general communication line network established by a communication carrier. If you want to send a message to a pager, use your telephone to
The message is transmitted to the message conversion device 3 via. Generally, the message transmitted to the message conversion device 3 is limited to the numbers (0 to 9) that can be input by the push button provided on the telephone. The pager 1 side has the function of selecting and displaying one of the predetermined registered messages from the combination of numbers in the received number message, and displaying the kana based on the combination of numbers. Is ready to receive messages.

As described above, the message conversion device 3 receives the message (numeric message) to be sent to the pager 1 from the telephone via the public line 2, converts the message into a signal of a predetermined format, It transmits to the pager 1 via the antenna 4. A plurality of antennas 4 are provided for the message conversion device 3, and the pager 1 is connected to the message conversion device 3 via any of the plurality of antennas 4. Therefore, a desired numeric message can be transmitted from the telephone to the pager 1 via the general public line network, the message conversion device 3, and the antenna 4.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a pager system, mainly the configuration of the pager 1.
Further, FIG. 2 is a view showing the appearance of the pager. Pager 1 is a CP that controls the entire operation of the pager.
It has U14. The CPU 14 is connected to a receiving device 10 that receives a message sent from the antenna 4. Further, the CPU 14 has a memory 14a for temporarily storing the received message signal received by the receiving device 10 and for storing a predetermined fixed phrase. The pager 1 is provided with a display 15 for displaying a message and an operation key 13 for switching the displayed message and calling another function. The operation of the operation key 13 is input to the CPU 14,
In response to the operation of the operation key 13, the CPU 14 executes a necessary program.

As described above, in the pager system, the message is transmitted as a numeric message from the message converting device 3 via the antenna 4 to the receiving device 10 of the pager 1. The CPU 14 is the receiving device 1
The numeral message received by 0 is temporarily stored in the memory 14a, the combination of the stored numerals is converted into a "kana character" and displayed on the display, or the corresponding fixed phrase is called and displayed. In addition to this, the CPU 14 is also connected to a calendar circuit 11 that manages the days and days of the week and a clock circuit 12 that manages the time. The date and time are input to the CPU 14 as date and time information by the calendar circuit 11 and the clock circuit 12, and the CPU 14 displays the date and time in a predetermined area (upper display in FIG. 2) of the display 15 based on the input date and time information. To do.
This date and time is always displayed regardless of the presence or absence of a message.

The pager 1 according to the present invention has an automatic time setting function, which will be described in detail later. However, the date and time can also be set by operating the operation keys 13. When setting the date and time using the operation keys 13, the mode is switched to the time setting mode by simultaneously pressing a plurality of predetermined operation keys 13, and then the date and time are individually adjusted.
The date is automatically set when the date (year / month / day) is set.

Next, with reference to FIG. 4, a message transmission process executed on the message conversion device 3 side will be described. In this pager system, when the message conversion device 3 receives a message (numeric message) to be sent to the pager 1 via a general telephone line network (S11), date and time information (date information: year / month / date) is included in the received message. The date and time information: hour, minute, second) is added before transmission. There are various methods of adding date and time information. For example, a 4-digit year, a 2-digit month, a 2-digit date, a 2-digit hour (24
(Time system) 2-digit minute and 2-digit second information (therefore all 14-digit date and time information added to the message is transmitted to the pager 1 via the antenna 4.
Here (and in the following description), the date and time information is 14-digit information as described above, and the case where it is added before the received data will be described, but it can be realized in various modes. . For example, it is possible to add only the last two digits of the year, and it is also possible to use the number of days elapsed from a certain reference date as date information. In addition, in the present embodiment, since the number of digits of date and time information is fixed, only the process of adding a 14-digit number string immediately before a numeric message is performed. It is also possible to have a data structure that distinguishes it from information. It is of course possible to put the date and time information after the message.

Further, in the example of FIG. 4, the date / time information is transmitted to the message converting device 3 only when the message is transmitted through the telephone line.
But if the message is sent infrequently,
Pager 1 because the frequency of adjusting date and time information becomes small
There is a high possibility that the date and time information displayed on the display 15 will be out of sync with the actual time. As a method of coping with such a case, it is also possible that the message conversion circuit 3 periodically transmits the date and time information to each pager regardless of whether or not a message is received from the telephone line. In this case, by transmitting the date and time information about once per week to once per four weeks about one pager, it is possible to reduce the error in the date and time measured by the pager 1.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart showing the flow of the message receiving process of the pager with the automatic time setting function. In S1, when the power switch of the pager 1 (not shown) is turned on, the receiver 10 of the pager is ready to receive a message (standby for a message signal). The receiving device 10 maintains the standby state until the message signal is sent from the message converting device 3 via the antenna 4 (NO: S2). When the message signal is sent (YES: S2), the receiving device 10
The message signal received by is stored in the memory 14a (S3). When the reception is completed, it is determined whether the message can be normally received by determining whether the received data stored in the memory 14a is normally received data (S4). If the data is normally received, the CPU 14 reads out the date and time information (date information and time information) in the received data, adjusts the date set in the calendar circuit 11 based on the date information, and outputs the time information. Based on this, the time set in the clock circuit 12 is adjusted (S5). That is, here, the CPU 14 functions as an extracting unit that extracts date and time information from the received message, and also functions as a setting unit that sets the date and time of the calendar circuit 11 and the clock circuit 12.

Next, the CPU 14 reads the message portion of the data stored in the memory 14a, and performs a predetermined conversion process (a process of converting a numeric message into a kana message or reading registered data based on the numeric message). ) Is performed and the result is displayed as a message on the display 15. If it is determined in S4 that the message has not been normally received, an error message is displayed (S7).

After displaying either the received message or the error message, the process returns to S2, and waits for the next message. Although this embodiment is a pager system,
The present invention is not limited to this, and the same effect can be obtained with a similar system configuration for a mobile phone or the like. Further, it is composed of a host device for transmitting certain information and a plurality of terminal devices for receiving information from the host device, and each terminal device is applicable to any system having a built-in calendar or clock. is there. For example, in a system including a broadcasting station as a host device and a TV or radio as a terminal, if the terminal device (that is, TV or radio) has a built-in clock, the built-in clock can be accurately maintained by the same method as above. become.

In the present embodiment, the message and date and time on the pager side are described as being displayed on the display, but these can also be transmitted to the user by voice by providing a voice synthesis circuit or the like. is there. With such a configuration, the date and time are automatically set, so that even a user who is visually impaired and unable to read the information on the display, for example, can use not only a message but a highly reliable and accurate message. Since it also functions as a clock that indicates various times, it is very easy to use.

As described above, the time automatic setting system of the present invention eliminates the trouble of initial setting of time and date and fine adjustment of time, the burden on the user, and always provides accurate time. be able to. Further, the invention can be applied not only to pagers but also to general devices such as mobile phones, radios and televisions that receive signals from the outside.

[0024]

According to the information communication system of the first aspect, since the date and time in the terminal device is automatically set based on the signal sent from the host device, the user does not need to perform complicated setting processing. Moreover, the terminal device is always in the state in which the correct date and time are set.

According to the information communication system of the second aspect, since the terminal device has the display means for displaying the date and time measured by the time measuring means, the terminal device is used as a highly reliable and accurate timepiece. can do.

According to the information communication system of the third aspect, the setting of the timekeeping means is adjusted only when the information is normally transmitted, so that an erroneous date and time is not set and the setting is made. The reliability of the date and time is high.

According to the information communication system of the fourth aspect, since the terminal device has extraction means for extracting date and time information from the received information from the host device, the host device stores the date and time information and other information. Can be transmitted simultaneously, and at this time, the terminal device can surely set the clock based on the date information.

According to the information communication system of the fifth aspect, in the information system, since information is transmitted from the host device to the terminal device by wireless communication, the terminal device receives the information. It does not have to be in a specific position, and restrictions on handling are relaxed.

According to the information communication system of the sixth aspect, since the host device has a receiving means for receiving information to be transmitted to the terminal device from another device, the sender transmitting the information is the host device. It is not necessary to directly operate, and information can be transmitted to the terminal device from anywhere as long as there is a facility for transmitting information to the host device.

According to the information communication system of claim 7, since the host device periodically transmits the date and time information to the terminal device, other than the date and time information that the host device should send to the terminal device. Even if there is no such information, the clock of the terminal device is kept in an accurate state by the date and time information that is regularly received.

According to the information terminal device of the eighth aspect,
Since the calendar circuit and the clock circuit are adjusted each time the information transmitted by the host device is received, the date and time information indicated by the calendar circuit and the clock circuit will not be accurate even if the user does not input the date and time information. Maintained.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a pager system, mainly the configuration of a pager 1.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an appearance of a pager.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a schematic system configuration of a pager system.

FIG. 4 is a message transmission process executed on the message conversion device 3 side.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a flow of a message reception process of a pager with an automatic time setting function.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 pager 2 public line 3 message converter 4 antenna 10 receiver 11 calendar circuit 12 clock circuit 13 operation keys 14 CPU 14a memory 15 display

Claims (8)

[Claims] 1. An information communication system comprising a host device for transmitting information to an external device and a terminal device for receiving information from the parent device, wherein the host device adds date and time information when transmitting information, and transmits the information. An information communication system characterized in that the terminal device has a built-in clocking means, and has a control means for adjusting the setting of the clocking means based on the date / time information when receiving the information added with the date / time information. 2. The information communication system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal device has display means for displaying the date and time measured by the time measuring means. 3. The control means of the terminal device has a reception state determination means for determining whether or not the information from the host device is normally received, and the control means of the terminal device is provided only when the information is normally received. The information communication system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the setting of the clocking means is adjusted. 4. The information communication system according to claim 1, wherein the terminal device has extraction means for extracting date and time information from information received from the host device. 5. The information communication system according to claim 1, wherein in the information system, transmission of information from the host device to the terminal device is performed by wireless communication. . 6. The host device has a receiving means for receiving information to be transmitted to the terminal device from another device, and when the receiving means receives the information, the host device stores the information received by the receiving means. The information to which the date and time information is added is transmitted to the terminal device.
5. The information communication system according to any one of 1 to 5. 7. The information communication system according to claim 1, wherein the host device periodically transmits at least date and time information to the terminal device. 8. An information communication terminal device for receiving information transmitted from a host device, comprising a built-in calendar and clock circuit, wherein the information transmitted from the host device is at least date / time information and date / time information. Other than the information, the information communication terminal device includes an extracting unit that extracts the date and time information from the information received from the host device, and the calendar and the clock based on the date and time information extracted by the extracting unit. An information communication terminal device, comprising: a control unit that adjusts the date and time indicated by the circuit.