KR100994022B1 - Indication of RSSI on LCD of mobile communication terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for displaying received electric field strength of a mobile communication terminal, and according to the conventional method for displaying received electric field strength using a bar so that a user can easily check the strength of the received electric field strength, satisfying various needs of a user or a service provider. In order to satisfy the requirements of the display, different colors are displayed by the grade of the received electric field strength (that is, by the intensity), or the number of antenna bars of different colors is displayed by varying the number of grades of the received electric field strength.

Field strength, rainbow color, antenna bar, logo

Description

Receiving field strength display method in mobile communication terminal {Indication of RSSI on LCD of mobile communication terminal}             

1 is a schematic block diagram of a mobile communication terminal to which the present invention is applied.

2 is an exemplary view showing that the image of the received electric field strength according to the first embodiment of the present invention is displayed for each grade.

3 is an exemplary view showing an image of the received electric field strength for each grade according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method for displaying received electric field strength of a mobile communication terminal according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method for displaying received electric field strength of a mobile communication terminal according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention relates to a mobile communication terminal, and more particularly, to a method for displaying received signal strength indication (RSSI) in a mobile communication terminal.

Since the strength of the signal received from the base station, that is, the strength of the received electric field, varies depending on the moved position, the mobile communication terminal checks the strength of the received electric field strength at regular intervals and displays the signal on the display of the mobile communication terminal. Doing. In the general method of displaying the received electric field strength of a mobile communication terminal, the number and size of bars are increased according to the strength of the received electric field strength next to the antenna shape, which indicates the display of the received electric field strength.

However, the conventional method of displaying the received electric field strength has a problem in that the antenna and the bar are displayed in the same color without any change to satisfy the visual needs of the current user who requires colorization.

Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2003-31740 (name of the invention: a method for displaying the received electric field strength of a mobile communication terminal) has been proposed to solve the above problems. Receiving field strength display method according to the Patent Publication No. 2003-31740 uses one of a variety of images, such as triangle, square, star, etc. in place of the conventional antenna and bar as an image indicating the received field strength, Try to change the color or contrast of the image according to the intensity.

However, the method of displaying the received electric field strength according to the above-mentioned Patent Publication No. 2003-31740 satisfies only the user's visual needs, but does not properly inform the user of the actual intensity of the electric field. That is, the color indicating that the intensity of the received field strength is large and the color indicating that the intensity of the received field strength is small are designated by the designer arbitrarily. Therefore, the user can determine the state of the intensity of the received field strength even when such a color is displayed. I can not know. The same is true of the intensity of the received field strength in contrast.

In addition, the method of displaying the received electric field strength according to the above-mentioned patent discloses a received electric field only with a set color, contrast, or image, thereby failing to sufficiently satisfy the desires of modern people who are familiar with moving pictures, and adding other functions.

Accordingly, the present invention is to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, the receiving field strength in the mobile communication terminal to display the display of the received field strength in a variety of colors while allowing the user to easily know the strength of the received field strength The purpose is to provide a display method.

Receiving field strength display method of the mobile communication terminal of the present invention for achieving the above object follows the conventional receiving field strength display method using a bar so that the user can easily check the strength of the received field strength, satisfying the various needs of the user Alternatively, there is a feature in that different colors are displayed for each intensity of the received field strength in order to satisfy the needs of the service provider. At this time, the strength of the received field strength displayed according to the characteristics of the present invention is represented by a bar (bar) is increased by the strength of the antenna shape and the strength of the received field strength, it is preferable that the displayed bar and the shape of the antenna is different colors. . In addition, the strength of the received electric field strength displayed according to the characteristics of the present invention is increased as the number of logos for the advertisement (logo), the antenna shape and the received electric field strength related to the carrier or the advertiser requesting the advertisement (bar) The logo, antenna shape, and color of the bar, which are displayed for each intensity, are displayed differently. Of course, the advertising logo may be displayed by adaptively changing the color to be the same as the color of the longest bar among the displayed bars.

The above-described features of the present invention will become apparent from the following description with reference to the drawings. In the description of the present invention, detailed descriptions of well-known functions and configurations that may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention will be omitted.

1 is a schematic block diagram of a mobile communication terminal to which the present invention is applied.

The control unit 31 controls the overall operation of the mobile communication terminal, grasps the strength of the received electric field strength, grasps the setting grade corresponding to the strength of the received electric field strength, and performs display control corresponding to the setting grade. The control unit 31 is typically implemented as a one chip microprocessor.

 The display unit 32 operates under the control of the control unit 31, displays an overall operating state of the mobile communication terminal, and displays display information corresponding to the level of the received electric field strength stored in the storage unit 35. The display unit 32 is usually implemented as a liquid crystal display (LCD), and may be a display device that replaces the LCD.

The wireless signal processing unit 33 operates under the control of the control unit 31, performs overall processing on the wireless signal transmission and reception between the mobile communication terminal and the base station to which the terminal is subscribed, and measures the received electric field strength to measure the measured value of the control unit ( 31).

The key input unit 34 is a user information input unit, which includes a plurality of numeric keys and function keys, and provides unique key data to the controller 31 according to the input of each of the provided keys. The user performs setting and function required through the input of the keys provided in the key input unit 34.

The main memory 35 is a ROM in which a program for executing overall operation of the mobile communication terminal and selecting and displaying display information corresponding to the level of the received electric field strength is coded and stored, and various operating programs such as these. RAM for temporarily storing data generated during the execution.

The intensity display information storage unit 36 is controlled by the control unit 31 and stores program information for displaying the display information for each electric field intensity and the display information for each electric field intensity corresponding to the grade of the received electric field intensity.

The display information for each electric field intensity is an image and color information corresponding to a class of a received electric field intensity, and is a mapping table in which an image and a color for each class of the electric field intensity are matched. The number of the received electric field strength is determined according to the number of bars displayed on the display unit 32. That is, if the number of bars is four, the rating is divided into four, and if the number of bars is six, the rating is divided into six.

The graded image of the received electric field strength stored in the mapping table is shown in FIGS. 2 and 3. 2 is an exemplary view showing that the image of the received electric field strength according to the first embodiment of the present invention is displayed by class.

As shown in FIG. 2, the graded image of the received electric field strength according to the first exemplary embodiment of the present invention is formed of an antenna shape d1 and a plurality of bars d2-d7, which are typical types in the related art. The colors of the bars d2-d7 and the antenna shape d1 are different from each other, and the number of bars is varied according to the class of the received field strength to display the received field strength. The antenna shape d1 is an image representing the received electric field strength.

Accordingly, the control unit 31 finds the display information for each electric field intensity corresponding to one of (a) to (g) shown in FIG. 2 in the mapping table and displays it on the display unit 32 according to the grade of the received electric field strength. The higher this, the more the number of bars. Here, the higher the grade of the received electric field strength, the longer the length of the additionally displayed bar is longer than the length of the bar of the previous grade.

As shown in FIG. 2, antenna shape d1 is purple, antenna bar d2 is blue, antenna bar d3 is blue, antenna bar d4 is green, antenna bar d5 is yellow, antenna bar d6 is orange, and antenna bar d7 Is red. As shown in FIG. 2, the image for each grade of the received electric field strength is displayed in a rainbow color to increase the visual effect. Those skilled in the art will be able to easily apply a color pattern that is familiar to rainbow colors to the graded image of the received field strength.

3 is an exemplary view showing an image of the received electric field strength for each grade according to the second embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 3, the image for each grade of the received electric field strength according to the second embodiment of the present invention is generally the same as the first embodiment, but further includes an advertisement logo e1.                     

That is, the image for each grade of the received electric field strength according to the second embodiment of the present invention is a form consisting of a logo (e1), the antenna shape (e2) and a plurality of bars (e3-e6) indicating the grade of the received electric field strength, Basically, the colors of the logo (e1), the antenna shape (e2) and the bars (e3-e6) are different from each other, and the received field strength is displayed by varying the number of bars according to the grade of the received field strength. Of course, it is also possible to make the color of the logo the same as the color of the last bar indicating the current state of the received field strength. In this case, the controller first checks the color of the last bar of the received field strength indication and then determines the color of the logo.

The logo (e1) is an advertising logo for a communication service provider or an advertiser requesting an advertisement, and in this case, it is preferable to be fixed. However, the logo (e1) may be used to meet the user's desire in addition to the advertisement, in this case, a plurality of logo images and the logo on the receiving field strength display information storage unit 36, the logo menu to select and display Program data may be stored so that the user selects an arbitrary logo and the control unit 31 stores the arbitrary logo selected by the user in the mapping table.

The control unit 31 finds display information for each electric field intensity corresponding to one of (a) to (d) shown in FIG. 3 in the mapping table and displays it on the display unit 32 according to the grade of the received electric field strength. As shown in FIG. 3, the logo e1 is purple, the antenna shape e2 is indigo blue, the antenna bar e3 is blue, the antenna bar e4 is green, the antenna bar e5 is yellow, and the antenna bar e6 is orange.                     

Meanwhile, in the first and second embodiments of the present invention, the program data emulating the logo e1 or the antenna shapes d1 and e2 is added to the intensity display information storage unit 36 so that the logo e1 is added. Alternatively, the antenna shapes d1 and e2 are operated to rotate, emit light, and blink. This emulation operation will be easily understood as a form used in a screen saver of a computer.

Hereinafter, a method for displaying received field strength of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 4.

4 is an operation flowchart illustrating a method of displaying a received electric field strength of a mobile communication terminal according to the first embodiment of the present invention, which is an operation flowchart of the controller 31.

As shown in FIG. 4, the controller 31 inputs a received electric field strength signal measured at a predetermined cycle time interval by the wireless signal processor 33 (S401). The control unit 31 determines the strength of the received electric field strength from the received received electric field strength signal, and checks which grade the strength of the determined received electric field strength corresponds to (S402).

Then, the control unit 31 finds the received field strength indication information corresponding to the determined level of the received field intensity from the map table stored in the received field intensity display information storage unit 36 (S403), and then displays the display unit 36 on the display unit 36. Control so as to (S404).

Here, since the electric field strength display information corresponds to the first embodiment, the number of bars corresponding to the antenna shape d1 and the grade of the received electric field strength, the antenna shape d1, and the color information of each bar. If the field strength indication information corresponds to the second embodiment, the field strength indication information is the number of bars corresponding to the logo (e1), the shape of the antenna (e2) and the magnitude of the received field strength, the logo (e1), and the antenna. It will be the shape e2, the color information of each bar.

The above-described routine of FIG. 4 is repeated every time a received electric field strength signal provided from the radio signal processor 33 is input at predetermined intervals.

On the other hand, the first and second embodiments of the present invention described above are for the case where the number of bars and the color of each bar and the antenna shape are fixedly set for each grade of the received electric field strength.

However, those skilled in the art can modify the first and second embodiments of the present invention so that the color of each bar and antenna shape or logo displayed for each grade of the received electric field strength can be arbitrarily changed by the user. In this case, the received electric field strength indication information storage unit 36 should store program data for a color menu that enables the user to specify the color of each bar through the key input unit 34. Therefore, when the user selects the color menu, the control unit 31 provides the user with a list of colors stored in the received electric field intensity indication information storage unit 36, so that the user can select the antenna shape, the logo, and the bar. Allow color to be set. At this time, the mapping table is immediately updated with the color information of each bar d2 to d7 changed through the color menu.

The first and second embodiments of the present invention described above may be provided as a method for displaying received electric field strength fixed to the mobile communication terminal. However, the first and second embodiments may be implemented in the mobile communication terminal in a mixed form. In this case, the mobile communication terminal selects one of the first and second embodiments, and receives a field strength display menu that allows the user to select color conversion, logo type and insertion, emulation type, and driving. It is preferable to provide through the intensity indication information storage unit 36.                     

A mix of the first and second embodiments is shown in FIG. 5. 5 is an exemplary view showing that the image of the received electric field strength according to the third embodiment of the present invention is displayed for each grade.

As shown in FIG. 5, when the control unit 31 receives an input for selecting the electric field strength menu by the user (S501), the sub-menu of the electric field strength menu is displayed on the display unit 32 (S502). Wait.

When the user selects a color menu among the lower menus (S503), the controller 31 displays the stored color list on the display unit 32 (S504), and identifies and sets the color selected by the user for each bar and antenna shape (S503). S505).

When the color of each bar is set as described above, the controller 31 updates the mapping table with the color information according to the set bar to update the color of each bar and antenna shape displayed for each grade of the received electric field strength (S506). Then, the multicolor color display mode is set (S507). The reception field strength display operation according to the multi-color display mode corresponds to the above description with reference to FIGS. 2 and 4.

On the other hand, if the user selects one of the logo menu logo menu (S510). The controller 31 displays the stored logo list on the display unit 32 (S511), grasps and sets the log selected by the user (S512), and updates the mapping table with the set logo information (S513). Then, the logo display mode is set (S514). The reception electric field strength display operation according to the logo display mode is shown in FIG. 3.

When the user selects an emulating menu which is one of the lower menus (S520), the controller 31 displays the electric field intensity display image according to the currently set display mode on the display unit 32 (S521). That is, when the multicolor color display mode is set, the antenna shape and the plurality of bars are displayed. When the logo display mode is set, the antenna shape, the logo and the plurality of bars are displayed.

The controller 32 sets an image (at least one of an antenna shape, a logo, and a plurality of bars) selected by the user as an image to be emulated (S522). Thereafter, the controller 32 displays a list of emulation types, that is, rotation and blinking, etc. on the display unit 32 (S523), and then grasps and sets the emulation type selected by the user (S524).

The controller 32 updates the mapping table with the emulated image selected by the user and the emulating type (S525), and sets the emulating mode (S526).

According to the present invention, it is preferable to provide a method of displaying as a basic display menu by varying the number of antenna bars according to the class of the received electric field strength, which is a conventional display method.

The technical spirit of the present invention has been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings. In addition, it is obvious that any person skilled in the art can make various modifications and imitations without departing from the scope of the technical idea of the present invention.

The present invention enables the user to easily check the received electric field strength by using the antenna bar when displaying the received electric field strength of the mobile communication terminal, improve the visual satisfaction of the user by displaying the antenna bar in various colors, The displayed logo can expect the advertising effect intended by the operator.

Claims (11)

delete delete In the receiving field strength display method of the mobile communication terminal, Detecting a received electric field strength; Detecting a class corresponding to the detected received electric field strength from a preset class corresponding to the received electric field strength, and from the number of antenna bars set corresponding to the class corresponding to the received electric field strength to the detected received electric field strength. Extracting the number of antenna bars corresponding to the corresponding class; Extracting a logo image corresponding to the detected received field strength from a preset logo image corresponding to a class corresponding to the received field strength; And And displaying the antenna bars according to the number of the extracted antenna bars based on a predetermined color for each of the antenna bars, and displaying the extracted logo image on the display area of the antenna bars. Receiving field strength display method in a mobile communication terminal characterized in that. The method according to claim 3, The logo image is a display method for receiving electric field strength in a mobile communication terminal, characterized in that the advertising logo image. The method according to claim 4, The logo image is emulated according to the set information characterized in that the received electric field strength in the mobile communication terminal. The method according to claim 4, The longest length and the logo image of the antenna bars displayed for each grade of the received electric field strength is displayed in the same color in the mobile communication terminal, characterized in that the received field strength display method. The method according to claim 3, The fourth step is a method of displaying the received electric field strength in a mobile communication terminal, characterized in that for displaying the image of the antenna shape, while displaying the antenna bar and the logo image together. The method of claim 7, And the antenna shape is displayed in a color different from the color of the antenna bar. The method according to claim 8, The antenna shape and the color of each antenna bar follow the rainbow field colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and purple. delete On the processor, Detecting a received electric field strength; Detecting a class corresponding to the detected received electric field strength from a preset class corresponding to the received electric field strength, and from the number of antenna bars set corresponding to the class corresponding to the received electric field strength to the detected received electric field strength. Extracting the number of antenna bars corresponding to the corresponding class; Extracting a logo image corresponding to the detected received field strength from a preset logo image corresponding to a class corresponding to the received field strength; And And displaying the antenna bars according to the number of the extracted antenna bars based on a predetermined color for each of the antenna bars, and displaying the extracted logo image on the display area of the antenna bars. A computer-readable recording medium that contains a program for making a program.

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