Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Akihiko Wada

Yasushi Abe

Kazuhiko Fujimori

Keiko Ishii

Teruto Hirota

Yutaka Tanaka

Akihiro Abe

Toshiyuki Ochiai

Kunihiko Sakoda

Hideo Ishida

Eiichi Toyonaga

Toshihide Abe

An image display method for displaying description data having text information and image information described in a predetermined description format. The image display method comprises the steps of extracting attribute values indicating attributes for specifying the image information from the description data (), listing the extracted attribute values (), selecting at least one attribute value from among the listed attribute values (), reading the image information specified by the selected attribute value (), and displaying the image information ().

Image display method and portable terminal for displaying selected image

In a case where a desired radio frequency channel is searched over a plurality of radio frequency channels through manual switching, a received data error detection section detects an error rate of radio data, and an electric field detection section detects a field strength. System information comparison section detects a match or mismatch between the system information of the radio frequency channel and the system information of a wireless selective paging receiver. A display section indicates the result of such detection in the form of an at-a-glance list in decreasing order of receiving probability, thereby enabling the user to select a radio frequency channel having a higher degree of reliability. Further, radio frequency channels which will be covered by a receiving area, system information on each of the radio frequency channels, and area information are stored so as to become associated with one another. As a result, the user can determine a receiving area without involving re-searching of a radio frequency channel at the time of selection of a receivable area.

Selective wireless paging receiver and radio frequency searching method therefor

A message erasing method for a wireless communications device having a paging function, the method including a step of indicating received messages according to chronological order (on an LCD display); a step in which the user views the display and specifies the position of a message to be erased (by means of a jog dial); and a step of erasing all the messages received before the specified message (by means of a jog dial). By use of this method, the user can readily erase a plurality of unneeded messages.

Method and device for erasing message from wireless communication device having a paging function

Group identification codes, names of parties to be sent, and telephone numbers of the pagers of the parties to be sent are stored in groups in memory,of a selective pager. At the time of transmission of a message, telephone numbers of a specified group and a message to be sent for the group are selected from the memory. The telephone numbers and the message are alternately sent to a DTMF signal generation section,, which converts the telephone numbers and the message to DTMF signals. The DTMF signals are then converted into acoustic signals by means of a speaker,and are continually transmitted by way of a transmitter of a telephone set. As a result, a group call can be implemented without involving laborious operations, such as transmission of the telephone numbers and the message one by one.

Selective pager and paging system

Messages received through information delivery are classified by a message identification section. The thus-classified messages are stored into a specified folder by means of a folder management section and are managed for each level in a hierarchy. When a new message is stored into the specified folder, a folder setting section causes a paging control section to page the user by means of a speaker, a vibrator, or an LED or causes a display control section to display the arrival of a message on an LCD. So long as the folder is set to a shortcut folder, a desired information item can be read in a prioritized manner.

Radio pager having directory structure with user-defined notification of message receipt

A data transfer system comprises a plurality of terminals; a plurality of high-speed data transfer units connected to the terminals through a network, each data transfer unit comprising a plurality of storage devices and a storage device group control device or unit for controlling readout of data from the storage devices, and dividing and storing data requested by the terminals; a virtual storage device group controlling device or unit for controlling readout of data from virtual storage device groups, each virtual storage device group being constructed by selecting a storage device from each high-speed data transfer unit; and an instruction conversion unit or device for receiving a data readout instruction on the basis of data requests output from the terminals, which instruction is given to the virtual storage device groups, from the virtual storage device group control unit or device, and converting the instruction into a data readout instruction to the storage devices from the storage device group control unit or device. In this data transfer system, the load for the data transfer processing is equally distributed among the high-speed data transfer units even when data transfer requests are output from plural terminals.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Akihiko Wada