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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 19, 1996
Seon-Woong Hwang, Yongin-gun, KR;
SamSung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Abstract
A pager for receiving a text message from a transmitter and displaying characters corresponding thereto in different fonts. The pager includes a first font read-only-memory having a plurality of predetermined addresses, for storing a first font corresponding to said predetermined addresses; an n-th font read-only-memory having the same plurality of predetermined addresses, for storing an n-th font having the same code as the first font but a different display form from the first font, wherein n.gtoreq.2; and a controller for checking whether a received code forming the text message is an n-th font conversion code by comparing the received code with a pre-selected n-th font conversion code, for accessing an actual address of the n-th font read-only-memory corresponding to the received code when the received code is the n-th font conversion code so as to read the corresponding font data for a visual display of the read font data.