Selective calling receiver and method of displaying received message data

Abstract

There is provided a selective calling receiver including a display, a radio signal receiver, a detector detecting and waveform-shaping a radio signal, a first memory storing therein at least one calling number of the selective calling receiver, a second memory storing received message data therein, a third memory storing therein a map defining a relation between bit rows and letter data, a decoder decoding a signal transmitted from the means, and discriminating whether a calling number in a received signal is coincident with the calling number of the selective calling receiver, and a discriminator discriminating whether the received message data is text data or graphics data, based on the calling number of the selective calling receive. The discriminator stores the message data in the third memory as a letter code including at least one unit comprised of the predetermined number of bits, reads out letter data corresponding to the message data, out of the second memory, and displays the thus read-out letter data in the display, when the message data is text data. The discriminator stores the message data in the third memory as dot data in a unit indicative of the number of dots per a row, and displays the message data in the unit in the display, when the message data is graphics data. The selective calling receiver makes it possible to display any received message data, regardless that the received message data is text data or graphics data, without including ROM defining correspondence between letters and received data.