Paging receiver that displays visual symbols
First Claim
1. A handheld paging receiver comprising receiving means for receiving messages and detecting symbol associated codes contained in the messages, selection means for selecting symbols corresponding to the possible symbol associated codes in the messages from a predetermined set of at least three visual symbols and for conveying said message using different selections of said symbols, and reproduction means for visually reproducing as pictograms a plurality of the selected symbols corresponding to symbol associated codes in a received message, wherein the reproduction means are arranged to visually reproduce the symbols of the set of at least three visual symbols as respective different pictograms in predesignated positions such that each different pictogram has its own exclusive predesignated position and the pictograms are situated relative to one another so as to form a two-dimensional scene.
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Abstract
On a paging receiver visual symbols are visually reproduced, relative to one another as in a two-dimensional scene, under the control of a message received.
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- 1. A handheld paging receiver comprising receiving means for receiving messages and detecting symbol associated codes contained in the messages, selection means for selecting symbols corresponding to the possible symbol associated codes in the messages from a predetermined set of at least three visual symbols and for conveying said message using different selections of said symbols, and reproduction means for visually reproducing as pictograms a plurality of the selected symbols corresponding to symbol associated codes in a received message, wherein the reproduction means are arranged to visually reproduce the symbols of the set of at least three visual symbols as respective different pictograms in predesignated positions such that each different pictogram has its own exclusive predesignated position and the pictograms are situated relative to one another so as to form a two-dimensional scene.
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