DEVICE AND ANTENNA PICTOGRAM DISPLAY METHOD

• US 20150139114A1
• Filed: 05/31/2013
• Published: 05/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Uchino, Tooru, Aoyagi, Kenichiro, Hapsari, Wuri Andarmawanti
• Granted Patent: US 9,439,207 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/542 using measured or perceived quality

Abstract

There is disclosed user equipment including a communication unit for executing carrier aggregation and for executing communication through a plurality of carriers, and an antenna pictogram display unit for displaying, through an antenna pictogram, at least whether communication is allowed. When execution of the carrier aggregation is allowed, the antenna pictogram display unit displays an indication that the execution of the carrier aggregation is allowed together with at least one antenna pictogram.

Claims

1. User equipment comprising:

a communication unit configured to execute carrier aggregation (CA) and configured to execute communication through a plurality of carriers; and

an antenna pictogram display unit configured to display, through an antenna pictogram, at least whether communication is allowed,

wherein, when the CA is allowed, the antenna-pictogram display unit is configured to display an indication that the CA is allowed together with at least one antenna pictogram.

2. The user equipment according to claim 1, further comprising:

a quality measurement unit configured to measure reception quality for each of a plurality of cells for which the CA is allowed,

wherein, when the CA is allowed, the antenna pictogram display unit is configured to display, for each of the plurality of cells, the antenna pictogram and a reception level.

3. The user equipment according to claim 1,

wherein, when the CA is allowed, the antenna pictogram display unit is configured to display the one antenna pictogram and a number of carriers with which the CA is allowed.

4. An antenna pictogram display method that is to be executed by user equipment configured to execute carrier aggregation (CA) and configured to execute communication through a plurality of carriers, the method comprising:

a step of displaying, when the CA is allowed, an indication that the CA is allowed together with at least one antenna pictogram.