Telecommunications – Transmitter and receiver at same station – Radiotelephone equipment detail
Reexamination Certificate
2000-03-30
2004-09-14
Trost, William (Department: 2683)
Telecommunications
Transmitter and receiver at same station
Radiotelephone equipment detail
C455S414100, C455S556100, C455S556200, C455S557000, C705S020000, C705S026640, C235S378000, C235S385000, C340S005610, C340S005650, C340S005910, C340S005920
Reexamination Certificate
active
06792292
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a portable information communication terminal preferably for use as a portable information communication terminal capable of receiving wireless signals using a wireless paging system or pager or a portable information communication terminal connectable to an entertainment apparatus, an entertainment system, and a storage medium for use in an entertainment apparatus.
2. Description of the Related Art
Portable information communication terminals (also referred to as PDA “Personal Digital Assistant”) having a flat display unit such as a liquid crystal display (LCD) unit, e.g., personal computers, electronic notebooks, portable telephone sets, PHS terminals, pagers, etc. have been in widespread usage.
Entertainment apparatus for downloading programs from mass-storage storage mediums such as CD-ROMs to play games or playing back music pieces in CDs are also gaining growing popularity.
Conventional PDAs have not been considered for connection to industrial systems such as store automation systems for efficient retail store operation.
There has been a demand for automatically and simply entering individual items of information, such as individual PDA identification codes (e.g., production serial numbers), i.e., individual IDs, and individual user identification codes, i.e., user IDs, into industrial systems. However, no PDAs capable of meeting the demand have been available in the art.
Non-contact card systems such as bank card systems usually output only predetermined codes such as account numbers, but do not offer a function to allow users to select and output codes.
There have been not available any systems in which PDAs and entertainment systems are combined for connection to industrial systems.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a portable information communication terminal and an entertainment system which are easily capable of being combined with industrial systems.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a portable information communication terminal and an entertainment system which allow a portable information communication terminal capable of receiving wireless signals and an entertainment apparatus to complement each other to create a new function.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a portable information communication terminal, an entertainment system, and a storage medium which are capable of increasing the convenience of a portable information communication terminal and an entertainment apparatus.
According to an aspect of the present invention, a portable information communication terminal has a wireless signal receiver for receiving basic data relative to a particular code, and a code data converter for converting the basic data received by the wireless signal receiver into an optically readable code-related data. A display controller displays an optically readable particular code represented by the code-related data on the display screen of a display unit. The display unit of the portable information communication terminal can display the optically readable particular code corresponding to the received wireless signal.
According to another aspect of the present invention, a portable information communication terminal has a wireless signal receiver for receiving basic data relative to a particular code and related-information data including information related to the basic data, and a code data converter for converting the basic data received by the wireless signal receiver into an optically readable code-related data. The display controller displays an optically readable particular code represented by the code-related data and/or the related information data on the display screen of a display unit. The display unit of the portable information communication terminal can display the optically readable particular code corresponding to the received wireless signal and/or the related information data.
According to still another aspect of the present invention, a portable information communication terminal has a wireless signal receiver for receiving a plurality of basic data relative to a plurality of particular codes and a plurality of related-information data including information related to the plurality of basic data, respectively, a code data converter for converting the plurality of basic data received by the wireless signal receiver into respective optically readable code-related data, and a related-information selector for selecting a desired one of the plurality of related-information data displayed on the display screen. A display controller displays an optically readable particular code represented by the code-related data corresponding to the related-information data selected by the related-information selector, on the display screen of a display unit. Of the received plurality of related information data, an optically readable particular code relative to desired related information can automatically be selected on the display unit of the portable information communication terminal.
The code data converter may read the data relative to the individual identification code from a memory and converts the read data into optically readable individual identification code data when converting the basic data into the optically readable code-related data, and the display controller may display an optically readable individual identification code represented by the individual identification code data when displaying the optically readable particular code represented by the code-related data on the display screen of the display unit. Therefore, an individual identification code such as a product serial number or the like of the portable information communication terminal can be displayed as an optically readable code, as well as the optically readable particular code.
The code data converter may read the data relative to the user identification code from a memory and converting the read data into optically readable user identification code data when converting the basic data into the optically readable code-related data, and the display controller may display an optically readable user identification code represented by the user identification code data when displaying the optically readable particular code represented by the code-related data on the display screen of the display unit. Therefore, an identification code of the user of the portable information communication terminal can be displayed as an optically readable code, as well as the optically readable particular code.
The code data converter may read the data relative to the individual identification code and/or the data relative to the user identification code from the memory and converting the read data into optically readable individual identification code data and/or optically readable user identification code data when converting the basic data into the optically readable code-related data, and the display controller may display an optically readable individual identification code represented by the individual identification code data and/or an optically readable user identification code represented by the user identification code data when displaying the optically readable particular code represented by the code-related data on the display screen of the display unit.
The optically readable particular code may comprise a bar code. The bar code can be read by a bar-code reader which is part of the infrastructure of an existing store.
The bar code may comprise a bar code for use in discounting an article for sale. When the user takes the portable information communication terminal to the store, the user can purchase the article at a discount price, and hence can find the portable information communication terminal highly convenient to use.
An entertainment system according to an aspect of the present invention has an entertainment apparatus for reading and executing a program stored in a detachable storage medium, a display unit conn
D'Agosta Stephen
Katten Muchin Zavis & Rosenman
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
Trost William
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