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WO1999037105A2
WO1999037105A2 PCT/IB1999/000036 IB9900036W WO9937105A2 WO 1999037105 A2 WO1999037105 A2 WO 1999037105A2 IB 9900036 W IB9900036 W IB 9900036W WO 9937105 A2 WO9937105 A2 WO 9937105A2
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David P. Walker
Paul R. Simons
Timothy J. Walls
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Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/72—Mobile telephones; Cordless telephones, i.e. devices for establishing wireless links to base stations without route selection
    • H04M1/724—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
    • H04M1/72403—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
    • H04M1/7243—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality with interactive means for internal management of messages
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M1/00—Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers
    • H04M1/72—Mobile telephones; Cordless telephones, i.e. devices for establishing wireless links to base stations without route selection
    • H04M1/724—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
    • H04M1/72403—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
    • H04M1/72427—User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality for supporting games or graphical animations
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04W—WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    • H04W88/00—Devices specially adapted for wireless communication networks, e.g. terminals, base stations or access point devices
    • H04W88/18—Service support devices; Network management devices
    • H04W88/184—Messaging devices, e.g. message centre

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  • the present invention relates to the formation and transmission of graphic images and particularly, but not exclusively, to the sending of graphic objects as all or part of a message between users of hand-held or mobile communications devices.
  • SMS Short Message Service
  • GSM Global System for Mobile communications
  • an object of the present invention to provide improved flexibility in the provision of graphics images to be displayed on the screens of hand-held or mobile apparatus, which images may represent the whole or part of a message.
  • a method for the generation of paging messages for passing between remote data communications apparatuses wherein the message generating apparatus constructs a coded message including specification of one or more graphic message elements and transmits the coded message via a server to the message receiving apparatus which decodes and displays the message; characterised in that the message generating apparatus constructs the graphic message elements from one or more locally stored image component objects, codes the message as an ordered list of such component objects and their relative positions within an image field which image field is recreated based on stored protocols for handling such objects within the message receiving apparatus.
  • the said server may maintain a database of image component objects, with the message generating apparatus being enabled to access said database, download via communications link data defining a selected one or more image component objects, and store the same.
  • the selection and downloading may be wholly or partly under the direction of the user of the sender device, with the server perhaps presenting menus of available objects.
  • communications between said apparatuses and via the server may suitably conform to GSM protocols with the sending of coded graphic data utilising the above-mentioned SMS function of GSM: it is a particular feature that the graphic message data should be extremely compact, as will be discussed hereinafter.
  • a portable communications apparatus for use as a message generating apparatus in the above-recited method, the apparatus comprising: a first memory comprising a store of component objects; a display device controllably operable to display one or more component objects recalled from the first memory; user operable control means for selecting and manipulating displayed component objects; encoding means for generating a coded specification of said selected and manipulated component objects; and transmitter means for formatting and sending, via a server, a paging message including said coded specification.
  • the encoding means may be arranged to generate an ordered rendering list identifying the order in which the selected component objects are to be rendered on regeneration of the image, and to sequentially code each object of the list as a first data word identifying the object type and one or more further words specifying coordinates for said object.
  • the apparatus may further comprise a receiver coupled with the said first memory and configured to receive coded image data from the server, and further storage means coupled with the display and containing said object identifier codes, the display being configured to reconstruct the image from the object data and output the same.
  • the control means may comprise a touch screen overlaying the display, in which arrangement the control means may suitably be configured to monitor and store component objects specified by user input in the form of entry via the touch screen.
  • the control means may suitably be configured to monitor and store component objects specified by user input in the form of entry via the touch screen.
  • the freehand drawing of component objects by the user may be supported, such as to enhance the personalised nature of messages and increase the variety of possible graphic images.
  • the said input means may be provided as selectable secondary functions of one or more of those user operable controls.
  • the present invention provides a means for exchanging graphical images for display in a format optimised for low bit-rate mobile data communications.
  • the method allows objects to be displayed in a device independent manner on low to medium resolution graphical displays such as those of mobile telephones or PDA's.
  • FIG. 1 is a block schematic diagram of a messaging system embodying the present invention
  • Figure 2 is an example component object image formed from seven objects
  • Figure 3 is a table of the respective properties of each of the objects in the image of Figure 1 ;
  • Figure 5 represents the bit-structure of an object coordinate specification
  • Figure 6 is a block schematic diagram of a receiver apparatus suitable to embody the present invention.
  • Figure 1 generally illustrates a messaging system which may suitably embody the present invention, comprising a number of client personal communications devices 100 exchanging messages using the SMS part of the GSM digital standard via a server 200. If a client is unreachable, then a message will be stored at the server 200 and sent later as the target client becomes available.
  • the present graphic messaging system sits on top of the existing SMS infrastructure; SMS allows short textual messages to be sent between telecommunications devices, with messages being entered by typing on the devices keypad, and the applicants have recognised that this may be extended to support the sending of suitably formatted graphic image data.
  • a client device 100 provides the user with means in the form of a simple graphics editor to assemble graphic images from one or more component objects (which objects may include text strings), as will be described, with the device maintaining an internal store 150 of such component objects.
  • component objects which objects may include text strings
  • the device maintaining an internal store 150 of such component objects.
  • all interactions or object manipulations specified by the user are performed by the standard telephone keys: for example, the user could use the 4 and 6 numeric keys to move a selected object left or right, and the 8 and 2 keys to move up or down.
  • the server 200 may maintain or provide direct access to a library 250 of additional objects.
  • the user can browse a hierarchical menu of images and select one for downloading to the users device.
  • the user may be enabled to "draw" freehand.
  • direct drawing of component objects by use of a stylus and the screen may be accommodated.
  • Component object images as used in the following examples are comprised of three main drawing objects: points, text, and polygons; a polygon may have between one and nine edges and, assuming a monochrome or two- colour display, may be filled or unfilled.
  • Each object can be drawn in either "black” (with pixels set) or white (pixels are cleared).
  • Figure 2 shows an example component object image 10 constructed from a total of seven objects 11-17. Note that it is possible to overlay objects on top of each other; objects are drawn in the order in which they are specified in the encoded data stream and the encoded data therefore represents an ordered list of display objects.
  • the properties of each object in the example image of Figure 2 are as shown in the table of Figure 3. Because object 14 (a white filled polygon) was drawn after object 13 (black filled polygon) it appears on top of the arrow-shaped polygon 13. Likewise the text string (object 15) appears on top of the white filled polygon 14.
  • All vertices in component object images are specified in a fixed coordinate image field using the XY coordinate system shown in Figure 1 , with the origin in the top left hand corner and a range 0-127 for each axis.
  • the image field is "square" (the ranges for the X and Y axes are the same), the display device is unlikely to be.
  • the image will be scaled in the terminal to fit the display size and aspect ratio.
  • Every object to be drawn is sent a command word followed by a variable length of data.
  • the data may be characters (7-bit ASCII) or coordinates (14-bits).
  • the commands are formatted as 7-bit words of data.
  • the overall bit format is as shown in Figure 4, with all data being encoded in the order of most- significant to least significant bit.
  • Commands may be followed by coordinates in terms of the image field and formatted as shown in Figure 5, with the first seven bits giving a value 0-127 for the X coordinate, and the other seven bits giving a value 0-127 for the Y coordinate.
  • FIG. 6 A block schematic diagram of a mobile/hand-held communications device configured both to receive and generate component object encoded messages is shown in Figure 6.
  • the functioning of many of the component parts will be well understood by the skilled reader and, other than in terms of their bearing on the operation of the present invention, they will not be described in detail.
  • a received signal is passed via transceiver 22 and decoder 24 stages to a central processing unit 26, which unit also (in this embodiment) handles the function of display driver formatting graphical and text data into display commands for output to display screen 28.
  • An apparatus memory 30 is coupled with the processor and holds basic operating data and programs for the device.
  • User input to the processor 26 is via controls 32: these may be in the form of a simple keypad and/or they may be combined with the display 28 through a touch-screen arrangement, as indicated by dashed line 34.
  • Other conventional functions of the device for example audio handling are illustrated generally at 36.
  • the object and command word code store 38 may be incorporated with the general device memory 30.
  • the decoder 24/encoder 42 and/or scaling circuit 40 functions may be embodied completely in software and carried out in processor 26.
  • the display driver functions of the processor may be handled by a separate unit, optionally with a display memory from which display data would be read out.

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Procédé et appareil pour la génération de messages de messagerie à faire circuler entre des dispositifs de communication de données éloignés (100). Un dispositif construit un message graphique en utilisant au moins des objets composant une image, mémorisés localement (150), puis code le message sous forme de liste ordonnée desdits objets composants et leur positions relatives dans un champ d'image à coordonnées fixes. Un serveur (200) gère le passage des messages d'un dispositif (100) à l'autre, ainsi que la mémorisation desdits messages lorsqu'un dispositif n'est pas disponible. Le serveur (200) maintient et permet également l'accès à une bibliothèque (250) de composants objets accessibles par chaque dispositif utilisateur et dans laquelle plusieurs objets composants peuvent être sélectionnés pour s'ajouter à ceux à partir desquels un utilisateur compose des images graphiques à émettre.
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