FM channel finding and searching method, mobile terminal and storage apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11212020-B2
Application number	US-201816628038-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 12, 2018
Priority date	Jul 12, 2017
Publication date	Dec 28, 2021
Grant date	Dec 28, 2021

Abstract

Disclosed in the present invention are an FM channel finding and searching method, a mobile terminal and a storage apparatus. By means of establishing a data table of different channels and priority levels of corresponding numbers of times connecting thereto or pre-determined priority levels, ordering current FM channel information by priority level according to the data table, and acquiring an updated channel list, then loading and displaying corresponding channels, thereby increasing speed of a user finding and searching FM channels, and making use more convenient.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for looking-up and searching for a frequency modulation (FM) channel, the method comprising:
establishing a table, including relationships between channels and corresponding connection times priorities, according to connection times of the channels, and storing the table in a storage device;
obtaining information of a searched FM channel and looking up the table to determine whether the searched FM is in the table and performing a priority sorting to update the table if the searched FM is in the table; and
obtaining a channel list from the updated table and loading and displaying a corresponding channel in the channel list according to the priorities.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of establishing the table, including the relationships between the channels and the corresponding connection times priorities or the predetermined priorities, and storing the table in the storage device comprises:
calculating connection times of the channels in the mobile terminal and setting the priorities from most to least according to the connection times;
establishing the table, including the relationships between the channels and the corresponding connection times priorities or the predetermined priorities according to the connection times of the channels; and
storing the table in a storage of the mobile terminal.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of setting the priorities from the most to the least according to the connection times comprises:
setting a channel having the most connection times as a top priority, setting a channel having the least connection times as a lowest priority, and setting other channels as different priorities from the most to the least according to the connection times of the other channels.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the predetermined priority is set according to a user's setting a specific FM channel as a fixed priority.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of obtaining information of a searched FM channel and looking up the table to determine whether the searched FM is in the table and performing a priority sorting to update the table if the searched FM is in the table comprises:
utilizing the mobile terminal to receive a user command to turn on a radio function of an FM radio to start a search of FM channels;
utilizing the mobile terminal to obtain information of the searched FM channel and look up the table to find the FM channel; and
determining whether the searched FM channel is in the table and performing the priority sorting to update the table if the searched FM is in the table.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the step of obtaining the channel list from the updated table and loading and displaying the corresponding channel in the channel list according to the priorities comprises:
obtaining the channel list in the updated table; and
loading and displaying the corresponding channel in the channel list for a user to select an FM channel to perform a radio function.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the step of obtaining the channel list from the updated table and loading and displaying the corresponding channel in the channel list according to the priorities further comprises:
when detecting that a user is using a specific channel, revising the connection times of the specific channel and updating the table;
when the mobile terminal again detects that the user is performing the search of FM channels, performing a look up function according to the updated table.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of obtaining information of the searched FM channel and looking up the table to determine whether the searched FM is in the table and performing the priority sorting to update the table if the searched FM is in the table comprises:
if the searched FM channel is not in the table, then performing a sorting operation according to a search order.

9. A mobile terminal, comprising:
a processor;
a storage device, electrically connected to the processor, configured to store programs for the processor to execute to operations of:
establishing a table, including relationships between channels and corresponding connection times priorities, according to connection times of the channels, and storing the table in a storage device;
obtaining information of a searched FM channel and looking up the table to determine whether the searched FM is in the table and performing a priority sorting to update the table if the searched FM is in the table; and
obtaining a channel list from the updated table and loading and displaying a corresponding channel in the channel list according to the priorities.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 9 , wherein the operation of establishing the table, including the relationships between the channels and the corresponding connection times priorities or the predetermined priorities, and storing the table in the storage device comprises:
calculating connection times of the channels in the mobile terminal and setting the priorities from most to least according to the connection times;
establishing the table, including the relationships between the channels and the corresponding connection times priorities or the predetermined priorities according to the connection times of the channels; and
storing the table in a storage of the mobile terminal.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 10 , wherein the operation of setting the priorities from the most to the least according to the connection times comprises:
setting a channel having the most connection times as a top priority, setting a channel having the least connection times as a lowest priority, and setting other channels as different priorities from the most to the least according to the connection times of the other channels.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 10 , wherein the predetermined priority is set according to a user's setting a specific FM channel as a fixed priority.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 9 , wherein the operation of obtaining information of a searched FM channel and looking up the table to determine whether the searched FM is in the table and performing a priority sorting to update the table if the searched FM is in the table comprises:
utilizing the mobile terminal to receive a user command to turn on a radio function of an FM radio to start a search of FM channels;
utilizing the mobile terminal to obtain information of the searched FM channel and look up the table to find the FM channel; and
determining whether the searched FM channel is in the table and performing the priority sorting to update the table if the searched FM is in the table.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 13 , wherein the operation of obtaining the channel list from the updated table and loading and displaying the corresponding channel in the channel list according to the priorities comprises:
obtaining the channel list in the updated table; and
loading and displaying the corresponding channel in the channel list for a user to select an FM channel to perform a radio function.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 14 , wherein the operation of obtaining the channel list from the updated table and loading and displaying the corresponding channel in the channel list according to the priorities further comprises:
when detecting that a user is using a specific channel, revising the connection times of the specific channel and updating the table;
when the mobile terminal again detects that the user is performing the search of FM channels, performing a look up function according to the updated table.

16. The mobile terminal of claim

Assignees

• Huizhou Tcl Mobile Communications Co Ltd
• Huizhou Tcl Mobile Communication Co Ltd

Inventors

• Gu Qicai
• Shi Lei
• Lin Qiqi
• Lai Yanming
• Zhang Hua
• Guo Danping

Classifications

• H04H60/46 Primary

  for recognising users' preferences · CPC title

• H04H60/43 Primary

  for identifying broadcast channels · CPC title

• H04H60/41 Primary

  for identifying broadcast space, i.e. broadcast channels, broadcast stations or broadcast areas · CPC title