US 12,452,356 B2
Communication apparatus, method, and program having a signal strength compass
Kenta Asakura, Tokyo (JP); Jungo Goto, Tokyo (JP); Tomoyuki Nishikawa, Tokyo (JP); and Masato Yabe, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/920,022
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed May 11, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/018847
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 20, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/229650, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0164260 A1, May 25, 2023
Int. Cl. H04M 1/247 (2021.01); H04M 1/72454 (2021.01)
CPC H04M 1/247 (2013.01) [H04M 1/72454 (2021.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A communication apparatus including:
a display; and
control circuitry configured to:
display a first display associated with an application being used on the communication apparatus,
while displaying the first display:
monitor a signal strength associated with the application,
upon detecting that the signal strength associated with the application has dropped below a first predetermined threshold, automatically display a signal strength compass as a second display in a predetermined and moveable position on top of the first display, with a north position of the signal strength compass corresponding to a direction that a rear side of the communication apparatus is facing, and
while a user is moving the communication apparatus in a circle in a horizontal plane:
update the north position of the signal strength compass to correspond to a current direction that the rear side of the communication apparatus is facing,
measure a directional signal strength associated with application in the current direction that the rear side of the communication apparatus is facing,
display a progress bar on a perimeter of the circle corresponding movement of the communication apparatus in the circle in the horizontal plane,
superimpose, on the signal strength compass, information indicating a sector of the signal strength compass corresponding to a direction in which the measured directional signal strength exceeds a second predetermined threshold,
wherein the sector comprises an arc of 45 degrees or less.