WO2015000434A1

WO2015000434A1 - Method,system and apparatus for weather conditions presentation

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Publication number: WO2015000434A1
Application number: PCT/CN2014/081659
Authority: WO
Inventors: Luning CHENG
Original assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
Priority date: 2013-07-04
Filing date: 2014-07-04
Publication date: 2015-01-08
Also published as: CN104281595B; CN104281595A

Abstract

The disclosure a method, apparatus and system for presenting weather conditions. The method comprises: receiving a weather condition query request from an end point, the weather condition query request comprises geographical location information of the end point; searching weather condition information and a street view graph corresponding to the geographical location information, determining a dynamic presentation graph of a weather condition based on the weather condition information, and sending the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and the street view graph to the end point, wherein the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition is superimposed on the street view graph for presentation. A weather condition presentation method realizing all-view simulation within a region is provided, and visualization effect of weather indexes under panorama is significantly improved.

Description

METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR WEATHER

CONDITIONS PRESENTATION

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application claims the priority benefit of Chinese Patent Application No.

201310279903.3 filed on July 04, 2013, the contents of which are incorporated by reference herein in entirety for all proposes.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The disclosure relates to a field of information processing, and particularly, to a method, system and apparatus for weather conditions presentation.

BACKGROUND

As the development of computer technology and network technology, Internet and instant communication technology play more and more important role in people's daily life, study and work. Moreover, with the development of mobile Internet, the Internet itself is also developing toward mobilization. In current ear of information, various information devices have emerged: there are fixed telephone and mobile phone for voice transmission; routers and personal computers for information resources sharing and processing; and various televisions for video data displaying, etc. These devices are produced for solving actual problems in specific fields. With the advent of integration of consumer electronics, computers and communications (3C), people will pay more and more attention on researches of information devices pertaining to various fields, so as to provide better service by fully utilizing existing resources and devices.

Currently, there have been many Internet-based applications (App) for querying weather conditions, among which weather conditions are presented in forms of numbers or texts. In prior art, illustrations or texts of weather indexes are displayed on a display screen by retrieve interface service provided by a weather information source. For example, it may display current weather conditions of a certain region as "moderate rain" or "blizzard"; and display temperature of a certain region as 0 degrees Celsius to 13 degrees Celsius in form of numbers, etc.

However, illustrations or texts of weather indexes are abstract, in reality, it is hard for a user to judge specific meaning of such indexes or numbers when going around and in daily life, neither can they clearly sense and determine weather conditions. For example, in a case where other parameters are the same, abstract differences of humidity may bring totally different sensory experiences to users, defining such difference precisely may facilitate user to make better decisions on clothing and way of travel. Therefore, there is at least the need of visualizing weather indexes and providing an immersive presentation method that simulates real regions.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for displaying weather conditions.

Embodiments of the disclosure provide an apparatus for displaying weather conditions.

Embodiments of the disclosure provide a system for displaying weather conditions.

Detailed solutions of embodiments of the disclosure are as follows:

A method for presenting weather conditions is provided, comprising:

receiving a weather condition query request from an end point, the weather condition query request comprises geographical location information of the end point; searching weather condition information and a street view graph corresponding to the geographical location information, determining a dynamic presentation graph of a weather condition based on the weather condition information, and sending the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and the street view graph to the end point, wherein the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition is superimposed on the street view graph for presentation.

As can be seen, by applying embodiments of the disclosure, a weather condition presentation method realizing all-view simulation within a region is provided; instead of simply presenting weather condition in form of number and text, it directly presents weather condition by a dynamic presentation graph. After a weather condition is updated, corresponding update is performed to a dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition, thus visualization effect of weather indexes under panorama is significantly improved.

An apparatus for querying weather conditions, comprising a query request receiving unit and an image searching unit, wherein: the query request receiving unit is for receiving a weather condition query request from an end point, the weather condition query request comprises geographical location information of the end point; and

the image searching unit is for searching weather condition information and a street view graph corresponding to the geographical location information, determining a dynamic presentation graph of a weather condition based on the weather condition information, and sending the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and the street view graph to the end point, wherein the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition is superimposed on the street view graph for presentation.

A system for presenting weather conditions is provided, comprising:

an end point for sending a weather condition query request to a server, the weather condition query request comprises geographical location information of the end point;

the server for searching weather condition information and a street view graph corresponding to the geographical location information, determining a dynamic presentation graph of a weather condition based on the weather condition information, and sending the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and the street view graph to the end point,

wherein the end point is for superimposing the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition on the street view graph for presentation.

A method for presenting weather conditions is provided, comprising:

sending a weather condition query request from an end point, the weather condition query request comprises geographical location information;

receiving a dynamic presentation graph of a weather condition and a street view graph, wherein the dynamic presentation graph of a weather condition is determined from a weather condition information, and the weather condition information corresponds to the geographical location information, the street view graph corresponds to the geographical location information; and

superimposing the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition on the street view graph for presentation.

In summary, embodiments of the disclosure at least comprise the following operations: receiving a weather condition query request from an end point, the weather condition query request comprises geographical location information of the end point; searching weather condition information and a street view graph corresponding to the geographical location information, determining a dynamic presentation graph of a weather condition based on the weather condition information, and sending the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and the street view graph to the end point, wherein the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition is superimposed on the street view graph for presentation.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Fig. 1 is a flow diagram of a method for weather condition presentation according to an embodiment of the disclosure;

Fig. 2 is a flow diagram of a acquiring a dynamic presentation graph of a weather condition according to an embodiment of the disclosure;

Fig. 3 is a flow diagram of displaying a dynamic presentation graph of a weather condition and a street view graph according to a third embodiment of the disclosure;

Fig. 4 is a structure diagram of an apparatus for querying weather conditions according to an embodiment of the disclosure;

Fig. 5 is a structure diagram of a system for weather condition presentation according to an embodiment of the disclosure; and

Fig. 6 is a structure diagram of a system for weather condition presentation according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the disclosure more apparent, the disclosure will be further illustrated in details in connection with accompanying figures and embodiments hereinafter. It should be appreciated that the detailed embodiments described herein are only used to explain the disclosure but not to limit the disclosure.

In embodiments of the disclosure, weather condition that realizes all-views simulation within a region is provided in various Internet applications (e.g., Internet map products). For example, a dynamic presentation graph of a weather condition representing a visualized material (e.g., heavy rain, moderate rain, light rain, etc.) may be updated at an end point side in real time by utilizing three-dimensional environment of street view. After a weather condition is updated, corresponding update is performed to a dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition, thus visualization effect of weather indexes under panorama is significantly improved.

Embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for displaying weather conditions, the method may be specifically implemented in a specific server at a network side. The method comprises: receiving a weather condition query request from an end point, the weather condition query request comprises geographical location information of the end point; searching weather condition information and a street view graph corresponding to the geographical location information, determining a dynamic presentation graph of a weather condition based on the weather condition information, and sending the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and the street view graph to the end point, wherein the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition is superimposed on the street view graph for presentation.

Fig. 1 is a flow diagram of a method for weather condition presentation according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

As shown in Fig. 1, the method comprises:

At step S 101, a weather condition query request comprising geographical location information is sent.

Here, an end point sends a weather condition query request comprising geographical location information to a server. The server may receive the weather condition query request from the end point in various ways. Preferably, geographical location information of the end point location information is included in the weather condition query request, so that the server may query weather conditions of the location where an end point locates according to the geographical location information of the end point.

According to information transfer direction and time relationship, communications between an end point and a server may be divided in to simplex communication, half-duplex communication and full duplex communication, and the like.

In simplex communication, simplex communication channels are unidirectional channels. In half-duplex communication, bidirectional communication may be realized, but such communications cannot be performed simultaneously in both directions, they must take turns and being communicated alternately. That is, either end of the communication channel may be a transmitting end as well as a receiving end; but at the same time, the information can only have one direction of transmission, examples of daily life may comprise walkie-talkie communications. In full-duplex bidirectional signal transmission may exist at any time during communication. Full-duplex communication allows data being transmitted in both directions simultaneously, which also refers to as two-way simultaneous communication; that is both of the communication parties may transmit and receive data simultaneously. In full duplex mode , each end of a communication system are provided with a transmitter and receiver, therefore, data may be controlled to be transmitted in both directions simultaneously. Full duplex mode without does not need switching between direction, therefore, there is no delay due to witching operations.

In embodiments of the disclosure, an end point may reach an agree on specific communication protocol with a server, wherein the format to be used by data units, meanings and information that should be included in data units, connection method, time sequence of information transmission and reception, thereby ensuring that data within a network is smoothly transmitted to a determined destination. For example, communication protocols that may be employed by embodiments of the disclosure include, but are not limited to: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/ IP), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol 3 (SMTP), Post Office Protocol version (POP3), and the like.

Moreover, a server may receive a weather condition query request via a plurality of communication standards. For example, Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA), Code Division Multiple Access 2000 (CDMA-2000), Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA) and other communications standards may be employed.

The weather condition query request itself may be in plurality of forms. For example, the request may include but are not limited to: a short message (SMS), an e-mail, instant messaging (IM) messages, multimedia messages (MMS) or voice messages, and the like.

At Step S 102, searching weather condition information and a street view graph corresponding to the geographical location information, determining a dynamic presentation graph of a weather condition based on the weather condition information, and retuning the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and the street view graph.

Upon receiving a weather condition query request, a server searches the weather condition query request for geographical location information, searching weather condition information corresponding to the geographical location information from various weather condition sources, and searching a street view graph corresponding to the geographical location information from various street view providers.

A street view graph is a 360-degree panoramic image captured by a pro-camera, it utilizes a specific player to simulate a two-dimensional plane graph into a three-dimensional to be provided to users. Compared with ordinary graph, street view graphs have the following advantages: (1) a strong sense of immersion, giving the user an immersive feeling; (2) provided with location information to facilitate positioning; and (3) generated along the street by batch production, covering a large number of location information. Because of the above advantages, a street view graph is perfectly fit for directly presenting weather conditions and the changes thereof in an immersive way.

After searching weather condition information corresponding to the geographical location information from various weather condition sources, the server determines corresponding dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition.

A dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition is a dynamic graph that is generated according to a weather phenomenon and the indexes of the weather phenomenon, wherein weather phenomena usually refer to 82 categories of sandstorm, continuous rain, rime, snow pack, heavy rain, frozen rain, blizzards, dust tornadoes, heavy rainstorm, sand blowing and etc. for example, a weather phenomenon of light snow may be generated into a dynamic graph with a transparent background of lightly snowing according to materials of weather condition indexes. A dynamic presentation graph is preferably a transparent background image, such as a gif format image.

The server may return the dynamic presentation graph and the street view graph to the end point.

At Step S 103, the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition is superimposed on the street view graph for presentation. Here, upon obtaining the dynamic presentation graph and the street view graph, the end point superimposes the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition on the street view graph for presentation, so as to eventually display it to a user.

The dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition is superimposed on the street view graph for presentation as a mask, it may be regarded as that a layer of "glass sheet" is covered upon current layer (i.e., the street view graph). This kind of "glass sheet" is generally transparent or opaque black, the former displays all the images beneath the mask, the latter covers part of the image beneath the mask. A plurality of drawing tools may be employed to color the mask (i.e., the "glass sheet") with only black and white may be colored, part of a mask that is colored with black becomes opaque and the current layer under that mask cannot be seen; coloring with white makes the mask become transparent and image of the current layer under that mask can be seen; and coloring with gray makes the mask become semitransparent whose degree of transparence is determined by gray level of the color that is used. A mask is a special kind of selection area, who does not intend to perform operations on the selection area; on the contrary, it intends to protect the selection area from being operated. Meanwhile, parts of an image without the scope of a mask may be edited or processed. Although a mask is a selection area, it is different from common selection areas whose operating trend is to perform operations on the selected area, on the other hand, a mask protect the selected area from being operated instead of applying operations on it.

In one embodiment:

the weather condition query request of Step S 101 further comprises time inquiry information. At this time, searching the weather condition information corresponding to the geographical location information of Step S 102 comprises: searching the weather condition information whose issue time of the weather condition corresponds to the time inquiry information and that corresponds to the geographical location information at the mean time; and the time inquiry information is further presented on the street view graph.

In one embodiment:

retuning the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and the street view graph of Step S 102 comprises that: the server returns a download address for the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and a download address for the street view graph to the end point; and superimposes the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition on the street view graph.

In one embodiment:

the method further comprises: configuring the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and the street view graph utilizing an image profile in a format of extensible markup Language (XML), wherein the image profile comprises a location field for configuring a geographical location where the street view graph located and an image field for configuring the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition.

Preferably, the image profile further comprises a timestamp, before sending the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition to the end point, timestamps comprised in image profiles are compared to determine whether the image profile has an updated version, if there is an updated version then the latest image profiles is obtained.

Preferably, the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and the street view graph are sent to the end point by progressive streaming of dynamic media or by realtime streaming of dynamic media.

In progressive streaming, an end point downloads the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and the street view graph progressively, a user may observe the graphs which downloading them, but the observation is not synchronized with transmissions on the server, the user could only view information transmitted by the server after a period of delay. In other words, a user always views information that is previously transmitted by the server several time before, during this procedure, the user could only view the downloaded part and are not able to jump the un-downloaded part.

In realtime streaming, the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and the street view graph may be viewed in real time. During observation, contents may be fast-forwarded or rewound by a user. But in realtime streaming mode, the received signal may have a poor quality if the network traffic transmission is not ideal.

In embodiments of the disclosure, pull protocol may be employed. Specific image profiles are uploaded to a server by operations staff, and may be updated regularly to ensure that a user could pull the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition when visiting. After a successful pull, the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition is added to users browser side within corresponding street view scenario according to profiles at the server side.

For example, the image profile may take a format of XML format, specifically as follows:

<?xml version=" 1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<Logo

Id=" l"

DownloadUrl="http:// map.soso.com/test_012"

HashCode="6561C7FD5F4E097FlA0FlA5E192A326A"

StartTime="2013030508"

EndTime="2013030518"

LogoTip="SOSO StreetView Weather"

/>

<Logo

Id="2"

DownloadUrl=" http:// map.soso.com/test_012"

HashCode="D21BB4F166874F6DD2857F43F4686A9A" StartTime="2013030508"

EndTime="2013030508"

LogoTip=" SOSO StreetView Weather "

/>

</Match>

</MatchConfig>

</LoginLogoConfig>

Wherein meanings of fields of LoginLogoConfig are shown as follows

FIELD DESCRIPTION Id ID of an image's location, used for describing where the image is located;

TimeStamp Timestamp of the image, a server determines whether images of the region need to be updated by comparing timestamps;

DownloadUrl Download address of the image;

HashCode Hash value of the image , currently locates full amount md5 checksum;

StartTime Start time of the image;

EndTime End time of the image;

Prompt Operatation text;

LogoTip Prompt text

And meanings of fields of MatchConfig are shown as follows:

Fig. 2 is a flow diagram of a acquiring a dynamic presentation graph of a weather condition according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

As shown in Fig. 2, the method comprises:

At step S201, firstly weather condition materials are prepared, that is setting dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition of various kinds of weather conditions. Dynamic presentation graphs of the weather condition comprise 82 categories of weather phenomena such as sandstorm, continuous rain, rime, snow pack, heavy rain, frozen rain, blizzards, dust tornadoes, heavy rainstorm, sand blowing and etc.

At step S202, after weather condition materials are prepared, the server updates the image profile.

At step S203, the server determines whether there is an updated version of the image profile based on comparison between timestamps within image profiles, if there is an updated version then perform step S204 and the subsequent steps, otherwise quit the process.

At step S204, the server parses the image profile to obtain configuration information of the up-to-date image profile, and then combines it with local existing configuration information to updated former dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition that is no longer needed.

At step S205, the server authenticates MD5 value of the dynamic presentation graph of the weather. Here the server imitates download request for dynamic presentation graph of the weather in turn according to a download sequence. After each download task is accomplished, the server further needs to perform MD5 value checksum for the dynamic presentation graph files of the weather, so as to ensure legality of the files.

At step S206, the server collects download tasks of respective dynamic presentation graphs of the weather, and sends the tasks to an end point.

Detailed steps for an end point to obtain dynamic presentation graphs of the weather condition (or download tasks) from a server are described above. Then in response to a weather condition query request sent from the end point to the server, the server may push the up-to-date dynamic presentation graph of the weather to the end point. Actually, an end point could also obtain street view graphs (or download tasks) from a server based on similar process.

For the end point side, upon obtaining dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition (or download task) and the street view graph (or download task) from a server, the end point needs to display the graphs.

Specifically, the end point may read the image profile via a network, and fills the dynamic presentation graphs of the weather condition in pointed operation area according to configuration information included in the image profile. Time-validity of the configuration information is subject to the content pushed by the user during the last login. Thus if information changes in aspects such as business logo bit between two logins, then performance of such change is that there would be delay in one login.

Fig. 3 is a flow diagram of displaying a dynamic presentation graph of a weather condition and a street view graph according to a third embodiment of the disclosure. As shown in Fig. 3, the method comprises:

At step S301, an end point obtains a street view scenario, wherein a street view graph may be obtained by the end point.

At step S302, determining whether the end point obtains street view scenario successfully, if it obtains street view scenario successfully then perform step S303 and the subsequent steps thereof, if not then perform step S309 and the subsequent steps thereof.

At step S303, the end point obtains a dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and checks lifecycle of the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition.

At step S304, the end point determines whether the lifecycle of the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition is expired, if it is expired then perform step S308 and the subsequent steps thereof, if not then perform step S305 and the subsequent steps thereof.

At step S305, the end point determines whether the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition has a time of use, if it does then perform step S306 and the subsequent steps thereof, if not then perform step S309 and the subsequent steps thereof.

At step S306, the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition is superimposed on the street view graph for presentation.

At step S307, under the street view scenario, a user of the end point may feel the effect of display of the dynamic graph and end the process.

At step S308, deletes the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition. At step S309, uses the default dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition.

Based on the detailed analysis above, embodiments of the disclosure further provide an apparatus for presenting weather conditions. The apparatus for presenting weather conditions may be implemented in a server located in the network side, the sever may receive a weather condition query request from an end point located at the local side.

Fig. 4 is a structure diagram of an apparatus for querying weather conditions according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

As shown in Fig. 4, the apparatus comprises a query request receiving unit 401 and an image searching unit 402, wherein:

the query request receiving unit 401 is for receiving a weather condition query request from an end point, the weather condition query request comprises geographical location information of the end point; and

the image searching unit 402 is for searching weather condition information and a street view graph corresponding to the geographical location information, determining a dynamic presentation graph of a weather condition based on the weather condition information, and sending the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and the street view graph to the end point, wherein the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition is superimposed on the street view graph for presentation.

In one embodiment:

the weather condition query request comprises time inquiry information;

the image searching unit 402 is further for searching the weather condition information corresponding to the geographical location information comprises: searching the weather condition information whose issue time of the weather condition corresponds to the time inquiry information and that corresponds to the geographical location information at the mean time; and the time inquiry information is further presented on the street view graph.

In one embodiment:

the apparatus further comprises a configuration unit 403,

wherein the configuration unit is for configuring the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and the street view graph utilizing an image profile in a format of extensible markup Language (XML), wherein the image profile comprises a location field for configuring a geographical location where the street view graph located and an image field for configuring the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition.

Based on the detailed analysis above, embodiments of the disclosure further provide a system for presenting weather conditions. Fig. 5 is a structure diagram of a system for weather condition presentation according to an embodiment of the disclosure.

As shown in Fig, 5, the system comprises an end point 501 and a server 502, wherein:

the end point 501 is for sending a weather condition query request to a server, the weather condition query request comprises geographical location information of the end point;

the server 502 is for searching weather condition information and a street view graph corresponding to the geographical location information, determining a dynamic presentation graph of a weather condition based on the weather condition information, and sending the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and the street view graph to the end point,

wherein the end point 501 is further for superimposing the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition on the street view graph for presentation.

In one embodiment:

the weather condition query request comprises time inquiry information;

wherein the server 502 is further searching the weather condition information whose issue time of the weather condition corresponds to the time inquiry information and that corresponds to the geographical location information at the mean time;

wherein the end point 501 IS further for presenting the time inquiry information on the street view graph.

In one embodiment:

the server 502 is further for returning a download address for the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and a download address for the street view graph to the end point; and

the end point 501 is further for downloading the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition according to its download address and download the street view graph according to its download address, and superimposes the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition on the street view graph for presentation.

In one embodiment:

the server 502 is further for configuring the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and the street view graph utilizing an image profile in a format of extensible markup Language (XML), wherein the image profile comprises a location field for configuring a geographical location where the street view graph located and an image field for configuring the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition.

Based on the analysis above, embodiments of the disclosure further provides a method for presenting weather conditions which may be implemented in a local side end point. Specifically, the method comprises: sending a weather condition query request from an end point, the weather condition query request comprises geographical location information; receiving a dynamic presentation graph of a weather condition and a street view graph, wherein the dynamic presentation graph of a weather condition is determined from a weather condition information, and the weather condition information corresponds to the geographical location information, the street view graph corresponds to the geographical location information; and superimposing the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition on the street view graph for presentation.

In one embodiment, receiving the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and the street view graph comprises: receiving a download address for the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and a download address for the street view graph to the end point. The method further comprises: downloading the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition according to its download address and download the street view graph according to its download address.

Based on the analysis above, embodiments of the disclosure further provide an apparatus for presenting weather conditions.

As shown in Fig. 6, the apparatus comprises a transmitting unit 601, a receiving unit 602 and a presenting unit 603, wherein:

the transmitting unit 601 is for sending a weather condition query request that comprises geographical location information;

the receiving unit 602 is for receiving a dynamic presentation graph of a weather condition and a street view graph, wherein the dynamic presentation graph of a weather condition is determined from a weather condition information, and the weather condition information corresponds to the geographical location information, the street view graph corresponds to the geographical location information; and

the presenting unit 603 is for superimposing the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition on the street view graph for presentation.

In one embodiment:

the receiving unit 602 is further for: receiving a download address for the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and a download address for the street view graph to the end point; and downloading the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition according to its download address and download the street view graph according to its download address.

A user may browse weather conditions on various end points by utilizing a browser. These end points may include, but are not limited to: functional phones, smart phones, palmtop computers, personal computers (PC), Tablet PC or personal digital assistant (PDA), etc.

Although detailed examples of end points are listed above, those skilled in the art would be appreciated that the detailed embodiments described herein are only used to explain the disclosure but not to limit protection scope of the disclosure. Browsers may specifically comprise Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera, Google Chrome, GreenBrowser, and the like.

Although detailed examples of browsers are listed above, those skilled in the art would be appreciated that embodiments of the disclosure are not limited to these browsers; instead, they are suitable for applications (APPs) that are suitable for displaying files within a webpage server of a file system as well as enable users to interact with the files, or they may be any other applications that have the function of webpage browsing.

In fact, the method and apparatus for presenting weather conditions provided by embodiments of the disclosure may be specifically implemented in various forms.

For example, certain standardized application program interface may be followed to encode the method for presenting weather conditions in to plug-in programs that may be installed into a personal computer or a mobile terminal, etc. Or the method may be encapsulated into application programs for users to download. When being encoded into a plug-in program, it may be implemented in various forms of ocx, dll, cab and the like; or the method for presenting weather conditions provided by embodiments of the disclosure may be implemented by specific technology such as a Flash plug-in, a RealPlayer plug-in, an MMS plug-ins, an MIDI stave plug-in, an ActiveX plug-in. .

The method for presenting weather conditions provided by embodiments of the disclosure may be stored in various storage mediums by storing an instruction or a set of instructions. These mediums include, but are not limited to: floppy disks, CD-ROM, DVD, hard disk, flash memory, U disk, CF card, SD card, MMC card, SM card, Memory Stick, xD cards and the like.

The above described embodiments are merely preferred embodiments of the disclosure, but not intended to limit the disclosure. Any modifications, equivalent alternations and improvements that are made within the spirit and scope of the disclosure should be included in the protection scope of the disclosure.

Claims

What is claimed is:

1. A method for presenting weather conditions, comprising:

2. The method for presenting weather conditions according to claim 1, wherein the weather condition query request comprises time inquiry information, and the time inquiry information is further presented on the street view graph by the end point; searching the weather condition information corresponding to the geographical location information comprises: searching the weather condition information whose issue time of the weather condition corresponds to the time inquiry information and that corresponds to the geographical location information at the mean time.

3. The method for presenting weather conditions according to claim 1, comprises:

configuring the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and the street view graph by utilizing an image profile in a format of extensible markup Language (XML), wherein the image profile comprises a location field for configuring a geographical location where the street view graph located and an image field for configuring the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition.

4. The method for presenting weather conditions according to claim 3, wherein the image profile comprises a timestamp, before sending the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition to the end point, timestamps comprised in image profiles are compared to determine whether the image profile has an updated version, if there is an updated version then the latest image profiles is obtained.

5. The method for presenting weather conditions according to any one of claims 1-4, wherein sending the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and the street view graph to the end point comprises:

sending the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and the street view graph to the end point by progressive streaming of dynamic media or by realtime streaming of dynamic media.

6. The method for presenting weather conditions according to any one of claims 1-5, wherein the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition is a dynamic graph that is generated according to current weather phenomenon of the end point and the indexes of the weather phenomenon.

7. The method for presenting weather conditions according to claim 6, wherein the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition is a transparent background image.

8. The method for presenting weather conditions according to claim 7, wherein the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition is a gif format image.

9. An apparatus for querying weather conditions, comprising a query request receiving unit and an image searching unit, wherein:

the query request receiving unit is for receiving a weather condition query request from an end point, the weather condition query request comprises geographical location information of the end point; and

10. The apparatus for querying weather conditions according to claim 9, wherein the weather condition query request comprises time inquiry information;

the image searching unit is for searching the weather condition information corresponding to the geographical location information comprises: searching the weather condition information whose issue time of the weather condition corresponds to the time inquiry information and that corresponds to the geographical location information at the mean time;

the time inquiry information is further presented on the street view graph by the apparatus for querying weather conditions.

11. The apparatus for querying weather conditions according to claim 9, comprises a configuration unit, wherein:

the configuration unit is for configuring the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and the street view graph by utilizing an image profile in a format of extensible markup Language (XML), wherein the image profile comprises a location field for configuring a geographical location where the street view graph located and an image field for configuring the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition.

12. The apparatus for querying weather conditions according to claim 11, wherein the image profile comprises a timestamp, before sending the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition to the end point, timestamps comprised in image profiles are compared to determine whether the image profile has an updated version, if there is an updated version then the latest image profiles is obtained.

13. The apparatus for querying weather conditions according to any one of claims 9-12, wherein the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition is a dynamic graph that is generated according to current weather phenomenon of the end point and the indexes of the weather phenomenon.

14. The apparatus for querying weather conditions according to claim 13, wherein the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition is a transparent background image.

15. The apparatus for querying weather conditions according to claim 14, wherein the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition is a gif format image.

16. A system for presenting weather conditions, comprising:

17. The system for presenting weather conditions according to claim 16, wherein the weather condition query request comprises time inquiry information; and

wherein the server is for searching the weather condition information whose issue time of the weather condition corresponds to the time inquiry information and that corresponds to the geographical location information at the mean time;

wherein the end point is for presenting the time inquiry information on the street view graph.

18. A method for presenting weather conditions, comprising:

19. The method for presenting weather conditions according to claim 18, wherein receiving a dynamic presentation graph of a weather condition and a street view graph comprises:

receiving a download address for the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition and a download address for the street view graph to the end point; and

the method comprises: downloading the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition according to its download address and download the street view graph according to its download address.

20. An apparatus for presenting weather conditions, comprising a transmitting unit, a receiving unit and a presenting unit, wherein:

the transmitting unit is for sending a weather condition query request that comprises geographical location information;

the receiving unit is for receiving a dynamic presentation graph of a weather condition and a street view graph, wherein the dynamic presentation graph of a weather condition is determined from a weather condition information, and the weather condition information corresponds to the geographical location information, the street view graph corresponds to the geographical location information; and

the presenting unit is for superimposing the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition on the street view graph for presentation.

21. The apparatus for presenting weather conditions according to claim 20, wherein the receiving unit is for:

downloading the dynamic presentation graph of the weather condition according to its download address and download the street view graph according to its download address.