CN104915393A - Directional search method and device - Google Patents

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CN104915393A
CN104915393A CN201510275551.3A CN201510275551A CN104915393A CN 104915393 A CN104915393 A CN 104915393A CN 201510275551 A CN201510275551 A CN 201510275551A CN 104915393 A CN104915393 A CN 104915393A
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The invention aims to provide a directional search method and device. In the method, a search range is determined through first positioning information and second positioning information corresponding to one direction of the first positioning information, search is performed within the search range, and one or more search results are selected from one or more pieces of candidate search information. Compared with the prior art, directional search is achieved, and the search results can be accurately searched for within the search range, so that the search results are refined, the directional search requirement of a user is met, the information acquisition efficiency of the user is improved, and user experience is improved.

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A kind of method and apparatus for direction beam search
Technical field
The present invention relates to Internet technical field, particularly relate to a kind of technology for direction beam search.
Background technology
Conventional search can be searched for according to text, time etc.; After entering the wireless epoch, occurred the search of position-based scope, some navigation Service also has the search based on route periphery.But current location finding is all based on omnirange search or system-wide line search, but in some scenarios, user does not have the demand of omnirange search or system-wide line search, thus cause user to need to carry out artificial screening to Search Results, have impact on the efficiency of user's obtaining information, reduce Consumer's Experience.
Summary of the invention
The object of this invention is to provide a kind of method and apparatus for direction beam search.
According to an aspect of the present invention, provide a kind of method for direction beam search, wherein, the method comprises:
A obtains the first locating information;
B obtains one or more second locating information, and wherein, described second locating information corresponds to a direction of described first locating information;
C, according to described first locating information and described second locating information, determines hunting zone;
D searches in described hunting zone, and to obtain one or more Search Results from one or more candidate search information, wherein, described candidate search information comprises positional information.
According to a further aspect in the invention, additionally provide a kind of search equipment for direction beam search, wherein, this equipment comprises:
First acquisition device, for obtaining the first locating information;
Second acquisition device, for obtaining one or more second locating information, wherein, described second locating information corresponds to a direction of described first locating information;
Determining device, for according to described first locating information and described second locating information, determines hunting zone;
Searcher, for searching in described hunting zone, to obtain one or more Search Results from one or more candidate search information, wherein, described candidate search information comprises positional information.
Compared with prior art, the present invention is by utilizing the first locating information and determining hunting zone corresponding to second locating information of a direction of described first locating information, and search in this hunting zone, to obtain one or more Search Results from one or more candidate search information, thus achieve direction beam search, accurately Search Results is searched in hunting zone, Search Results is become more meticulous, meet the beam search demand of user, improve the efficiency of user's obtaining information, improve Consumer's Experience.
And the present invention also utilizes various ways to obtain the first locating information and/or the second locating information; Thus enhance the dirigibility of locating information acquisition, meet the use habit of all types of user, improve the efficiency of user's obtaining information, improve Consumer's Experience.
And described first locating information and described second locating information can form all kinds of hunting zone; Further, hunting zone can also be determined in conjunction with the application demand information of current application; Thus make hunting zone flexible and changeable, meet the different search needs of different user or different application, further increase the efficiency of user's obtaining information, improve Consumer's Experience.
And the present invention according to screening requirements, can also search in described hunting zone, to obtain one or more Search Results from one or more candidate search information; Thus further Search Results is screened, Search Results is become more meticulous, meets the beam search demand of user, improve the efficiency of user's obtaining information, improve Consumer's Experience.
And the present invention when obtaining Search Results, can also obtain one or more result related informations of this Search Results simultaneously; Thus search result content is clearly enriched, avoid the binary search of user, improve the efficiency of user's obtaining information, improve Consumer's Experience.
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By reading the detailed description done non-limiting example done with reference to the following drawings, other features, objects and advantages of the present invention will become more obvious:
Fig. 1 illustrates a kind of search equipment schematic diagram for direction beam search according to one aspect of the invention;
Fig. 2 illustrates a kind of method flow diagram for direction beam search according to a further aspect of the present invention.
In accompanying drawing, same or analogous Reference numeral represents same or analogous parts.
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Before in further detail exemplary embodiment being discussed, it should be mentioned that some exemplary embodiments are described as the process or method described as process flow diagram.Although operations is described as the process of order by process flow diagram, many operations wherein can be implemented concurrently, concomitantly or simultaneously.In addition, the order of operations can be rearranged.Described process can be terminated when its operations are completed, but can also have the additional step do not comprised in the accompanying drawings.Described process can correspond to method, function, code, subroutine, subroutine etc.
Within a context alleged " search equipment ", include but not limited to all kinds of " computer equipment "; Described computer equipment is also referred to as " computer ", refer to the intelligent electronic device that can be performed the predetermined process such as numerical evaluation and/or logical calculated process by operation preset program or instruction, it can comprise processor and storer, the survival instruction that prestores in memory is performed to perform predetermined process process by processor, or perform predetermined process process by the hardware such as ASIC, FPGA, DSP, or combined by said two devices and realize.Computer equipment includes but not limited to server, PC, notebook computer, panel computer, smart mobile phone etc.
Described computer equipment comprises subscriber equipment and the network equipment.Wherein, described subscriber equipment includes but not limited to computer, smart mobile phone, PDA etc.; The described network equipment includes but not limited to the server group that single network server, multiple webserver form or the cloud be made up of a large amount of computing machine or the webserver based on cloud computing (Cloud Computing), wherein, cloud computing is the one of Distributed Calculation, the super virtual machine be made up of a group loosely-coupled computing machine collection.Wherein, described computer equipment isolated operation can realize the present invention, also accessible network by realizing the present invention with the interactive operation of other computer equipments in network.Wherein, the network residing for described computer equipment includes but not limited to internet, wide area network, Metropolitan Area Network (MAN), LAN (Local Area Network), VPN etc.
It should be noted that; described subscriber equipment, the network equipment and network etc. are only citing; other computer equipments that are existing or that may occur from now on or network, as being applicable to the present invention, within also should being included in scope, and are contained in this with way of reference.
In addition, " database " described in the present invention includes but not limited to the sorts of systems that can store data, and as traditional database (database), other have the hardware/system of memory function, as hadoop etc.
Concrete structure disclosed herein and function detail are only representational, and are the objects for describing exemplary embodiment of the present invention.But the present invention can carry out specific implementation by many replacement forms, and should not be construed as only being limited to the embodiments set forth herein.
Should be understood that, although may have been used term " first ", " second " etc. here to describe unit, these unit should not limit by these terms.These terms are used to be only used to a unit and another unit to distinguish.For example, when not deviating from the scope of exemplary embodiment, first module can be called as second unit, and second unit can be called as first module similarly.Here used term "and/or" comprise one of them or more any and all combinations of listed associated item.
Also it should be mentioned that and to replace in implementation at some, the function/action mentioned can according to being different from occurring in sequence of indicating in accompanying drawing.For example, depend on involved function/action, in fact the two width figure in succession illustrated can perform simultaneously or sometimes can perform according to contrary order substantially.
Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing, the present invention is described in further detail.
Fig. 1 illustrates a kind of search equipment schematic diagram for direction beam search according to one aspect of the invention; Wherein, described search equipment comprises the first acquisition device 1, second acquisition device 2, determining device 3, searcher 4.Particularly, described first acquisition device 1 obtains the first locating information; Described second acquisition device 2 obtains one or more second locating information, and wherein, described second locating information corresponds to a direction of described first locating information; Described determining device 3, according to described first locating information and described second locating information, determines hunting zone; Described searcher 4 is searched in described hunting zone, and to obtain one or more Search Results from one or more candidate search information, wherein, described candidate search information comprises positional information.
Described first locating information and/or described second locating information include but not limited to that any one can be used to the identification information positioned; Preferably, described first locating information and/or described second locating information comprise following at least any one:
-based on the determined locating information of locating device, after namely being positioned by locating device, the information such as the location point directly determined, deflection, position range, wherein, described locating device includes but not limited to compass, electronic compass, GPS etc.
-based on locating device, in conjunction with the determined locating information of direction point operation to described locating device.At this, described direction point operation includes but not limited to a point operation (as locating device being fixed on a position) or scope point operation (as by moving positioning device, to draw camber line in a certain scope or to deflect a certain angle etc.).If user is by moving positioning device, this locating device (as comprising the mobile phone of GPS location) is pointed to a direction or a certain angle, thus using the positional information corresponding to this direction or this angle as described locating information etc.Wherein, described locating device includes but not limited to compass, electronic compass, GPS etc.At this, those skilled in the art will be understood that, the information that described locating device can obtain based on self poisoning, or on the basis of the information obtained based on self, by in conjunction with other equipment (as various kinds of sensors) the information that obtains, determine the determined locating information of described direction point operation.
-based on the locating information of map, namely on map by clicking, pulling, the locating information selected by mode such as paddling.As clicked certain point on map, then using the map reference corresponding to this point and physical location as locating information; Map is rule, then using the map reference in the street corresponding to this line or region and physical location as locating information etc.
-based on the determined locating information of one or more multimedia messagess, namely directly obtained multimedia messages to be mated in searchable database, to obtain the determined locating information of described multimedia messages; Or obtained multimedia messages is converted to the locating information etc. can carrying out processing.Preferably, described multimedia messages comprises at least any one in word, voice, picture, video.
-based on the locating information of word, namely use the landmark information represented by mode word or directional information.As the Forbidden City, Tsing-Hua University west gate, northeastward, south by west 30 degree etc.
-voice-based locating information, namely uses the landmark information represented by voice mode or directional information.Such as, when after the voice obtaining user, full content in extracting directly voice messaging, using as described locating information, if this voice messaging is " 50 meters, Tsing-Hua University west gate ", then can directly the content of this voice messaging be stored in the mode such as word or audio frequency, using as described locating information; Or, such as, when after the voice obtaining user, user speech is processed, screen out inessential content, only extract the direction content in voice messaging, using as described locating information, if this voice messaging is " I at Tsing-Hua University west gate 50 meters ", then can only using " 50 meters, Tsing-Hua University west gate " as locating information.
-based on the locating information of picture, namely taken pictures in real time by acquisition user and upload or the non real-time picture uploaded, by by this picture with store in database, comprise geographic position and mate with the picture in direction, to determine landmark information corresponding to this picture or directional information.Such as, user have taken a photo in the Tian'anmen Square towards east, this photo is mated with the picture of directional information with the multiple positions that comprise stored in database, inquire and the scenery of this photo and the most close photo of angle, using the position corresponding to this photo and the direction locating information as this user.
-based on the locating information of video, namely taken pictures in real time by acquisition user and upload or the non real-time video uploaded, by by this video with store in database, comprise geographic position and mate with the video in direction, to determine landmark information corresponding to this video or directional information.
At this, those skilled in the art will be understood that in the present invention, and above-mentioned locating information can be used alone, and namely determine locating information, thus assist without the need to other modes as only inputted " west gate, the Summer Palace "; In addition, above-mentioned multiple locating information also can be adopted to carry out mixed positioning.As input characters position on map, then determine further based on position shown on map; Or by direction point operation, the scope on map corresponding to display direction point operation, is then determined further by the mode of automatic or manual.
Described first acquisition device 1 obtains the first locating information.
Particularly, described first acquisition device 1, by according to self detection or input media, obtains the first locating information being detected by this search equipment or inputted; Or the equipment of described first locating information can be provided to interact with other, to obtain described first locating information.
Such as, described first acquisition device 1 according to the clicking operation of user on map, using the position corresponding to this clicking operation as described first locating information; Or, by the GPS information of other equipment Inspections to active user, and this GPS information is sent to described first acquisition device using as described first locating information.
At this, described first locating information include but not limited to dot position information (as a buildings, a coordinate points etc.), limit positional information (as certain street, from a coordinate points to the direct-connected route etc. of another coordinate points), range position information (as certain community, on map the irregular scope etc. that draws), angular position information (as 30 ° of angles etc.) and the radius information etc. corresponding with angular position information.
Preferably, described first acquisition device 1, according to the current location of user, determines the first locating information.
Particularly, described first acquisition device 1, by the locating device according to self, obtains the current location information of current search user or targeted customer; Or, described first acquisition device 1 with the equipment of user's current location can be provided to interact with other, to obtain the current location information of current search user or targeted customer.
Such as, if user uses mobile device search, then this mobile device is based on locating devices such as GPS, determines the current location of this user in real time, thus described first acquisition device 1 using up-to-date positional information as described first locating information.
Described second acquisition device 2 obtains one or more second locating information, and wherein, described second locating information corresponds to a direction of described first locating information.
Particularly, described second acquisition device 2, by according to self detection or input media, obtains the second locating information being detected by this search equipment or inputted; Or the equipment of described second locating information can be provided to interact with other, to obtain described second locating information.
At this, described second locating information include but not limited to dot position information (as a buildings, a coordinate points etc.), limit positional information (as certain street, from a coordinate points to the direct-connected route etc. of another coordinate points), range position information (as certain community, on map the irregular scope etc. that draws), angular position information (as 30 ° of angles etc.) and the radius information etc. corresponding with angular position information.
Wherein, described second locating information corresponds to a direction of described first locating information, namely, described second locating information not correspond to described first locating information whole directions (as with the first locating information for the center of circle, with described second locating information for radius does circle), but correspond to any one direction of described first locating information, as Due South, left front etc.
Preferably, the position relationship of described second locating information and described first locating information includes but not limited to following at least any one:
-described second locating information and described first locating information are a line; Namely described first locating information and described second locating information are dot information, as some coordinates, a certain buildings etc.
-described second locating information and described first locating information are a directed regional extent, namely in described first locating information and described second locating information, have one at least for non-dot information.As described in the first locating information be a point, described second locating information is a line; Otherwise or described first locating information is a line, described second locating information is a point; Or described first locating information and described second locating information are line; Or described first locating information is a point, described second locating information is an angle based on this point, and further, described second locating information can also comprise the radius length etc. based on this point and this angle.At this, described alignment regions scope comprises sector region, rectangular area or irregular area etc.But above-mentioned zone is all certain orientation with the first locating information.
At this, those skilled in the art will be understood that, described second acquisition device 2 can obtain one or more described second locating information, thus described first locating information and described one or more second locating information can form one or more regional extent, first locating information is the center of circle as described above, two sector regions etc. formed for benchmark with two described second locating information.Therefore, in described searcher 4, can search for the information in above-mentioned one or more regional extent simultaneously.
Preferably, described second acquisition device 2 according to the direction point operation of user to locating device, can obtain one or more second locating information, and wherein, described second locating information corresponds to a direction of described first locating information.
Particularly, when described first acquisition device 1 is according to the current location of user, when determining the first locating information, described second acquisition device 2 can based on the direction point operation of user to the locating device of current device, determine described second locating information, thus under mobile context, carry out word without the need to user or other manually input, directly automatically determine two locating information based on to the mobile operation of current device.
Such as, when subscriber station is on the Temple of Heaven, then described first acquisition device is by the positional information of active user, the i.e. the Temple of Heaven, as described first locating information; Then the hand-held mobile device (as mobile phone) comprising locating device of user, towards direction, due east, to Due South to having brandished 45° angle, then described second acquisition device 2 obtains this operation, and will from east by south 45° angle as described second locating information.
Described determining device 3, according to described first locating information and described second locating information, determines hunting zone.
Particularly, described determining device 3 is according to described first locating information and described second locating information, scope corresponding between two locating information is directly defined as hunting zone, as by by as described in the first locating information and as described in the second locating information carry out line, using the region in line as described hunting zone; Or, described determining device 3 determines the active accommodation of rule or user based on the scope pre-set, the basis of described first locating information and the determined scope of described second locating information further adjusts (as expanded, reducing, distortion etc.), to determine final hunting zone.
Such as, if described second locating information and described first locating information are a line, then described determining device 3 can directly using this line as hunting zone, thus the correlation candidate search information on line only searched for by described searcher 4, also can using the scope of (as x distance width) near this line as hunting zone, thus the candidate search information in this line environs searched for by described searcher 4.
Preferably, described determining device 3 according to described first locating information and described second locating information, in conjunction with the application demand information of current application, can determine hunting zone.
Particularly, described determining device 3 according to the application demand information of current application, as based on the available resources of current application, the search need etc. of current application, can determine hunting zone in conjunction with described first locating information and described second locating information.
Such as, if the available resources of current application are more, then hunting zone is confirmable larger, if the available resources of current application are less, then hunting zone is confirmable smaller, to avoid taking more resource etc.; If current application demand information is the people near search, then hunting zone is confirmable smaller, if current application demand information is the restaurant near search, then hunting zone is confirmable larger; Further, if current application demand is the people near search, and described first locating information is less with the people's (or mobile terminal corresponding with people) in the determined scope of described second locating information, then hunting zone is confirmable larger.
Described searcher 4 is searched in described hunting zone, and to obtain one or more Search Results from one or more candidate search information, wherein, described candidate search information comprises positional information.
Particularly, described candidate search information can be stored in advance in storage system (as traditional database or other can have the hardware/system of memory function) in, with the information of positional information, such as, one or more building title position corresponding with it is stored in a database; Also can be Real-time Obtaining, information with positional information, such as, the real-time position information of other mobile devices of Real-time Obtaining.
Described searcher 4 is searched in described hunting zone, using this positional information within the scope of this, one or more candidate search information of meeting searching requirement are as described Search Results.
Such as, described search target is search for centered by user family, the dining room of southeastern direction, then described searcher 4 is searched for from the database prestored, and will meet the candidate dining room of this scope as described Search Results; Or, described search target is that search is centered by the position of active user, the pedestrian in user dead ahead, the then positional information of the multiple pedestrian of described searcher 4 Real-time Obtaining, the positional information of this user is mated with the positional information of pedestrian, will the pedestrian in this user dead ahead be in as described Search Results.
Preferably, described searcher 4 can according to screening request, and search in described hunting zone, to obtain one or more Search Results from one or more candidate search information, wherein, described candidate search information comprises positional information.
Particularly, described searcher 4, when searching for, can screen the candidate search information in hunting zone in conjunction with screening request.Wherein, described screening request comprises simply screens request, as only searched for the owned building in this hunting zone; Or the screening request of complexity, as searched for the particular category in this hunting zone, particular persons etc.Such as, screen the dining room in this hunting zone, hospital, market etc., or screen specificity in this hunting zone others, the people etc. of given age.
At this, those skilled in the art will be understood that, the condition corresponding to described screening request directly can be comprised, as the user related information (as age, sex, hobby etc.) etc. of the positional information that prestores a certain mobile device and user thereof in described candidate search information; Also can ask based on this screening, the equipment corresponding to described candidate search information of asking feeds back the condition with this corresponding to screening request, as sent user related information request to the equipment corresponding to this candidate search information, and obtain the user related information that this equipment feeds back, and screen etc. based on this user related information.
At this, described user related information is only citing, not limitation of the present invention, and other conditions that can be used for the request of screening all are applicable to the present invention, and are included in protection scope of the present invention.
Preferably, described searcher 4 can be searched in described hunting zone, to obtain one or more Search Results from one or more candidate search information, wherein, described candidate search information comprises positional information, and described Search Results comprises one or more result related information.
Particularly, can comprise one or more result related information be associated with Search Results in the Search Results that described searcher 4 obtains, wherein, described result related information includes but not limited to following at least any one:
-Search Results recommended information: if Search Results is certain dining room, then can using the speciality in this dining room, phone, address, evaluation etc. as Search Results recommended information; If Search Results is someone, then the individual disclosed in it can be introduced as Search Results recommended information.
-Search Results route information: as from current address or as described in the first locating information arrive this Search Results route, select by bus, or the distance of this Search Results and current address or angle etc.
-Search Results evaluation information: if other users are to the relevant evaluation (as service evaluation, taste appraisal, other evaluations etc.) of this Search Results.
At this, described result related information directly can be obtained by described search equipment, also can be interacted by described search equipment and other equipment, to obtain the result related information be associated with described Search Results.
Fig. 2 illustrates a kind of method flow diagram for direction beam search according to a further aspect of the present invention.Particularly, in step sl, described search equipment obtains the first locating information; In step s 2, described search equipment obtains one or more second locating information, and wherein, described second locating information corresponds to a direction of described first locating information; In step s3, described search equipment, according to described first locating information and described second locating information, determines hunting zone; In step s 4 which, described search equipment is searched in described hunting zone, and to obtain one or more Search Results from one or more candidate search information, wherein, described candidate search information comprises positional information.
Described first locating information and/or described second locating information include but not limited to that any one can be used to the identification information positioned; Preferably, described first locating information and/or described second locating information comprise following at least any one:
-based on the determined locating information of locating device, after namely being positioned by locating device, the information such as the location point directly determined, deflection, position range, wherein, described locating device includes but not limited to compass, electronic compass, GPS etc.
-based on locating device, in conjunction with the determined locating information of direction point operation to described locating device.At this, described direction point operation includes but not limited to a point operation (as locating device being fixed on a position) or scope point operation (as by moving positioning device, to draw camber line in a certain scope or to deflect a certain angle etc.).If user is by moving positioning device, this locating device (as comprising the mobile phone of GPS location) is pointed to a direction or a certain angle, thus using the positional information corresponding to this direction or this angle as described locating information etc.Wherein, described locating device includes but not limited to compass, electronic compass, GPS etc.At this, those skilled in the art will be understood that, the information that described locating device can obtain based on self poisoning, or on the basis of the information obtained based on self, by in conjunction with other equipment (as various kinds of sensors) the information that obtains, determine the determined locating information of described direction point operation.
-based on the locating information of map, namely on map by clicking, pulling, the locating information selected by mode such as paddling.As clicked certain point on map, then using the map reference corresponding to this point and physical location as locating information; Map is rule, then using the map reference in the street corresponding to this line or region and physical location as locating information etc.
-based on the determined locating information of one or more multimedia messagess, namely directly obtained multimedia messages to be mated in searchable database, to obtain the determined locating information of described multimedia messages; Or obtained multimedia messages is converted to the locating information etc. can carrying out processing.Preferably, described multimedia messages comprises at least any one in word, voice, picture, video.
-based on the locating information of word, namely use the landmark information represented by mode word or directional information.As the Forbidden City, Tsing-Hua University west gate, northeastward, south by west 30 degree etc.
-voice-based locating information, namely uses the landmark information represented by voice mode or directional information.Such as, when after the voice obtaining user, full content in extracting directly voice messaging, using as described locating information, if this voice messaging is " 50 meters, Tsing-Hua University west gate ", then can directly the content of this voice messaging be stored in the mode such as word or audio frequency, using as described locating information; Or, such as, when after the voice obtaining user, user speech is processed, screen out inessential content, only extract the direction content in voice messaging, using as described locating information, if this voice messaging is " I at Tsing-Hua University west gate 50 meters ", then can only using " 50 meters, Tsing-Hua University west gate " as locating information.
-based on the locating information of picture, namely taken pictures in real time by acquisition user and upload or the non real-time picture uploaded, by by this picture with store in database, comprise geographic position and mate with the picture in direction, to determine landmark information corresponding to this picture or directional information.Such as, user have taken a photo in the Tian'anmen Square towards east, this photo is mated with the picture of directional information with the multiple positions that comprise stored in database, inquire and the scenery of this photo and the most close photo of angle, using the position corresponding to this photo and the direction locating information as this user.
-based on the locating information of video, namely taken pictures in real time by acquisition user and upload or the non real-time video uploaded, by by this video with store in database, comprise geographic position and mate with the video in direction, to determine landmark information corresponding to this video or directional information.
At this, those skilled in the art will be understood that in the present invention, and above-mentioned locating information can be used alone, and namely determine locating information, thus assist without the need to other modes as only inputted " west gate, the Summer Palace "; In addition, above-mentioned multiple locating information also can be adopted to carry out mixed positioning.As input characters position on map, then determine further based on position shown on map; Or by direction point operation, the scope on map corresponding to display direction point operation, is then determined further by the mode of automatic or manual.
In step sl, described search equipment obtains the first locating information.
Particularly, in step sl, described search equipment, by according to self detection or input media, obtains the first locating information being detected by this search equipment or inputted; Or the equipment of described first locating information can be provided to interact with other, to obtain described first locating information.
Such as, in step sl, described search equipment according to the clicking operation of user on map, using the position corresponding to this clicking operation as described first locating information; Or, by the GPS information of other equipment Inspections to active user, and this GPS information is sent to described search equipment using as described first locating information.
At this, described first locating information include but not limited to dot position information (as a buildings, a coordinate points etc.), limit positional information (as certain street, from a coordinate points to the direct-connected route etc. of another coordinate points), range position information (as certain community, on map the irregular scope etc. that draws), angular position information (as 30 ° of angles etc.) and the radius information etc. corresponding with angular position information.
Preferably, in step sl, described search equipment, according to the current location of user, determines the first locating information.
Particularly, in step sl, described search equipment, by the locating device according to self, obtains the current location information of current search user or targeted customer; Or, in step sl, described search equipment with the equipment of user's current location can be provided to interact with other, to obtain the current location information of current search user or targeted customer.
Such as, if user uses mobile device search, then this mobile device is based on locating devices such as GPS, determines the current location of this user in real time, thus in step sl, described search equipment using up-to-date positional information as described first locating information.
In step s 2, described search equipment obtains one or more second locating information, and wherein, described second locating information corresponds to a direction of described first locating information.
Particularly, in step s 2, described search equipment, by according to self detection or input media, obtains the second locating information being detected by this search equipment or inputted; Or the equipment of described second locating information can be provided to interact with other, to obtain described second locating information.
At this, described second locating information include but not limited to dot position information (as a buildings, a coordinate points etc.), limit positional information (as certain street, from a coordinate points to the direct-connected route etc. of another coordinate points), range position information (as certain community, on map the irregular scope etc. that draws), angular position information (as 30 ° of angles etc.) and the radius information etc. corresponding with angular position information.
Wherein, described second locating information corresponds to a direction of described first locating information, namely, described second locating information not correspond to described first locating information whole directions (as with the first locating information for the center of circle, with described second locating information for radius does circle), but correspond to any one direction of described first locating information, as Due South, left front etc.
Preferably, the position relationship of described second locating information and described first locating information includes but not limited to following at least any one:
-described second locating information and described first locating information are a line; Namely described first locating information and described second locating information are dot information, as some coordinates, a certain buildings etc.
-described second locating information and described first locating information are a directed regional extent, namely in described first locating information and described second locating information, have one at least for non-dot information.As described in the first locating information be a point, described second locating information is a line; Otherwise or described first locating information is a line, described second locating information is a point; Or described first locating information and described second locating information are line; Or described first locating information is a point, described second locating information is an angle based on this point, and further, described second locating information can also comprise the radius length etc. based on this point and this angle.At this, described alignment regions scope comprises sector region, rectangular area or irregular area etc.But above-mentioned zone is all certain orientation with the first locating information.
At this, those skilled in the art will be understood that, in step s 2, described search equipment can obtain one or more described second locating information, thus described first locating information and described one or more second locating information can form one or more regional extent, first locating information is the center of circle as described above, two sector regions etc. formed for benchmark with two described second locating information.Therefore, in step s 4 which, in described search equipment, can search for the information in above-mentioned one or more regional extent simultaneously.
Preferably, in step s 2, described search equipment according to the direction point operation of user to locating device, can obtain one or more second locating information, and wherein, described second locating information corresponds to a direction of described first locating information.
Particularly, when in step sl, described search equipment is according to the current location of user, when determining the first locating information, in step s 2, described search equipment can based on the direction point operation of user to the locating device of current device, determine described second locating information, thus under mobile context, carry out word without the need to user or other manually input, directly automatically determine two locating information based on to the mobile operation of current device.
Such as, when subscriber station is on the Temple of Heaven, then described search equipment is by the positional information of active user, the i.e. the Temple of Heaven, as described first locating information; Then the hand-held mobile device (as mobile phone) comprising locating device of user, towards direction, due east, to Due South to having brandished 45° angle, then described search equipment obtains this operation, and will from east by south 45° angle as described second locating information.
In step s3, described search equipment, according to described first locating information and described second locating information, determines hunting zone.
Particularly, in step s3, described search equipment is according to described first locating information and described second locating information, scope corresponding between two locating information is directly defined as hunting zone, as by by as described in the first locating information and as described in the second locating information carry out line, using the region in line as described hunting zone; Or, in step s3, described search equipment determines the active accommodation of rule or user based on the scope pre-set, the basis of described first locating information and the determined scope of described second locating information further adjusts (as expanded, reducing, distortion etc.), to determine final hunting zone.
Such as, if described second locating information and described first locating information are a line, then in step s3, described search equipment can directly using this line as hunting zone, thus in step s 4 which, the correlation candidate search information on line only searched for by described search equipment, also can using the scope of (as x distance width) near this line as hunting zone, thus in step s 4 which, the candidate search information in this line environs searched for by described search equipment.
Preferably, in step s3, described search equipment according to described first locating information and described second locating information, in conjunction with the application demand information of current application, can determine hunting zone.
Particularly, in step s3, described search equipment according to the application demand information of current application, as based on the available resources of current application, the search need etc. of current application, can determine hunting zone in conjunction with described first locating information and described second locating information.
Such as, if the available resources of current application are more, then hunting zone is confirmable larger, if the available resources of current application are less, then hunting zone is confirmable smaller, to avoid taking more resource etc.; If current application demand information is the people near search, then hunting zone is confirmable smaller, if current application demand information is the restaurant near search, then hunting zone is confirmable larger; Further, if current application demand is the people near search, and described first locating information is less with the people's (or mobile terminal corresponding with people) in the determined scope of described second locating information, then hunting zone is confirmable larger.
In step s 4 which, described search equipment is searched in described hunting zone, and to obtain one or more Search Results from one or more candidate search information, wherein, described candidate search information comprises positional information.
Particularly, described candidate search information can be stored in advance in storage system (as traditional database or other can have the hardware/system of memory function) in, with the information of positional information, such as, one or more building title position corresponding with it is stored in a database; Also can be Real-time Obtaining, information with positional information, such as, the real-time position information of other mobile devices of Real-time Obtaining.
In step s 4 which, described search equipment is searched in described hunting zone, using this positional information within the scope of this, one or more candidate search information of meeting searching requirement are as described Search Results.
Such as, described search target is search for centered by user family, the dining room of southeastern direction, then in step s 4 which, described search equipment is searched for from the database prestored, and will meet the candidate dining room of this scope as described Search Results; Or, described search target is that search is centered by the position of active user, the pedestrian in user dead ahead, then in step s 4 which, the positional information of the multiple pedestrian of described search equipment Real-time Obtaining, the positional information of this user is mated with the positional information of pedestrian, will the pedestrian in this user dead ahead be in as described Search Results.
Preferably, in step s 4 which, described search equipment can according to screening request, search in described hunting zone, to obtain one or more Search Results from one or more candidate search information, wherein, described candidate search information comprises positional information.
Particularly, in step s 4 which, described search equipment, when searching for, can screen the candidate search information in hunting zone in conjunction with screening request.Wherein, described screening request comprises simply screens request, as only searched for the owned building in this hunting zone; Or the screening request of complexity, as searched for the particular category in this hunting zone, particular persons etc.Such as, screen the dining room in this hunting zone, hospital, market etc., or screen specificity in this hunting zone others, the people etc. of given age.
At this, those skilled in the art will be understood that, the condition corresponding to described screening request directly can be comprised, as the user related information (as age, sex, hobby etc.) etc. of the positional information that prestores a certain mobile device and user thereof in described candidate search information; Also can ask based on this screening, the equipment corresponding to described candidate search information of asking feeds back the condition with this corresponding to screening request, as sent user related information request to the equipment corresponding to this candidate search information, and obtain the user related information that this equipment feeds back, and screen etc. based on this user related information.
At this, described user related information is only citing, not limitation of the present invention, and other conditions that can be used for the request of screening all are applicable to the present invention, and are included in protection scope of the present invention.
Preferably, in step s 4 which, described search equipment can be searched in described hunting zone, to obtain one or more Search Results from one or more candidate search information, wherein, described candidate search information comprises positional information, and described Search Results comprises one or more result related information.
Particularly, in step s 4 which, can comprise one or more result related information be associated with Search Results in the Search Results that described search equipment obtains, wherein, described result related information includes but not limited to following at least any one:
-Search Results recommended information: if Search Results is certain dining room, then can using the speciality in this dining room, phone, address, evaluation etc. as Search Results recommended information; If Search Results is someone, then the individual disclosed in it can be introduced as Search Results recommended information.
-Search Results route information: as from current address or as described in the first locating information arrive this Search Results route, select by bus, or the distance of this Search Results and current address or angle etc.
-Search Results evaluation information: if other users are to the relevant evaluation (as service evaluation, taste appraisal, other evaluations etc.) of this Search Results.
At this, described result related information directly can be obtained by described search equipment, also can be interacted by described search equipment and other equipment, to obtain the result related information be associated with described Search Results.
It should be noted that the present invention can be implemented in the assembly of software and/or software restraint, such as, special IC (ASIC), general object computing machine or any other similar hardware device can be adopted to realize.In one embodiment, software program of the present invention can perform to realize step mentioned above or function by processor.Similarly, software program of the present invention (comprising relevant data structure) can be stored in computer readable recording medium storing program for performing, such as, and RAM storer, magnetic or CD-ROM driver or flexible plastic disc and similar devices.In addition, steps more of the present invention or function can adopt hardware to realize, such as, as coordinating with processor thus performing the circuit of each step or function.
In addition, a part of the present invention can be applied to computer program, such as computer program instructions, when it is performed by computing machine, by the operation of this computing machine, can call or provide according to method of the present invention and/or technical scheme.And call the programmed instruction of method of the present invention, may be stored in fixing or moveable recording medium, and/or be transmitted by the data stream in broadcast or other signal bearing medias, and/or be stored in the working storage of the computer equipment run according to described programmed instruction.At this, comprise a device according to one embodiment of present invention, this device comprises the storer for storing computer program instructions and the processor for execution of program instructions, wherein, when this computer program instructions is performed by this processor, trigger this plant running based on the aforementioned method according to multiple embodiment of the present invention and/or technical scheme.
To those skilled in the art, obviously the invention is not restricted to the details of above-mentioned one exemplary embodiment, and when not deviating from spirit of the present invention or essential characteristic, the present invention can be realized in other specific forms.Therefore, no matter from which point, all should embodiment be regarded as exemplary, and be nonrestrictive, scope of the present invention is limited by claims instead of above-mentioned explanation, and all changes be therefore intended in the implication of the equivalency by dropping on claim and scope are included in the present invention.Any Reference numeral in claim should be considered as the claim involved by limiting.In addition, obviously " comprising " one word do not get rid of other unit or step, odd number does not get rid of plural number.Multiple unit of stating in device claim or device also can be realized by software or hardware by a unit or device.First, second word such as grade is used for representing title, and does not represent any specific order.

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1. for a method for direction beam search, wherein, the method comprises:
A obtains the first locating information;
B obtains one or more second locating information, and wherein, described second locating information corresponds to a direction of described first locating information;
C, according to described first locating information and described second locating information, determines hunting zone;
D searches in described hunting zone, and to obtain one or more Search Results from one or more candidate search information, wherein, described candidate search information comprises positional information.
2. method according to claim 1, wherein, described first locating information and/or described second locating information comprise following at least any one:
-based on the determined locating information of locating device;
-based on locating device, in conjunction with the determined locating information of direction point operation to described locating device;
-based on the locating information of map;
-based on the determined locating information of one or more multimedia messagess.
3. method according to claim 2, wherein, described multimedia messages comprises at least any one in word, voice, picture, video.
4. according to the method in any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein, described step b comprises following at least any one:
-obtain one or more second locating information, wherein, described second locating information and described first locating information are a line;
-obtain one or more second locating information, wherein, described second locating information and described first locating information are a directed regional extent.
5. method according to any one of claim 1 to 4, wherein, described step a comprises:
-according to the current location of user, determine the first locating information.
6. method according to claim 5, wherein, described step b comprises:
-according to the direction point operation of user to locating device, obtain one or more second locating information, wherein, described second locating information corresponds to a direction of described first locating information.
7. method according to any one of claim 1 to 6, wherein, described step c comprises:
-according to described first locating information and described second locating information, in conjunction with the application demand information of current application, determine hunting zone.
8. method according to any one of claim 1 to 7, wherein, described steps d comprises:
-according to screening request, search in described hunting zone, to obtain one or more Search Results from one or more candidate search information, wherein, described candidate search information comprises positional information.
9. method according to any one of claim 1 to 8, wherein, described steps d comprises:
-search in described hunting zone, to obtain one or more Search Results from one or more candidate search information, wherein, described candidate search information comprises positional information, and described Search Results comprises one or more result related information.
10. for a search equipment for direction beam search, wherein, this equipment comprises:
First acquisition device, for obtaining the first locating information;
Second acquisition device, for obtaining one or more second locating information, wherein, described second locating information corresponds to a direction of described first locating information;
Determining device, for according to described first locating information and described second locating information, determines hunting zone;
Searcher, for searching in described hunting zone, to obtain one or more Search Results from one or more candidate search information, wherein, described candidate search information comprises positional information.
11. search equipments according to claim 10, wherein, described first locating information and/or described second locating information comprise following at least any one:
-based on the determined locating information of locating device;
-based on locating device, in conjunction with the determined locating information of direction point operation to described locating device;
-based on the locating information of map;
-based on the determined locating information of one or more multimedia messagess.
12. search equipments according to claim 11, wherein, described multimedia messages comprises at least any one in word, voice, picture, video.
13. according to claim 10 to the search equipment according to any one of 12, and wherein, described second acquisition device is used for following at least any one:
-obtain one or more second locating information, wherein, described second locating information and described first locating information are a line;
-obtain one or more second locating information, wherein, described second locating information and described first locating information are a directed regional extent.
14. according to claim 10 to the search equipment according to any one of 13, and wherein, described first acquisition device is used for:
-according to the current location of user, determine the first locating information.
15. search equipments according to claim 14, wherein, described determining device is used for:
-according to the direction point operation of user to locating device, obtain one or more second locating information, wherein, described second locating information corresponds to a direction of described first locating information.
16. according to claim 10 to the search equipment according to any one of 15, and wherein, described second acquisition device is used for:
-according to described first locating information and described second locating information, in conjunction with the application demand information of current application, determine hunting zone.
17. according to claim 10 to the search equipment according to any one of 16, and wherein, described searcher is used for:
-according to screening request, search in described hunting zone, to obtain one or more Search Results from one or more candidate search information, wherein, described candidate search information comprises positional information.
18. according to claim 10 to the search equipment according to any one of 17, and wherein, described searcher is used for:
-search in described hunting zone, to obtain one or more Search Results from one or more candidate search information, wherein, described candidate search information comprises positional information, and described Search Results comprises one or more result related information.
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