CN107317863B

CN107317863B - Method and equipment for providing navigation related information

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Publication number: CN107317863B
Application number: CN201710511794.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 戴帅湘; 李龙飞
Original assignee: Beijing Moran Cognitive Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Xi'an Kehao Defense Technology Co.,Ltd.
Priority date: 2017-06-27
Filing date: 2017-06-27
Publication date: 2019-12-20
Anticipated expiration: 2037-06-27
Also published as: CN107317863A

Abstract

The invention aims to provide a method and equipment for providing navigation-related information. Specifically, according to the geographic position of the terminal device corresponding to the user, determining and starting a matched application; detecting whether a trigger condition for providing navigation-related information within the application is met; if the triggering condition is met, acquiring the navigation related information; providing the navigation-related information to the user. Compared with the prior art, the method and the device have the advantages that when the user reaches a certain position, the matched application can be automatically started without user operation, so that the terminal equipment can automatically obtain related functions, can be self-adapted to the application along with the change of the geographic position, provides navigation related information in the matched application, facilitates the acquisition of the navigation related information by the user, and further improves the user experience because the application does not need to be downloaded and installed by the user.

Description

Method and equipment for providing navigation related information

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of navigation, in particular to a technology for providing navigation related information.

Background

The development of the navigation technology greatly facilitates the life of people, so that people can safely, accurately and economically reach the destination from the departure point along the preset route. People's trip navigation usually relies on vehicle navigation, map navigation realizes, but when the user inquires about the inside place navigation route of a certain geographic entity such as airport, railway station, scenic spot, museum, etc., like after the user arrives at the airport, want to know which check-in counter to handle the procedure, or know which check-in counter to go, but do not know the route, or can't inquire and obtain, or only can inquire through downloading corresponding APP, when the user does not use this APP, just can't release terminal resource to it only uninstalls, if do not uninstall, just can't release terminal resource, and these APPs need the user to seek and install voluntarily, this brings very big inconvenience for the user.

Disclosure of Invention

An object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for providing navigation-related information.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing navigation-related information, wherein the method comprises the steps of:

a, determining and starting matched application according to the geographical position of the corresponding terminal equipment of the user;

b, detecting whether a trigger condition for providing navigation related information in the application is met;

c, if the triggering condition is met, acquiring the navigation related information;

d providing the navigation-related information to the user.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is also provided a navigation providing apparatus for providing navigation-related information, wherein the navigation providing apparatus includes:

the determining device is used for determining and starting matched application according to the geographical position of the terminal equipment corresponding to the user;

detecting means for detecting whether a trigger condition for providing navigation-related information within the application is fulfilled;

the acquisition device is used for acquiring the navigation related information if the trigger condition is met;

providing means for providing the navigation-related information to the user.

According to yet another aspect of the present invention, there is also provided a computing device comprising:

one or more processors;

a memory for storing one or more programs,

the one or more programs, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform a method for providing navigation-related information in accordance with an aspect of the present invention as previously described.

According to a further aspect of the present invention, there is provided a terminal device, wherein the terminal device comprises a navigation providing device for providing navigation-related information according to the aforementioned further aspect of the present invention.

According to still another aspect of the present invention, there is also provided a terminal device, including:

one or more processors;

a memory for storing one or more programs,

the one or more programs, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the steps of:

determining and starting a matched application according to the geographical position of the terminal equipment;

detecting whether a trigger condition for providing navigation-related information within the application is met;

if the triggering condition is met, sending a request for acquiring the navigation related information to corresponding network equipment so that the network equipment returns the navigation related information according to the request;

receiving the navigation related information returned by the network equipment;

providing the navigation-related information to the user.

one or more processors;

a memory for storing one or more programs,

acquiring the geographical position of the terminal equipment;

sending the geographic location to a corresponding network device to cause the network device to: determining a matched application according to the geographic position, and sending an instruction for starting the application to the terminal equipment;

receiving an instruction for starting the application sent by the network equipment;

opening the application according to the instruction;

if the triggering condition is met, acquiring the navigation related information;

providing the navigation-related information to the user.

Compared with the prior art, according to the embodiment of the invention, the matched application is determined and started according to the geographical position of the terminal equipment of the user, the navigation related information is acquired when the trigger condition for providing the navigation related information in the application is met, and the navigation related information is provided for the user, so that the matched application can be automatically started without user operation when the user reaches a certain position, the terminal equipment automatically acquires related functions and is self-adaptive to the application along with the change of the geographical position, the navigation related information can be provided in the matched application, the user can conveniently acquire the navigation related information, the application does not need to be downloaded and installed, and the user experience is further improved.

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Other features, objects and advantages of the invention will become more apparent upon reading of the detailed description of non-limiting embodiments made with reference to the following drawings:

FIG. 1 illustrates a schematic diagram of an apparatus for providing navigation-related information in accordance with an aspect of the present invention;

FIG. 2 illustrates a flow diagram of a method for providing navigation-related information in accordance with another aspect of the present invention;

FIG. 3 illustrates a block diagram of an exemplary computer system/server suitable for use in implementing embodiments of the present invention.

The same or similar reference numbers in the drawings identify the same or similar elements.

Detailed Description

The present invention is described in further detail below with reference to the attached drawing figures.

Fig. 1 shows a navigation providing apparatus 1 for providing navigation related information according to an aspect of the present invention, wherein the navigation providing apparatus 1 comprises determining means 11, detecting means 12, obtaining means 13 and providing means 14. Specifically, the determining device 11 determines and opens the matched application according to the geographical position of the terminal device corresponding to the user; the detection means 12 detects whether a trigger condition for providing navigation-related information within the application is fulfilled; if the acquiring device 13 meets the triggering condition, acquiring the navigation related information; the providing means 14 provide the navigation-related information to the user.

Here, the navigation providing apparatus 1 refers to an apparatus that can determine and open a matching application according to a geographical location where a terminal device of a user is located, and provide navigation-related information within the application. In practical applications, the navigation providing device 1 may be an APP, and various applications that can be used without downloading or installing are collected on the APP, the APP servers corresponding to different applications may be deployed on the same network device or different network devices, and the matched application determined and started according to the geographical location of the terminal device is one of the applications.

In a specific embodiment, the navigation providing device 1 may be implemented by a terminal device, or may be implemented by a device formed by integrating a network device and the terminal device via a network (i.e., by the terminal device and the network device cooperating). Herein, the network device includes, but is not limited to, implementations such as a network host, a single network server, a set of multiple network servers, or a set of cloud computing-based computers; or by a terminal device. Here, the Cloud is made up of a large number of hosts or web servers based on Cloud Computing (Cloud Computing), which is a type of distributed Computing, a super virtual computer consisting of a collection of loosely coupled computers. Here, the terminal device may be any electronic product that can perform human-computer interaction with a user through a keyboard, a touch pad, a touch screen, a remote controller, voice interaction, or a handwriting device, for example, a PC, a mobile phone, a smart phone, a PDA, a wearable device, a PPC, a wearable device, a tablet computer, a smart car machine, a smart television, a smart sound box, or the like. Including, but not limited to, the internet, a wide area network, a metropolitan area network, a local area network, a VPN network, a wireless ad hoc network (ad hoc network), etc. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the navigation providing apparatus 1 is merely an example, and other existing or future network devices or terminal devices may be applicable to the present invention, and are included in the scope of the present invention and are incorporated herein by reference. Here, the network device and the user device each include an electronic device capable of automatically performing numerical calculation and information processing according to a preset or stored instruction, and hardware thereof includes, but is not limited to, a microprocessor, an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a programmable gate array (FPGA), a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an embedded device, and the like.

In one embodiment, if the navigation providing device 1 is a terminal device of a user, the navigation providing device 1 first obtains a geographic location of the terminal device through an Application Program Interface (API) provided by the navigation providing device 1, then determines an application matched with the geographic location, and automatically starts the application; then, detecting whether a trigger condition for providing navigation related information in the application is met; if the triggering condition is met, acquiring the navigation related information; providing the navigation-related information to the user.

In another embodiment, if the navigation providing device 1 is a device in which a network device and a terminal device are integrated, that is, the navigation providing device 1 is implemented by the terminal device and the network device in a matching manner, the terminal device first obtains a geographic location of the terminal device through an Application Program Interface (API) provided by the terminal device, then determines an application matched with the geographic location, and automatically starts the application; then, detecting whether a trigger condition for providing navigation related information in the application is met; if the triggering condition is met, sending a request for acquiring the navigation related information to corresponding network equipment; receiving the navigation related information returned by the network equipment; providing the navigation-related information to the user.

In still another embodiment, if the navigation providing device 1 is a device in which a network device and a terminal device are integrated, that is, the navigation providing device 1 is implemented by the terminal device and the network device in a matching manner, the terminal device first obtains a geographical location of the terminal device through an Application Program Interface (API) provided by the terminal device, and then sends the geographical location to a corresponding network device, so that the network device: determining a matched application according to the geographic position, and sending an instruction for starting the application to the terminal equipment; the terminal equipment receives an instruction for starting the application sent by the network equipment; opening the application according to the instruction; then detecting whether a trigger condition for providing navigation-related information within the application is met; if the triggering condition is met, acquiring the navigation related information; providing the navigation-related information to the user.

In yet another embodiment, if the navigation providing device 1 is a device in which a network device and a terminal device are integrated, that is, the navigation providing device 1 is implemented by the terminal device and the network device in a matching manner, the terminal device first obtains a geographic location of the terminal device through an Application Program Interface (API) provided by the terminal device, and then sends the geographic location to a corresponding network device, so that the network device: determining and starting a matched application according to the geographic position, and sending information that the application is started to the terminal equipment; the terminal equipment receives information that the application sent by the network equipment is started, and then detects whether a trigger condition for providing navigation related information in the application is met; if the triggering condition is met, acquiring the navigation related information; providing the navigation-related information to the user.

Specifically, the determining device 11 first obtains the geographical location of the terminal device through an Application Program Interface (API) provided by the terminal device itself, or obtains the geographical location of the terminal device through a radio communication network (such as a GSM network or a CDMA network) of a telecommunication mobile operator or an external positioning mode (such as GPS); then, determining an application matched with the geographic location, for example, determining the application matched with the geographic location according to the location of the geographic location, or the distance between a peripheral location, such as an airport, a scenic spot, a train station, and the like, and the geographic location, for example, if the geographic location belongs to the range of the beijing capital international airport, determining the matched application as an airport function APP, if the geographic location does not belong to the range of any geographic entity, such as an airport, a scenic spot, a train station, and the like, determining the APP with the corresponding function of the geographic entity closest to the geographic location or having a distance less than or equal to a predetermined threshold, such as 500m, as the matched APP, for example, if the user does not arrive at the airport but is within 500m, determining the matched application as an airport function, if a plurality of applications are matched with the geographic location, according to the travel related information of the user, screening out finally matched applications from the multiple applications, wherein if the user does not arrive at the railway station but is within 500m of the railway station, the multiple determined applications matched with the geographic position are respectively catering APP, accommodation APP and railway station function APP, but the current high-speed rail ticket exists in the travel related information of the user, and the finally matched applications can be determined to be the railway station function APP; and then, starting the application, for example, for an airport function APP applicable to the android system, setting a self-starting service in the background to monitor the position change all the time, and calling the airport function APP after finding the geographical position of a certain airport, thereby realizing the starting of the airport function APP. Here, it should be noted that the open application according to the present invention includes the following cases: 1) background starting service (service) of the application, and the UI of the application is not started; 2) the user opens the UI of the application.

Here, the geographical position may be represented by geographical coordinates, geodetic coordinates, or the like.

Here, the application may be an APP installed in the terminal device, or may be a sub APP channel of a target application in the terminal device. The target application is an application platform installed or carried by a user terminal device, various applications which can be used without downloading and installation are collected on the application platform, so that the user using the platform can directly open the applications required by the user without installation and uninstallation, and the application platform is used up and taken away, so that the user using the platform can directly open the applications required by the user without installation and uninstallation, and the various applications which can be used without downloading and installation and collected in the target application form one or more sub-APP channels of the target application. In practical applications, the target application itself may be an APP, and APP servers corresponding to respective applications collected on the target application and available without downloading or installation may be deployed on the same network device or on different network devices.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the present invention may be combined with the described target application to form a new target application.

It should be understood by those skilled in the art that the above-mentioned manner for determining and starting the matched application according to the geographical location of the terminal device corresponding to the user is only an example, and other existing or future manners for determining and starting the matched application according to the geographical location of the terminal device corresponding to the user may be applicable to the present invention, and are also included in the scope of the present invention and are incorporated herein by reference.

Then, the detection means 12 detects whether a trigger condition for providing navigation-related information within the application is fulfilled. Here, providing navigation-related information within the application refers to providing navigation-related information based on the application. Here, the navigation-related information includes, but is not limited to, information such as a route, a reminder, etc. for guiding the user from one place to another.

Here, the trigger condition includes at least any one of:

-the user performs an unlocking operation with respect to unlocking the terminal device;

-the user touches a touch input means of the terminal device;

-the user has submitted a voice navigation request within the application.

For example, if the trigger condition includes that the user performs an unlocking operation related to unlocking the terminal device, here, the unlocking operation includes, but is not limited to, gesture unlocking, password input unlocking, voice wake-up unlocking, and the like. Assuming that a user arrives at Beijing capital international airport at 5 am of 15 am in 2017, wants to take a flight CZ6412 of 6:25 Beijing Shanghai, and a target application such as Object-APP is installed in a terminal device of the user such as a smart phone android, the target application has a plurality of sub APP channels such as a taxi-taking APP, a meal-ordering APP, a ticket-ordering APP, a hospital APP, an airport function APP, a train station function APP, a scenic spot function APP and the like, when the user arrives at the airport, or enters the airport, or is within 500m from the airport, the determining device 11 determines and opens a matched airport function APP according to the geographical position of the mobile phone, and assuming that the user wants to use the mobile phone after arriving at the airport, the mobile phone is in a screen-locked state, and the user performs gesture unlocking on the screen of the mobile phone, the detecting device 12 can pass an Application Program Interface (API) provided by the mobile phone itself, and acquiring unlocking operation executed by the user and about unlocking the terminal equipment, and further judging that the triggering condition is met.

For another example, if the trigger condition includes that the user touches the touch input device of the terminal device, in the above example, after the user reaches the airport, the user wants to use the mobile phone, because the mobile phone is in the screen locking state, the user wants to perform gesture unlocking on the mobile phone, and only when the user touches the touch input device of the mobile phone, such as the touch screen, the detection device 12 may obtain the operation of the touch input device of the user touch mobile phone through an Application Program Interface (API) provided by the mobile phone itself, and further determine that the trigger condition is satisfied. Here, the touch input means includes, but is not limited to, at least any one of: 1) a touch screen; 2) a touch panel; 3) a touch pad.

For example, if the triggering condition includes that the user submits a voice navigation request in the application, in the example, after the user enters the APP interface of the APP, the user wants to go to the gate 2, and inputs voice in the search box of the APP, for example, "how to go through the gate 2", the detection device 12 may obtain the voice navigation request submitted by the user through an Application Program Interface (API) provided by the mobile phone itself or an Application Program Interface (API) provided by the APP itself, that is, the user sends voice to search for "how to go through the gate 2", and then determine that the triggering condition is satisfied.

In an embodiment, if the application is a sub APP channel of a target application in the terminal device, the trigger condition further includes that the user starts the target application. For example, after the user arrives at an airport, the user actively turns on the Object-APP of the target application in the mobile phone, and the detection device 12 may obtain, through an Application Program Interface (API) provided by the mobile phone itself, an operation of the user turning on the Object-APP of the target application in the mobile phone, and further determine that the trigger condition is satisfied.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the above trigger conditions are exemplary only, and that other trigger conditions, now known or later developed, such as may be suitable for use with the present invention, are also included within the scope of the present invention and are hereby incorporated by reference.

It should be understood by those skilled in the art that the above-mentioned manner for detecting whether the trigger condition is satisfied is only an example, and other existing or future manners for detecting whether the trigger condition is satisfied may be applicable to the present invention, and are included in the scope of the present invention and are incorporated herein by reference.

Then, if the trigger condition is satisfied, the obtaining device 13 obtains the navigation-related information. Here, the manner of acquiring the navigation-related information by the acquiring device 13 includes, but is not limited to, at least any one of the following:

1) if the trigger condition includes that the user performs an unlocking operation related to unlocking the terminal device, or the user touches the terminal device, the obtaining device 13 obtains the navigation related information according to the trip related information of the user, specifically, the obtaining device 13 may send the trip related information of the user to the network device corresponding to the terminal device, and receive the navigation related information, generated according to the trip related information, returned by the network device.

Here, the travel-related information includes, but is not limited to, travel reservation information (ticket information, sight spot ticket information, etc.) of the user, a user travel schedule, etc.

For example, for a user, after the user arrives at the international airport of capital of beijing at 5 am on 6/15/2017, the user wants to use a mobile phone, because the mobile phone is in a screen locking state, the user performs gesture unlocking on a screen of the mobile phone, and the current air ticket information is as follows: if the determining device 11 determines and opens the matched airport function APP according to the geographic position of the mobile phone, and the detecting device 12 determines that the trigger condition for providing navigation related information in the airport function APP is met, the obtaining device 13 can obtain the navigation related information from a corresponding APP server (if the airport function APP is a third-party application, the corresponding APP server can be a third-party APP server; if the airport function APP is a non-third-party application, the corresponding APP server can be a non-third-party APP server) according to the air ticket information of the user, for example, the air ticket information of the user is sent to the corresponding APP server, and the navigation related information generated according to the air ticket information of the user returned by the APP server is received, for example, according to the air ticket information of the user 6, 15, 6, 25, the south-north-China air CZ6412, the air gate C3, the following navigation-related information is generated: according to the information of the air ticket, a user needs to go to a T2 terminal building, relevant procedures are handled at an F01-22 check-in counter, the navigation route of the check-in counter is X, and the current flight CZ6412 is right.

2) If the triggering condition includes that the user submits a voice navigation request in the application, the obtaining device 13 obtains a navigation result matched with the voice navigation request according to the voice navigation request, so as to serve as the navigation related information.

For example, for the user, after entering the APP interface, the user wants to go to gate 2, and inputs a voice such as "gate 2 is taken" in the search box of the APP, the obtaining device 13 obtains the navigation result matched with the voice navigation request, i.e., the navigation route to gate 2 from the map database inside the airport as the navigation related information according to the voice navigation request "gate 2 is taken".

It should be understood by those skilled in the art that the above-mentioned manner for obtaining the navigation-related information is only an example, and other manners for obtaining the navigation-related information, which are currently available or may come in future, are also included in the scope of the present invention and are herein incorporated by reference.

The providing device 14 then provides the navigation-related information to the user, such as by voice broadcasting. For example, for the user, the providing device 14 may audibly broadcast the following navigation-related information acquired by the acquiring device 13 to the user: according to the information of the air ticket, a user needs to go to a T2 terminal building, relevant procedures are handled at an F01-22 check-in counter, the navigation route of the check-in counter is X, and the current flight CZ6412 is right.

According to the method and the device, the matched application is determined and started according to the geographical position of the terminal equipment of the user, and the navigation related information is acquired and provided for the user when the triggering condition for providing the navigation related information in the application is met, so that the matched application can be automatically started without user operation when the user reaches a certain position, the terminal equipment can automatically acquire related functions and can be self-adapted to the corresponding functions along with the change of the geographical position, and the navigation related information is provided in the matched application, so that the acquisition of the navigation related information by the user is facilitated, and the user experience is also improved; especially, when the user performs an unlocking operation related to unlocking the terminal device and/or touches the touch input device of the terminal device, the immediate provision of the navigation related information further improves the information acquisition efficiency of the user, so that the navigation related information can be provided to the user under the condition that the started matched application is invisible to the user (i.e. the user does not know that the application is started at the moment), thereby further improving the information acquisition efficiency of the user, and also enhancing the APP use experience of the user and the intelligence of user interaction.

In one embodiment, the application is stopped if the terminal device leaves the geographical location. For example, for the APP of the application airport function determined by the determining device 11, when the user leaves the airport or leaves the airport within a certain range, the application is stopped, that is, the relevant service of the airport is automatically cancelled, so that not only the automatic release of the terminal device resource occupied by the APP is realized, but also the flexibility of APP connection is improved.

Here, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that, in the above embodiments, the terminal device of the user is taken as the smart phone of the user as an example, and the present invention is also applicable to application scenarios such as a smart car machine, a smart sound box, a smart television, and a wearable device, where the terminal device is the user. For example, if a user drives a beijing capital airport by himself, a target application such as Object-APP is installed in a smart CAR C-CAR in a CAR of the user, the target application has a plurality of sub APP channels, such as a CAR-making APP, a meal-ordering APP, a ticket-ordering APP, a hospital APP, an airport function APP, a train station function APP, a scenic spot function APP, and the like, when the user drives the CAR to reach the airport or is within 500m of the airport, the determining device 11 of the present invention determines that the matched application is the airport function APP; then, opening the application; assuming that a user enters an application interface by clicking a touch screen of the smart CAR-based device C-CAR, the user wants to go to the door 2, inputs voice such as "how to go through the door 2" in a search box of the airport function APP, or directly asks "how to go through the door 2" after entering the application airport function APP, and since the user clicks the touch screen of the smart CAR-based device C-CAR, the detection device 12 determines that a trigger condition for providing navigation related information is satisfied, so that the acquisition device 13 acquires a navigation result matched with the voice navigation request, that is, a navigation route to the door 2, from an internal map database of the airport, and takes the navigation result as the navigation related information; then, the providing device 14 voice-broadcasts the navigation-related information to the user.

For another example, the user drives into a wild zoo by himself, the target applications installed in the intelligent vehicle machine C-CAR in the user vehicle, such as Object-APP, also comprise wild zoo functions APP, and the determining device 11 determines the matched application to be the wild zoo functions APP; then, the application is started, and it is assumed that the user enters the wild zoo and drives into the beast area, the triggering condition in the invention may further include that the geographic position belongs to a dangerous area, and since the user drives into the beast area after entering the wild zoo by himself, the detection device 12 determines that the triggering condition for providing navigation-related information is satisfied, so that the acquisition device 13 takes the corresponding warning information, such as "you have driven into the beast area and have no need to get off the vehicle in the middle before driving into the safe area" and the like, as the navigation-related information; then, the providing apparatus 14 voice-broadcasts the navigation-related information to the user.

For another example, assuming that the user drives to the beijing capital airport by himself, a target application such as Object-APP is installed in a Wearable Device Wearable on the wrist of the user, the target application has a plurality of sub APP channels, such as a taxi-taking APP, a meal-ordering APP, a ticket-ordering APP, a hospital APP, an airport function APP, a train station function APP, a scenic spot function APP, and the like, when the user drives to reach the airport or is within 500m of the airport, the determining Device 11 of the present invention determines the matched application as the airport function APP; then, opening the application; assuming that a user enters an application interface by clicking a touch screen of a Wearable Device, and wants to go to door 2, and inputs voice such as "how to walk at door 2" in a search box of an airport function APP, or directly asks "how to walk at door 2" after entering an application airport function APP, since the user clicks the touch screen of the Wearable Device, the detection Device 12 determines that a trigger condition for providing navigation related information is met, so that the acquisition Device 13 acquires a navigation result matched with the voice navigation request, that is, a navigation route to door 2 from an indoor map database, as navigation related information; then, the providing device 14 voice-broadcasts the navigation-related information to the user.

FIG. 2 illustrates a flow diagram of a method for providing navigation-related information in accordance with another aspect of the invention.

Wherein the method comprises step S1, step S2, step S3 and step S4.

Specifically, in step S1, the navigation providing device 1 determines and opens a matched application according to the geographical location of the terminal device corresponding to the user; in step S2, the navigation providing apparatus 1 detects whether a trigger condition for providing navigation-related information within the application is satisfied; in step S3, if the navigation providing device 1 satisfies the trigger condition, acquiring the navigation related information; in step S4, the navigation providing apparatus 1 provides the navigation-related information to the user.

Specifically, in step S1, the navigation providing device 1 first obtains the geographical location of the terminal device through an Application Program Interface (API) provided by the terminal device itself, or obtains the geographical location of the terminal device through a radio communication network (e.g. GSM network, CDMA network) of a telecommunication mobile operator or an external positioning mode (e.g. GPS); then, determining an application matched with the geographic location, for example, determining the application matched with the geographic location according to the location of the geographic location, or the distance between a peripheral location, such as an airport, a scenic spot, a train station, and the like, and the geographic location, for example, if the geographic location belongs to the range of the beijing capital international airport, determining the matched application as an airport function APP, if the geographic location does not belong to the range of any geographic entity, such as an airport, a scenic spot, a train station, and the like, determining the APP with the corresponding function of the geographic entity closest to the geographic location or having a distance less than or equal to a predetermined threshold, such as 500m, as the matched APP, for example, if the user does not arrive at the airport but is within 500m, determining the matched application as an airport function, if a plurality of applications are matched with the geographic location, according to the travel related information of the user, screening out finally matched applications from the multiple applications, wherein if the user does not arrive at the railway station but is within 500m of the railway station, the multiple determined applications matched with the geographic position are respectively catering APP, accommodation APP and railway station function APP, but the current high-speed rail ticket exists in the travel related information of the user, and the finally matched applications can be determined to be the railway station function APP; and then, starting the application, for example, for an airport function APP applicable to the android system, setting a self-starting service in the background to monitor the position change all the time, and calling the airport function APP after finding the geographical position of a certain airport, thereby realizing the starting of the airport function APP. Here, it should be noted that the open application according to the present invention includes the following cases: 1) background starting service (service) of the application, and the UI of the application is not started; 2) the user opens the UI of the application.

Next, in step S2, the navigation providing apparatus 1 detects whether a trigger condition for providing navigation-related information within the application is satisfied. Here, providing navigation-related information within the application refers to providing navigation-related information based on the application. Here, the navigation-related information includes, but is not limited to, information such as a route, a reminder, etc. for guiding the user from one place to another.

Here, the trigger condition includes at least any one of:

-the user touches a touch input means of the terminal device;

-the user has submitted a voice navigation request within the application.

For example, if the trigger condition includes that the user performs an unlocking operation related to unlocking the terminal device, here, the unlocking operation includes, but is not limited to, gesture unlocking, password input unlocking, voice wake-up unlocking, and the like. Assuming that the user arrives at Beijing capital international airport at 5 am of 15 am in 2017, wants to take a flight CZ6412 of 6:25 Beijing Shanghai, and the user' S terminal device such as a smart phone android has installed a target application such as Object-APP with a plurality of sub-APP channels such as taxi-taking APP, order-ordering APP, ticket-ordering APP, hospital APP, airport function APP, train station function APP, scenic spot function APP, etc., when the user arrives at the airport, or enters the airport, or is within 500m of the airport, in step S1, the navigation providing device 1 determines and opens the matched airport function APP according to the geographical position of the mobile phone, assuming that the user wants to use the mobile phone after arriving, because the mobile phone is in a lock screen state, the user performs an unlock gesture on the screen of the mobile phone, in step S2, the navigation providing device 1 can navigate through an Application Program Interface (API) provided by the mobile phone itself, and acquiring unlocking operation executed by the user and about unlocking the terminal equipment, and further judging that the triggering condition is met.

For another example, if the trigger condition includes that the user touches the touch input device of the terminal device, in the above example, after the user reaches the airport, the user wants to use the mobile phone, because the mobile phone is in the screen lock state, the user wants to perform gesture unlocking on the mobile phone, and only when the user touches the touch input device of the mobile phone, such as the touch screen, with his finger, in step S2, the navigation providing device 1 may obtain the operation of touching the touch input device of the mobile phone by the user through an Application Program Interface (API) provided by the mobile phone itself, and further determine that the trigger condition is satisfied. Here, the touch input means includes, but is not limited to, at least any one of: 1) a touch screen; 2) a touch panel; 3) a touch pad.

For example, if the triggering condition includes that the user submits a voice navigation request in the application, in the example, after the user enters the APP interface of the application airport function, the user wants to go to gate 2, and inputs a voice in the search box of the APP function, such as "how to go through gate 2", in step S2, the navigation providing device 1 may obtain the voice navigation request submitted by the user through an Application Program Interface (API) provided by the mobile phone itself or an Application Program Interface (API) provided by the APP itself, that is, the user sends a voice search "how to go through gate 2", and then determines that the triggering condition is satisfied.

In an embodiment, if the application is a sub APP channel of a target application in the terminal device, the trigger condition further includes that the user starts the target application. For example, after the user arrives at the airport, the user actively opens the Object-APP of the target application in the mobile phone, in step S2, the navigation providing device 1 may obtain the operation that the user opens the Object-APP of the target application in the mobile phone through an Application Program Interface (API) provided by the mobile phone itself, and further determine that the trigger condition is satisfied.

Then, if the trigger condition is satisfied, in step S3, the navigation providing apparatus 1 acquires the navigation-related information. Here, in step S3, the manner in which the navigation providing apparatus 1 acquires the navigation-related information includes, but is not limited to, at least any one of:

2) if the trigger condition includes that the user performs an unlocking operation related to unlocking the terminal device, or the user touches the terminal device, in step S3, the navigation providing device 1 obtains the navigation related information according to the trip related information of the user, and specifically, in step S3, the navigation providing device 1 may send the trip related information of the user to a network device corresponding to the terminal device, and receive the navigation related information generated according to the trip related information and returned by the network device.

Here, the travel-related information includes, but is not limited to, user travel ticket booking information (ticket information, sight spot ticket information, etc.), user travel schedule, and the like.

For example, for a user, after the user arrives at the international airport of capital of beijing at 5 am on 6/15/2017, the user wants to use a mobile phone, because the mobile phone is in a screen locking state, the user performs gesture unlocking on a screen of the mobile phone, and the current air ticket information is as follows: in step S1, assuming that the navigation providing device 1 determines and opens the matched airport function APP according to the geographic location of the mobile phone, and in step S2, the navigation providing device 1 determines that the trigger condition for providing navigation related information in the airport function APP is satisfied, in step S3, the navigation providing device 1 may obtain the navigation related information from the corresponding APP server (if the airport function APP is a third-party application, the corresponding APP server may be a third-party APP server; if the airport function APP is a non-third-party application, the corresponding APP server may be a non-third-party APP server) according to the air ticket information of the user, for example, the air ticket information of the user is sent to the corresponding APP server, and the navigation related information generated according to the air ticket information of the user returned by the APP server is received, if the following navigation related information is generated according to the ticket information of the user, 6 months and 15 days, 6:25 of the CZ6412 gate C3 in Beijing to Shanghai south navigation: according to the information of the air ticket, a user needs to go to a T2 terminal building, relevant procedures are handled at an F01-22 check-in counter, the navigation route of the check-in counter is X, and the current flight CZ6412 is right.

2) If the trigger condition includes that the user submits a voice navigation request in the application, in step S3, the navigation providing device 1 obtains a navigation result matching with the voice navigation request according to the voice navigation request, so as to serve as the navigation related information.

For example, for the user, after entering the APP interface, the user wants to go to gate 2, and inputs the voice "gate 2 how to go" in the search box of the APP, then in step S3, the navigation providing device 1 obtains the navigation result matching the voice navigation request, i.e., the navigation route to gate 2 from the map database inside the airport as the navigation related information, according to the voice navigation request "gate 2 how to go".

Next, in step S4, the navigation providing apparatus 1 provides the navigation-related information to the user, such as providing the navigation-related information to the user in a voice broadcast manner. For example, for the user, in step S4, the navigation providing apparatus 1 may audibly broadcast the following navigation-related information, which it acquired in step S3, to the user: according to the information of the air ticket, a user needs to go to a T2 terminal building, relevant procedures are handled at an F01-22 check-in counter, the navigation route of the check-in counter is X, and the current flight CZ6412 is right.

In one embodiment, the application is stopped if the terminal device leaves the geographical location. For example, for the APP of the application airport function determined by the navigation providing device 1 in step S1, when the user leaves the airport or leaves the airport within a certain range, the application is stopped, that is, the airport-related service is automatically cancelled, so that not only the automatic release of the terminal device resource occupied by the APP is realized, but also the flexibility of APP connection is improved.

Here, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that, in the above embodiments, the terminal device of the user is taken as the smart phone of the user as an example, and the present invention is also applicable to application scenarios such as a smart car machine, a smart sound box, a smart television, and a wearable device, where the terminal device is the user. For example, if a user drives a beijing capital airport by himself, a target application such as Object-APP is installed in a smart CAR C-CAR in a CAR of the user, the target application has a plurality of sub APP channels such as a CAR-taxi-taking APP, a meal-ordering APP, a ticket-ordering APP, a hospital APP, an airport function APP, a train station function APP, a scenic spot function APP, and the like, when the user drives a CAR to reach the airport or is within 500m of the airport, in step S1, the navigation providing device 1 determines the matched application as the airport function APP; then, opening the application; assuming that a user enters an application interface by clicking a touch screen of a smart CAR machine C-CAR, the user wants to go to door 2, inputs voice such as "how to walk at door 2" in a search box of an airport function APP, or directly asks "how to walk at door 2" after entering an application airport function APP, and since the user clicks the touch screen of the smart CAR machine C-CAR, in step S2, the navigation providing device 1 determines that a trigger condition for providing navigation related information is satisfied, so that in step S3, the navigation providing device 1 obtains a navigation result matched with a voice navigation request, that is, a navigation route to door 2, from a map database inside the airport as the navigation related information according to the voice navigation request "how to walk at door 2"; then, in step S4, the navigation providing apparatus 1 voice-broadcasts the navigation-related information to the user.

For another example, the user drives himself to enter the wild zoo, the target application installed in the smart CAR machine C-CAR in the CAR, such as Object-APP, further includes a wild zoo function APP, and in step S1, the navigation providing device 1 determines that the matched application is the wild zoo function APP; then, the application is started, and it is assumed that the user enters the wild zoo and drives into the beast area, the triggering condition in the present invention may further include that the geographic location belongs to a dangerous area, and since the user drives into the beast area after entering the wild zoo by himself, in step S2, the navigation providing device 1 determines that the triggering condition for providing navigation related information is satisfied, so that in step S3, the navigation providing device 1 takes corresponding warning information, such as "you have driven into the beast area, and have no need to get off the vehicle halfway" and the like, as the navigation related information before driving into the safe area; then, in step S4, the navigation providing apparatus 1 voice-broadcasts the navigation-related information to the user.

For another example, assuming that the user drives to the beijing capital airport by himself, a target application such as Object-APP is installed in the Wearable Device Wearable on the wrist of the user, and the target application has a plurality of sub APP channels, such as a taxi-taking APP, a meal-ordering APP, a ticket-ordering APP, a hospital APP, an airport function APP, a train station function APP, a scenic spot function APP, and the like, when the user drives to reach the airport or is within 500m of the airport, in step S1, the navigation providing Device 1 determines the matched application as the airport function APP; then, opening the application; assuming that a user enters an application interface by clicking a touch screen of a Wearable Device weavable Device, the user wants to go to gate 2, inputs voice such as "how to go to gate 2" in a search box of an airport function APP, or directly asks "how to go to gate 2" after entering an application airport function APP, and since the user clicks the touch screen of the Wearable Device weavable Device, the navigation providing Device 1 determines that a trigger condition for providing navigation related information is satisfied in step S2, so that in step S3, the navigation providing Device 1 obtains a navigation result matched with a voice navigation request, that is, a navigation route to gate 2 from a map database inside the airport, as navigation related information; then, in step S4, the navigation providing apparatus 1 voice-broadcasts the navigation-related information to the user.

FIG. 3 illustrates a block diagram of an exemplary computer system/server 2 suitable for use in implementing embodiments of the present invention. The computer system/server 2 shown in FIG. 3 is only an example and should not impose any limitations on the functionality or scope of use of embodiments of the present invention.

As shown in fig. 3, the computer system/server 2 is in the form of a general purpose computing device. The components of computer system/server 2 may include, but are not limited to: one or more processors or processing units 21, a system memory 22, and a bus 23 that couples various system components including the system memory 22 and the processing unit 21.

Bus 23 represents one or more of any of several types of bus structures, including a memory bus or memory controller, a peripheral bus, an accelerated graphics port, and a processor or local bus using any of a variety of bus architectures. By way of example, such architectures include, but are not limited to, Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) bus, micro-channel architecture (MAC) bus, enhanced ISA bus, Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) local bus, and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus.

Computer system/server 2 typically includes a variety of computer system readable media. Such media may be any available media that is accessible by computer system/server 2 and includes both volatile and nonvolatile media, removable and non-removable media.

The system memory 22 may include computer system readable media in the form of volatile memory, such as Random Access Memory (RAM)221 and/or cache memory 222. The computer system/server 2 may further include other removable/non-removable, volatile/nonvolatile computer system storage media. By way of example only, storage system 223 may be used to read from and write to non-removable, nonvolatile magnetic media (not shown in FIG. 3, often referred to as a "hard drive"). Although not shown in FIG. 3, a magnetic disk drive for reading from and writing to a removable, nonvolatile magnetic disk (e.g., a "floppy disk") and an optical disk drive for reading from or writing to a removable, nonvolatile optical disk (e.g., a CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, or other optical media) may be provided. In these cases, each drive may be connected to bus 23 by one or more data media interfaces. System memory 22 may include at least one program product having a set (e.g., at least one) of program modules that are configured to carry out the functions of embodiments of the invention.

A program/utility 224 having a set (at least one) of program modules 225 may be stored, for example, in system memory 22, such program modules 225 including, but not limited to, an operating system, one or more application programs, other program modules, and program data, each of which examples or some combination thereof may comprise an implementation of a network environment. Program modules 225 generally perform the functions and/or methodologies of the described embodiments of the invention.

The computer system/server 2 may also communicate with one or more external devices 25 (e.g., keyboard, pointing device, display 24, etc.), with one or more devices that enable a user to interact with the computer system/server 2, and/or with any devices (e.g., network card, modem, etc.) that enable the computer system/server 2 to communicate with one or more other computing devices. Such communication may be through input/output (I/O) interfaces 26. Also, the computer system/server 2 may communicate with one or more networks (e.g., a Local Area Network (LAN), a Wide Area Network (WAN) and/or a public network, such as the Internet) via the network adapter 20. As shown in FIG. 3, the network adapter 20 communicates with the other modules of the computer system/server 2 via a bus 23. It should be appreciated that although not shown in FIG. 3, other hardware and/or software modules may be used in conjunction with the computer system/server 2, including but not limited to: microcode, device drivers, redundant processing units, external disk drive arrays, RAID systems, tape drives, and data backup storage systems, among others.

The processing unit 21 executes various functional applications and data processing by running programs stored in the system memory 22, for example implementing a method for providing navigation-related information, wherein the method comprises the steps of:

d providing the navigation-related information to the user.

It should be noted that the present invention may be implemented in software and/or in a combination of software and hardware, for example, as an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a general purpose computer or any other similar hardware device. In one embodiment, the software program of the present invention may be executed by a processor to implement the steps or sub-steps described above. Also, the software programs (including associated data structures) of the present invention can be stored in a computer readable recording medium, such as RAM memory, magnetic or optical drive or diskette and the like. Additionally, some of the steps or sub-steps of the invention may be implemented in hardware, for example, as circuitry that cooperates with the processor to perform various steps or sub-steps.

In addition, some of the present invention can be applied as a computer program product, such as computer program instructions, which when executed by a computer, can invoke or provide the method and/or technical solution according to the present invention through the operation of the computer. Program instructions which invoke the methods of the present invention may be stored on a fixed or removable recording medium and/or transmitted via a data stream on a broadcast or other signal-bearing medium and/or stored within a working memory of a computer device operating in accordance with the program instructions. An embodiment according to the invention herein comprises an apparatus comprising a memory for storing computer program instructions and a processor for executing the program instructions, wherein the computer program instructions, when executed by the processor, trigger the apparatus to perform a method and/or solution according to embodiments of the invention as described above.

It will be evident to those skilled in the art that the invention is not limited to the details of the foregoing illustrative embodiments, and that the present invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential attributes thereof. The present embodiments are therefore to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are therefore intended to be embraced therein. Any reference sign in a claim should not be construed as limiting the claim concerned. Furthermore, it is obvious that the word "comprising" does not exclude other elements or steps, and the singular does not exclude the plural. A plurality of units or means recited in the apparatus claims may also be implemented by one unit or means in software or hardware. The terms first, second, etc. are used to denote names, but not any particular order.

Claims

1. A method for providing navigation-related information, wherein the method comprises the steps of:

a, a user corresponding to a terminal device obtains the geographic position of the terminal device and sends the geographic position to a corresponding network device; the network equipment determines and opens the matched application according to the geographic position, and sends the information that the application is opened to the terminal equipment;

b, the terminal equipment receives information that the application sent by the network equipment is started, and detects whether a trigger condition for providing navigation related information in the application is met;

c, if the triggering condition is met, sending a request for acquiring the navigation related information to corresponding network equipment, and receiving the navigation related information returned by the network equipment;

d providing the navigation-related information;

the application is a sub-APP channel of a target application in the terminal device, and various applications collected in the target application and available without downloading and installation form one or more sub-APP channels of the target application.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the trigger condition comprises at least any one of:

-the user touches a touch input means of the terminal device;

-the user submitted a voice navigation request;

-opening the target application;

-the geographical location belongs to a hazardous area.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein if the trigger condition includes that the user performs an unlocking operation for unlocking the terminal device, or the user touches a touch input device of the terminal device, the step c includes:

-if the trigger condition is met, obtaining the navigation related information according to the travel related information of the user.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein if the trigger condition comprises the user submitting a voice navigation request within the application, wherein step c comprises:

-obtaining a navigation result matched with the voice navigation request according to the voice navigation request as the navigation related information.

5. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein said step d comprises:

-providing said navigation-related information to said user in a voice announcement.

6. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the APP servers corresponding to the respective applications that can be used without downloading and installing can be deployed on the same network device or on different network devices.

7. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the application is stopped if the terminal device leaves the geographical location.

8. A navigation providing apparatus for providing navigation-related information, wherein the navigation providing apparatus comprises:

the positioning device is used for acquiring the geographic position of the terminal equipment corresponding to the user;

the sending device is used for sending the geographic position to the corresponding network equipment so that the network equipment determines and starts the matched application according to the geographic position and sends the started information of the application to the terminal equipment;

receiving means, configured to receive information that an application sent by the network device has been started;

if the triggering condition is met, the sending device sends a request for acquiring the navigation related information to corresponding network equipment, and the receiving device receives the navigation related information returned by the network equipment;

providing means for providing said navigation-related information;

9. The navigation providing apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the trigger condition includes at least any one of:

-the user touches a touch input means of the terminal device;

-the user submitted a voice navigation request;

-opening the target application;

-the geographical location belongs to a hazardous area.

10. The navigation providing device according to claim 9, wherein if the trigger condition includes that the user performs an unlocking operation on unlocking the terminal device, or the user touches the terminal device, the obtaining means is configured to:

11. The navigation providing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein if the trigger condition includes that the user submits a voice navigation request in the application, the obtaining device is configured to:

12. The navigation providing apparatus according to any one of claims 8 to 11, wherein the providing means is configured to:

13. The navigation providing device according to any one of claims 8 to 11, wherein the APP servers corresponding to the respective applications that can be used without downloading and installing can be deployed on the same network device or on different network devices.

14. The navigation providing device according to any one of claims 8 to 11, wherein the application is stopped from running if the terminal device leaves the geographical location.

15. A terminal device, wherein the terminal device comprises the navigation providing device according to any one of claims 8 to 14.

16. A computing device, comprising:

one or more processors;

a memory for storing one or more programs,

the one or more programs, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the method recited in any of claims 1-7.

17. A terminal device, comprising:

one or more processors;

a memory for storing one or more programs,

receiving the navigation related information returned by the network equipment;

providing the navigation-related information to the user;

the application is a sub APP channel of a target application in the terminal device, and various applications collected in the target application and capable of being used without downloading and installing form one or more sub APP channels of the target application.

18. A terminal device, comprising:

one or more processors;

a memory for storing one or more programs,

acquiring the geographical position of the terminal equipment;

opening the application according to the instruction;

detecting whether a trigger condition for providing navigation-related information within the application is met; if the triggering condition is met, acquiring the navigation related information;

providing the navigation-related information to the user;