KR102051203B1 - Navigation route guidance system using short-range wireless communication - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a navigation route guidance system using a short range wireless communication that can provide a route guidance by communicating with the NFC tag and the mobile terminal in one NFC reader device. To this end, the present invention is a route information providing apparatus for storing route information including at least one of the location information on the origin, waypoint or destination in a Near Field Communication (NFC) tag or a route application; A route information receiving device which receives route information from the route information providing device by recognizing the NFC tag or the route application according to the reader operating mode by changing a reader operation mode at a predetermined period; And a navigation device configured to provide route guidance based on the route information received by the route information receiving apparatus.

Description

Navigation route guidance system using near field communication {NAVIGATION ROUTE GUIDANCE SYSTEM USING SHORT-RANGE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION}

The present invention relates to a navigation route guidance technology using short-range wireless communication, and more particularly, navigation route guidance using short-range wireless communication that can provide a route guidance by bidirectional communication with an NFC tag and a mobile terminal in one NFC reader device It's about the system.

In general, a navigation terminal installed in a vehicle functions to display a route from a user's location to a destination in the form of a map by inputting an address, a phone number, a name, etc. of a destination that the user wants to find.

When operating the navigation terminal, a series of processes for inputting an address, telephone number, name, etc. of a destination while the vehicle is stopped or driving the vehicle is performed.

When entering the destination address, phone number, name, etc. into the navigation terminal, the touch screen sensitivity of the navigation terminal is far lower than that of the current mobile terminal, which requires a lot of modifications and requires a lot of time. In the case of inputting in the state of being in a state that causes a traffic accident due to a decrease in concentration.

Accordingly, a technology for using a mobile terminal for controlling the navigation terminal more efficiently or for transmitting data to the navigation terminal has been developed. For example, by connecting the mobile terminal and the navigation terminal, the mobile terminal may serve as a remote control of the navigation terminal, or the mobile terminal may provide a tethering function so that the navigation terminal may be connected to the wireless Internet.

However, for the wireless communication connection between the mobile terminal and the navigation terminal, the user, that is, the driver of the vehicle, must change the wireless communication setting of the mobile terminal, but it is difficult for the driver who is not familiar with the mobile terminal to change the setting of the mobile terminal. I can feel it.

Accordingly, there is a need for a communication connection method capable of providing user convenience in wireless communication connection between a mobile terminal and a navigation terminal.

Therefore, to solve the conventional problems, the present invention provides a navigation route guidance system using a short-range wireless communication that can provide a route guidance by bidirectional communication with the NFC tag and the mobile terminal as a single NFC reader device. There is this.

In addition, the present invention can easily and accurately set the desired destination without inputting additional route information through the NFC tag or application, the route information is pre-stored to solve the communication problem with foreign passengers, traffic accidents due to navigation operation while driving Another object of the present invention is to provide a navigation route guidance system using short-range wireless communication that can prevent the error.

In addition, the present invention is changed to the tag reader mode that can read and write the NFC tag at regular intervals and the emulation mode to read and write the NFC tag through the mobile terminal to perform data transmission and reception with the NFC tag or mobile terminal according to a specific mode Another object of the present invention is to provide a navigation route guidance system using short-range wireless communication.

The problems of the present invention are not limited to those mentioned above, and other problems not mentioned will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

According to an aspect of the present invention for achieving the objects and other features of the present invention, the route information including at least one of the location information about the origin, waypoint or destination to the NFC (Near Field Communication) tag or route application An apparatus for providing route information; A route information receiving device which receives route information from the route information providing device by recognizing the NFC tag or the route application according to the reader operating mode by changing a reader operation mode at a predetermined period; And a navigation device configured to provide route guidance based on the route information received by the route information receiving apparatus.

In the present invention, the apparatus for providing route information is preferably an NFC card including an NFC tag in which route information is pre-stored or a mobile terminal in which the route application is installed.

In the present invention, the route application is a business location management function to share and manage the location information for a specific business retrieved from the website, a travel location management function to store and manage location information according to the travel route, and pre-stored contacts It is preferable to include at least one of the friend location management function to guide the route from the current location of the user to the corresponding friend location on the basis.

In the present invention, the reader operation mode includes a tag reader mode for bidirectionally communicating with the NFC tag and an emulation mode for bidirectionally communicating with the route application, and the apparatus for receiving route information is periodically connected to the tag reader mode. It is preferable to change the emulation mode to be connected to the NFC card or the mobile terminal.

In the present invention, the route information receiving device is connected to the NFC tag or the route application when the vehicle log information including at least one of identification information, location information, current time, and destination arrival time for the vehicle; It is preferable that the transmission to a tag or the path application.

Navigation path guidance system using a short-range wireless communication according to the present invention provides the following effects.

The present invention has the effect of providing a route guidance by two-way communication with the NFC tag and the mobile terminal in one NFC reader device.

The present invention can easily and accurately set the desired destination without inputting additional route information through NFC tag or application that route information is pre-stored to solve the communication problem with foreign passengers, and prevent traffic accidents caused by navigation operation while driving. It can work.

The present invention is changed to a tag reader mode that can read and write the NFC tag at regular intervals and to an emulation mode that can read and write the NFC tag through the mobile terminal to perform data transmission and reception with the NFC tag or mobile terminal according to a specific mode. It has an effect.

The effects of the present invention are not limited to those mentioned above, and other effects not mentioned will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

1 is a schematic diagram illustrating a navigation path guidance system using short-range wireless communication according to the present invention.
2A, 2B and 2C are diagrams illustrating functions of a route application installed in a mobile terminal of a navigation route guidance system using short range wireless communication according to the present invention.

Further objects, features and advantages of the present invention can be more clearly understood from the following detailed description and the accompanying drawings.

Prior to the detailed description of the present invention, the present invention may be variously modified and may have various embodiments, and the examples described below and illustrated in the drawings are intended to limit the present invention to specific embodiments. It is to be understood that the present invention includes all modifications, equivalents, and substitutes included in the spirit and technical scope of the present invention.

When a component is referred to as being "connected" or "connected" to another component, it may be directly connected to or connected to that other component, but it may be understood that other components may be present in between. Should be. On the other hand, when a component is said to be "directly connected" or "directly connected" to another component, it should be understood that there is no other component in between.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. Singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. As used herein, the terms "comprise" or "have" are intended to indicate that there is a feature, number, step, action, component, part, or combination thereof described on the specification, and one or more other features. It is to be understood that the present invention does not exclude the possibility of the presence or the addition of numbers, steps, operations, components, components, or a combination thereof.

In addition, the terms "... unit", "... unit", "... module", and the like described in the specification mean a unit for processing at least one function or operation, which means hardware or software or hardware and It can be implemented in a combination of software.

In addition, in the description with reference to the accompanying drawings, the same components regardless of reference numerals will be given the same reference numerals and duplicate description thereof will be omitted. In the following description of the present invention, if it is determined that the detailed description of the related known technology may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Hereinafter, a navigation route guidance system using short-range wireless communication according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.

1 is a schematic diagram showing a navigation path guidance system using a short-range wireless communication according to the present invention, Figures 2a, 2b and 2c is installed in a mobile terminal of the navigation path guide system using a short-range wireless communication according to the present invention It is a figure which illustrates the function of a route application.

1 and 2, the navigation route guidance system 100 using short-range wireless communication according to the present invention, NFC (Near) route information including at least one of the location information for the origin, waypoint or destination Field Communication) route information providing device 110 to store in the tag or route application, the reader operation mode is changed at regular intervals to recognize the NFC tag or route application according to the reader operation mode to receive the route information from the route information providing device 110 It includes a path information receiving device 120 for receiving, and a navigation device 130 for providing a path guide based on the path information received by the path information receiving device 120.

The route information providing apparatus 110 is connected to the route information receiving apparatus 120 through short-range wireless communication to transmit route information including at least one of location information about a departure point, a waypoint, or a destination to the route information receiving apparatus 120. Can be. Near-field wireless communication may use Near Field Communication (NFC), and the present invention is limited to NFC in the present invention, but is not intended to be limited thereto, and various short-range communication methods may be performed according to an implementation method such as Bluetooth, Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID), and the like. It is obvious that the communication method can be adopted. The route information may be stored in a near field communication (NFC) tag or a route application, and a detailed description of the NFC tag and the route application will be described below.

The route information providing apparatus 110 may be implemented as an NFC card or a mobile terminal that is easy to carry. The NFC card includes an NFC tag in which route information is pre-stored, for example, provided as a room access card including an NFC tag in which room location information is stored, or provided as a company business card including an NFC tag in which company location information is stored. The venue location information may be provided as a performance pamphlet, booklet, etc. including an NFC tag. The mobile terminal may correspond to a computing device such as a PC, a smartphone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a tablet PC having a central processing unit, a memory device, and input / output means, and a route application capable of storing and managing route information. This can be installed.

The route application provides a user interface (UI) that allows the user to register, delete, and modify specific route information, and provides text, voice, global positioning system (GPS), and sharing (sharing via website, and contact between registered friends). Route information can be managed through various means such as sharing.

The route application may manage route information by specific categories, for example, categories may include region, alphabetical order, user priority order, distance based on current user location, rating by other users, and so on. Can be.

In an embodiment, referring to FIG. 2A, the route application may include a company location management function for interworking with a website and sharing and managing location information on a specific company searched on the website. For example, if a user searches for a restaurant on a website, selects a specific business (Chungnam House) from the search results, and then shares the location, the user provides a function that can be shared with the route application, and the route application by the user. If sharing to is selected, location information for a particular vendor can be stored in the route application.

In another embodiment, referring to FIG. 2B, the route application may include a travel location management function for storing and managing location information according to the travel route. For example, the route application may provide a function of adding, deleting, and modifying a plurality of travel folders, such as Jeju Island travel, Busan travel, and Gangwon-do travel, and detailed location information (Seongsan Ilchulbong Peak, Hallim Park) , Mackerel collection, Jeju Sculpture Park, etc.) can be added, deleted and modified, and then grouped and managed.

In another embodiment, referring to FIG. 2C, the route application may include a friend location management function for guiding a route from the current location of the user to the location of a specific friend based on a previously stored contact. For example, the route application generates an NFC tag for the user's current location at the user's request, sends the NFC tag to a previously stored friend contact selected by the user, and then selects the user's current location based on whether the friend accepts the location. You can guide the route from your location to your friend's location. In this case, when the route application is installed in the mobile terminal of the friend, the route application may also guide the friend from the current location of the friend to the user location through the route application.

The route information receiving apparatus 120 is connected to the route information providing apparatus 110 through short-range wireless communication (in particular, NFC) and includes at least one of location information about a source, a waypoint, or a destination from the route information providing apparatus 110. Route information may be received. The route information receiving device 120 may be wired or wirelessly connected to the navigation device 130 to deliver route information received from the route information providing device 110 to the navigation device 130 so as to provide route guidance visually. have.

The route information receiving apparatus 120 may change the reader operation mode at regular intervals, recognize the route information providing apparatus 110 according to the reader operation mode, and receive route information from the route information providing apparatus 110.

That is, the route information receiving device 120 may receive route information from the NFC tag of the NFC card or the route application of the mobile terminal. The predetermined period may be preset by the user or differently set according to the connection with the NFC tag or the connection with the mobile terminal. For example, the predetermined period may be set to 1 second and 1.5 seconds to communicate with the NFC tag or the mobile terminal. The reader operation mode may be changed.

The reader operation mode includes a tag reader mode for bidirectionally communicating with an NFC tag embedded in an NFC card among the route information providing apparatus 110 and an emulation mode for bidirectionally communicating with a route application installed in a mobile terminal among the route information providing apparatus 110. It may include. The route information receiving apparatus 120 may change the tag reader mode and the emulation mode at regular intervals and may be connected with an NFC card or a mobile terminal to receive route information.

The tag reader mode is set for bidirectional communication with the NFC tag. The tag reader mode reads and writes only the NFC tag tagged by the user, and bidirectional communication with the mobile terminal is not possible. The NFC tag can transmit and receive route information only in the tag reader mode.

The emulation mode is set for bidirectional communication with a route application of a mobile terminal in a peer to peer (P2P) state, and the NFC tag loaded inside the route information receiving device 120 is activated to read the NFC tag through the mobile terminal. The writing function is performed, and bidirectional communication with the NFC tag of the NFC card is impossible. The route application of the mobile terminal can transmit and receive route information only in the emulation mode.

When the route information receiving device 120 is connected to an NFC tag or a route application, the identification information (including a vehicle license plate, driver information, etc.), location information (including current location, route information, etc.), and current time of the corresponding vehicle , And vehicle log information including at least one of a destination arrival time may be transmitted to an NFC tag or a route application to be recorded. That is, the route information receiving device 120 may record the vehicle log information while bidirectionally communicating with the NFC tag or the route application to perform user's safety, history management, and vehicle log information sharing.

The navigation device 130 is connected to the route information receiving device 120 by wire or wirelessly to provide route guidance based on the route information received by the route information receiving device 120. The navigation device 130 generally corresponds to a mechanical device installed in a vehicle and used in various ways, and an interface, a protocol, and the like for transmitting and receiving data with the route information receiving device 120 may be established.

The embodiments and the accompanying drawings described herein are merely illustrative of some of the technical ideas included in the present invention. Therefore, since the embodiments disclosed herein are not intended to limit the technical spirit of the present invention, but to explain, it is obvious that the scope of the technical spirit of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. Modifications and specific embodiments that can be easily inferred by those skilled in the art within the scope of the technical spirit included in the specification and drawings of the present invention should be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention.

100: navigation route guidance system
110: path information providing device
120: route information receiving device
130: navigation device

Claims (5)

A route information providing apparatus for storing route information including at least one of location information on a departure point, a waypoint, or a destination in a near field communication (NFC) tag or a route application;
The reader operation mode including a tag reader mode for bidirectionally communicating with the NFC tag and an emulation mode for bidirectionally communicating with the route application is changed at a predetermined period to recognize the NFC tag or the route application according to the reader operation mode, and thus the route. A route information receiving device receiving route information from the information providing device;
A navigation device providing route guidance based on the route information received by the route information receiving device; And
The reader operation mode is characterized in that the bidirectional communication with the NFC tag or the route application by changing the tag reader mode or the emulation mode at regular intervals without a separate operation,
Navigation route guidance system using near field communication.
The method of claim 1,
The route information providing apparatus
Characterized in that the route information is an NFC card including a pre-stored NFC tag or a mobile terminal in which the route application is installed
Navigation route guidance system using near field communication.
The method of claim 1,
The route application is
Business location management to share and manage location information for specific businesses found on websites, travel location management to store and manage location information based on travel routes, and friends from your current location based on previously saved contacts At least one of the friend location management function to guide the route to the location
Navigation route guidance system using near field communication.
delete The method of claim 1,
The route information receiving device
When connected with the NFC tag or the route application, vehicle log information including at least one of identification information, location information, current time, and destination arrival time for the vehicle, characterized in that for transmitting to the NFC tag or the route application doing
Navigation route guidance system using near field communication.

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