KR20060082737A - Apparatus and method for serving point of interest - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a POI service apparatus and method for generating POI information for an arbitrary point, converting the generated POI information into text, and transmitting the same to confirm the POI information.

To this end, the present invention includes a storage unit for storing geographic information including Point of Interest (POI) information; It provides a POI service apparatus comprising a control unit for generating POI information of any point and stored in the storage in order to utilize the generated POI information or convert the POI information into a text.

POI, text, create, verify

Description

POI service apparatus and method {apparatus and method for serving point of interest}

1 is a block diagram for explaining the overall POI service apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram for explaining the mobile communication terminal of FIG. 1 in detail.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating the control unit of FIG. 2 in more detail. FIG.

4 is an operation flowchart for explaining a POI service method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of POI transmission related subroutine of FIG. 4 in detail; FIG.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of POI verification related subroutine of FIG. 4 in detail; FIG.

7 is an exemplary screen illustrating a menu required for POI management.

8 is an exemplary screen illustrating a detailed menu of the POI generation menu of FIG. 7.

9 is a screen example showing a message in which POI information is converted into text.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

50: GPS satellite 100: mobile communication terminal                 

110: storage unit 120: control unit

121: mobile communication processing unit 122: POI generation unit

123: POI editing unit 124: POI transmission processing unit

125: determination unit 126: POI extraction unit

127: POI confirmation unit 130: display unit

140: key input unit 150: GPS receiver

161: voice memory 162: voice processing unit

163: ring tone generator 164: RF unit

165: speaker 166: microphone

The present invention relates to a point of interest (POI) service apparatus and method, and in particular, POI service for generating POI information for an arbitrary point, converting the generated POI information into text, and transmitting the POI information to check POI information. An apparatus and method are provided.

Recently, with the widespread use of mobile communication services, almost all citizens are provided with one or more mobile communication services. These mobile communication services are being expanded to include basic voice calls, text messages, voice messages, wireless Internet services, and location checking functions.                         

Among these, the positioning function using a mobile communication terminal may be implemented by a method using a cell location registered in a home location register (HLR) and a method using location information by GPS.

The method using the cell location information with the terminal has a radius of the cell, that is, the error of about several kilometers, which makes it difficult to accurately track the position. However, when using GPS and DGPS (Differential GPS) systems, errors of several to tens of meters Branches can provide relatively accurate location information.

However, the navigation service provided to the terminal up to now can simply check the direction information according to its own location information and driving route, and there is no method for transmitting and receiving POI information required by the user. After establishing a communication connection, the POI information of the corresponding location should be selected or confirmed, or the POI information should be confirmed by downloading and downloading the corresponding image.

In addition, the existing navigation service needs to confirm the POI information required by the user through an access process, a POI information search process, etc., and if the POI information he / she wants to find does not exist, the other party will contact the other party to explain the location in detail. There is also an uncomfortable problem that must be done.

In addition, in order to share POI information between users, the existing navigation service needs to find a POI and store it in its own memory in order to share the POI information. Another problem is that you have to waste extra time and effort to share.

In addition, since the existing navigation service must store an image including the POI in a limited memory, there is a problem in that the memory cannot be efficiently used.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above problems, by generating POI information for any point, and converts the generated POI information into text and transmits the received POI information so that the POI information can be confirmed and thus low-cost communication means between users. In addition to the exchange of POI information by using, it is possible to easily and conveniently check the POI information required by the user.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to send POI information to be shared between users via SMS, LMS or MMS POI corresponding to the geographic information to be displayed on the screen centered on the position coordinates of the POI information included in the received message It also provides convenient mapping of POI among users by mapping and outputting information.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to make it possible to efficiently manage the memory by converting and storing the POI information required by the user to text.

According to an aspect of the present invention for achieving the above object, a storage unit for storing geographic information including Point of Interest (POI) information; It provides a POI service apparatus comprising a control unit for generating POI information of any point and stored in the storage in order to utilize the generated POI information or convert the POI information into a text.

According to another aspect of the invention, the storage unit for storing geographic information including Point of Interest (POI) information; In the case of a message including POI information by determining whether a message received from the outside is a message including POI information, geographical information to be displayed on the screen based on the position coordinates of the extracted POI information by extracting the POI information from the message. It provides a POI service apparatus comprising a control unit for reading and mapping the corresponding POI information to the read geographic information.

According to another aspect of the invention, the storage unit for storing geographic information including POI (Point Of Interest) information; POI information that generates POI information at any point, converts the generated POI information into text, and transmits it, and when the message received from the outside is a message including POI information, the location coordinates of the POI information included in the message It provides a POI service apparatus comprising a control unit for performing a POI identification mode for reading the geographic information to be displayed on the screen and mapping the corresponding POI information to the read geographic information.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the POI generation step of generating POI information of any point; And a POI transmission step of transmitting a message including the converted POI information by converting the POI information generated by the POI generation step into text.

According to another aspect of the present invention, if it is determined whether the text message received from the outside is a text message including the POI information, and the determination result is a text message including the POI information, the POI information from the received text message Extracting POI information; Providing a POI confirmation menu for confirming the POI information extracted by the POI information extraction step, if the POI confirmation menu is selected to read the geographic information stored in the storage center around the position coordinates of the extracted POI information It provides a POI service method comprising the step of identifying the POI information to map the POI information to the geographic information read and read on the screen.

According to another aspect of the invention, the first step of generating POI information of any point; A second step of converting the POI information generated by the first step into text and transmitting a message including the converted POI information; A third step of determining whether the text message transmitted by the second step is a text message including POI information and extracting POI information from the received text message when the text message including the POI information is determined as a result; ; Providing a POI confirmation menu for confirming the POI information extracted by the third step, if the POI confirmation menu is selected to read the geographic information stored in the storage unit based on the position coordinates of the extracted POI information And a fourth step of mapping corresponding POI information to read geographic information to be displayed on a screen.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The POI service apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3 as follows.                     

FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining the overall POI service apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram for explaining the mobile communication terminal of FIG. 1 in detail, and FIG. It is a block diagram for explaining in more detail.

Referring to FIG. 1, the POI service apparatus 100 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include a position coordinate of a random point selected by a user or a position coordinate received from at least one GPS satellite 50 or a POI. The POI information of the corresponding location is generated using the type and the name of the POI and the generated POI information is stored or the POI information is converted into text and transmitted to another user's terminal through SMS. At this time, in the case of using the current position coordinates, it operates in conjunction with the GPS satellites 50, and in the case of using the position coordinates of any point, it is possible to operate without interlocking with the GPS satellites 50. That is, even if the position coordinates are not received from the GPS satellites 50, the coordinates of the corresponding position may be selected by directly receiving coordinates of an arbitrary point by the user based on previously stored geographic information. In the present embodiment, but described as transmitting through the SMS, it can be transmitted through the LMS, MMS, of course.

Meanwhile, when the POI service apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention receives a text-based message including POI information, which is converted into text and transmitted through SMS, whether the received message is a message including POI information. In the case of the message including the POI information, the POI information is extracted from the received message, and the geographic information to be displayed on the screen is read based on the position coordinates of the extracted POI information. Map and print the information.                     

Here, SMS (short message service) is a two-way data radio calling service in accordance with the standard of the mobile communication globalization system (GSM), a service for transmitting data between the terminal and the terminal. In addition, the SMS may exchange messages consisting of letters and numbers between the terminal or the network. The service types include short message transmission, urgent message display, date / time recording, message recognition, and the like.

In the present embodiment, the above-described POI service apparatus 100 is described as a mobile communication terminal, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

The mobile communication terminal 100 is a computer device that can communicate with a map browser capable of displaying map contents, and includes a mobile phone capable of wireless Internet communication, a personal digital assistant (PDA), an IMT2000 terminal, and the like.

The mobile communication terminal 100 may express a user's daily movement range using geographic information and additional service information, which are stored in advance, and data on public transportation means (for example, a route map and a stop). You can also save and provide efficiently. In this case, the mobile communication terminal 100 may be connected to a navigation management server (not shown) to receive and use a vast amount of POI information, geographic information, and additional service information.

Referring to FIG. 2, the mobile communication terminal 100 performing the POI service according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a storage unit 110 storing geographic information including POI information, and a storage unit ( The control unit 120 for managing data stored in the 110 according to the user's request, the display unit 130 for providing an external screen window and / or the internal screen window, a key input unit 140 consisting of a button and GPS receiver 150, voice memory 161, voice processor 162, ring tone generator 163, RF unit 164, speaker 165, microphone 166 It is composed.

The storage unit 110 stores geographic information including POI information. Here, the point of interest (POI) information includes the coordinates, type and name of the important point, the coordinates of the important point refers to latitude and longitude, the category of the important point (category), for example, coffee shops, restaurants, It refers to clothing stores, public institutions, schools, department stores, cathedrals, parks, fast food restaurants, markets, etc. The names of the major branches include Starbucks Sinchon Branch, A-Fashion, and Lotte Department Store Myeongdong Main Branch. In addition, the geographic information includes a map, a location name, coordinates, and additional services, and the additional services include an address, a representative telephone number, a search by industry, a web address, and additional information of a facility.

In the present embodiment, it is described that geographic information including POI information is stored in the storage unit 110 of the mobile communication terminal 100, but is stored in an external memory (for example, a memory stick). Stored POI information and geographic information may be used. At this time, the mobile communication terminal 100 and the external memory are connected by a connection means (for example, a cable, a USB port, etc.) to use the information stored in the external memory.

In addition, the storage unit 110 stores an operation program, a system program, and a related program for transmitting or receiving a message, and the operation program or system program are usually stored in a ROM area included therein. Erase is possible.                     

Electrically erasable ROMs include EEPROM and flash memory. The storage unit 110 also includes a RAM for temporarily storing data generated during execution of various operation programs.

The control unit 120 controls the overall operation of the mobile communication terminal 100 and at the same time controls the procedure for generating POI, POI transmission and POI confirmation at a desired location through the mobile communication terminal 100 according to the present invention. Will be performed. Then, control of various components provided is performed.

In detail, the controller 120 receives a current position coordinate to generate POI information from at least one GPS satellite 50 or selects a coordinate for a position of an arbitrary point, sets the position coordinate, and sets the position coordinate. Generates POI information of a desired location by receiving the type of POI and the name of the POI for identification, converts the generated POI information into text, stores it in the storage unit 110, or at least one recipient's telephone number through SMS. To be sent to. In this case, the converted text includes POI identification information indicating that the message includes the POI information.

Here, the controller 120 maps the POI to the geographic information to be displayed on the screen based on the position coordinates of the selected POI information when any one of the POI information which is converted into text and stored in the storage 110 by the user is selected. By outputting it, the user can easily use the POI information by selecting the POI information whenever necessary.

In addition, the controller 120 determines whether the message received from the outside is a message including the POI information, and if it is a message including the POI information, extracts the POI information from the received message, and extracts the POI information. When the POI confirmation menu is selected to perform the verification, the geographic information to be displayed on the screen is read centered on the coordinates of the extracted POI information, and the corresponding POI information is mapped to the read geographical information, and the receiver is sent from the sender. POI information can be confirmed. Here, the determination of whether the message includes the POI information is determined according to whether the POI identification information exists, and in the case of the general text message, the text message can be checked on the screen in the same manner as the conventional method without extracting the POI information. do.

The voice memory 161 stores various voice data including a voice call, a ringing tone, and a melody.

The display unit 130 is a display device such as a liquid crystal display (LCD). The display unit 130 displays the state of the mobile communication terminal or the progress of the program under the control of the controller 120. That is, the overall state of the mobile communication terminal and input user information are displayed.

The key input unit 140 includes a plurality of numeric keys, a menu key, and a function key for performing various functions, and outputs key data to the controller 120 by an external operation.

In addition, the key input unit 140 operates a button key provided in the mobile communication terminal 100 to search the geography of a specific location (for example, the current location, arbitrary point, etc. of the mobile communication terminal 100). Receive a command. At this time, the location name (for example, select city / city, city / county / gu, name, etc.), address (for example, city / city / county / city, city / town / dong) You can also input the geographic search command of the current location by selecting one geographic search button key, and the name of one place (for example, Seocho-dong, Sinseol-dong, Bomun-dong). , Only Yeoksam-dong, etc.).

When the GPS receiver 150 transmits the position measurement signal to the at least one GPS satellite 50, the GPS coordinates of the position where the mobile communication terminal 100 is located from the GPS satellite 50 receiving the transmitted signal (eg, Coordinates, including latitude, longitude, and the like. At this time, the mobile communication terminal 100 receiving the GPS coordinates displays the POI information and the geographic information corresponding to the GPS coordinates on the screen so that the user's location can be confirmed.

The control unit 120 reads the menu from the storage unit 110 and displays the menu on the display unit 130 according to a user's menu display request by the key input unit 140. That is, the key input unit 140 is a conventional user information input means, and includes a plurality of keys suitable for the mobile communication terminal 100 to which a plurality of numeric keys and function keys are applied. By outputting the unique key data corresponding to each input key to the control unit 120, through the key input operation of the key input unit 140 to enter the menu display mode and menu (for example, POI generation menu, Selection of the POI Edit Menu, POI Transfer Menu, POI Confirmation Menu, etc. is made. Then, the controller 120 reads the menu according to the corresponding key input from the storage 110 and displays the menu on the display 130.

The RF unit 164 is controlled by the controller 120, and converts a signal output from the controller 120 into a wireless signal. In addition, the RF unit 164 converts the radio signal received through the antenna into a desired signal and outputs it.

The voice processing unit 162 modulates the voice signal input from the microphone 166 and converts the voice signal into voice data, and converts the voice data input from the RF unit 164 and the voice data stored in the voice memory 161 into a voice signal. The demodulator outputs the audio through the speaker 165.

The ring tone generator 163 generates a sign language through the speaker 165 under the control of the controller 120.

3 is a block diagram illustrating in detail the control unit shown in FIG. 2 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the control unit 120 of the mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention generates a POI information and a mobile communication processing unit 121 that performs signal processing for performing a mobile communication service. By the POI generation unit 122 performing a series of procedures for processing, the POI editing unit 123 performing a series of procedures for editing the generated POI information, and the POI generation unit 122 or the POI editing unit 123. POI transmission processing unit 124 for performing a series of procedures for transmitting the corresponding POI information, a determination unit 125 for determining whether the received message is a message containing POI information, and the determination unit 125 As a result of the determination, if the received message is a message including POI information, the POI extracting unit 126 extracts POI information from the received message, and the POI checking unit performs a series of procedures for confirming the extracted POI information. 127, including.

The mobile communication processing unit 121 is a module for performing a mobile communication service using a radio resource in the mobile communication terminal 100, and is configured and operated using a known mobile communication technology, and thus detailed description thereof will be omitted.                     

The POI generation unit 122 provides a POI generation menu for performing a series of procedures for generating POI information of a desired position by the user, and when the POI generation menu is selected by the user, the position of the coordinate of the current position or an arbitrary point One of the coordinates is selected, and POI information of the corresponding position is generated by receiving the type of POI and the name of the POI for identifying the selected position coordinate. At this time, the current position coordinates are received from at least one GPS satellite 50, and the position coordinates of an arbitrary point are selected as the coordinates of the position selected by the user using the coordinates of the geographic information stored in the storage 110. do.

In addition, the POI generation unit 122 stores the generated POI information in the storage unit 110 according to a user's request. In this case, the POI information stored in the storage 110 is information converted into text.

The POI editing unit 123 provides a POI editing menu for editing and deleting POI information generated by the POI generating unit 122, and edits the generated POI information when the POI editing menu is selected by the user. Delete it so that the user can edit the POI information. For example, when modifying the generated POI or modifying the name of the POI, the POI information is edited by selecting the POI information to be edited and inputting the type of POI to be changed or the name of the POI. In the present embodiment, the editing of the modification is described as an example, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

When the editing of the POI information is completed by the POI editing unit 123 as described above, the POI editing unit 123 updates the POI information with the edited POI information.

The POI transmission processing unit 124 provides a POI transmission menu for performing the transmission of the completed POI through the POI generation unit 122 or the POI editing unit 123, and when the POI transmission menu is selected by the user, at least one It receives the phone number of the receiver and sends the POI information through SMS.

At this time, the POI transmission processor 124 converts the POI information to be transmitted into text and transmits the converted text-based message to the receiver's phone number through SMS.

Here, the POI information is also transmitted in the form of a string like a normal text message, and this string contains the information in XML format. In addition, in order to distinguish a message including the general text message and the POI information, the message including the POI information includes POI identification information.

In more detail, when the POI transmission processing unit 124 transmits a text message from a sender's terminal to which a general text message or a text message including POI information is requested, the requested text message is exchanged with a base station (not shown). Send to SMS center (not shown) via (not shown). Then, after confirming the subscriber's subscriber information, the SMS center sends a text message to the receiver's telephone number through a text message transmission channel (for example, a paging channel).

The determination unit 125 determines whether the message received from the outside is a general text message or a message including POI information. At this time, since the message including the POI information includes the POI identification information, it is determined whether it is a general text message or a text message including the POI information according to whether the POI identification information exists.

The POI extractor 126 extracts the POI information from the received message when it is determined by the determination unit 125 that the message includes the POI information.

The POI confirming unit 127 provides a POI confirming menu for confirming the POI information extracted by the POI extracting unit 136. When the POI confirming menu is selected by the user, the POI confirming unit 127 centers the position coordinates of the extracted POI information. By using the geographic information previously stored in the storage unit 110 to read the geographic information located within a certain distance and the corresponding position coordinates and to map the POI information to the read geographic information to be output on the screen, the receiver POI information You can check.

In the present exemplary embodiment, the POI information is selected by selecting the POI confirmation menu. However, the POI information may also be checked through the reception message menu for checking the general text message.

4 is an operation flowchart for explaining a POI service method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The POI service method applied to FIG. 2 will now be described with reference to FIG. 4.

The control unit 120 has previously stored geographic information including the POI information in the storage unit 110 (S100).

First, the controller 120 provides a menu such as POI generation, POI editing, POI transmission, POI confirmation, etc., as illustrated in FIG. 7 to provide a POI service, and corresponds to the selected menu when the corresponding menu is selected by the user. A series of procedures is performed.

Next, the controller 120 determines whether the POI generation menu is selected by the user (S102). As a result of the determination in step S102, if the POI generation menu is not selected by the user, the process moves to step S112 described later.

As a result of the determination in step S102, when the POI generation menu is selected by the user, the controller 120 determines a detailed menu (for example, the current position coordinates and an arbitrary point) corresponding to the POI generation menu as shown in FIG. 8. Position coordinates, type of POI, name of POI, etc.) are displayed on the screen (S104).

Next, the controller 120 determines whether one of the current position coordinates or the position coordinates of an arbitrary point is selected by the user (S106).

As a result of the determination in step S106, when the current position coordinate is selected by the user, the controller 120 receives the current position coordinate through the at least one GPS satellite 50 (S108).

As a result of the determination in step S106, when the location coordinates of the arbitrary points are selected by the user, the controller 120 selects the location coordinates of the arbitrary points designated by the user based on the geographic information stored in the storage 110 (S107).

When the current position coordinate or the position coordinate of the arbitrary point is determined through the steps S108 and S107, the control unit 120 inputs the type of POI and the name of the POI for identifying the determined position coordinate through the key input unit 140. The POI information of the corresponding location is generated (S110). In this case, the generated POI information may be stored and used in the storage 110 according to a user's request.

Next, the controller 120 determines whether the POI editing menu is selected by the user (S112). As a result of the determination in step S112, when the POI editing menu is not selected by the user, the process moves to step S200 to be described later.

As a result of the determination in step S112, when the POI editing menu is selected by the user, the controller 120 selects POI information to be edited from the already generated POI information and edits or deletes the selected POI information according to a user's request. It is performed to edit the POI (S114). In this case, when the editing of the POI information is completed, the controller 120 causes the edited POI information to be updated in the storage 110 with the edited POI information.

Next, when the POI transmission menu is selected by the user, the controller 120 converts POI information to be transmitted into text and performs a POI transmission related subroutine for transmitting the converted text-based message to the receiver's phone number through SMS ( S200 of FIG. 4).

In addition, the controller 120 may transmit POI information by selecting POI information to be transmitted by the user, receiving a phone number of a receiver to transmit the selected POI information, and then selecting a POI transmission menu.

Referring to FIG. 5, a subroutine related to POI transmission (S200), the controller 120 determines whether a POI transmission menu is selected by a user (S201). As a result of the determination in step S201, when the POI transmission menu is not selected by the user, the process moves to step S300 described later.

As a result of the determination in step S201, when the POI transmission menu is selected by the user, the controller 120 provides an input window for inputting the telephone number of the receiver to which the POI information is to be transmitted, and provides the input window with at least one receiver. Receive a phone number (S203).                     

Next, the control unit 120 converts the POI information into text to the phone number of the at least one receiver thus received and transmits a text-based message including the converted POI information through SMS (S205). In this case, the converted text includes POI identification information indicating that the message includes the POI information, and the controller 120 transmits the message including the POI information as illustrated in FIG. 9 to the base station (not shown). It is to be transmitted to the SMS center (not shown) through the exchange and (not shown).

Next, the controller 120 determines whether the message received from the outside is a message including the POI information, and as a result of the determination, when the message includes the POI information, the POI information is extracted from the received message and the POI information is extracted. A POI check subroutine for checking POI information is performed by outputting geographic information and POI information corresponding to the position coordinates (S300 of FIG. 4).

Referring to FIG. 6, the POI check related subroutine (S300), the controller 120 determines whether the received message is a message including POI information or a general text message (S301).

As a result of the determination in step S301, when the received message is a general text message, the controller 120 causes the text message to be displayed on the screen according to the request for viewing the received message selected by the user (S302).

As a result of the determination in step S301, when the received message is a message including POI information, the controller 120 extracts POI information from the received message (S303).

Next, the controller 120 determines whether the POI confirmation menu is selected by the user (S305). As a result of the determination in step S305, if the POI confirmation menu is not selected by the user, the process ends.

As a result of the determination in step S305, when the POI confirmation menu is selected by the user, the control unit 120 reads the geographic information stored in the storage unit 110 based on the position coordinates of the extracted POI information and corresponds to the read geographic information. POI is mapped and output (S307).

For example, the above-described POI service method is applied to an embodiment in which a friend (for example, person A's mobile communication terminal) finds a place where he (for example, person B's mobile communication terminal) is located. In this case, person B's mobile communication terminal uses the current location coordinates, the type of POI, and the name of the POI to generate its current location as POI information, converts the generated POI information into text, and then sends a message to a friend A via SMS. If the A is transmitted to the phone number, the mobile terminal of Person A determines whether the received message is a message including the POI information, and if the message includes the POI information, and extracts and extracts the POI information from the received text-based message POI information is checked by outputting geographic information and POI information corresponding to the position coordinates of the POI information.

By doing so, POI information between users can be exchanged using SMS, which is an inexpensive communication means, and POI information can be conveniently shared between users.

The present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, and various modifications and changes can be made by those skilled in the art, which are included in the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined in the appended claims.

 According to the present invention as described above by generating a POI information for any point, and converts the generated POI information to text and transmits a message containing the converted POI information to receive it to confirm the POI information, it is inexpensive between individuals Not only can the POI information be exchanged using a communication means, but the POI information required by the user can be easily utilized.

In addition, according to the present invention as described above by sending the POI information that you want to share between the user via the SMS or LMS or MMS, there is an effect that can conveniently share the POI information.

In addition, according to the present invention as described above by generating POI information of any point to provide the user with the POI information, there is an effect that the user can easily and conveniently find the location to go.

In addition, according to the present invention as described above by converting the POI information to the text and stored in the storage, there is an effect that can efficiently manage the memory.

Claims (23)

A storage unit which stores geographic information including POI information; And a controller for generating POI information at any point and storing the POI information in the storage unit or converting the POI information into text. The method according to claim 1, wherein the control unit, And the converted text is transmitted using a short message service (SMS), a long messaging service (LMS), or a multimedia messaging service (MMS). The method of claim 1, wherein the control unit A POI generation unit for generating POI information by providing a POI generation menu for performing a series of procedures for generating the POI information; A POI editing unit providing a POI editing menu for editing and deleting POI information generated by the POI generating unit, and editing and deleting the generated POI information to edit POI information; It provides a POI transmission menu for performing the transmission of the POI information completed by the POI generation unit or POI editing unit, receiving a telephone number of the receiver and comprises a POI transmission processing unit for transmitting the POI information POI service device. The method of claim 3, wherein the POI transmission processing unit And converting the POI information to be transmitted into text and transmitting the converted text-based message to the receiver's telephone number. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the converted text includes POI identification information indicating that the corresponding message is a message including POI information. The method of claim 1, wherein the control unit The generated POI information is converted into text and stored in the storage unit, and when any one of the POI information stored in the storage unit is selected by the user, the geographic information to be displayed on the screen based on the position coordinates of the selected POI and the corresponding one. POI service device, characterized in that for mapping and outputting the POI information. A storage unit which stores geographic information including POI information; In the case of a message including POI information by determining whether a message received from the outside is a message including POI information, geographical information to be displayed on the screen based on the position coordinates of the extracted POI information by extracting the POI information from the message. And a controller for mapping and outputting corresponding POI information to read geographic information. The method of claim 7, wherein the control unit A determination unit determining whether a message received from the outside is a message including POI information; A POI extracting unit for extracting POI information from the received message, if it is determined by the determining unit to be a message including POI information; Provides a POI confirmation menu for confirming the POI information extracted by the POI extraction unit, corresponding to the geographic information read and read the geographic information stored in the storage center around the position coordinates of the extracted POI information And a POI checking unit which maps the POI information to be displayed on the screen. The method of claim 8, wherein the determination unit And determining whether the received message is a general text message or a text message including POI information according to whether the received message includes POI identification information indicating that the message includes POI information. A storage unit which stores geographic information including POI information; POI transmission mode that generates POI information at any point, converts the generated POI information into text, and transmits it, and when the message received from the outside is a message including POI information, based on the position coordinates of the POI information included in the message. And a controller configured to perform a POI checking mode for reading and displaying the geographic information to be displayed on the screen and mapping the corresponding POI information to the read geographic information. The method of claim 10, wherein the control unit, And the converted text is transmitted using a short message service (SMS), a long messaging service (LMS), or a multimedia messaging service (MMS). The method of claim 10, wherein the control unit A POI generation unit for generating POI information by providing a POI generation menu for performing a series of procedures for generating the POI information; A POI editing unit providing a POI editing menu for editing and deleting POI information generated by the POI generating unit, and editing and deleting the generated POI information to edit POI information; It provides a POI transmission menu for transmitting the POI information completed by the POI generation unit or POI editing unit, receiving a telephone number of the receiver and comprises a POI transmission processing unit for transmitting the POI information POI service device. The method of claim 10, wherein the control unit A determination unit determining whether a message received from the outside is a message including POI information; A POI extracting unit for extracting POI information from the received message, if it is determined by the determining unit to be a message including POI information; Provides a POI confirmation menu for confirming the POI information extracted by the POI extraction unit, corresponding to the geographic information read and read the geographic information stored in the storage center around the position coordinates of the extracted POI information And a POI checking unit which maps the POI information to be displayed on the screen. A POI generation step of generating POI information of an arbitrary point; And converting the POI information generated by the POI generation step into text and transmitting a message including the converted POI information. The method of claim 14, wherein the POI generation step, POI information by receiving a current position coordinate to generate POI information through at least one GPS satellite, a received current position coordinate, a type of POI for identifying the received current position coordinate, and a name of the POI. Or generating POI information by receiving a location coordinate of a randomly selected random point, a type of POI for identifying the selected location coordinate, and a name of the POI. The method of claim 14, wherein the converted text POI service method comprising the POI identification information indicating that the message includes the POI information. The method according to claim 14, After the POI generation step, And editing and deleting the generated POI information by a user to edit the POI information. The method according to claim 14, After the POI generation step, The generated POI information is converted into text and stored in the storage unit, and when any one of the POI information stored in the storage unit is selected by the user, the geographic information to be displayed on the screen based on the position coordinates of the selected POI and the corresponding one. POI service method, characterized in that for mapping and outputting the POI information.  The method according to claim 17, After the POI editing step, Convert the edited POI information into text and store it in the storage unit. If any one of the POI information stored in the storage unit is selected by the user, the geographic information to be displayed on the screen based on the position coordinate of the selected POI and the corresponding POI service method, characterized in that for mapping and outputting the POI information. The method of claim 14, wherein the POI transmission step A method of POI, characterized in that the POI information to be transmitted is converted into text and the converted text-based message is transmitted to the receiver's telephone number through SMS, LMS, or MMS. The method according to claim 14 or 20, After the POI transmission step, Determining whether the message received from the outside is a message including POI information; A POI extracting step of extracting POI information from the received message when it is determined that the message includes the POI information by the determining step; Providing a POI confirmation menu for confirming the POI information extracted by the POI extraction step, if the POI confirmation menu is selected, the geographic information stored in the storage unit is read around the position coordinates of the extracted POI information POI service method comprising the step of mapping the POI information to the read geographic information to be displayed on the screen. Determining whether the text message received from the outside is a text message including POI information and if the text message includes POI information, extracting POI information from the received text message; Providing a POI confirmation menu for confirming the POI information extracted by the POI information extraction step, if the POI confirmation menu is selected to read the geographic information stored in the storage center around the position coordinates of the extracted POI information POI information method comprising the step of mapping the POI information to the geographic information read and read to be displayed on the screen. A first step of generating POI information of an arbitrary point; A second step of converting the POI information generated by the first step into text and transmitting a message including the converted POI information; A third step of determining whether the text message transmitted by the second step is a text message including POI information and extracting POI information from the received text message when the text message including the POI information is determined as a result; ; Providing a POI confirmation menu for confirming the POI information extracted by the third step, if the POI confirmation menu is selected to read the geographic information stored in the storage unit based on the position coordinates of the extracted POI information And a fourth step of mapping the POI information to the read geographic information so that the POI information is displayed on the screen.

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