KR20150074416A - Navigation system based on web browser - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed is a car navigation system which can be operated only with a low specification CPU and a small capacity storage device by receiving the position information of a car, searching a map, and storing the map using a portable terminal. The car navigation system receives environment setting resources from a web server, patches a web browser-based user interface by selectively updating the received environment setting resources, and displays the patched user interface. The car navigation system comprises: a first communication part for receiving the position information of a car from a portable terminal, transmitting a request message to the portable terminal, and receiving result information responding to the request message from the portable terminal; a display part for displaying the received position information and result information of the car on the web browser-based user interface; and a control part for determining whether or not to maintain the version information of the user interface when an input event on the user interface is detected or to transmit the version information of the user interface to a web server.

Description

[0001] NAVIGATION SYSTEM BASED ON WEB BROWSER [0002]

The present invention relates to a web browser-based navigation system, and more particularly, to a navigation system that provides a web browser-based user interface.

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a car navigation system (e.g., a CNS (Car Navigation System) is a driving guidance system or a driving guidance system that provides position information to an oncoming vehicle and accurately guides the vehicle to a destination.

The car navigation system uses the data received from GPS (Global Position System) satellite to display the current position and the current direction of the vehicle to the driving customer through the installed screen. In addition, when a user visits an unknown area, the user inputs a start point and a destination, and displays the road, distance, and estimated time on the screen.

For example, when the user desires to operate using an existing car navigation system, if he / she knows an accurate name (for example, a long-dental dentistry) of the destination, the destination name is searched for by inputting the destination name. The search engine of the car navigation system searches the address list corresponding to the destination name based on the database in the car navigation system and displays the search result list.

The object of the following embodiments is to provide a car navigation system using a portable terminal.

The object of the following embodiments is to provide a vehicle navigation system for an in-vehicle display device which is operated even when a low-specification CPU and a small capacity storage device are provided even when receiving a position (GPS receiving module) System.

An object of the following embodiments is to provide a car navigation system for updating a web browser-based user interface of an in-vehicle display device interlocked with a portable terminal.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a display device mounted on a vehicle receives location information of a vehicle from a portable terminal inside the vehicle, transmits a request message to the portable terminal, receives result information corresponding to the request message from the portable terminal A display unit for displaying the location information of the received vehicle and the result information on a user interface based on a web browser and a display unit for maintaining version information of the user interface when an input event is detected for the user interface, The version information of the user interface.

And a second communication unit for transmitting the version information of the user interface to the web server and receiving the configuration resource from the web server.

The control unit may selectively update the received configuration resource to patch the user interface, and the display unit may display the patched user interface.

The version information of the user interface may include operating system version information, map version information, and human machine interface version information of the display device.

The environment setting resource may include operating system data, map data, and human machine interface data that are operations of the user interface in the display device.

Wherein the first communication unit receives interface version information of the portable terminal from the portable terminal and the controller compares the received interface version information of the portable terminal with the patched user interface to synchronize the patched user interface, The display unit may display the synchronized user interface.

The first communication unit and the second communication unit may use one of Bluetooth (Blue Tooth), WiFi, USB, infrared communication, and RF (Radio Frequency) communication.

According to another embodiment, a web server includes a web server communication unit for receiving a version information of a user interface from a display device that transmits a request message to a portable terminal and receives result information corresponding to the request message from the portable terminal, And a control unit for controlling the web server communication unit to allocate the environment setting resource based on the version information of the identified user interface and transmit the environment setting resource to the display device do.

The version information of the user interface may include operating system version information, map version information, and human machine interface version information of the display device.

The environment setting resource may include operating system data, map data, and human machine interface data that are operations of the user interface in the display device.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for controlling a vehicle, comprising the steps of receiving location information of a vehicle from a portable terminal inside a vehicle, transmitting a request message to the portable terminal, and receiving result information corresponding to the request message from the portable terminal, Displaying the location information of the vehicle and the result information on a user interface based on a web browser, and maintaining version information of the user interface when the input event is detected, or transmitting the version information of the user interface to the web server And determining whether to transmit.

Transmitting the version information of the user interface to the web server, and receiving the configuration resource from the web server.

Selectively updating the received configuration resource to fetch the user interface, and displaying the patched user interface.

The version information of the user interface may include operating system version information, map version information, and human machine interface version information of the display device.

The environment setting resource may include operating system data, map data, and human machine interface data that are operations of the user interface in the display device.

Receiving interface version information of the portable terminal from the portable terminal, comparing the interface version information of the received portable terminal with the patched user interface to synchronize the patched user interface, and displaying the synchronized user interface .

According to another embodiment, the method includes receiving version information of a user interface from a display device that transmits a request message to a portable terminal and receives result information corresponding to the request message from the portable terminal, And controlling the web server communication unit to transmit the environment setting resource to the display device based on the verified version information of the user interface.

The version information of the user interface may include operating system version information, map version information, and human machine interface version information of the display device.

The environment setting resource may include operating system data, map data, and human machine interface data that are operations of the user interface in the display device.

According to the embodiments described below, a car navigation system using a portable terminal can be provided.

The object of the following embodiments is to provide a vehicle navigation system for an in-vehicle display device which is operated even when a low-specification CPU and a small capacity storage device are provided even when receiving a position (GPS receiving module) System can be provided.

According to the embodiments described below, it is possible to provide a vehicle navigation system for updating a web browser-based user interface of an in-vehicle display device interlocked with a portable terminal.

1 is a view showing a concept of a car navigation system according to an embodiment.
2 is a block diagram showing the structure of a portable terminal according to an embodiment.
3 is a block diagram showing the structure of a display device according to an embodiment.
4 is a block diagram showing the structure of a display device according to another embodiment.
5 is a block diagram showing the structure of a web server according to an embodiment.
6 is a flowchart showing a step-by-step operation method of the portable terminal according to the embodiment.
7 is a flowchart showing the operation method of the display apparatus according to the embodiment in steps.
FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the operation method of the display device according to another embodiment step by step.
FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a step-by-step operation method of the web server according to the embodiment.
Fig. 10 shows an embodiment of a user interface of a display device.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a view showing a concept of a car navigation system according to an embodiment.

The car navigation system according to the embodiment includes a portable terminal 110 and a display device 120. [

The display device 120 displays a navigation screen 121 and a user interface 122 on the screen.

Display device 120 provides a user interface 122 for receiving information about a destination from a user. The display device 120 transmits information on a destination to the portable terminal 110 via a local area network. For example, the display device 120 may transmit information on a destination to the portable terminal 110 using at least one of Bluetooth (Blue Tooth), WiFi, USB, infrared communication, and RF .

The portable terminal 110 receives information on the destination from the display device 120. [ The portable terminal 110 has a mass storage device such as an external memory and can store the map on the mass storage device. According to one aspect, the portable terminal 110 can calculate the route from the current location to the destination using the map stored in the mass storage device.

According to another aspect, the portable terminal 110 can transmit information on a destination to the web server 140 using the communication network 130. [ In this case, the portable terminal 110 can transmit information on a destination using a WCDMA communication network, an LTE communication network, or the like. The portable terminal 110 may receive information on a route from the web server 140 to a destination and may transmit information on the received route to the display device 120. [

The display device 120 can receive information on the route from the portable terminal 120 and display information on the received route on the navigation screen 121. [

According to the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, the display device 120 provides a basic user interface 122 such as receiving information on a destination from a user, and displays the retrieved route on the navigation screen 121. In addition, the portable terminal 110 performs functions such as map storage, map search, and communication network connection. Therefore, the display device 120 does not need to have a high-performance CPU and a large-capacity memory for searching for a map or the like.

Therefore, according to the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, the display device 120 can be manufactured more inexpensively, and the user can utilize the improved service at a lower cost when the portable terminal is replaced.

2 is a block diagram showing the structure of a portable terminal according to an embodiment.

The portable terminal 200 shown in FIG. 2 includes a position calculation unit 210, a display communication unit 220, a control unit 230, and a communication network connection unit 240.

The position calculation unit 210 calculates the position of the portable terminal 200. The position of the portable terminal 200 calculated by the position calculating unit 210 may be used as the position of the display device 250 and the position of the vehicle when the portable terminal 200 is mounted on the vehicle together with the display device 250. [ (Hereinafter, the position of the portable terminal 200 is assumed to be the same as the position of the display device 250 and the position of the vehicle). According to one aspect, the position calculation unit 210 may receive the GPS signal and calculate the position of the portable terminal using the received GPS signal.

The display communication unit 220 transmits information about the position of the portable terminal 200 calculated by the position calculation unit 210 to the display device 250. According to one aspect, information on the position of the transmitted portable terminal 200 can be synthesized on the map stored in the display device and displayed on the display device.

The display device 250 receives the position of the portable terminal 200 from the display communication unit 220 and synthesizes the position of the received portable terminal 200 on the map stored in the display device 250, do. According to one aspect, the display device 250 does not have a mass storage device for storing the entire area map covered by the vehicle navigation system, and displays only the small area map displayed on the screen of the display device 250 Capacity buffer memory.

In this case, if the vehicle moves and the current position of the vehicle is out of the area of the map stored in the buffer memory, the display device 250 can not synthesize the position of the portable terminal 200 to the map.

In this case, the display communication unit 220 may receive an additional map request from the display device 250 to request a map of an area not stored in the buffer memory of the display device 250. [

According to one aspect, the portable terminal 200 may include a mass storage device for storing an entire area map covered by the car navigation system. In this case, the display communication unit 220 can retrieve a map corresponding to the position of the portable terminal 200 in the mass storage device, and transmit the retrieved map to the display device 250.

According to another aspect, the portable terminal 200 may not have a map corresponding to the position of the portable terminal 200. In this case, the communication network connection unit 240 can transmit an additional map request to the web server 270 using the wireless communication network 260. The communication network connection unit 240 receives a map corresponding to the location of the portable terminal 200 using the wireless communication network 260 and the display communication unit 220 displays the map corresponding to the location of the portable terminal 200 on the display device 250).

According to one aspect, the display communication unit 220 can communicate with the display device 250 using at least one of Bluetooth (Blue Tooth), WiFi, USB, infrared communication, and RF (Radio Frequency) communication.

In addition, according to one aspect, the communication network connection unit 240 can communicate with the web server 270 using a WCDMA communication network, an LTE communication network, or the like.

According to one aspect, the display communication unit 220 can receive a search condition from the display device 250. [ Here, the search condition may be a search condition for a route search including a start position and a destination position, or a search condition for a local search for an area including the position of the mobile terminal 200. [

In this case, the communication network connection unit 240 transmits the search condition received from the display device 250 to the search web server to perform the search, and the display communication unit 220 can transmit the search result to the display device 250 .

For example, the display communication unit 220 receives a search condition for a route search including a start position and a destination position from the display device 250, and the network connection unit 240 transmits a search condition to the web server 270 . The network connection unit 240 receives information on the optimal route considering the traffic information from the web server 270 and the display communication unit 220 can transmit information on the optimal route to the display device 250. [

According to another aspect, the display communication unit 220 can receive the search condition for the nearest gas station in the current position of the portable terminal 200. [ The network connection unit 240 may transmit the search condition to the web server 270. [ The network connection unit 240 receives the search result from the web server 270, and the display communication unit 220 can transmit the search result to the display device 250.

In the above embodiment, only the embodiment in which the portable terminal 200 transmits the search condition to the web server 270 has been described. However, the portable terminal 200 stores the entire area map covered by the car navigation system, , It is possible to search the direct path or to calculate the local search result for the calculated position. In this case, the portable terminal 200 can transmit the search result to the display device 250 using the display communication unit 220 without accessing the web server 270 using the wireless communication network 260.

According to one aspect, the communication network connection unit 240 can receive traffic information from the web server 270 using the wireless communication network 260. Here, the traffic information received by the communication network connection unit 240 may be the position of the portable terminal 200 calculated by the position calculation unit 210 or the traffic information of the corresponding area. In this case, the display communication unit 220 may transmit the traffic information to the display device 250, and the traffic information may be displayed on the display device 250.

According to one aspect, the display communication unit 220 can receive information on the vehicle on which the portable terminal 200 is mounted from the display device 250. [ Here, the information on the vehicle may include information on the model year of the vehicle, information on the amount of exhaust, and the like. In this case, the control unit 230 can calculate the fuel efficiency or the energy efficiency of the vehicle based on the information about the vehicle. Also, the display communication unit 220 transmits the calculated fuel efficiency or energy efficiency to the display device 250, and the calculated fuel efficiency or energy efficiency can be displayed on the display device 250.

According to one aspect, the controller 230 can calculate the speed of the vehicle on which the portable terminal 200 is mounted based on the position of the portable terminal 200 calculated by the position calculating unit 210. If the speed of the vehicle is greater than or equal to the threshold value, the display communication unit 220 may transmit the function lock setting data to the display device 250. [ Here, the function lock setting data may include a unique number of each screen constituting the user interface displayed on the display device 250, a unique number of the interface elements displayed in each screen, and information on whether the function is active / inactive. The display device 250 can control the user interface to be active / inactive according to the function lock setting data.

3 is a block diagram showing the structure of a display device according to an embodiment.

3 includes a transmission unit 310, a reception unit 320, a control unit 330, a storage unit 340, a display unit 350, and a touch input unit 360.

The receiving unit 320 receives the position of the vehicle on which the display device 300 is mounted from the portable terminal 370.

The storage unit 340 stores a map. According to one aspect, the storage unit 340 can store only the map corresponding to a part of the area, without having a map of the entire area covered by the car navigation system. In this case, the control unit 330 determines whether or not the position of the received vehicle can be displayed on the map stored in the storage unit 340. If it is determined that the map stored in the storage unit 340 can not display the position of the vehicle, the transmitting unit 310 transmits an additional map request for requesting the map of the area corresponding to the position of the vehicle to the portable terminal 370 send. The receiving unit 320 receives the additional map from the portable terminal 370 in response to the additional map request.

The display unit 350 may display the map stored in the storage unit 340 or the location of the vehicle on the additional map received by the receiving unit 320 additionally.

According to one aspect, the storage unit 340 can update the stored map using the additional map received by the receiving unit 320. [

According to one aspect, the display unit 350 may display an interface for receiving a search condition. The touch input unit 360 receives a touch input related to a search condition from a user. The control unit 330 analyzes the touch input to generate a search condition.

Here, the search condition may be a search condition for a route search including a start position and a destination position of the vehicle, or a search condition for a local search for an area including a calculated position of the vehicle.

The transmitting unit 310 transmits the generated search condition to the portable terminal 370, and the receiving unit 320 receives the search result for the search condition. The search result may be displayed to the user using the display unit 350. [

According to one aspect, the portable terminal 370 has a map of the entire area covered by the car navigation system, and can directly perform a route search and a local search corresponding to search conditions.

According to another aspect, the portable terminal 370 may transmit the search condition to the web server 390 using the wireless communication network 380 and receive search results. In this case, the receiving unit 320 can receive the search result again from the portable terminal 370.

According to one aspect, the receiving unit 320 can receive the function lock setting data from the portable terminal 370. [ Here, the function lock setting data may include a unique number of each screen constituting the user interface displayed on the display unit 350, a unique number of the interface elements displayed in each screen, and information on whether the function is active / inactive. The display unit 350 can control the user interface to be active / inactive according to the function lock setting data.

4 is a block diagram showing the structure of a display device according to another embodiment.

4 includes a first communication unit 410, a display unit 420, and a control unit 430. The first communication unit 410 includes a first communication unit 410, a display unit 420,

The first communication unit 410 receives the location information of the vehicle from the portable terminal 450 in the vehicle, transmits the request message to the portable terminal 450, and transmits the result information corresponding to the request message from the portable terminal 450 .

The location information of the vehicle is the location of the portable terminal 450. When the portable terminal 450 is mounted on the vehicle together with the display device 400, the position of the portable terminal 450 can be used as the position of the display device 400 and the position information of the vehicle.

According to one aspect, the portable terminal 450 can receive the position of the portable terminal 450 through the GPS signal, and the portable terminal 450 triangulates the intensity of the radio signal coming from at least three base stations The position of the portable terminal 450 can be received.

The request message may be a search condition for a route search including a start position and a destination position or a search condition for a local search for an area including a location of the portable terminal 450. [

The portable terminal 450 may transmit the request message received from the display device 400 to the web server 460 to perform the request message and transmit the result information corresponding to the request message to the portable terminal 450.

In addition, the result information transmitted to the portable terminal 450 can be received through the first communication unit 410 of the display device 400.

In the above embodiment, only the embodiment in which the portable terminal 450 transmits the request message to the web server 270 has been described. However, the portable terminal 450 stores the entire area map covered by the car navigation system, , Or the result information on the position information of the vehicle can be calculated.

The display device 400 displays the location information and the result information of the received vehicle on a web browser-based user interface.

According to one aspect, the position information and the result information of the received vehicle can be synthesized on the map stored in the display device and displayed on the display device 400. [

The web browser may be a platform (e.g., a Java platform, a Flash platform, a Silverlight platform, or an HTML 5 (Hyper Text Markup Language 5) platform) that performs browser communication and may transmit and receive data on the World Wide Web It can include any web browser that can receive.

The web browser can also access information on the WWW, such as IBM's WebExplorer, Netscape's Navigator, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Apple Computer's CyberDog, , Or may include all other existing software applications.

The user interface means software applied to the display device 400 or the display device 400 for facilitating mutual interaction between the two aspects of the user and the system, A menu or a system to be operated by the user can belong to the user interface.

When an input event to the user interface is detected, the control unit 430 determines whether to retain the version information of the user interface or to transmit the version information of the user interface to the web server 460.

An input event can be detected through a touch screen having a display and a touch pad in a mutual layer structure.

The input event may also be an event for updating an operating system associated with the user interface, a map stored in the display device 400, and a human machine interface (HMI) for operating the display device 400.

The operating system may be any of Symbian, Microsoft, Nokia Series 40, Nokia Series 60, Motorola, android, and iOS (iOS) OS. In addition, the human machine interface may include the above-described user interface and User Experience (UX).

According to one aspect, when an input event is detected, the display device 400 can use the car navigation service in conjunction with the portable terminal 450 and the web server while maintaining the version of the existing user interface.

The second communication unit 440 transmits the version information of the user interface to the web server 460 and receives the configuration resource from the web server 460.

According to one aspect, when an input event is detected, the version information of the user interface of the display device 400 is transmitted to the web server 460 in order to update the latest version of the user interface, The setting resource can be received through the second communication unit 440 of the display device 400. [

The first communication unit and the second communication unit can use any one of Bluetooth, WiFi, USB, infrared communication, and RF communication.

The version information of the user interface may be operating system version information of the display device, map version information, and human machine interface version information, and may include date information, time information, and major update history information that have been recently updated.

The control unit 430 may selectively update the received configuration resource to patch the user interface, and the display unit may display the patched user interface.

According to one side, the patched user interface could be Symbian, Microsoft, Nokia Series 40, Nokia Series 60, Motorola, Android and iOS based on operating system data.

According to another aspect, the patched user interface may be address information, name information and location information based on map data.

According to another aspect, the patched user interface may be used to search for a route based on human machine interface data (e.g. address search, name search, phone book search, recent search, etc.), traffic information search (e.g., (For example, brightness control, volume control, guidance voice language, touch pad input, key pad input, touch effect sound and keypad input effect sound, etc.), energy efficiency search (For example, vehicle weight information, fuel amount information, temperature information, and steering wheel angle information) of the vehicle, such as vehicle speed information, road curvature, And a display unit (e.g., 2D screen, 3D screen).

The optional update to the configuration resource may selectively update the operating system data, the map data, and the human-machine interface data that are the operation of the user interface based on the version information of the user interface of the display device 400.

The first communication unit 440 receives the interface version information of the portable terminal 450 from the portable terminal 450 and the controller 430 compares the interface version information of the received portable terminal 450 with the patched user interface And synchronizes the patched user interface, and the display unit 420 may display the synchronized user interface.

The interface version information of the portable terminal 450 may be similar to the configuration for the version information of the user interface of the display device 400 described above.

Synchronization may be used to interwork or share a web browser based interface between the portable terminal 450 and the display device 400.

5 is a block diagram showing the structure of a web server according to an embodiment.

The web server 500 shown in FIG. 5 includes a web server communication unit 510, a version information verification unit 520, and a control unit 530.

The web server communication unit 510 receives the version information of the user interface from the display device 540 that transmits the request message to the portable terminal 550 and receives the result information corresponding to the request message from the portable terminal 550.

The request message may be a search condition for a route search including a start position and a destination position or a search condition for a local search for an area including a location of the mobile terminal 550. [

The portable terminal 550 may transmit the request message received from the display device 540 to the web server 500 to perform the request message and transmit the result information corresponding to the request message to the portable terminal 550.

In the above embodiment, only the embodiment in which the portable terminal 550 transmits a request message to the web server 500 has been described. However, the portable terminal 550 may store the entire area map covered by the car navigation system, , Or the result information on the position information of the vehicle can be calculated.

The version information of the user interface may be operating system version information of the display device, map version information, and human machine interface version information, and may include date information, time information, and major update history information that have been recently updated.

The version information checking unit 520 can check whether the user interface version information of the display device 540 is the latest version or whether an update to the user interface based on the web browser is necessary.

The web browser may be a platform (e.g., a Java platform, a Flash platform, a Silverlight platform, or an HTML 5 platform) that performs browser communications and may include any web browser capable of sending and receiving data on the WWW .

The web browser may also be developed in the future to access or process information on IBM's Web Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Cyberdog and Cyberdog on Apple Computer, Software applications.

The user interface means software applied to the display device 540 or the display device 540 for facilitating mutual interaction between the two sides of the user and the system, A menu or a system to be operated by the user can belong to the user interface.

The control unit 530 controls the web server communication unit 510 to allocate the environment setting resource based on the verified version information of the user interface and transmit the environment setting resource to the display device 540. [

The environment setting resource may be operating system data, map data, and human-machine interface data that are operations of the user interface based on the version information of the user interface of the display device 540. [

6 is a flowchart showing a step-by-step operation method of the portable terminal according to the embodiment.

In step 610, the portable terminal calculates the position of the portable terminal. Since the portable terminal is mounted on the vehicle together with the display device, the position of the portable terminal can be considered to be the same as the position of the display device and the position of the vehicle.

According to one aspect, the portable terminal can receive the GPS signal and calculate the position of the portable terminal using the received GPS signal.

In step 611, the portable terminal transmits the position of the portable terminal to the display device. According to one aspect, the transmitted position can be synthesized on a map stored in the display device and displayed on the display device.

According to one aspect, the display device does not have a mass storage device for storing the entire area map covered by the car navigation system, but has only a small capacity buffer memory for displaying only a small area map displayed on the screen of the display device can do. In this case, if the vehicle moves and the vehicle leaves the area of the map stored in the buffer memory, the display device can not synthesize the position of the portable terminal with the map.

In step 620, the portable terminal may receive an additional map request from the display device to request a map of an area not stored in the buffer memory of the display device.

According to one aspect, the portable terminal may include a mass storage device for storing a map of the entire area covered by the car navigation system. In this case, the portable terminal can search the map corresponding to the position of the portable terminal in the mass storage device, and transmit the map retrieved in step 621 to the display device.

According to another aspect, a portable terminal can transmit an additional map request to a web server using a wireless communication network. In this case, the portable terminal may receive a map corresponding to the position of the portable terminal using the wireless communication network, and may transmit the map corresponding to the position of the portable terminal to the display device at step 621.

According to one aspect, the portable terminal can communicate with the display device using at least one of Bluetooth, WiFi, USB, infrared communication and RF communication.

In addition, according to one aspect, the portable terminal can communicate with a web server using a WCDMA communication network, an LTE communication network, or the like.

In step 630, the portable terminal may receive a search condition from the display device. Here, the search condition may be a search condition for a route search including a start position and a destination position, or a search condition for a local search for an area including a location of the mobile terminal.

In step 631, the portable terminal transmits the search condition received from the display device to the search web server to perform the search, and in step 431, the portable terminal can transmit the search result to the display device.

In step 640, the portable terminal can receive information about the vehicle on which the portable terminal is mounted from the display device. Here, the information on the vehicle may include information on the model year of the vehicle, information on the amount of exhaust, and the like.

In step 641, the portable terminal can calculate the fuel efficiency or energy efficiency of the vehicle based on the information about the vehicle. In addition, the portable terminal transmits the calculated fuel efficiency or energy efficiency to the display device, and the calculated fuel efficiency or energy efficiency can be displayed on the display device.

In step 650, the portable terminal can receive the traffic information corresponding to the calculated position from the traffic information providing web server via the wireless communication network.

In step 651, the portable terminal can transmit the received traffic information to the display device. The transmitted traffic information can be displayed on the display device.

7 is a flowchart showing a step-by-step operation method of the display apparatus according to the embodiment.

In step 710, the display device receives the position of the vehicle on which the display device is mounted from the portable terminal.

In step 711, the display device stores the map. According to one aspect, the display device does not have a map of the entire area covered by the car navigation system, and only a map corresponding to a certain area can be stored in the buffer memory.

In step 720, the display device determines whether the position of the received vehicle can be displayed on the map stored in the buffer memory.

If it is determined that the map stored in the buffer memory can not display the position of the vehicle, the display device transmits an additional map request for requesting a map of the area corresponding to the position of the vehicle to the portable terminal. In this case, at step 730, the display device receives additional maps from the portable terminal in response to the additional map request. Further, at step 731, the display device may further display and display the position of the vehicle on the received additional map.

Further, if it is determined that the map stored in the buffer memory can display the position of the vehicle, the display device can synthesize and display the position of the vehicle on the map stored in the buffer memory in step 721. [

In step 740, the display device may display an interface for receiving the search condition.

In step 741, the display device receives a touch input associated with the search condition from the user.

In step 742, the display device analyzes the touch input to create a search condition. Here, the search condition may be a search condition for a route search including a start position and a destination position of the vehicle, or a search condition for a local search for an area including a calculated position of the vehicle. Or a search condition for searching traffic information related to the location or route of the vehicle.

In step 750, the display device transmits the generated search condition to the portable terminal. In step 760, the display device receives the search result for the search condition. In step 770, the display device may display the search results to the user.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing the operation method of the display device according to another embodiment step by step.

In step 810, the display device receives the position information of the vehicle from the portable terminal inside the vehicle.

The location information of the vehicle is the location of the portable terminal. When the portable terminal is mounted on the vehicle together with the display device, the position of the portable terminal can be used as the position of the display device and the position information of the vehicle.

According to one aspect, the portable terminal can receive the position of the portable terminal through the GPS signal, and the portable terminal can receive the position of the portable terminal by triangulating the intensity of the radio wave signal coming from at least three base stations around the portable terminal .

In step 811, the display device transmits a request message to the portable terminal and receives result information corresponding to the request message from the portable terminal.

The request message may be a search condition for a route search including a start position and a destination position, or a search condition for a local search for an area including a location of the portable terminal.

The portable terminal transmits the request message received from the display device to the web server, performs the request message, and transmits the result information corresponding to the request message to the portable terminal.

In step 812, the display device displays the location information and the result information of the received vehicle on a web browser-based user interface.

According to one aspect, the position information and the result information of the received vehicle can be synthesized on the map stored in the display device and displayed on the display device.

The web browser may be a platform (e.g., a Java platform, a Flash platform, a Silverlight platform, or an HTML 5 platform) that performs browser communications and may include any web browser capable of sending and receiving data on the WWW .

The web browser may also be developed in the future to access or process information on IBM's Web Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Cyberdog and Cyberdog on Apple Computer, Software applications.

The user interface means software applied to a display device or a display device that facilitates mutual interaction between the two sides of the user and the system. It can belong to an interface.

In steps 820 to 822, when an input event for the user interface is sensed, the display device determines whether to retain the version information of the user interface or transmit the version information of the user interface to the web server.

An input event can be detected through a touch screen having a display and a touch pad in a mutual layer structure.

The input event may also be an operating system associated with the user interface, a map stored on the display device, and an event for updating the human machine interface to operate the display device.

The operating system may be Symbian, Microsoft, Nokia Series 40, Nokia Series 60, Motorola, Android and iOS. In addition, the human machine interface may include the user interface and the user experience described above.

According to one aspect, when an input event is detected, the display device can use the car navigation service in cooperation with the portable terminal and the web server while maintaining the version of the existing user interface.

According to another aspect, if an input event is detected, in step 830, the version information of the user interface of the display device is transmitted to the web server to update the latest version of the user interface, The configuration resource can be received.

The environment setting resource may be operating system data, map data, and human machine interface data that are operations of the user interface based on the version information of the user interface of the display device.

In step 840, the display device may update the received preference resource to patch the user interface.

The optional update to the configuration resource can selectively update the operating system data, the map data, and the human-machine interface data that are the operation of the user interface based on the version information of the user interface of the display device.

In step 850, the display device may display the patched user interface.

In step 860, the display device may receive interface version information of the portable terminal. The interface version information of the portable terminal may be similar to the configuration for the version information of the user interface of the display device described above.

In step 870, the display device can synchronize the patched user interface by comparing the interface version information of the received portable terminal with the patched user interface. Synchronization may be used to interwork or share a web browser based interface between the portable terminal 450 and the display device 400.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a step-by-step operation method of the web server according to the embodiment.

In step 910, the web server transmits the request message to the portable terminal, and receives the version information of the user interface from the display device receiving the result information corresponding to the request message from the portable terminal.

The request message may be a search condition for a route search including a start position and a destination position, or a search condition for a local search for an area including a location of the portable terminal.

The portable terminal transmits the request message received from the display device to the web server, performs the request message, and transmits the result information corresponding to the request message to the portable terminal.

In the above embodiment, only the embodiment in which the portable terminal transmits the request message to the web server has been described. However, the portable terminal may store the entire area map covered by the car navigation system, search the direct route using the entire area map, The result information on the position information of the vehicle can be calculated.

The version information of the user interface may be operating system version information of the display device, map version information, and human machine interface version information, and may include date information, time information, and major update history information that have been recently updated.

In step 920, the web server determines whether the user interface version information of the display device is the latest version or whether an update to the web browser based user interface is required.

The web browser may be a platform (e.g., a Java platform, a Flash platform, a Silverlight platform, or an HTML 5 platform) that performs browser communications and may include any web browser capable of sending and receiving data on the WWW .

The web browser may also be developed in the future to access or process information on IBM's Web Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Cyberdog and Cyberdog on Apple Computer, Software applications.

The user interface means software applied to a display device or a display device that facilitates mutual interaction between the two sides of the user and the system. It can belong to an interface.

In step 930, the web server allocates environment setting resources based on the verified version information of the user interface, and transmits the environment setting resources to the display device.

The environment setting resource may be operating system data, map data, and human machine interface data that are operations of the user interface based on the version information of the user interface of the display device.

Fig. 10 shows an embodiment of a user interface of a display device.

10 (a) shows a user interface before updating the display device. The display device can provide a car navigation service in cooperation with the portable terminal and the web server while maintaining the version of the existing user interface.

10B shows an updated user interface 1020 of the display apparatus 1000. The display apparatus 1000 transmits the updated version of the user interface to the web server 1090 via the web connection 1090 The version information of the user interface of the display apparatus 1000 may be transmitted and the configuration resource related to the user interface update may be received from the web server through the web connection 1090. [

The version information of the user interface may be operating system version information of the display device, map version information, and human machine interface version information, and may include date information, time information, and major update history information that have been recently updated.

The update to the configuration resource can selectively update the operating system data, the map data, and the human-machine interface data that are operations of the user interface based on the version information of the user interface of the display apparatus 1000. [

The user interface means software applied to a display device or a display device that facilitates mutual interaction between the two sides of the user and the system. It can belong to an interface.

10, items of the updated user interface 1020 based on the human machine interface data may be an energy efficiency search 1050 and a vehicle information search 1060. The energy efficiency search 1050 can retrieve the energy efficiency values taking into account the speed information of the vehicle, the curvature of the road, the slope and the fuel type of the vehicle.

The vehicle information search 1060 can retrieve vehicle status information such as weight information, fuel amount information, temperature information, and steering wheel angle information of the vehicle.

According to one aspect, the items of the updated user interface 1020 based on the human machine interface data include attribute items (e.g., address search, name search, phonebook search, recent search, etc.) for route search 1030, (E.g., general road search, highway search, internal ring road search, etc.) for information search 1040, attribute items (e.g., brightness adjustments, volume adjustments, (For example, a 2D screen, a 3D screen, and the like) for the display unit 1010. For example, the display unit 1010 may be a keyboard, a touchpad, a touch pad,

According to another aspect, the items of the updated user interface 1020 based on the operating system data may be Symbian, Microsoft, Nokia Series 40, Nokia Series 60, Motorola, Android and iOS.

According to another aspect, the items of the updated user interface based on the map data may be address information, name information, and location information.

Referring to FIG. 10, an item of the user interface may include a terminal connection 1080 linked with a portable terminal and a web connection 1090 linked with a web server.

According to one aspect, the terminal connection 1080 is connected to receive the interface version information of the portable terminal from the portable terminal, and to synchronize the patched user interface by comparing the interface version information of the received portable terminal with the patched user interface.

The interface version information of the portable terminal may be similar to the configuration for the version information of the user interface of the display device 1000 described above.

Synchronization can be used to interwork or share a web browser based interface between the portable terminal and the display device 1000.

According to another aspect, the web connection 1090 receives the version information of the user interface from the display device 1000, which transmits the request message to the portable terminal and receives the result information corresponding to the request message from the portable terminal, do.

The web server can check whether the received user interface version information is the latest version or whether an update to the user interface based on the web browser is necessary.

The web browser may be a platform (e.g., a Java platform, a Flash platform, a Silverlight platform, or an HTML 5 platform) that performs browser communications and may include any web browser capable of sending and receiving data on the WWW .

The web browser may also be developed in the future to access or process information on IBM's Web Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Cyberdog and Cyberdog on Apple Computer, Software applications.

The web server allocates the environment setting resource based on the version information of the identified user interface, and transmits the environment setting resource to the display apparatus 1000. [

Referring to FIG. 10, the terminal connection 1080 and the web connection 1090 may be configured to use one of Bluetooth, WiFi, USB, infrared communication, and RF communication.

The methods according to embodiments of the present invention may be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed through various computer means and recorded in a computer-readable medium. The computer-readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, and the like, alone or in combination. The program instructions recorded on the medium may be those specially designed and constructed for the present invention or may be available to those skilled in the art of computer software.

While the invention has been shown and described with reference to certain preferred embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. This is possible.

Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be determined by the equivalents of the claims, as well as the claims.

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Claims (20)

A first communication unit for receiving location information of a vehicle from a portable terminal in the vehicle, transmitting a request message to the portable terminal, and receiving result information corresponding to the request message from the portable terminal;
A display unit for displaying the received location information of the vehicle and the result information on a web browser-based user interface; And
A control unit for maintaining the version information of the user interface when the input event for the user interface is detected or determining whether to transmit the version information of the user interface to the web server;
The display device being mounted on a vehicle. The method according to claim 1,
A second communication unit for transmitting the version information of the user interface to the web server and receiving the configuration resource from the web server,
Further comprising: a display unit (100) 3. The method of claim 2,
The control unit
Selectively patches the user interface by updating the received configuration resource,
The display unit
And displays the patched user interface. 3. The method of claim 2,
The version information of the user interface
A map version information, and a human machine interface version information of the display device. The method of claim 3,
The configuration resource
Wherein the display device is mounted on a vehicle including operating system data, map data, and human-machine interface data that is an operation of the user interface. The method of claim 3,
The first communication unit
Receiving interface version information of the portable terminal from the portable terminal,
The control unit
Comparing the received interface version information of the portable terminal with the patched user interface to synchronize the patched user interface,
The display unit
And displays the synchronized user interface. 8. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 7,
The first communication unit and the second communication unit
A display device mounted on a vehicle, the display device using any one of a Bluetooth (Blue Tooth), a WiFi, a USB, an infrared communication, and a radio frequency (RF) communication method. A web server communication unit for receiving a version information of a user interface from a display device that transmits a request message to the portable terminal and receives result information corresponding to the request message from the portable terminal;
A version information checking unit for checking version information of the user interface; And
A control unit for assigning environment setting resources based on the verified version information of the user interface and controlling the web server communication unit to transmit the environment setting resource to the display device
And a web server for a display device mounted on the vehicle. 9. The method of claim 8,
The version information of the user interface
A map version information, and a human machine interface version information of the display device. 9. The method of claim 8,
The configuration resource
Wherein the display device is mounted on a vehicle including operating system data, map data, and human machine interface data that is an operation of the user interface. Receiving location information of a vehicle from a portable terminal inside the vehicle;
Transmitting a request message to the portable terminal and receiving result information corresponding to the request message from the portable terminal;
Displaying location information of the received vehicle and the result information on a web browser based user interface; And
When the input event for the user interface is detected, it is determined whether to maintain the version information of the user interface or to transmit the version information of the user interface to the web server
The method comprising the steps of: 12. The method of claim 11,
Transmitting the version information of the user interface to the web server, and receiving the configuration resource from the web server
The method comprising the steps of: 13. The method of claim 12,
Selectively updating the received configuration resource to fetch the user interface; And
And displaying the patched user interface. ≪ Desc / Clms Page number 19 > 13. The method of claim 12,
The version information of the user interface
Wherein the operating system version information, the map version information, and the human machine interface version information of the display device are included in the vehicle. 14. The method of claim 13,
The configuration resource
Wherein the display device includes operating system data, map data, and human-machine interface data that is an operation of the user interface. 14. The method of claim 13,
Receiving interface version information of the portable terminal from the portable terminal;
Comparing the received interface version information of the portable terminal with the patched user interface to synchronize the patched user interface; And
And displaying the synchronized user interface on the display device. Receiving version information of a user interface from a display device that transmits a request message to the portable terminal and receives result information corresponding to the request message from the portable terminal;
Checking version information of the user interface; And
Assigning an environment setting resource based on the verified version information of the user interface and controlling the web server communication unit to transmit the environment setting resource to the display device
The method comprising the steps of: displaying a web page on a display device; 18. The method of claim 17,
The version information of the user interface
Wherein the operating system version information, the map version information, and the human machine interface version information of the display device are installed in the vehicle. 18. The method of claim 17,
The configuration resource
Wherein the display device is mounted on a vehicle including operating system data, map data, and human-machine interface data that is an operation of the user interface. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method according to any one of claims 11 to 19.

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