KR20150140248A

KR20150140248A - determination of path to destination

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Publication number: KR20150140248A
Application number: KR1020150165130A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 안범주
Original assignee: 안범주
Priority date: 2015-11-25
Filing date: 2015-11-25
Publication date: 2015-12-15

Abstract

The present invention displays a remaining number of platforms or stations to a destination, a transfer station, or a target platform in order to allow a user to smoothly reach a destination in a path finding service while other applications of a mobile terminal are executed. The path finding system comprises: the mobile user terminal wherein the applications are installed; a path finding application installed in the mobile user terminal; and a path finding server communicating with the mobile terminal.

Description

Determination of path to destination}

The present invention relates to a technology field for finding a route on a mobile terminal using a route search application.

Recently, smart phones have various applications. Among them, instant messaging service applications such as KakaoTalk are being actively used. In addition to this, I am concentrating on game applications as well as such short-time applications in commuting time.

On the other hand, smartphones have a variety of navigation apps or maps apps or directions apps. Users can use these maps apps or directions apps to go wherever they want by using public transit. Even if the distance is low, you can go anywhere using these apps.

On the other hand, when using such an app, there may be a case where the user is already engaged in such a social application and /

The present invention aims at reducing the possibility of forgetting the destination of transfer or the destination to be transferred, and not getting off at a destination or destination to which a transfer is to be made, by engaging in a social application and / or a game application.

In order to achieve this object, the present invention has the following configuration.

In one aspect, a navigation system includes: a mobile user terminal with a plurality of application applications installed, a navigation application installed on the mobile user terminal, and a location server communicating wired or wirelessly with the mobile terminal, Wherein the terminal includes a display unit, and the navigation application and / or the mobile terminal includes a current position determination unit that determines a current position of the mobile terminal in real time, Wherein the route search server determines the route search information including the receiver for receiving the destination information, the route leading to the destination, and the public transportation corresponding to the route And a determination unit Wherein the route search application is configured to calculate the number of stations remaining in the transfer station or the station included in the route information from the current position determined by the current position determination unit, A first calculation unit for calculating a first calculation result; Or a second calculation unit that calculates the number of inversions or the number of remaining stations from a current position determined by the current position determination unit to a destination station or a station included in the destination information, And the result calculated by the calculating unit or the second calculating unit is displayed in real time on the display unit of the mobile terminal.

In one embodiment, the route finding application includes means for operating the vibration output section or the sound output section of the terminal when the result calculated by the first calculating section or the second calculating section is 0 or 1 or 2 A navigation system is provided.

In one embodiment, the destination searching application further includes a transfer determination unit that determines whether there is a transfer station or a station after the current location determined by the current location determination unit, based on the location information , A navigation system is provided.

In one embodiment, the route searching application displays results produced by the first calculating unit or the second calculating unit in real time on a part of an execution screen of another application, displayed on the display unit of the user terminal A navigation system is provided.

In one aspect, a method of navigating in a navigation system, the navigation system comprising a mobile user terminal including a display and having a plurality of application applications installed thereon, a navigation application installed in the mobile user terminal, Or wirelessly, the method comprising the steps of: the mobile terminal and / or the directions application determining in real time the current location of the mobile terminal; Receiving the destination information from the user terminal; The destination server receives the destination information and determines the destination information including the route to the destination and the public transportation information corresponding to the route to transmit the destination information to the destination application step; The number of stations or inversions remaining from the current location determined in real time to the transit station or the station included in the location information; Calculating a number or a reciprocal of the remaining station from the current position determined in the real time to the destination station or the station included in the destination information; And displaying the calculated result on the display unit of the mobile terminal in real time.

In one embodiment, the directions application includes activating a vibration output or acoustic output of the terminal when the calculated result is zero or one or two.

In one embodiment, the method further comprises determining whether there is a transfer station or station thereafter from the current location determined in real-time based on the location information, wherein the transfer station or station , The direction finding application and / or the direction server obtains, from the current location determined in real time, the number of stations or the inverse number remaining in the transfer station or the station included in the location information; Or from the current position determined in real time to the destination station or the station included in the destination information.

In one embodiment, a route-finding method is provided that includes displaying the calculated results in real-time on a portion of an execution screen of another application, displayed on the display of the user terminal .

1 is a schematic diagram of a navigation system in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram of a directions application in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a block diagram of a directions server in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a block diagram of a residual bus stop or inverse calculation unit according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a flowchart of a method of displaying the remaining number of stations according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6A-6H illustrate a routeing process in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily carry out the present invention. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. In order to clearly illustrate the present invention, parts not related to the description are omitted, and similar parts are denoted by like reference characters throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when an element is referred to as "comprising ", it means that it can include other elements as well, without excluding other elements unless specifically stated otherwise. Also, the terms " part, "" module," and " module ", etc. in the specification mean a unit for processing at least one function or operation and may be implemented by hardware or software or a combination of hardware and software have.

It is to be understood that when an element is referred to as being "connected" or "connected" to another element, it may be directly connected or connected to the other element, . On the other hand, when an element is referred to as being "directly connected" or "directly connected" to another element, it should be understood that there are no other elements in between.

1 is a schematic diagram of a navigation system 100 in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. The location system 100 shown in FIG. 1 may include, for example, a server 104, a mobile terminal 101, a directions application 102, which may be referred to as a navigation application or a navigation application, Network 103 as shown in FIG. The network communicates between the terminal 101 and the server 104. The network 109 may be, for example, the Internet, intranets, extranets, wide area networks (WANs), local area networks (LANs), wired networks, wireless networks, And may include any combination of these networks. For convenience, the server 104 and the mobile terminal 101 are each referred to herein as singular. However, in one embodiment, the servers 104 may represent a plurality of servers, and the mobile terminal 101 may represent a plurality of mobile terminals.

Server 104 includes an example of a computing device that may be employed to execute various components as described herein. The server 104 may include, for example, a server computer or similar system and may represent a plurality of servers arranged, for example, in one or more server banks or other arrangements. These servers may be deployed in a single facility or may be distributed among many different geographic locations. For this reason, the server 104 may be viewed as a server "cloud" that represents the computing capacity of a plurality of servers, Various applications and / or engines are executed in the server 104 in accordance with various embodiments. In addition, various kinds of data can be stored in a data storage (not shown) that the server 104 can access. The data stored in the data store (not shown) may be related to, for example, the operation of various applications and / or engines described below. The server 104 may be referred to as a navigation server, a navigation server, or a map server. Hereinafter referred to as a location server.

Mobile terminal 101 represents a plurality of mobile terminal devices that may be coupled to network 103. For example, mobile terminal 101 may include one of millions of mobile terminals 106 coupled to the Internet. The mobile terminal 101 may include a processor-based system, such as, for example, a computer system. Such a computer system may be implemented in the form of a laptop computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a cellular telephone, music players, web pads, smart phones, tablet computer systems, or other devices having similar functionality. The mobile terminal 101 may include, for example, various peripheral devices.

A plurality of application programs may be installed in the mobile terminal 101. Such applications may be e-mail applications, gaming applications, video playback applications, Internet browser applications, over-the-air broadcast applications, e-book reader applications, instant messaging service applications (e.g., KakaoTalk) The directions application 102 in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention is also one such application.

2 is a block diagram of a directions application in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. The present location search application 102 includes a current location determination unit 201 for determining the current location of the mobile terminal 101, a current location display unit 202 for displaying the current location on the map, , A public transportation-based destination arrival path display unit (203) for informing a user of a destination to arrive at a destination based on a destination entered by the user and public transportation means (bus and subway) (204), if there is a transit or transfer at the current location, the remaining number of stations or transit number of public transportation to the destination can be reported in real time, or if there is no place to go forward, The number of remaining bus stops or subway stations to subway stations or nearest bus stops to subway stations And if there is a transit or transfer, if it reaches the bus stop just before this transfer point, it will be vibrated or voiced, or the bus stop or subway of the destination Station or station arrival notification section 206 for notifying a station or a bus station near the station or bus station near the station or the subway station that is nearest to the destination by vibration or sound.

In addition, FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a directions server in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. The server 104 includes a receiving unit 302 for receiving origin and destination information from the directions application 102, a determination unit 301 for determining a route to the destination using public transportation based on the received information, ), And a transmission unit 303 that transmits the determined determination information to the route-finding application 102. [

4 is a block diagram of a residual bus stop or inverse calculation unit 205 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The calculation unit 205 determines whether or not there is a transfer or a transfer to be performed in advance based on the information received from the determination unit 301 and the current position determined by the current position determination unit 201 (401). If it is determined by the transfer determination unit 401 that there is a place to transfer, the calculation unit 205 determines the number of stations or the reciprocal of the station from the current position to the station or station to be transferred. This can be done based on the information received from the determination unit 301 and the current position. When it is determined by the transfer determining unit 401 that there is no place to transfer, the calculating unit 205 calculates the number of stations or the reciprocal of the station from the current position to the destination station or the station closest to the destination, . This can be done based on the information received from the determination unit 301 and the current position. The remaining bus stop or inverse number calculation section 205 of the present invention may also include a function of displaying the calculated information. In this regard, it may further include a determination unit 404 that determines whether or not the application currently displayed on the display unit of the terminal is a navigation application. If the application currently displayed on the display unit of the terminal is not a navigation application, the display unit 405 may further include a cover display unit 405 for displaying the calculated remaining number of stations or the inverse number over a part of the screen of the currently executing application .

The reverse arrival notifying unit 206 may be connected to the calculating unit 205 to calculate the number of remaining stations or inversions from the calculating unit to the inverse station or the station, When the number of stations remaining or the reciprocal of the number up to the station is a predetermined number, for example 1 or 0, it can be vibrated or voiced.

5 is a flowchart of a method of displaying the remaining number of stations according to an embodiment of the present invention. More generally, FIG. 5 is a flow diagram of a method 700 of navigating in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. Now, a way-finding method according to the present invention is illustrated with reference to Figs. Prior to describing this method, as is common in the art, the current location determination portion 201 of the directions application 102 uses the GPS-based location tracking technology to determine the current location of the current mobile terminal 101 . Further, assume that the user of the mobile terminal 101 is already running the directions application 102. The current location display 202 of the directions application 102 may have been executed and may or may not have displayed the current location to the user. In any case, it is assumed that the current position determination unit 201 of the direction finding application 102 has obtained the present position of the current mobile terminal 101 using a GPS-based positioning technique. Such localization techniques are conventional in the art and will not be described in detail.

First, in step 701, the destination is input to the input interface 203 of the directions application 102. [ The interface in which the source and destination are input is shown in Fig. 6A.

At step 702, the directions server 104 receives information about these origins and destinations and uses the public transit to find the route from the origin to the destination and the corresponding public transit, And the component 204 of the directions application 102 displays it. This bar is shown in Figure 6b.

In step 703, it is determined based on the current location of the user whether or not there is a place to transfer thereafter. That is, the component 401 of the component 205 of the directions application 102 performs this. That is, the transit success / failure determination unit 401, which is the component 401, determines this based on the current position and the information received in step 702. Fig. 6C shows that the transfer determining unit 401 can determine that the current position is the position past the "western truck terminal " The method then proceeds to step 704.

At step 704, the component 402 of the component 205 of the directions application 102 determines whether the remaining number of station counts to the transfer station or bus station is greater than the remaining The number of stations is calculated and displayed. In this example, it is possible to calculate that there are a total of 15 bus stops remaining from the current position, which is the position past the "Western truck terminal", to the transfer station called "Yeoninaru." The remaining 15 bus stops are shown in FIG. 6D shows an example in which "15", which is the number of remaining stations, is displayed on the screen where the user of the terminal 101 performs a social activity using another application, for example, an instance message service. Alternatively, if the current directions application is currently active on the screen of the user terminal 101, the remaining number of stops may be displayed on the screen of the directions application. To this end, 404) is the application currently being activated in the screen of the current user terminal (101) Application or home screen of the terminal 101. This determination can be made by receiving relevant information from the main processor of the terminal 101. In addition, if the application currently being activated In the case of a different application or home screen to be run rather than an application, the component 405 may perform the operation so that the remaining number of stations may be displayed on the other running application or home screen. , The component 405 can set the display environment so that the specific pixel area of the screen of the mobile terminal 101 always displays the remaining number of stations regardless of what application is executed. Or may be configured to be moved by a touch.

In step 706, when the user of the terminal has almost reached the transfer station Yeoinaru, strictly speaking, when the number of remaining stations to the transfer station is a predetermined number, more specifically, the number of remaining stations to the transfer station is predetermined When the number is one or zero, the component 206 of the directions application 102 informs the user through the vibration output or sound output of the terminal 101 that the transit station has almost reached. To this end, the component 206 is connected to the component 402 so that it can be configured to be triggered when the result of the calculation of the component 402 is 0 or 1. This bar is shown in Figure 6e.

6f), the component 401 of the directions application 102 may determine that there are no further transit stations or stops (step 703). Thereafter, the method proceeds to step 505, where the component 403 of the directions application 102 may calculate the number of remaining stations from the current location to the destination. In this example, the remaining number of subway reverse to Dunton station, which is the closest station or station of the destination, is calculated as "16". This calculation is shown in Fig. 6G. 6G shows an example in which the remaining inverse number "16 " is displayed on the screen in which the user of the terminal 101 performs the social activity using another application, for example, the instance message service. Alternatively, if the current directions application is currently active on the screen of the user terminal 101, this remaining number of stops may be displayed on the screen of the directions application. To this end, in the present invention, the component 404 can determine whether the active application is a navigation application or another application or a home screen in the screen of the current user terminal 101. This determination can be made by receiving the relevant information from the main processor of the terminal < RTI ID = 0.0 > 101. < / RTI > If the currently active application is not a navigation application but another application or home screen that is currently running on the screen of the current user terminal 101, the remaining number of stations may be displayed on another application or home screen The component 405 can perform the corresponding operation. For example, the component 405 can set the display environment such that the specific pixel area of the screen of the mobile terminal 101 always displays the inverse number, regardless of what application is executed. Also, this specific pixel area may be configured to be moved by the touch of the user.

In step 707, when the user of the terminal has almost reached the dockside station of the terminal, strictly speaking, when the number of stations remaining in the destination station or the reciprocal thereof is a predetermined number, more specifically, (206) of the directions application (102) through vibration output or acoustic output of the user's terminal (101) that the nearest destination station has been reached when the remaining station or number of stations is one or zero predetermined number Will be announced. To this end, the component 206 is connected to the component 403 so that it can be configured to be triggered when the calculation result of the component 403 is 0 or 1. This bar is shown in Figure 6h.

In the above description, there is a component in the directions application that calculates the number of stops or reciprocals from the current location to the transit site. Alternatively, however, such components may be installed in the directions server 104. Also, in the above description, there is a component in the directions application that calculates the number of stops or inversions from the current location to the destination, but otherwise, such components may be installed in the directions server 104.

In the present invention, each operation or each step of each function of the directions application or server or the method of the present invention can be implemented by computer code or program code or instruction code. Meanwhile, the functional blocks and the steps and functions described above can 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 configured for the present invention or may be available to those skilled in the art of computer software. Examples of computer-readable media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tape, optical media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs, magnetic-optical media such as floppy disks, Hardware devices that are specifically configured to store and execute program instructions such as megneto-optical media and ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include machine language code such as those produced by a compiler, as well as high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware devices described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.

As used herein, "one embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described is included in at least one embodiment. Accordingly, such phrases may refer to one or more embodiments. Furthermore, the described features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments. However, as will be appreciated by those skilled in the art, the present invention may be implemented without one or more of the specific details, or may be implemented in other ways, resources, schemes, and the like. As another example, well-known structures, resources, or operations have not been shown or described in order to avoid merely obscuring aspects of the present invention.

As described above, the present invention has been described with reference to particular embodiments, such as specific elements, and specific embodiments and drawings. However, it should be understood that the present invention is not limited to the above- And various modifications and changes may be made thereto by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. Accordingly, the spirit of the present invention should not be construed as being limited to the embodiments described, and all of the equivalents or equivalents of the claims, as well as the following claims, belong to the scope of the present invention .

Claims

As a route system,
A mobile user terminal equipped with a plurality of application applications, a route search application installed in the mobile user terminal, and a route search server communicating wired or wireless with the mobile terminal,
Wherein the mobile user terminal comprises a display,
The location-finding application and / or the mobile-
And a current position determiner for determining a current position of the mobile terminal in real time,
Wherein the route finding application includes an input interface for receiving destination information from the user terminal,
The location server,
A receiver for receiving the destination information,
Determining means for determining a route to the destination and route information including public transportation information corresponding to the route,
And a transmitter for transmitting the location information to the directions application,
The location-
A first calculation unit for calculating the number of inbound stations or inversions from the current position determined by the current position determination unit to the transit station or the stationary station included in the location information; or
And a second calculation section for calculating the number of inbound or outbound trajectories remaining from the current position determined by the current position determination section to the destination station or the station included in the destination information,
The location-
And displaying the result calculated by the first calculating unit or the second calculating unit in real time on the display unit of the mobile terminal,
Directions system.

The method according to claim 1,
The location-
And means for operating the vibration output section or the sound output section of the terminal when the result calculated by the first calculating section or the second calculating section is 0 or 1 or 2. [
Directions system.

The method according to claim 1,
The location-
Whether or not there is a transfer station or a station after the current position determined by the current position determiner, based on the route finding information,
Directions system.

The method according to claim 1,
The location-
And displaying the result calculated by the first calculating unit or the second calculating unit in real time on a part of an execution screen of another application displayed on the display unit of the user terminal,
Directions system.

A method of navigating in a navigation system,
The navigation system includes a mobile user terminal including a display unit and installed with a plurality of application applications, a route search application installed in the mobile user terminal, and a route search server communicating wired or wirelessly with the mobile terminal,
The method comprises:
Wherein the mobile terminal and / or the directions application determine in real time the current location of the mobile terminal;
Receiving the destination information from the user terminal;
The destination server receives the destination information and determines the destination information including the route to the destination and the public transportation information corresponding to the route to transmit the destination information to the destination application step;
The number of stations or inversions remaining from the current location determined in real time to the transit station or the station included in the location information; Calculating a number or a reciprocal of the remaining station from the current position determined in the real time to the destination station or the station included in the destination information; And
And displaying the calculated result on the display unit of the mobile terminal in real time.
How to get directions.

6. The method of claim 5,
Wherein the navigation application includes activating a vibration output or acoustic output of the terminal when the calculated result is zero or one or two,
How to get directions.

6. The method of claim 5,
Further comprising the step of determining whether there is a transfer station or station after the current location from which the location application determined in real time based on the location information,
The route search application and / or the route search server may calculate the number of stations remaining in the transfer station or the station included in the route search information, ; Or calculating the number of inversions or inversions remaining from the present position determined in real time to the destination station or the station included in the direction finding information,
How to get directions.

6. The method of claim 5,
Displaying the calculated result in real time on a portion of an execution screen of another application, displayed on the display of the user terminal.
How to get directions.