KR20210109759A - Apparatus and method of providing contents based route information for vehicle - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a vehicle content-based route information providing method capable of, in providing route information, providing destination information based on content, and a device for performing the same. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, the content-based route information providing method comprises the steps of: determining, when destination information input through a vehicle terminal is received, a route search and an arrival time based on the destination information; acquiring content information on at least one content posted through a first service based on the determined destination of the route; determining at least one available content based on the determined arrival time among the acquired at least one piece of content information; transmitting information on the at least one available content to the vehicle terminal; and generating, when selection input information for the at least one available content is received from the vehicle terminal, final route information based on the selection input information, and transmitting the information to the vehicle terminal.

Description

A method for providing content-based route information for a vehicle and an apparatus for performing the same

The present invention relates to a method for providing content-based route information for a vehicle capable of providing destination information based on content in providing route information, and an apparatus for performing the same.

A general navigation system only informs a route taken from the current location, traffic conditions on the route, and estimated arrival time for a destination set based on a text search term. Therefore, the only thing that can be known about the destination is the geographic location, and when the user actually arrives at the destination, it is a destination that the user already knows what kind of experience is possible at the destination or around it, or it is known until the destination is searched through a search engine before departure. difficult.

Accordingly, there is a need for a method in which a user can effectively obtain information that can be experienced by a user on a route to a destination based on the present in the vehicle, or in the destination or vicinity of the destination.

The present invention relates to a more convenient method for providing content-based route information for a vehicle and an apparatus for performing the same.

In particular, the present invention relates to a method for providing a route guidance service by searching for content corresponding to an expected arrival time around a destination from a destination search word, and an apparatus for performing the same.

The technical problems to be achieved in the present invention are not limited to the technical problems mentioned above, and other technical problems not mentioned will be clearly understood by those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention belongs from the following description. will be able

In order to solve the above technical problem, the content-based route information providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention, when destination information input through a vehicle terminal is received, route search and arrival time based on the destination information judging; acquiring content information on at least one content posted through a first service based on the determined destination of the route; determining at least one available content based on the determined arrival time from among the acquired at least one piece of content information; transmitting information on the at least one available content to the vehicle terminal; and when selection input information for the at least one available content is received from the vehicle terminal, generating final route information based on the selection input information and transmitting the information to the vehicle terminal.

In addition, the content-based route information providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention, a vehicle terminal for receiving destination information from a user; and when the destination information input through the vehicle terminal is received, a route search and arrival time are determined based on the destination information, and based on the determined destination of the route, at least one content posted through the first service is added. obtains content information for, determines at least one available content from among the obtained at least one content information based on the determined arrival time, and transmits information on the at least one available content to the vehicle terminal, and a connected car service server that generates final route information based on the selection input information and delivers it to the vehicle terminal when selection input information for the at least one available content is received from the vehicle terminal.

The service providing apparatus related to at least one embodiment of the present invention configured as described above may provide more convenient content-based route information for vehicles.

In particular, the service providing apparatus according to the embodiment may search for content corresponding to the expected arrival time around the destination from the destination search word and inform the user of the possible experiences at the destination in advance.

The effects obtainable in the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned effects, and other effects not mentioned may be clearly understood by those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention belongs from the following description. will be.

1 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of a service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of a vehicle terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a process for providing route information according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 shows an example of a form in which a service is provided according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5A and 5B show an example of a function related to video content provided through a vehicle terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail so that those of ordinary skill in the art can easily implement them. However, the present invention may be embodied in various different forms and is not limited to the embodiments described herein. And in order to clearly explain the present invention in the drawings, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted, and similar reference numerals are attached to similar parts throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when a part "includes" a certain component, it means that other components may be further included, rather than excluding other components, unless otherwise stated. In addition, parts indicated with the same reference numerals throughout the specification mean the same components.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, it is proposed to provide a route guidance service by searching for content corresponding to an expected arrival time of a destination or its vicinity from a destination search word.

First, before a detailed description of a service providing apparatus (system) or a service providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention, terms are defined.

In relation to content, a destination or its vicinity may mean a shooting location in the case of content including a video or photo, etc. generated by a content publisher through shooting with a shooting device at a specific place. In addition, if the content publisher is content about the process of using a specific facility, such as eating at a restaurant, using an amusement park, purchasing a store, watching a performance, or a situation before and after that, it may mean the corresponding facility.

In addition, it is preferable that the content mentioned in the embodiment is an image, video, sound, text, or a combination thereof, and at least a content capable of specifying a location. For example, the content may be a post on a social network service (SNS: Social Network Service), may be an item corresponding to a specific store of a site or application that provides store-specific evaluation information for a specific industry, and may be a content item of a portal site. It may be an item corresponding to evaluation information for a specific location, but this is exemplary and is not necessarily limited thereto.

However, the content according to the embodiment preferably includes at least information capable of deriving a location that can be set as a guide destination of the navigation system regardless of the form. Such information may be GPS coordinate information from which a direct location can be derived, mutual information from which location can be derived through a database search, geographical name information, phone number, and the like. For example, GPS coordinate information may be included in metadata or map information of a photo image constituting content, and business name information, place name information, phone number, etc. may be in the form of text or tagging information included in a post.

1 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of a service providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1 , a service providing system according to an embodiment includes a content posting server 100 , a connected car service server 200 , a vehicle terminal 300 (eg, AVNT: Audio/Video/Navigation Terminal) and a user terminal. (400).

First, the content posting server 100 may provide a service for storing content including photos, images, and the like and posting it so that it can be viewed through a browser or an application. In this case, in addition to information displayed such as a photo or an image, context information in which the corresponding content is generated, for example, a creation location, a creation date and time, a path, and the like, may be retained in a predetermined form. The retention form of context information may be meta data stored in the header of an image or video file, or may be in the form of tag data, but is not necessarily limited thereto. For example, the content posting server 100 may include a server providing an SNS service, a server providing an evaluation of a specific place or business, a portal site server, etc., but is not necessarily limited thereto.

The Connected Car Service (hereinafter referred to as "CCS" for convenience) server 200 may include a cloud system, through which the user account and the vehicle, that is, the vehicle terminal 300, can be linked through authentication. can In addition, the CCS server 200 receives the operation related information of the vehicle equipped with the vehicle terminal 300 through communication with the vehicle terminal 300, or a control signal or data for controlling at least some functions of the vehicle. can be delivered by vehicle. In addition to communication with the vehicle terminal 300, the CCS server 200 is also capable of communication with an external device connected using the user's account, such as the user terminal 400, in particular, in embodiments of the present invention, the user When logging in through the terminal 300, the user account may be linked with the service posting server 100 such as SNS. Through this, the CCS server 200 acquires information about at least one content from the service posting server 100 based on the user's activity details for services such as SNS provided by the service posting server 100, and the At least a part of it may be transmitted to the vehicle terminal 300 . For example, the CCS server 200 may be implemented in a form constituting a telematics center or a part thereof, but is not necessarily limited thereto.

The vehicle terminal 300 is capable of exchanging data through wireless communication with at least the CCS server 200, and the data exchange is performed under certain conditions (eg, when the engine is not started) After being turned off, until a preset time elapses)). For example, the vehicle terminal 300 may be an AVNT or a head unit, but is not necessarily limited thereto. A detailed configuration and function of the vehicle terminal 300 will be described later in more detail with reference to FIG. 2 .

The user terminal 400 may include a mobile terminal such as a smart phone, a smart tablet, and a notebook computer as well as a fixed terminal such as a personal computer (PC), but this is exemplary and is not necessarily limited thereto. For example, the user terminal 400 is not limited to any type of terminal as long as the service provided by the content posting server 100 or the CCS server 200 can be used through a browser or an application. Of course, although not shown in FIG. 1 , when the user terminal 400 is a smart device, it may communicate directly with the vehicle terminal 300 through a predetermined communication protocol (eg, Wi-Di, BT, ZigBee, NFC, etc.). have.

2 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of a vehicle terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2 , the vehicle terminal 300 according to the embodiment may include a communication unit 310 , an input/output unit 320 , a control unit 330 , and a memory 340 .

The communication unit 310 includes a wired communication module (not shown) for performing vehicle network-based communication with an in-vehicle component (eg, another controller), and a wireless communication unit for communicating with external components such as the CSS server 200 . It may include a communication module (not shown). The wireless communication module may be implemented in the form of a telematics module, but is not limited thereto.

The input/output unit 320 may include one or more means for receiving or outputting information, such as a sound input/output terminal, a display, a touch screen, a dial, and a key button.

The controller 330 may perform overall function control of the components of the vehicle terminal 300 such as the communication unit 310 and the input/output unit 320 . When the vehicle terminal 300 is implemented in the form of AVNT, the control unit 330 may perform an operation for providing multimedia playback, an interface for vehicle function control, a navigation function, and the like, and in particular, the control unit ( The 330 may include the content-based route processing unit 331 to perform content management functions such as content acquisition, output, and route information output. The content-based path processing unit 331 may be implemented in the form of an embedded module, a function of the operating system driven through the control unit 330 or may be implemented in the form of an application executed on the operating system, but is not limited thereto.

The memory 340 may store not only a function of temporarily storing input/output data for operation of the controller 330 , but may also store an operating system, an application, user data, content information according to an embodiment, and the like, and includes one or more memory devices or modules. may include.

In particular, the control unit 330 or the content-based path processing unit 331 of the vehicle terminal 300 according to the embodiment transmits information about the content downloaded from the CSS server 200 in a predetermined form (eg, an archive form of a personal folder, etc.) stored in the memory 340 , and the stored content may be output through an output means such as a display. In this case, the content-based route processing unit 331 may display the shooting location on the map together when the content is a photo, and when the content is a video, play control and when the location information for each play time exists in the video content, play the video and It is also possible to display location information for each corresponding playback time on the map together.

3 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a service providing process according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 3 , it is assumed that the content posting server 100 provides the SNS service, but it is obvious to those skilled in the art that this is for convenience of description and is not limited thereto.

Referring to FIG. 3 , account linkage may be performed first ( S301 ). Here, the account linkage may mean that the SNS account registered in the content posting server 100 is linked to the user's account for the connected car service. In this case, the account linkage may mean creating an integrated account between the connected car service and the SNS service, but the details of the specific account activity and the specific account are viewed in the account for the connected car service in the content posting server 100 It suffices in the form of granting permission to access possible content. After all, when the account linkage is completed, the CSS server 200 can obtain information about the corresponding SNS service activity details of the SNS account linked to the account through the account for the connected car service from the content posting server 100. be in a state of being Here, the acquisition of the activity history may mean acquiring information on the content that the user has read, the content set preference such as favorites or likes, and the directly posted content.

The user may perform SNS activities such as setting preferred content through the user terminal 400 (S302). Although this step S302 in FIG. 3 is shown as a step after the account linkage (S301), it may be performed before the account linkage (S301).

The vehicle terminal 300 may transmit the destination search word (or corresponding destination information when the destination is specified through the search word) to the CCS server 200 according to the user's input of the destination search word (S303). In this case, the current location of the vehicle may also be transmitted to the CCS server 200 , or the vehicle terminal 300 may periodically report the current location to the CSS server 200 according to settings.

The CSS server 200 searches for a route from the current location of the vehicle to the destination by using the destination search word or specified destination information (hereinafter, for convenience, a location corresponding to a destination search word or a specified destination is referred to as a "destination"), It is possible to determine the expected arrival time according to the route (S304). The route search may be performed according to a preset search algorithm such as the shortest time, the shortest distance, the real-time traffic information-based, and the highway priority, but is not necessarily limited thereto.

In addition, the CSS server 200 may inquire the content posting server 100 for content related to a location within a predetermined radius from the destination or its surroundings, and obtain content information about the inquired content (S305). For example, the CSS server 200 acquires content information based on the SNS service activity history, such as content that the user has posted, viewed, and set preference based on the authority acquired through account linkage with the content posting server 100 can do. In this case, the obtained content information is related to the destination or its surroundings, and may be content directly set by the user as preferred content, or may be content determined to have high user preference based on the user's activity history. In addition, the content information may include images constituting a post, a video or thumbnails thereof, context information of the content, and the like. In addition, that the content is related to the destination or its surroundings may mean that the text constituting the content includes the name of the destination or its vicinity/facility, or that the content creation location in the content context information is within a certain distance from the destination.

The CCS server 200 may filter the obtained content information to find available content based on the arrival time expected in step S304 (S306). Here, the available content is content that can help the driver to obtain destination information, and may refer to content related to an expected arrival time. More specifically, the available content may be content posted or generated within a certain range from the same or expected arrival time, and even if the posting or creation time is different from the arrival time, it means content that a user can experience based on the arrival time. However, it is not necessarily limited thereto. For example, in the case of a landscape photo/video, the availability of available content may be determined based on the shooting time, and in the case of content related to the use of a facility, the available content may be determined based on the operating hours of the corresponding facility.

In addition, the CCS server 200 may use contextual information of the content or an arbitrary search result (eg, a portal site, a facility information database, etc.) in determining whether the content is available. For example, the photographing time information of the photo content may be obtained from the metadata of the image file itself, and the operation time information of a specific facility may be searched through a portal site or a homepage of the corresponding facility.

When the selection of available content among the obtained content is completed, the CCS server 200 transmits the available content information to the vehicle terminal 300 (S307), and the vehicle terminal 300 uses an output means such as a display to display the available content information. can be output in a predetermined format.

The vehicle terminal 300 may receive a command for selecting one available content from the available content information output from the user ( S308 ). In this case, the command may have a form for selecting a location related to a specific available content as a final destination or a waypoint, or may have a form for including a driving section other than a single location in the driving route through content reproduction or search process. However, it is not necessarily limited thereto.

When a destination is specified (including a waypoint when adding a waypoint) through the content selection input, the vehicle terminal 300 notifies the CCS server 200 of information on the final specified destination (ie, information on the selected content) to the CCS server 200 (S309) ), the CCS server 200 may generate path information based on the received information (S310). At this time, when it is impossible to enter the facility location or shooting location related to the content, the CCS server 200 may set the destination of the route information to the nearest vehicle entry location or parking lot, and depending on the setting, Additional guidance may be provided through the user terminal 400 .

The finally generated route information is transmitted to the vehicle terminal 300 (S311), and the vehicle terminal 300 may perform route guidance based on the corresponding route information (S312).

Next, a specific form in which a context-based service according to an embodiment is provided through a vehicle terminal will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 to 5B .

4 shows an example of a form in which a service is provided according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, referring to (a) of FIG. 4 , the user sets preference for the content 41 provided by the content posting server 100 such as SNS service through the smart tablet 400A as a user terminal, etc. Activity history can create The account used for the SNS service may be linked to the connected car service account through the connected car service application 42 or the like.

When a destination search word (or including a destination selection from a previous search list or a favorite list) is input into the vehicle terminal 300 , the CSS server 200 acquires available content information and transmits the available content information to the vehicle terminal 300 . , available content information may be output in the form of a thumbnail 41 ′ through the display 321 of the vehicle terminal 300 as shown in FIG. 4B . Through this, the user can check the experiential elements around the destination.

When the CCS server 200 transmits route information to the vehicle terminal 300 as a waypoint or destination is finally determined based on the selected available content, the route information is displayed through the display 321 as shown in FIG. can be output. Here, when the destination or the waypoint is related to the selected available content, the corresponding available content information 41" may be displayed on the route in a predetermined form. Of course, related content information 60 may also be displayed.

5A and 5B show an example of a function related to video content provided through a vehicle terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIGS. 5A and 5B , it is assumed that location information for each playback time is provided to a moving picture in the form of context information, so that a shooting location for each playback point can be matched to a map.

When a thumbnail of available content is being displayed through the display 321 as shown in FIG. 4B as shown in FIG. 4B , if the available content is a video, the thumbnail is selected, and as shown in FIG. 5A , a navigation menu accompanying a video playback function is displayed. may be provided.

For example, the search menu may include a video playback area 510, a reproduction control area 520, a map area 530, and route setting areas 541 and 542 as shown in FIG. 5A, but these The configuration is exemplary and not necessarily limited thereto.

The playback control area 520 may include a progress bar, a pointer 521 indicating a current playback time, a play/pause/stop button (not shown), and the like.

In the map area 530 , a map corresponding to the shooting location of the video being reproduced may be displayed, and an indicator 532 indicating a location corresponding to the current playback time may be included.

The route setting area may include a button 541 for including the location corresponding to the indicator 532 as a waypoint, a button 542 for setting the final destination, and the like.

As shown in FIG. 5B , when a playback section, not a playback time, is specified through the two pointers 521 and 522 through a predetermined command input, the map area 530 contains the pointers 521 and 522 corresponding to the pointers 521 and 522, respectively. A section 534 specified by the indicators 532 and 533 may be displayed. Also, in the route setting area, a button 543 for adding a section as a waypoint may be displayed. By setting the path in this way, the user can experience a drive similar to that seen in the video content.

Meanwhile, various modifications are possible in the embodiments described so far.

For example, the CCS server 200 actively creates and recommends a new route by clustering or combining content having similar contextual information (location/route, shooting time, season) among the content information acquired from the content posting server 100 . may be A similar process may be performed in the vehicle terminal 300 through a combination of available content information.

Also, even if there is no input of a destination or a destination search word, the CCS server 200 may select content that can be experienced at the time of departure from among the content that the user usually prefers and present it as a recommended route. For example, if there is a sunset photograph related to a location reachable at sunset time at the current departure time, the CCS server 200 may perform route recommendation based on the corresponding sunset photograph content. In more detail, the CCS server 200 determines an expected arrival time based on a current location and a location corresponding to each of the user's preferred content, and when the estimated arrival time corresponds to the contextual information of the user's preferred content, the corresponding content (ie, available content) may recommend a path through which experience is possible. In this case, as described above with reference to FIGS. 5A and 5B , it goes without saying that the final path information may be modified according to the selection input information.

According to the embodiments described so far, a route guidance service centered on a driving experience based on a driver's preference may be provided in the existing movement route selection system based on travel time and cost.

In addition, according to embodiments of the present invention, the user can experience the experience in the video viewed through the video at the actual shooting location at a similar time period.

In addition, in the case of general route guidance, information around the destination can be checked on the map and cannot be visually delivered in detail. There is also the effect of transmitting the movement route to the driver.

The present invention described above can be implemented as computer-readable code on a medium in which a program is recorded. The computer-readable medium includes all types of recording devices in which data readable by a computer system is stored. Examples of computer-readable media include Hard Disk Drive (HDD), Solid State Disk (SSD), Silicon Disk Drive (SDD), ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disk, optical data storage device, etc. there is this

Accordingly, the above detailed description should not be construed as restrictive in all respects but as exemplary. The scope of the present invention should be determined by a reasonable interpretation of the appended claims, and all modifications within the equivalent scope of the present invention are included in the scope of the present invention.

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when destination information input through the vehicle terminal is received, determining a route search and arrival time based on the destination information;
acquiring content information on at least one content posted through a first service based on the determined destination of the route;
determining at least one available content based on the determined arrival time among the obtained at least one piece of content information;
transmitting information on the at least one available content to the vehicle terminal; and
and when selection input information for the at least one available content is received from the vehicle terminal, generating final route information based on the selection input information and transmitting the information to the vehicle terminal. The method of claim 1,
The first service includes at least one of a social network service (SNS) and an evaluation information service for each location, the content-based route information providing method. 3. The method of claim 2,
The content is
A method for providing content-based route information, comprising at least one of an image and a video constituting a post of the social network service. 4. The method of claim 3,
Obtaining the content information or determining the at least one available content includes:
A method for providing content-based path information, which is performed using context information of the published at least one content. 5. The method of claim 4,
The context information is
A method for providing content-based path information, including a shooting location and a shooting time of the image or the video. 5. The method of claim 4,
When the at least one content is a content related to a facility, determining the at least one available content includes:
A method for providing content-based route information, which is performed in consideration of the operating time of the facility. The method of claim 1,
The step of obtaining the content information includes:
A method for providing content-based path information, which is performed based on the user's activity history information for the first service. 8. The method of claim 7,
The step of obtaining the content information includes:
When the user's first account for the first service is linked to the user's second account for the second service that is a connected car service, content-based route information performed using the linked second account How to provide. 8. The method of claim 7,
The step of obtaining the content information includes:
The content-based path information providing method, which is performed in consideration of whether the user's preference is set based on the activity history information. A computer-readable recording medium recording a program for executing the method for providing content-based path information according to any one of claims 1 to 9. a vehicle terminal receiving destination information from a user; and
When the destination information input through the vehicle terminal is received, a route search and arrival time are determined based on the destination information, and based on the determined destination of the route, at least one content posted through the first service obtaining content information, determining at least one available content based on the determined arrival time among the at least one piece of the obtained content information, and transmitting the information on the at least one available content to the vehicle terminal; When selection input information for at least one available content is received from the vehicle terminal, the connected car service server generates final route information based on the selection input information and delivers it to the vehicle terminal, Content-based route information delivery system. 12. The method of claim 11,
The first service includes at least one of a social network service (SNS) and an evaluation information service for each location, a content-based route information providing system. 13. The method of claim 12,
The content is
A content-based route information providing system comprising at least one of an image and a video constituting a post of the social network service. 14. The method of claim 13,
The connected car service server,
A content-based path information providing system for obtaining the content information or determining the at least one available content based on context information of the published at least one content. 15. The method of claim 14,
The context information is
A content-based path information providing system, including a shooting location and a shooting time of the image or the video. 15. The method of claim 14,
When the at least one content is a content related to a facility, the connected car service server,
The content-based route information providing system for determining the at least one available content in consideration of the operating time of the facility. 12. The method of claim 11,
The connected car service server,
A content-based path information providing system for obtaining the content information based on activity history information for the first service of the user. 18. The method of claim 17,
The connected car service server,
When the user's first account for the first service is linked to the user's second account for a second service that is a connected car service, acquiring the content information using the linked second account, Content-based route information providing system. 18. The method of claim 17,
The connected car service server,
The content-based path information providing system for obtaining the content information in consideration of whether the user's preference is set based on the activity history information. acquiring content information on at least one content posted through a first service;
determining an expected arrival time to a location related to each of the at least one content based on the current location of the vehicle and the acquired content information;
determining at least one available content among the at least one content based on the expected arrival time;
transmitting information on the at least one available content to the vehicle terminal; and
and when selection input information for the at least one available content is received from the vehicle terminal, generating final route information based on the selection input information and transmitting the information to the vehicle terminal.

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