TW201346220A - Tour positioning method and tour positioning system - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention provides a tour positioning method and a tour positioning system. The system includes a picture code generating unit, a picture code capturing unit, and a picture code decoding unit. The picture code generating unit is provided to read picture information data of a scene for generating picture code data, wherein the picture code data is provided to record landmark information, coordinate position, and floor information of at least one building in the picture information data. The picture code capturing unit is provided to allow a user to capture the picture code data arranged at an entry of the scene. The picture code decoding unit is coupled to the picture code capturing unit for decoding the picture code data, so as to obtain the landmark information, the coordinate position and the floor information.

Description

Navigation and positioning method and navigation system

The invention relates to a positioning method and a positioning system, in particular to a navigation positioning method and a navigation system.

In recent years, the positioning technology is mainly based on the Global Positioning System (GPS) or the positioning technology of RFID tags. Among them, GPS positioning technology relies on satellite, network and wireless transmission, and GPS positioning must be used in outdoor space. When satellite signals are not enough, it cannot provide navigation services in three-dimensional space, and even capture satellite signals in high-rise areas. It takes a long time. Therefore, the GPS positioning technology is mainly used for positioning in the horizontal direction, but in the building, the better positioning effect cannot be obtained.

As for RFID positioning technology, it is usually applied to a specific area and can be detected by the RFID tag reader through an RFID tag reader installed in a specific place (such as a key entrance and exit) in these areas. The function of the RFID tagged object to achieve positioning. Although RFID positioning technology can achieve positioning without satellite and network transmission, many devices need to be added in the process of building an RFID positioning system.

Therefore, in order to reduce the cost of the positioning system, it is also possible to achieve the function of stereo positioning. Therefore, it is necessary to seek a solution.

Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a navigation and positioning method.

Thus, the navigation positioning method of the present invention comprises the following steps.

First, a navigation and positioning system including a picture code generating unit, a picture capturing unit, and a picture decoding unit is provided.

Then, the system builder uses the code generating unit to read one of the scene materials of the scene, and then outputs a graphic data, wherein the graphic data includes at least one of the graphic materials associated with the scene. Landmark information, coordinate location, and floor information for the building.

Then, a user uses the image capturing unit to retrieve the graphic data set at the entrance of the scene.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a navigation and positioning system.

Therefore, the navigation and positioning system of the present invention is suitable for a system builder to construct a graphic data about a scene, and to enable a user to navigate and locate the image data, the system includes a graphic code. a generating unit, a picture capturing unit, and a picture decoding unit.

The image generating unit is configured to read a picture data of a scene to generate a graphic data, wherein the graphic data is used to record landmark information and coordinates of at least one building in the graphic data, and Floor information.

The image capturing unit is configured to allow the user to retrieve the graphic data set at the entrance of the scene.

The image decoding unit is coupled to the image capturing unit and configured to decode the graphic data to obtain the landmark information, the coordinate location, and the floor information.

The effect of the present invention is that the user can retrieve the graphic data by using the image capturing unit on the mobile device, and decode the landmark information and the coordinates from the graphic data through the decoding unit. Location, and information on the floor to achieve stereo positioning.

The above and other technical contents, features and advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments of the invention.

Before the present invention is described in detail, it is noted that in the following description, similar elements are denoted by the same reference numerals.

Referring to Figure 1, a first preferred embodiment of the navigation method of the present invention is implemented in a navigation system. The navigation and positioning system is adapted to allow a system builder to construct a graphic data 14 relating to a scene, and to enable a user to navigate through the graphic data 14 and to navigate the positioning scene, for example. Can be a campus, a large exhibition hall or a playground. The code data 14 may be a 2D barcode (2D Barcode) according to the required data capacity, such as a QR code (Quick Response Code) or a High Capacity Color Barcode; It is a 3D barcode with a higher data capacity.

In addition, the navigation and positioning system includes a code generating unit 13 and a mobile device 2. The image generating unit 13 is configured to read the original map 11 and the image data 12 of the scene to generate the graphic data 14 , and the graphic data 14 is used to record the corresponding map 11 . The vector map 15 and the landmark information 16, the coordinate position 17, and the floor information 18 of at least one building in the map information 12 are simultaneously recorded.

Referring to FIG. 2, in the first preferred embodiment, a bitmap of a university campus is taken as an example to describe an aspect of the original map 11. The original map 11 may also carry a map orientation information 111 and a Information such as a scale bar (not shown), and in order to prevent the system builder from being distorted by the skew of the photographing angle in the process of reading the original map 11 by the image generating unit 13, it is supplemented around the original map 11 After the calibration barcode 112 is used to read the original map 11 by the image generation unit 13, the original map 11 can be corrected for distortion by the image correction function of the calibration barcode 112.

The mobile device 2 includes a code capturing unit 21, a graphic decoding unit 22, a position sensing unit 23, and a display unit 24. The image capturing unit 21 is configured to allow the user to retrieve the graphic data 14 set at the entrance of the scene. The mobile device 2 can be a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant, a lithographic computer, or a notebook computer product, and the image capturing unit 21 disposed on the mobile device 2 can further convert any captured image. Digital signals, such as digital cameras, cameras, or optical scanners.

The image decoding unit 22 is coupled to the image capturing unit 21 and configured to decode the graphic data 14 to obtain the vector map 15, the landmark information 16, the coordinate position 17, and the floor information 18.

In addition, the orientation sensing unit 23 is a gyroscope disposed on the mobile device 2, and is configured to provide a position information 231 representing a direction in which the mobile device 2 is currently aligned, thereby enabling the user to The vector map 15 displayed by the display unit 24, the landmark information 16 associated with the building, the coordinate position 17 and the floor information 18, and the orientation information 231 are used to obtain the complete location information currently located.

Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 3, it is particularly worth mentioning that the graphic data 14 is built in a nested structure and interlocked at the entrance of a scene (such as a school or exhibition hall, etc.). The entrance of the building corresponds to each floor of the building, and the entrance corresponding to each of the use spaces of the floor. The code data 14 built in the entrance of the use space can be regarded as a sub-picture code of the code data 14 disposed on the floor of the use space, and the code data 14 built on the floor of the floor is It can be regarded as a sub-picture code of the graphic material 14 disposed at the entrance of the building belonging to the floor, and the graphic data 14 built at the entrance of the building can be regarded as the graphic data set at the entrance of the scene. 14 child code.

As shown in FIG. 3, after the image data 14 is decoded by the image decoding unit 22, a partial view of the stereoscopic navigation is presented on the display unit 24, wherein the vector map 15 is displayed in the presented image. As a base map, together with the floor information 18 for indicating the landmark information 16 of each building, the coordinate position 17 of each building entrance, and the number of floors of each different building, it is displayed in the display unit 24, and at the same time The display also has a scale (1:10 m) and a map orientation 111 read from the original map, and the user is in a virtual reality, and can understand each building more clearly. Floor information of the object 18.

For example, when the user wants to know the current location and wants to know the relative distance from the current location to the next building, the image capturing unit 21 of the mobile device 2 can be used to shoot the setting. The image data 14 at the entrance of the scene where the scene is currently located, or the entrance of a building currently located in the scene, and then the current position is obtained through the screen presented in the display unit 24 of the mobile device 2. And by the coordinates marked at the entrance of each different building, the distance of the distance and the relative orientation of the next building are estimated. As shown in FIG. 3, it is assumed that the user is currently located at the entrance where the landmark information 16 is marked as the "activity center" where the coordinate position 17 is (6, 8), when the user wants to go to the "general library", The coordinate position of the entrance of the "general library" closest to the user can be navigated from the display unit 24 to be (14, 1); thus, it is known that the user only needs to proceed from the "activity center". Go 70 meters to the south and 80 meters to the east to reach the entrance to the "General Library". The user can be brought to the building on the vector map 15 to be reached by the orientation information 231 provided by the gyroscope of the mobile device 2 during the movement of the user.

When the user arrives at the entrance of the "Total Library" where the coordinate position 15 is (14, 1), the image capturing unit 21 of the mobile device 2 can be retrieved and set at the entrance of the "General Library". The graphic data 14 can be further learned from the additional information in the landmark information 16 provided by the graphic data 14, such as the history and announcement information related to the "general library", and can also be obtained from the floor information 18 Learn about the main uses of each floor of the building. Similarly, it is assumed that when the user moves to the entrance of the second floor of the "general library" and is captured by the image capturing unit 21 of the mobile device 2, it is built on the second floor of the "general library". The map data 14 at the entrance is then used to know the floor plan configuration vector map and the coordinate location and additional use of each of the use spaces in the floor. However, if the additional information of the used space is to be further learned, the image data 14 to which the used space belongs can be retrieved through the image capturing unit 21 at the entrance of the used space. The plane configuration vector map also has a scale and map orientation information 111, and the navigation and positioning manner is similar to the above-mentioned implementation manner, and thus is not described herein.

Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 4, corresponding to the first preferred embodiment, the navigation positioning method of the present invention comprises the following steps:

First, as shown in step S31, the navigation and positioning system is provided.

Next, as shown in step S32, the system builder uses the image code generating unit 13 to read the original map 11 of the scene and the map material 12, and then outputs the map data 14.

Then, as shown in step S33, the user uses the image capturing unit 21 of the mobile device 2 to capture the graphic data 14 set at the entrance of the scene.

Next, as shown in step S34, the image decoding unit 22 decodes the graphic material 14 and outputs the decoded result to the display unit 24.

Then, the display unit 24 respectively displays the orientation information 231 provided by the orientation sensing unit 23, together with the vector map 15 corresponding to the original map 11 decoded from the image data 14, as shown in step S35. And the landmark information 16, the coordinate position 17, and the floor information 18 of the building associated with the scene are provided to the user, so that the user can know the current location information.

Referring to FIG. 5, a second preferred embodiment of the navigation and positioning system of the present invention is similar to the first preferred embodiment. The main difference is that in the second preferred embodiment, the navigation system is A vector map generating unit 19 is further included, wherein the vector map generating unit 19 is configured to generate the vector map 15 according to the original map 11 of the scene, and let the user use the one set on the mobile device 2 in advance. The map download unit 25 downloads the vector map 15 and provides it to the user along with the landmark information 16, the coordinate position 17 and the floor information 18 of the building, so that the user can know the current location information. Except for this, the remaining components operating modes in the navigation system are the same as the first preferred embodiment, and therefore will not be described herein.

Referring to FIG. 3, FIG. 5 and FIG. 6, in the second preferred embodiment, the map can be downloaded from the mobile device 2 before the user navigates through the display unit 24 on the mobile device 2. The unit 25 pre-downloads the plane configuration map of each floor to be navigated, wherein the plane configuration map may be the fourth layer lattice map of the "activity center" as shown in FIG. 6 as shown in FIG. 6, or may be via the vector The vector map 15 processed by the map generation unit 19.

For further example, before the user has reached the "activity center", the "fourth floor" text may be clicked on the stereoscopic view of the display "display center" of the display unit 24. Floor information 18, which in turn can be read out on the map of the fourth floor of the Activity Center (as shown in Figure 6), or the vector map on the fourth floor of the Activity Center, which can then be provided to the user for pre-screening. First guided tour.

Referring to FIG. 5 and FIG. 7, corresponding to the second preferred embodiment described above, the navigation positioning method of the present invention comprises the following steps:

First, as shown in step S41, the navigation and positioning system is provided.

In the second preferred embodiment, the navigation and positioning system includes the image generating unit 13, the vector map generating unit 19, and the mobile device 2. The mobile device 2 includes the image capturing unit 21, the graphic decoding unit 22, the orientation sensing unit 23, the map downloading unit 25, and the display unit 24.

Then, as shown in step S42, the system builder uses the vector map generation unit 19 to generate the vector map 15 based on the original map of the scene.

In addition, as shown in step S43, the system builder uses the image code generating unit 13 to read the image data 12 of the scene, and then outputs the graphic data 14. The graphic data 14 includes landmark information 16, coordinate position 17, and floor information 18 of the building associated with the scene in the graphic data 12.

Next, as shown in step S44, the user downloads the vector map 15 using the map download unit 25 provided on the mobile device 2.

Then, as shown in step S45, the user uses the image capturing unit 21 to capture the graphic data 14 set at the entrance of the scene.

Next, as shown in step S46, the image decoding unit 22 decodes the graphic material 14 and outputs the decoded result to the display unit 24.

Then, as shown in step S47, the display unit 24 respectively decodes the orientation information 231 provided by the orientation sensing unit 23 and the vector map 15 downloaded by the map download unit 25, together with the decoded from the graphic data 14. The landmark information 16, the coordinate position 17, and the floor information 18 of the building associated with the scene are provided to the user, so that the user can know the current location information.

In summary, the image capturing unit 21 of the mobile device 2 captures the image data of the use space that is built in each building, related to the building, and the use space inside the floor. 14. The map decoding unit 22 can use the map decoding unit 22 to decode the landmark information 16, the coordinate position 17, and the floor information 18 associated with the graphic data 14 regardless of the current location of the user. The user can enable the user to know the current location information and additional information in the stereoscopic space through the display unit of the mobile device 2, so that the object of the present invention can be achieved.

The above is only the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the scope of the invention is not limited thereto, that is, the simple equivalent changes and modifications made by the scope of the invention and the description of the invention are All remain within the scope of the invention patent.

11. . . Original map

111. . . Map orientation information

112. . . Calibration barcode

12. . . Map information

13. . . Graphic generation unit

14. . . Graphic data

15. . . Vector map

16. . . Landmark information

17. . . Coordinate position

18. . . Floor information

19. . . Vector map generation unit

2. . . Mobile device

twenty one. . . Image capture unit

twenty two. . . Graphic decoding unit

twenty three. . . Azimuth sensing unit

231. . . Position information

twenty four. . . Display unit

25. . . Map download unit

S31~S35. . . step

S41~S47. . . step

Figure 1 is a block diagram showing a first preferred embodiment of the navigation and positioning system of the present invention;

Figure 2 is a schematic view showing an original map in the first preferred embodiment;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing a portion of a stereoscopic view of a display unit displayed by one of the display units in the first preferred embodiment; FIG.

Figure 4 is a flow chart illustrating a navigation positioning method in the first preferred embodiment;

Figure 5 is a block diagram showing a second preferred embodiment of the navigation and positioning system of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram showing a dot matrix map in which one of the second preferred embodiments of the present invention can be pre-downloaded by a map downloading unit; and

Figure 7 is a flow chart illustrating a navigation positioning method in the first preferred embodiment.

11. . . Original map

12. . . Map information

13. . . Graphic generation unit

14. . . Graphic data

15. . . Vector map

16. . . Landmark information

17. . . Coordinate position

18. . . Floor information

2. . . Mobile device

twenty one. . . Image capture unit

twenty two. . . Graphic decoding unit

twenty three. . . Azimuth sensing unit

231. . . Position information

twenty four. . . Display unit

Claims (16)

A navigation and positioning method includes the following steps: (A) providing a navigation and positioning system including a graphic code generating unit, a graphic image capturing unit, and a graphic decoding unit; (B) utilizing a system builder The image generating unit reads a map data of a scene, and then outputs a graphic data, wherein the graphic data includes landmark information and coordinate position of at least one building associated with the scene in the graphic data. And (C) a user using the image capturing unit to retrieve the graphic data set at the entrance of the scene; and (D) the graphic decoding unit decodes the scene data from the image data and the scene The associated landmark information, coordinate location, and floor information of the building are provided to the user to know the current location information. The navigation positioning method according to claim 1, wherein the (B) step further comprises: the system builder using the image generation unit to generate a vector map according to an original map of the scene, wherein the The code data output by the image generation unit further includes the vector map. The navigation method according to claim 2, wherein the (D) step further comprises: the image decoding unit further decoding the vector map from the image data, and the landmark information of the building, The coordinate position and floor information are provided together with the user to know the current location information. The navigation positioning method according to the second or third aspect of the patent application, wherein the vector map is a stereo vector map. The navigation positioning method according to claim 1, wherein the navigation and positioning system further comprises a vector map generating unit, and the step (B) further comprises the system builder using the vector map generating unit, according to One of the scenes, the original map, produces a vector map. According to the navigation positioning method described in claim 5, the method further includes a step (E) between the steps (B) and (C), wherein the user downloads the vector map by using a map download unit to The landmark information, coordinate location and floor information of the building are provided to the user to know the current location information. The navigation positioning method according to claim 5 or 6, wherein the vector map is a stereo vector map. The navigation positioning method according to claim 1, wherein the navigation system further includes an orientation sensing unit, and the navigation method further includes a step (F) after the step (D) The orientation sensing unit senses one of the orientation information representing the direction in which it is currently aligned, and provides the user with the location information of the current location information along with the landmark information, coordinate location and floor information of the building. A navigation and positioning system is provided for a system builder to construct a graphic data about a scene, and to enable a user to navigate and locate the graphic data, the system includes: a graphic generation a unit for reading the image data of the scene to generate the graphic data, wherein the graphic data is used to record landmark information, coordinates, and floor information of at least one building in the graphic data; a code capturing unit for the user to capture the graphic data set at the entrance of the scene; and a graphic decoding unit coupled to the image capturing unit and configured to decode the graphic data To obtain the landmark information, the coordinates of the coordinates, and the information on the floor. According to the navigation and positioning system of claim 9, wherein the image generating unit is further configured to generate a vector map according to the original map of the scene, wherein the graphic data output by the graphic generating unit is further Includes the vector map. The navigation and positioning system according to claim 10, wherein the image decoding unit is further configured to decode the vector map from the graphic data to be combined with the landmark information, coordinate position and floor information of the building. Provide the user with information about the location where they are currently located. The navigation and positioning system of claim 10 or 11, wherein the vector map is a stereoscopic vector map. The navigation and positioning system of claim 9, further comprising a vector map generating unit for generating a vector map according to the original map of the scene. The navigation and positioning system according to claim 13 further comprising a map downloading unit for the user to download the vector map for providing with the landmark information, coordinate location and floor information of the building. The person knows the location information of the current location. The navigation and positioning system of claim 13 or 14, wherein the vector map is a stereoscopic vector map. The navigation and positioning system according to claim 9 , further comprising a position sensing unit for sensing one of the orientation information representing the direction in which it is currently aligned, and the landmark information and coordinates of the building. The location and floor information are provided together with the user to know the current location information.