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Definitions

• the invention relates to the field of data recording, and more specifically the devices and methods for recording data relating to localizable locations.
• the invention therefore aims to remedy all or part of the aforementioned drawbacks.
• a method dedicated to the recording of data relating to localizable locations comprising the following steps: i) recording of principal data representative of at least one feeling felt by a person in a place, by means of a terminal radio communication used by this person and equipped with a location device, ii) determination of the geographical position of this place by means of the device for locating the terminal, and iii) storage of the main data recorded in correspondence of the determined geographical position.
• the method according to the invention may comprise other characteristics that can be taken separately or in combination, and in particular:
• the person can select a feeling from a list of felt feelings and / or a group of icons (or images), representative of felt feelings ("primary” or "secondary”) (facilitating the capture), d a menu that is displayed on the screen of its terminal;
• At least one photographic recording can be made in the place with a terminal photography device, and then the image data defining each photographic recording made can be associated with the main data of the felt feelings that have been recorded in this place.
• At least one sound recording can be made in the place with a sound recording device of the terminal, then the audio data defining each sound recording performed can be associated with the main data of the felt feelings that have been recorded in this place.
• it can store in a server the main data recorded by a person and any additional data associated in correspondence of the automatically determined geographical position and an identifier of this person;
• an iv) may be provided in which a map representative of an area including several locations associated with data records of at least one person is generated, and selected elements representative of main recorded data can be displayed on this map; by at least one person as well as possibly associated additional data, selected according to at least one selected criterion, at the corresponding geographical positions;
• an iv may be provided in which a representative map of an area including several locations associated with data recordings of at least one person is generated, then sub-zones can be defined within this map, and then can determine for each sub-area an average value related to at least one selected feeling felt within this sub-area by at least one person, and can be assigned to each sub-area a marking representative of its determined average value, to display each sub-area with the mark that has been assigned to it; - at least one thematic analysis (for example by means of an editor) can be carried out for a given person.
• the invention also proposes a device, dedicated to the recording of data relating to localizable locations, for a radio communication terminal equipped with a localization device, and comprising recording means loaded, on the one hand, with recording main data representative of at least one feeling felt in a place by a person using this terminal, and secondly, of associating with these main data the geographical position of this place, determined by the location device of the terminal.
• the device according to the invention may comprise other characteristics that can be taken separately or in combination, and in particular:
• its recording means may comprise selection means responsible for generating a menu to be displayed on the terminal screen and including a list of feelings felt and / or a group of icons (or images) representative of feelings felt ("primary” or "secondary") within which and / or from which the person can select at least one feeling felt by means of a man / machine interface of his terminal;
• its recording means may be responsible for also recording complementary data representative of an intensity of a feeling felt recorded;
• the selection means may be responsible for generating a menu intended to be displayed on the screen of the terminal and comprising a list of feeling intensities felt in which the person can select an intensity of a feeling felt by means of the man / machine interface of his terminal;
• Its recording means may be responsible for also recording complementary data representative of a description of the place and / or feeling felt recorded and associate these complementary data to the main data feelings felt recorded in this place;
• the invention also proposes a server, for a communication network, comprising storage means responsible for storing main data and any associated additional data, recorded in correspondence of a determined geographical position and a person identifier, then transmitted by a radio communication terminal of this person equipped with a recording device of the type shown above.
• Such a server may also include calculation means responsible for generating a representative map of an area including several locations associated with data records of at least one person, and for adding to this map selected elements representative of principal data recorded by at least one person as well as optionally associated additional data, selected according to at least one selected criterion, at the corresponding geographical positions.
• this server may also comprise computation means loaded i) to generate a map representative of a zone including several places associated with data records of at least one person, ii) to define within this map sub-areas, (iii) to determine for each sub-area an average value related to at least one selected feeling felt within that sub-area by at least one person, and (iv) to assign to each sub-area a representative of its determined average value, so that each sub-area can be displayed in its card with the mark that has been assigned to it.
• FIG. 1 very schematically and functionally illustrates a server according to the invention and mobile terminals, equipped with an exemplary embodiment of a recording device according to the invention, coupled to a communication network,
• FIG. 2 schematically illustrates an example of a selection menu displayed on a mobile terminal screen
• FIG. 3 schematically illustrates a first example of a map representative of a city zone and on which circular elements representing geographical positions of a person whose dimensions represent the intensity of a feeling felt locally by that person in different places
• - Figure 4 schematically illustrates a second example of a representative map of an area of a museum broken down into sub-areas in which circular elements representing Geographical person and whose gray levels represent the average intensity of a feeling felt locally by a group of visitors.
• the attached drawings may not only serve to complete the invention, but also contribute to its definition, if any.
• the object of the invention is to enable the recording of data relating to localizable locations, with a view to the subsequent exploitation and / or reuse (s) of these data.
• the implementation of the invention requires that people are equipped with a radio communication terminal T provided with a localization device DL and preferably able to connect to a radio communication network R.
• the term "locating device” means a device capable of determining with a good accuracy, typically of the order of one meter (or a few meters), the position of the terminal (radio communication) T in which it is implanted. It may for example be a satellite tracking device, such as a GPS device. But, it could also be a passive or active RFID chip radio device, implanted in a terminal T and able to read or receive by wave position data (or an identifier representative of a position in a given repository) stored in a RFID tag installed in a location.
• the radio communication terminals T are mobile phones (or cellular).
• the invention is not limited to this type of radio communication terminal. It concerns indeed any type of mobile or portable communication terminal that can connect via waves to a radio communication network (or non-wired) or other radio communication equipment, including laptops and PDAs digital (or PDAs) equipped with a radio communication module.
• a radio communication terminal T (here a mobile telephone), according to the invention, has at least one recording device D, an EA display screen and an IH man / machine interface, allowing the person using it to control it, to enter alphanumeric data and to select menu items displayed on the display screen EA, as well as possibly a DP photographic device, for making photographic recordings (image data files) or even video sequences (video data files) and / or an audio recording device DS, for making sound recordings (audio files) and therefore including a microphone.
• a radio communication terminal T here a mobile telephone
• the recording device D which is a kind of dedicated recording application, can either be coupled (or connected) to a mobile phone T, or be part of a phone mobile T as shown in non-limiting manner in Figure 1. Therefore, it can be realized in the form of electronic circuits, software modules (or computer), possibly downloaded, or a combination of circuits and software.
• a recording device D mainly comprises means (or a module) for recording ME.
• the latter (ME) is arranged to implement at least two functions.
• a first function is to record main data that is representative of at least one feeling (or impression) that has been felt in a place by a person using a mobile phone T.
• a second function of the recording means ME consists, whenever they have recorded main data in a place, to determine with the location device DL of their mobile phone T, the coordinates of the geographical position of this place, then to associate with these stored main data this geographical position.
• feeling or impression or emotion
• it may for example be, without limitation, joy, sadness, emotion, wonder, disgust, love, compassion, fear, surprise , revulsion, pride, nostalgia, ashamedy, astonishment, admiration, respect, shame, envy, exasperation, or nervousness.
• a feeling can be felt "on the water” in any place, whether it is located outside, such as in front of a building, monument or architectural structure or in a neighborhood, park, site or garden, or inside a building, such as in a museum, a theater (cinema, theater, opera), a business, a restaurant, a shop, a shopping center, a supermarket, a factory, a research center or a place of worship.
• the recording application When a person wants to record a feeling she feels in a place, she uses a recording computer application that is controlled by the recording means ME of her mobile phone T.
• the recording application can display on the screen EA of the mobile telephone T an input window in which the person is invited to enter a word or expression defining a feeling felt by means of of the human / machine interface IH of said mobile phone T.
• the recording means ME can comprise means (or module (s)) for selection MN, which are responsible for generating, on the basis of the loaded recording application, a menu (possibly drop down) which is intended to be displayed on the screen EA of the mobile phone T and which includes a list of feelings felt and / or a group of icons (or images) facilitating the input of the fact that they are representative of feelings that are felt to be "primary” (that is, considered to be the most important) or "secondary" (that is, considered less important), within which and / or from which the person can perform a selection of at least one feeling felt through the human / machine interface IH of said mobile phone T.
• a menu possibly drop down
• icons or images
• the means (or module (s)) for selection MN can also be responsible for generating, on the order of the loaded recording application, an input window ("additional text") in which the person is invited to enter additional data representative of the description of the place and / or feeling felt recorded (selected) by means of the human / machine interface IH of said mobile phone T.
• the recording means ME associates the additional data, which were entered by the person in the window, with the main data of the or feelings that this person has recorded (selected) in the place.
• the recording means (or module) ME may also be arranged to record additional data that is representative of the intensity of the feeling that the person has recorded (selected).
• the selection means (or module (s)) MS can be arranged to generate a menu (possibly a drop-down menu) which is intended to be displayed on the EA screen.
• mobile phone T which comprises a list of feeling intensities felt in which the person can select an intensity for the feeling felt selected, by means of the human / machine interface IH of said mobile phone T. For example, and as illustrated, a choice of three intensities [low (F), medium (M) and high (E)] can be displayed and offered to the person.
• the selected intensity (complementary data) is then immediately associated by the recording means ME with the feeling felt previously selected (main data) as well as the geographical position of the place (provided by the location device DL of the mobile phone T). .
• the recording means ME may be arranged to associate with the main data of a feeling felt, recorded (selected) in a location, image data (or file) defining at least one photographic recording made in that location with the DP photographic device and / or audio data (or file) defining at least one sound recording performed in this location with the DS sound recording device.
• the means (or module (s)) MS selection can be arranged to generate a selectable icon that is intended to be displayed on the EA screen of the phone mobile T and which invites the person to take a photograph (or a video sequence) and / or a selectable icon which is intended to be displayed on the screen EA of the mobile phone T and which invites the person to record the sounds in his environment .
• the recording application loads the photographic application that controls the DP photographic device, and then, once the person has taken at least one photograph (or a sequence video), the recording means ME associates the recorded photographic or video file with the main data of the feeling felt previously selected and with the geographical position of the place (provided by the locating device DL of the mobile telephone T), as well as with any other additional data (intensity and / or description).
• a description associated with a feeling felt in a place, can for example refer to a photograph or a recorded sound sequence.
• a person may enter a verbal expression such as "I was very shocked by the attitude of a motorist (see associated photo)", or "I was moved by the quality the interpretation of the organist who played in this church (listen to the associated sound sequence) ", or”
• the Blue II of Miro is really exceptional (see associated photo) ".
• radio beacons for example of the RFID type
• position data or identifiers representative of a position
• the main data and the data defining the geographical position of the associated place, as well as any additional data (intensity and / or description) associated with it, can be stored in the mobile telephone T in order to be exploited or reused. subsequently by at least one local application of said mobile phone T which takes into account the data associated with geographical positions. But, this data can also be transmitted to an S server (or other radio communication equipment) by the mobile phone T, at the request of its recording device D and via at least the communication network R to which is connected the latter (T). It will be understood that such a server S is either connected to or accessible to the communication network R (for example via the Internet).
• This server S may for example be an application server (s) which receives and stores the registration data before proposing them, possibly on the Internet (for example via a web page) and possibly in a pooled form.
• This server S therefore comprises at least MS storage means responsible for storing the data recorded and then transmitted by the mobile telephones T. More specifically, these storage means MS store the main data and any associated additional data, in correspondence of the geographical positions. associated places and identifiers of people who use the mobile phones T that transmit them. In other words, the recording data are georeferenced for exploitation or reuse for example on a background map or a selected background.
• MS storage medium Any type of MS storage medium known to those skilled in the art can be used, including a memory or a database.
• the stored data can then be used by local applications of the server S or remote applications, possibly located in other servers or communication terminals (radio or not).
• the server S may also include a calculation module (or application) MC which is responsible for generating on demand a map which represents a zone Z including several locations with which data records of least one person.
• a calculation module or application
• MC which is responsible for generating on demand a map which represents a zone Z including several locations with which data records of least one person. Any type of map can be considered, whether it is two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D).
• a map can materialize the contours of one or more neighborhoods of a city or buildings of a city district, or the different floors (or trays) of a museum or store or shopping center, or the different sub-parts of one or more floors (or trays) a museum or shop or shopping center.
• the calculation module MC is also responsible for adding to the card that it has generated selected elements EL which are representative of principal data and any associated additional data, recorded by at least one person (and stored in the means of storage MS) and selected according to at least one selected criterion. It will be understood that these selected elements EL are then displayed on the map at the geographical positions which correspond to those of the places where the data they represent have been recorded.
• the card thus constitutes a kind of consolidation of previously recorded data (possibly over a chosen time interval). In particular, it may allow a person to return to a place where he (or another person) has previously felt a particular feeling.
• a criterion may be to select all locations in a city district or city where a given person (identified by his or her person ID) has felt one or more feelings, possibly selected, or the same feeling whatever its intensity.
• This last selection criterion is the one used to make the map of Figure 3. More precisely, EL circles are selected elements that represent the different places in a neighborhood where the same person has recorded feelings, and the respective dimensions of these EL circles represent the intensities according to which this person felt these feelings.
• Another criterion may consist in selecting all the places of a museum floor or a museum where people have felt one or more feelings, possibly selected, and / or possibly according to at least one selected intensity. This situation may require that people accept the sharing of their data in the context of anonymity.
• Yet another criterion may consist in selecting all the places of a city district or a city or a museum floor where people have felt at least one same feeling selected for the purpose of making reconciliations or correlations behaviors between people (eg within community or dating sites). This situation may require that people accept the pooling of their data.
• any type of marking can be used. This situation may require that people accept the sharing their data in the context of anonymity.
• This type of card can be used to great advantage by the organizers of art exhibitions or museum curators to determine the works and / or artists that are most appealing to the visitors or the internal arrangements that are most appreciated or best adapted to the needs of visitors.
• an application programming interface (or API (“Application Programming Interface”)), for example of the type proposed by Google Earth®, can be used to add selected elements EL to level of corresponding geographical positions of an outer map previously obtained by means of an observation satellite.
• API Application Programming Interface
• the data recorded by a person may possibly be associated with his avatar within a network game or a social network, thus making it possible to establish a bridge between the real world and a virtual world.
• the moods of a person's avatar can be representative of feelings felt (experienced) and recorded by that person then stored in an S server (and possibly in a community site).
• some personal feelings may be considered for the sole use of the person concerned (or a predefined group of relatives or friends), while some other feelings (“less" personal) could be mutualizable and therefore associated with the avatar of this person.
• the registration data may be recorded by volunteers in supermarkets or stores to determine which products are most popular with customers or which are the most popular or the best suited. to the needs of the customers.
• the terminals of Radio communication T can be optionally lent to the voluntary customers, and the recording data can for example be downloaded from the terminals T to a radio communication equipment.
• the calculation module MC may be arranged to perform any type of recording data analysis, for any thematic display.
• each person can for example build his personal mapping of feelings, which can be optionally available on a personal web page, or require a thematic analysis, for example to obtain a map of cold and / or hot emotional areas, possibly constructed on the basis of surface areas resulting from underlying point densities.
• a map can be dynamic if it is constructed in real time (that is to say as successive recordings). Therefore, the associated thematic analyzes can be dynamic as well.
• each person can use their sentiment card (s) in various environments (or applications), including in the context of comparisons via community sites.
• the computing module MC of the server S can be realized in the form of electronic circuits, software (or computer) modules, or a combination of circuits and software.
• the invention can also be considered from the angle of a recording method, which can be implemented in particular by means of radio terminals T equipped with a recording device D of the type of presented above and a possible server S of the type shown above. Since the functionalities offered by the implementation of the method according to the invention are identical to those offered by the recording device D as well as the possible server S presented above, only the combination of main functionalities offered by the method is presented. below.
• This recording method comprises the following steps: i) recording of principal data, representative of at least one feeling felt by a person at a place, by means of a terminal of radio communication T used by that person and equipped with a locating device DL, ii) determination of the geographical position of that place by means of the localization device DL of the terminal T, and iii) storage of the main data recorded in correspondence with the determined geographical position.
• the invention is not limited to the embodiments of the recording method, recording device and server described above, only by way of example, but it encompasses all the variants that can be envisaged by the man of art within the scope of the claims below.

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