Method of obtaining and linking positional information to position specific multimedia content

• US 20060187867A1
• Filed: 11/04/2003
• Published: 08/24/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Panje, Krishna Prasad
• Application Number:
  US10/541,404
• Publication Number:
  US 20060187867A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/315
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/3027 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00106 using land mobile radio networks, e.g. mobile telephone
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00116 of multimedia information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00307 with a mobile telephone apparatus constructional features of portable telephone sets H04M1/0202; mobile radio systems H04W84/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3204 of data relating to a user, sender, addressee, machine or electronic recording medium H04N2201/3256 and subgroups take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3253 Position information, e.g. geographical position at time of capture, GPS data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/3254 Orientation, e.g. landscape or portrait; Location or order of the image data, e.g. in memory

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method of obtaining positional information of a mobile phone carrier and linking the positional information to position specific multimedia content, such as photos or audio. The method is performed by detecting the position information of the mobile phone and linking the position information to the position specific multimedia content.

Claims

1. A method of obtaining positional information of a mobile phone carrier and linking said positional information to position specific multimedia content, the method comprises the steps of:

obtaining the position information of the mobile phone based on a position detection of the mobile phone,

linking the position information to said position specific multimedia content.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises the step of receiving identification of said position specific multimedia content from the mobile phone carrier.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises the step of receiving position specific multimedia content from the mobile phone carrier.

4. A method according to any of the claims 1-3, wherein the position specific multimedia content is recorded by a multimedia recording device at said position of the mobile phone carrier.

5. A method according to claim 4, wherein the method further comprises the step of receiving properties of said multimedia recording device from the mobile phone carrier.

6. A method according to any of the claims 1-5, wherein the step of detecting the position information of the mobile phone also comprises detecting the magnetic orientation of the mobile phone carrier.

7. A method according to any of the claims 1-6, wherein the method further comprises the step of sorting the multimedia content according to a sorting criterion.

8. A method according to claim 7, wherein the sorting criterion is based on properties extracted from the position information.

9. A method according to claim 7-8, wherein the sorting criterion is selected by the mobile phone carrier and received from the mobile phone.

10. A method according to claim 1-9, wherein the detection of the position information of the mobile phone is performed periodically after receiving said request from the mobile phone.

11. A system for obtaining positional information of a mobile phone carrier and linking said positional information to position specific multimedia content, the system comprises:

means for obtaining the position information of the mobile phone based on a position detection of said mobile phone,

means for linking the detected position information to said position specific multimedia content.