Mobile communication terminal for providing geographical information and method thereof

• US 20060240847A1
• Filed: 04/21/2006
• Published: 10/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Choi, Hyun-Kyung
• Granted Patent: US 7,787,890 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.200
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/03 Cooperating elements; Interaction or communication between different cooperating elements or between cooperating elements and receivers
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/13 Receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2242/30 Determination of the location of a subscriber
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/493 Interactive information services, e.g. directory enquiries ; Arrangements therefor, e.g. interactive voice response [IVR] systems or voice portals

Abstract

A mobile communication terminal including gps reception unit configured to receive location information indicating where the mobile terminal is located, a display unit configured to display geographical information based on the received location information, and a controller configured to provide additional information corresponding to the displayed geographical information. Further, the additional information includes a photo or video corresponding to the geographical information.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal, comprising:

a global positioning system (gps) reception unit configured to receive location information indicating where the mobile terminal is located;

a display unit configured to display geographical information based on the received location information; and

a controller configured to provide additional information corresponding to the displayed geographical information.

2. The terminal of claim 1, further comprising:

a reception unit configured to download the additional information from a server based on a user'"'"'s selection.

3. The terminal of claim 2, wherein the display unit displays the additional information.

4. The terminal of claim 1, further comprising:

a reception unit configured to receive the geographical information from a server based on the received location information; and

a memory configured to store the geographical information and the additional information corresponding to the geographical information.

5. The terminal of claim 1, further comprising:

a camera function configured to capture the additional information,

wherein the controller uploads the captured additional information to a sever based on a user'"'"'s selection.

6. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the additional information comprises a photo file or an image file visually depicting the geographical information.

7. The terminal of claim 6, wherein the additional information and the geographical information are linked together via an anchor tag.

8. The terminal of claim 1, wherein the terminal comprises a mobile phone, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) or a notebook computer.

9. A method for providing geographical information to a mobile communication terminal, the method comprising:

receiving geographical information based on location information indicating where the mobile terminal is located;

displaying the received geographical information; and

downloading additional information corresponding to the displayed geographical information.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the additional information comprises a photo file or an image file visually depicting the displayed geographical information.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the additional information and the geographical information are linked together via an anchor tag.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the downloading step comprises:

determining whether or not a user wants to download the additional information;

requesting the additional information when the user wants to download the additional information; and

downloading the requested additional information.

13. A method for providing geographical information of a mobile communication terminal, the method comprising:

receiving geographical information based on location information indicating where the mobile terminal is located;

displaying the received geographical information; and

uploading additional information corresponding to the displayed geographical information from the mobile terminal to a server.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the additional information comprises a photo file or an image file captured by a camera of the mobile terminal and which visually indicates the geographical information.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the additional information and the displayed geographical information are linked together via an anchor tag.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the uploading step comprises:

checking whether or not as user wants to upload the additional information corresponding to the displayed geographical information to the server; and

uploading the additional information when the user wants to upload the additional information.

17. A mobile communication terminal, comprising:

a controller configured to determine if a user using the mobile terminal requests additional information corresponding to displayed geographical information be downloaded from an external server; and

a reception unit configure to receive the additional information if the user wants to download the additional information.

18. The terminal of claim 17, wherein the additional information comprises a photo file or video file visually depicting the geographical location.

19. The terminal of claim 17, further comprising:

a locating reception unit configured to receive location information corresponding to where the mobile terminal is located;

a reception unit configured to receive the geographical information of where the mobile terminal is located based on the received location information;

a display unit configured to display the geographical information and the additional information if the user requested the additional information be downloaded; and

a memory configured to store the geographical information and the additional information.

20. The terminal of claim 18, further comprising:

a camera function configured to capture a picture or video of where the mobile terminal is located,

wherein the controller uploads the captured picture or video to the external server if the user selects to upload the captured picture or video, and wherein the geographical information and the additional information are linked together in the memory via an anchor tag.