Method and apparatus for applications including position determination

• US 20070066321A1
• Filed: 01/25/2006
• Published: 03/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Mobile Communications Limited (Fujitsu Limited)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Takahashi, Shinya, Wan, Wang
• Granted Patent: US 7,580,717 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

To provide a method and apparatus for a plurality of applications including position determination, there is provided a radio communication device comprising a positioning member configured to determine a position of the radio communication device, an antenna, a receiver connected to the antenna, a controller connected to the receiver and the positioning member, configured to receive a demand for the position by way of the antenna and the receiver while running an application, and configured to stop the application and to have the positioning member determine the position in a case where the demand and the application are given a first rank and a second rank respectively and the first rank precedes the second rank.

Claims

1. A method for a plurality of applications including position determination of a radio communication device, comprising:

receiving a demand for a position of the radio communication device while running an application, the demand and the application being given a first rank and a second rank respectively;

stopping the application in a case where the first rank precedes the second rank; and

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determining the position after stopping the application.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising continuing the application and determining the position in a case where the first rank equals the second rank.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining the position upon finishing the application within a given period of time after the reception of the demand in a case where the first rank lowers the second rank.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the application is taking and encoding a series of moving pictures to form a video and recording the video.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the application is taking and encoding a series of moving pictures to form a video and recording the video, further comprising presenting the reception of the demand, determining the position upon finishing recording the video within a given period of time after the reception of the demand in a case where the first rank lowers the second rank, and canceling the demand upon leaving the video unfinished for the given period of time after the reception of the demand in the case where the first rank lowers the second rank.

6. A radio communication device, comprising:

a positioning member configured to determine a position of the radio communication device;

an antenna;

a receiver connected to the antenna;

a controller connected to the receiver and the positioning member, configured to receive a demand for the position by way of the antenna and the receiver while running an application, and configured to stop the application and to have the positioning member determine the position in a case where the demand and the application are given a first rank and a second rank respectively and the first rank precedes the second rank.

7. The radio communication device of claim 6, wherein the controller is further configured to continue the application and to have the positioning member determine the position in a case where the first rank equals the second rank.

8. The radio communication device of claim 6, wherein the controller is further configured to have the positioning member determine the position upon finishing the application within a given period of time after the reception of the demand in a case where the first rank lowers the second rank.

9. A radio communication device, comprising:

a camera configured to take a series of moving pictures;

;

a memory configured to store a video formed by the series of moving pictures;

a positioning member configured to determine a position of the radio communication device;

an antenna;

a receiver connected to the antenna;

a controller connected to the memory, the positioning member and the receiver, configured to receive a demand for the position by way of the antenna and the receiver while recording the video on the memory, and configured to stop recording the video and to have the positioning member determine the position in a case where the demand and the video are given a first rank and a second rank respectively and the first rank precedes the second rank.

10. The radio communication device of claim 9, wherein the controller is further configured to continue recording the video and to have the positioning member determine the position in a case where the first rank equals the second rank.

11. The radio communication device of claim 9, wherein the controller is further configured to have the positioning member determine the position upon finishing recording the video within a given period of time after the reception of the demand in a case where the first rank lowers the second rank.

12. The radio communication device of claim 9, further comprising a presentation member, wherein the controller is further configured to present the reception of the demand on the presentation member, to have the positioning member determine the position upon finishing recording the video within a given period of time after the reception of the demand in a case where the first rank lowers the second rank, and to cancel the demand upon leaving the video unfinished for the given period of time after the reception of the demand in the case where the first rank lowers the second rank.