Mobile terminal apparatus, mobile terminal apparatus control method, mobile terminal apparatus control program, and recording medium for recording the mobile terminal apparatus control program

• US 20070265770A1
• Filed: 05/09/2007
• Published: 11/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Increment P Corporation, Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Increment P Corporation, Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Hirose, Koji
• Application Number:
  US11/798,038
• Publication Number:
  US 20070265770A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/202
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3423 Multimodal routing, i.e. combining two or more modes of transportation, where the modes can be any of, e.g. driving, walking, cycling, public transport

Abstract

A mobile terminal apparatus, control method for a mobile terminal apparatus, control program for a mobile terminal apparatus, and a recording medium on which the control program for the mobile terminal apparatus are provided so that when utilizing a plurality of types of travel, by switching application programs to correspond with the type of travel used, the mobile terminal apparatus is able to perform support that corresponds to the type of travel. The mobile terminal apparatus comprises: sensors that detect state information for the mobile terminal apparatus that is moved by the type of travel; and a state-of-travel-judgment device that based on the state information detected by the sensors, takes all of the types of travel of the mobile terminal apparatus as candidates for the current type of travel, and determines the current type of travel used by giving weighting to each of the candidates, changing scores for the candidates and accumulating the total scores; where based on the type of travel that the state-of-travel-judgment device determines to be the current type of travel, an application program required by the mobile terminal apparatus for that type of travel is selected and that application program is executed.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal apparatus comprising:

a state-information-detection device for detecting state information about the mobile terminal apparatus;

a state-of-travel-judgment device for determining the state of travel of the mobile terminal apparatus based on state information that is detected by the state-information-detection device;

a guidance-information-judgment device for determining which guidance information is necessary for the mobile terminal apparatus based on the state of travel of the mobile terminal apparatus that is determined by the state-of-travel-judgment device; and

a notification device for notifying the mobile terminal apparatus of the guidance information that is determined to be necessary by the guidance-information-judgment device.

2. The mobile terminal apparatus of claim 1, wherein;

the state-of-travel-judgment device gives weighting to state information that is detected by the state-information-detection device for each of a plurality of predetermined state-of-travel candidates over a predetermined period of time, changes the numerical values for the state information based on the weightings, and then determines the state of travel of the mobile terminal apparatus to be the state-of-travel candidate having the largest numerical value.

3. The mobile terminal apparatus of claim 1, wherein;

the state-information-detection device comprises a plurality of state-information-detection units that detect state information; and

the state-of-travel-judgment device gives weighting to state information that is detected by the plurality of state-information-detection units for each of a plurality of predetermined state-of-travel candidates over a predetermined period of time, changes the numerical values for the state information based on the weightings, and then determines the state of travel of the mobile terminal apparatus to be the state-of-travel candidate having the largest numerical value.

4. The mobile terminal apparatus of claim 1, wherein;

the state-information-detection device comprises a position-information-detection unit that detects position information for the mobile terminal apparatus; and

the state-of-travel-judgment device identifies the location on a map of where the mobile terminal apparatus is located based on position information that is detected by the position-information-detection unit, and gives weighting to the position information based on the identified location on the map where the mobile terminal apparatus is located for each of a plurality of predetermined state-of-travel candidates over a predetermined period of time, changes the numerical values for the state information based on the weightings, and then determines the state of travel of the mobile terminal apparatus to be the state-of-travel candidate having the largest numerical value.

5. The mobile terminal apparatus of claim 2, wherein;

the state-information-detection device further comprises a position-information-detection unit that detects position information for the mobile terminal apparatus; and

the state-of-travel-judgment device identifies the location on a map of where the mobile terminal apparatus is located based on position information that is detected by the position-information-detection unit, and gives weighting to the position information based on the identified location on the map where the mobile terminal apparatus is located for each of a plurality of predetermined state-of-travel candidates over a predetermined period of time, changes the numerical values for the state information based on the weightings, calculates state-information values for which numerical values of the state information is changed, and calculates position-information values for which numerical values of the position information is changed, and then determines the state of travel of the mobile terminal apparatus to be the state-of-travel candidate having the largest numerical value for the calculated result.

6. A control method for a mobile terminal apparatus comprising:

a state-information-detection process of detecting state information about the mobile terminal apparatus;

a state-of-travel-judgment process of determining the state of travel of the mobile terminal apparatus based on state information that is detected by the state-information-detection step;

a guidance-information-judgment process of determining which guidance information is necessary for the mobile terminal apparatus based on the state of travel of the mobile terminal apparatus that is determined by the state-of-travel-judgment process; and

a notification step of notifying the mobile terminal apparatus of the guidance information that is determined to be necessary by the guidance-information-judgment process.

7. A control program for a mobile terminal apparatus that makes a computer that is included in the mobile terminal apparatus to function as:

a state-information-detection device for detecting state information about the mobile terminal apparatus;

a state-of-travel-judgment device for determining the state of travel of the mobile terminal apparatus based on state information that is detected by the state-information-detection device;

a guidance-information-judgment device for determining which guidance information is necessary for the mobile terminal apparatus based on the state of travel of the mobile terminal apparatus that is determined by the state-of-travel-judgment device; and

a notification device for notifying the mobile terminal apparatus of the guidance information that is determined to be necessary by the guidance-information-judgment device.

8. A recording medium on which the control program for a mobile terminal apparatus of claim 7 is recorded so that it can be read by a computer in the mobile terminal apparatus.