MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES, ARCHITECTURE AND USER INTERFACES BASED ON DYNAMIC DIRECTION INFORMATION

• US 20090315995A1
• Filed: 08/06/2009
• Published: 12/24/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Novik, Lev, Khosravy, Moe
• Granted Patent: US 8,700,302 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/158
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3679 Retrieval, searching and output of POI information, e.g. hotels, restaurants, shops, filling stations, parking facilities G01C21/3611 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

Mobile endpoints are provided that enable direction based pointing services including a positional component for receiving positional information as a function of a location of the portable electronic device, a directional component that outputs direction information as a function of an orientation of the portable electronic device and a location based engine that processes the positional information and the direction information to determine a subset of points of interest relative to the portable electronic device as a function of at least the positional information and the direction information. Devices can include compass(es), e.g., magnetic or gyroscopic, to determine a direction and GPS systems for determining location. A component for determining acceleration can also optionally be included.

Claims

1. A method for displaying point of interest information on a mobile device, comprising:

determining a point of interest at which the mobile device is pointed;

displaying static information associated with the point of interest retrieved from a local cache memory; and

receiving and displaying dynamic information associated with the point of interest from a network service.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining the point of interest at which the mobile device is pointed includes determining the point of interest as a function of an orientation of the mobile device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining includes determining the point of interest as a function of an output from a digital compass of the mobile device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying includes displaying static information associated with the point of interest retrieved from the local cache memory of the mobile device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving includes automatically requesting the dynamic information associated with the point of interest from the network service.

6. A method for displaying point of interest information on a mobile device, comprising:

scanning a compact encoding of the point of interest information associated with a point of interest to determine encoding information;

querying a network service with the encoding information;

receiving, in response to the querying, static point of interest information and dynamically changeable point of interest information associated with the point of interest; and

displaying the static point of interest information and the dynamically changeable point of interest information associated with the point of interest on the mobile device.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the scanning includes scanning an image of the compact encoding with an image capture device communicatively coupled to the mobile device.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the scanning includes scanning a Quick Response (QR) code.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the scanning includes decoding the compact encoding.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the scanning includes decompressing the compact encoding.

11. The method of claim 6, wherein the receiving includes automatically receiving, in automatic response to the querying, the static point of interest information and the dynamically changeable point of interest information associated with the point of interest.

12. The method of claim 6, wherein the displaying includes displaying a two-dimensional map view including the point of interest and overlaying at least one of the static point of interest information or the dynamically changeable point of interest information on a map view.

13. The method of claim 6, wherein the displaying includes displaying a perspective view based on an output from an image capture device of the mobile device including the point of interest and overlaying at least one of the static point of interest information or the dynamically changeable point of interest information on the perspective view.

14. A method for interacting with a portable electronic device, comprising:

pointing the portable electronic device in a pointing direction substantially towards at least one point of interest, the pointing direction substantially corresponding to an image capture direction for capturing images by the portable electronic device;

determining a set of candidate points of interest as a function of the pointing direction; and

displaying a set of indications of the set of candidate points of interest on the portable electronic device overlaid on at least one image captured by the portable electronic device as spatially correlated to actual points of interest displayed in the at least one image.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

displaying static and dynamically updateable information associated with at least one of the set of candidate points of interest.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

transmitting information representing location of the portable electronic device and information representing the pointing direction to a network service; and

wherein the determining includes receiving the set of candidate points from the network service as a function of at least one of information representing a location or information representing the pointing direction.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

displaying the pointing direction via an interface portion of the portable electronic device for indicating directional information representing the pointing direction.

18. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

determining the pointing direction including receiving output from a magnetic compass that outputs direction information and deriving the pointing direction from the direction information.

19. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

determining the pointing direction including receiving output from a gyroscopic compass that outputs direction information and deriving the pointing direction from the direction information.

20. The method of claim 14, wherein the determining of the set of candidate points of interest includes requesting the set of candidate points of interest as a function of at least the pointing direction and the requesting includes employing at least one Representational State Transfer (REST)-based application programming interface (API).