METHOD FOR PROVIDING MOBILE SIGN POST SERVICE AND SYSTEM THEREOF

• US 20100102989A1
• Filed: 12/10/2007
• Published: 04/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Thinkware Systems Corporation
• Original Assignee: Thinkware Systems Corporation
• Inventors: Lee, Sang Yong
• Application Number:
  US12/530,864
• Publication Number:
  US 20100102989A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/908
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096883 where input information is obtained using a mobile device, e.g. a mobile phone, a PDA
• 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 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and system for providing geographic information which provides guidance about a route to a destination desired by a user. The method of providing geographic information, the method including: providing guidance about a route to a destination set by a user; reading a plurality of zoomed-in scenes of a target access road to enter when approaching an intersection including a plurality of access roads on the route; and continuously providing the read zoomed-in scenes and providing guidance about a route to the target access road.

Claims

1. A mobile sign service method, comprising:

receiving a request for a mobile sign service from a user terminal;

retrieving a location of the user terminal;

generating a sign image using traffic information for each intersection, the traffic information corresponding to the location of the user terminal; and

providing the user terminal with the sign image.

2. The mobile sign service method of claim 1, wherein the generating generates a lane of an intersection of each area as a simplified image map, and generates the sign image displaying traffic information about each direction of the intersection on the image map.

3. The mobile sign service method of claim 1, wherein the generating configures information about each direction of an intersection to be the same as a real traffic sign, based on the traffic information for each intersection, and generates the sign image.

4. The mobile sign service method of claim 1, wherein the generating matches a driving direction with respect to an intersection with a keypad direction of the user terminal, and generates the sign image based on section speed information for each intersection.

5. The mobile sign service method of claim 1, wherein the providing provides the user terminal with the sign image corresponding to a nearby intersection based on the location of the user terminal.

6. The mobile sign service method of claim 1, wherein the traffic information includes information about a section speed for each intersection, and the generating generates a sign image of each direction according to the section speed for each intersection.

7. The mobile sign service method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a request for a mobile sign service from the user terminal using an intersection number provided together with the sign image, the mobile sign service corresponding to a location of a previous intersection or subsequent intersection.

8. A computer-readable recording medium in a machine, comprising computer instructions causing the machine to:

receive a request for a mobile sign service from a user terminal;

retrieve a location of the user terminal;

generate a sign image using traffic information for each intersection, the traffic information corresponding to the location of the user terminal; and

transmit the sign image to the user terminal.

9. A mobile sign service system, comprising:

a location retrieval unit retrieving a location of a user terminal based on a mobile sign service;

a traffic information providing unit providing traffic information for each intersection, the traffic information corresponding to the location of the user terminal;

a sign image generation unit generating a sign image using the traffic information for each intersection; and

a transmission unit transmitting the sign image to the user terminal.

10. The mobile sign service system of claim 9, wherein the sign image generation unit generates a lane of an intersection of each area as a simplified image map, and generates the sign image displaying traffic information about each direction of the intersection on the image map.

11. The mobile sign service system of claim 9, wherein the sign image generation unit configures information about each direction of an intersection to be the same as a real traffic sign, based on the traffic information for each intersection, and generates the sign image.

12. The mobile sign service system of claim 9, wherein the sign image generation unit matches a driving direction with respect to an intersection with a keypad direction of the user terminal, and generates the sign image based on the traffic information for each intersection.

13. The mobile sign service system of claim 9, wherein the transmission unit transmits, to the user terminal, the sign image corresponding to a nearby intersection based on the location of the user terminal.

14. The mobile sign service system of claim 9, wherein the traffic information includes information about a section speed for each intersection, and the sign image generation unit generates the sign image according to the section speed for each intersection.