MOBILE TERMINAL TO PROVIDE LOCATION MANAGEMENT USING MULTIMEDIA DATA AND METHOD THEREOF

• US 20100277365A1
• Filed: 04/27/2010
• Published: 11/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/04/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Inventors: HA, Yong Gu, Jeong, Chang Bong
• Application Number:
  US12/768,367
• Publication Number:
  US 20100277365A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 342/357.46
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/09 providing processing capability normally carried out by the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/14 specially adapted for specific applications
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/48 by combining or switching between position solutions derived from the satellite radio beacon positioning system and position solutions derived from a further system
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0027 of actual mobile position, i.e. position determined on mobile
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0054 of actual mobile position, i.e. position calculation on base station
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/012 Identifying whether indoors or outdoors
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal

Abstract

A mobile terminal to manage a location using multimedia data and a method thereof are disclosed. The mobile terminal acquires a Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite signal in a camera preview and utilizes the GPS satellite signal in a map service in association with multimedia data. In addition, the mobile terminal acquires and stores place name information from a location guide service using location information, and provides a service using the location information stored in the multimedia data.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a display;

a mode selector to select a location tracking mode in which a Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite signal is used to acquire location information to be associated with multimedia data displayed on the display;

a location tracker to track a location according to the selected location tracking mode, and to acquire the location information; and

a storage to store the location information.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the mode selector selects the location tracking mode according to whether the mobile terminal is located indoors or outdoors.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein, if the mobile terminal is located indoors, the location tracker acquires the location information in a mobile station (MS)-assisted GPS mode in which the mobile terminal transmits a GPS satellite signal to a server of a mobile communication network and receives a location value from the server of the mobile s communication network in response thereto.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein, if the mobile terminal is located outdoors, the location tracker acquires the location information in a mobile station (MS)-based GPS mode in which the mobile terminal searches for a GPS satellite signal and calculates a location value according to the GPS satellite signal.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 4, wherein the location tracker searches for the GPS satellite signal in the MS-based GPS mode and, if the signal is not found within a time, the location tracker changes the location tracking mode to an MS-assisted GPS mode to acquire the location information via a server of a mobile communication network.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, further comprising a location guide service linker to associate the location information with a location guide service to acquire place name information on a map indicated by the location information, to transfer the place name information to the storage, and to store the place name information in a header of the multimedia data together with the location information.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, further comprising a multimedia manager to retrieve one or more pieces of multimedia data, in which place name information matched to an input is registered in a header portion, from the storage if a place name search is input, and to align and display the retrieved multimedia data on the display.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, further comprising a location guide service linker to analyze location information stored in a header portion of multimedia data to acquire place name information on a map indicated by the location information if multimedia data is selected, to transfer the place name information to a location guide service, and to display the place name information on the map.

9. A method for location management for a mobile terminal, comprising:

displaying a multimedia data on a screen;

selecting a location tracking mode in which a GPS satellite signal is used to acquire location information to be associated with the multimedia data;

acquiring the location information by tracking a location in the selected location tracking mode; and

storing the location information to be associated with the multimedia data.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the location tracking mode is selected according to whether the mobile terminal is located indoors or outdoors.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising, if the mobile terminal is located indoors, transmitting a GPS satellite signal to a server of a mobile communication network and receiving from the server of the mobile communication network a location value of the mobile terminal in response thereto in an MS-assisted GPS mode to acquire the location information.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising, if the mobile terminal is located outdoors, searching for the GPS satellite signal and calculating a location value thereof according to the GPS satellite signal in an MS-based GPS mode to acquire the location information.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising searching for the GPS satellite signal in the MS-based GPS mode and, if the GPS satellite signal is not found within a time, changing the location tracking mode to an MS-assisted GPS mode to acquire the location information via a server of a mobile communication network.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the location information is associated with a location guide service to acquire place name information on a map indicated by the location information and the place name information is stored in a header portion of the multimedia data together with the location information.

15. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

retrieving multimedia data, in which place name information associated with an input is registered in a header of the multimedia data, if a place name search is input; and

aligning and displaying the retrieved multimedia data.

16. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

analyzing the location information stored in a header of multimedia data to acquire place name information on a map indicated by the location information, if the multimedia data is selected; and

transferring the place name information to a location guide service and displaying the place name information on a map.

17. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a mode selector to select a location tracking mode;

a location tracker to track a location according to the selected location tracking mode, and to acquire location information; and

a storage to store the location information.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 17, where in the location tracker comprises:

a mobile station (MS)-assisted Global Positioning System (GPS) processor to control transmission of a GPS satellite signal to a server of a mobile communication network.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 18, wherein the MS-assisted GPS processor controls the transmission of the GPS satellite signal if the selected location tracking mode is an MS-assisted GPS mode.

20. The mobile terminal of claim 17, where in the location tracker comprises:

an MS-based GPS processor to control searching for a GPS satellite signal and calculation of a location value according to the GPS satellite signal.

21. The mobile terminal of claim 20, where the MS-based GPS processor controls the searching and the calculation if the selected location tracking mode is an MS-based GPS mode.

22. The mobile terminal of claim 20, where if the GPS satellite signal is not found within a time, the location tracker changes the location tracking mode from an MS-based GPS mode to an MS-assisted GPS mode to acquire the location information via a server of a mobile communication network.