MOBILE TERMINAL, SERVER DEVICE, COMMUNITY GENERATION SYSTEM, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20100315433A1
• Filed: 05/24/2010
• Published: 12/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: TAKESHITA, Kazutaka
• Granted Patent: US 8,743,144 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/632
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/00 Manipulating 3D models or images for computer graphics
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/10 Mixing of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of an operation, e.g. adding, on the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/125 wherein one of the images is motion video
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/141 between two video terminals, e.g. videophone telephonic communication systems combined with television receiver for reception of entertainment or information matter H04M11/085
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

There is provided a mobile terminal including a movement information acquisition section for acquiring movement information of a mobile terminal possessed by a user, a picked-up image acquisition section for acquiring a peripheral image of the mobile terminal, which is imaged by an imaging device, a transmission section for transmitting the movement information acquired by the movement information acquisition section to a server device which is connected to the mobile terminal via a network, a reception section for receiving community information which is generated by the server device based on a history of the movement information and which can be shared between the user possessing the mobile terminal and another user other than the user possessing the mobile terminal, and a display control section for displaying, on a display screen, a displayed image included in the community information in a superimposed manner on a peripheral image of the mobile terminal.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a movement information acquisition section for acquiring movement information of a mobile terminal possessed by a user;

a picked-up image acquisition section for acquiring a peripheral image of the mobile terminal, which is imaged by an imaging device;

a transmission section for transmitting the movement information acquired by the movement information acquisition section to a server device which is connected to the mobile terminal via a network;

a reception section for receiving community information which is generated by the server device based on a history of the movement information and which can be shared between the user possessing the mobile terminal and another user other than the user possessing the mobile terminal; and

a display control section for displaying, on a display screen, a displayed image included in the community information received by the reception section in a superimposed manner on a peripheral image of the mobile terminal acquired by the picked-up image acquisition section.

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1,

wherein the server device stores histories of pieces of movement information of a plurality of other users other than the user possessing the mobile terminal, and

wherein, when the history of movement information is common to the user possessing the mobile terminal and another user, the community information is generated by the server device by using the common history of movement information.

3. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the movement information acquisition section acquires movement information including position information of the mobile terminal and time information at which the position information is acquired.

4. The mobile terminal according to claim 3, wherein, when a history of position information is common to the user possessing the mobile terminal and the another user, the community information is generated by the server device by using the common history of position information.

5. The mobile terminal according to claim 4, wherein the history of the movement information of the another user used for generating the community information is a history of the movement information of a user having an common attribute as the user possessing the mobile terminal.

6. The mobile terminal according to claim 4, wherein the history of the movement information of the another user used for generating the community information is a history of the movement information of a user who has been registered beforehand.

7. The mobile terminal according to claim 4, wherein the history of the movement information of the another user used for generating the community information is a history of the movement information which can be opened to the public.

8. The mobile terminal according to claim 4, wherein, when the position information included in a predetermined position area is common to the user possessing the mobile terminal and the another user, the community information is generated by the server device by using the common position information.

9. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein, when there is community information from among the community information received by the reception section, in which position information included in the community information is included in a predetermined position area, the display control section displays the community information on the display screen.

10. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, further comprising an angle/direction information acquisition section for acquiring angle/direction information of the mobile terminal,

wherein the display control section superimposes a displayed image included in the community information on the peripheral image acquired by the picked-up image acquisition section, based on the angle/direction information acquired by the angle/direction information acquisition section.

11. The mobile terminal according to claim 10,

wherein the angle/direction information acquisition section acquires angle/direction information including an azimuth of the user corresponding to an angle/direction of the mobile terminal, and

wherein the display control section superimposes a displayed image included in the community information which corresponds to the azimuth of the user on the peripheral image imaged by the imaging device.

12. A server device comprising:

a reception section for receiving pieces of movement information of mobile terminals possessed by a plurality of users from the respective mobile terminals;

a recording section for accumulating a history of the movement information received by the reception section with respect to each user and recording the history in a storage medium; and

a community information generation section for generating community information which can be shared between one user and another user, based on the history of the movement information with respect to each user recorded in the storage medium.

13. The server device according to claim 12, wherein, when the history of movement information is common to the one user and the another user, the community information generation section generates the community information by using the common history of movement information.

14. An information processing system comprising:

a mobile terminal possessed by a user including

a movement information acquisition section for acquiring movement information of the mobile terminal,

a picked-up image acquisition section for acquiring a peripheral image of the mobile terminal, which is imaged by an imaging device, and

a transmission section for transmitting the movement information acquired by the movement information acquisition section to a server device which is connected to the mobile terminal via a network; and

the server device including

a reception section for receiving pieces of movement information of mobile terminals possessed by a plurality of users from the respective mobile terminals,

a recording section for accumulating a history of the movement information received by the reception section with respect to each user and recording the history in a storage medium, and

a community information generation section for generating community information which can be shared between one user and another user, based on the history of the movement information with respect to each user recorded in the storage medium,

wherein the mobile terminal includes

a reception section for receiving the community information generated by the server device, and

a display control section for displaying, on a display screen, a displayed image included in the community information received by the reception section in a superimposed manner on a peripheral image of the mobile terminal acquired by the picked-up image acquisition section.

15. A display control method for community information in a mobile terminal possessed by a user, comprising the steps of:

acquiring movement information of the mobile terminal;

acquiring a peripheral image of the mobile terminal, which is imaged by an imaging device;

transmitting the acquired movement information to a server device which is connected to the mobile terminal via a network;

receiving community information which is generated by the server device based on a history of the movement information and which can be shared between the user possessing the mobile terminal and another user other than the user possessing the mobile terminal; and

displaying, on a display screen, a displayed image included in the received community information in a superimposed manner on the acquired peripheral image of the mobile terminal.

16. A program for causing a computer to function as a mobile terminal which includes

a movement information acquisition section for acquiring movement information of a mobile terminal possessed by a user,

a picked-up image acquisition section for acquiring a peripheral image of the mobile terminal, which is imaged by an imaging device,

a transmission section for transmitting the movement information acquired by the movement information acquisition section to a server device which is connected to the mobile terminal via a network,

a reception section for receiving community information which is generated by the server device based on a history of the movement information and which can be shared between the user possessing the mobile terminal and another user other than the user possessing the mobile terminal, and

a display control section for displaying, on a display screen, a displayed image included in the community information received by the reception section in a superimposed manner on a peripheral image of the mobile terminal acquired by the picked-up image acquisition section.