SERVER DEVICE, MOBILE TERMINAL, ROAD JUNCTION GUIDANCE SYSTEM, AND ROAD JUNCTION GUIDANCE METHOD

• US 20110032359A1
• Filed: 09/16/2008
• Published: 02/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Tamura, Yuichi
• Application Number:
  US12/988,591
• Publication Number:
  US 20110032359A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/148
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network

Abstract

In a server device, each time a photographed image and information related to time of photography are received from one of multiple mobile terminals, a generation processes for generating standard image information based on that image and information related to the time of photography. When generating this standard image information, the generation element generates the standard image information photographed when the moving body passes through that predetermined road junction to satisfy a predetermined speed variation condition. In a mobile terminal, an acquisition element acquires image information from the server device that designates any desired road junction, and, when the moving body passes through that predetermined road junction, a display control element refers to the manner in which the moving body passed through that road junction, and controls a display element to display an image on the basis of that image information. Storage resources are utilized efficiently, enhancing user convenience.

Claims

1-13. -13. (canceled)

14. A server device that can communicate with at least one mobile terminal comprising:

a collection part configures to collect a photographic image and information related to the time of photography thereof, reported from a mobile terminal that receives a request for photography when passing through at least one predetermined road junction;

a generation part configures to, on the basis of the results of collection by said collection part, generate standard image information photographed while passing through said predetermined road junction with a predetermined speed variation condition being satisfied;

a storage part configures to store said standard image information; and

a standard image reporting part configures to, upon receipt of an acquisition request for an image for a passage through one of said predetermined road junction, report image information corresponding, in said standard image information, to said acquisition request, to the mobile terminal that issued said acquisition request.

15. A server device according to claim 14, wherein said collection part issues said request for photography in which a photography start ground point and a photography end ground point are specified.

16. A server device according to claim 14, wherein:

information about at least one environmental factor at the time of photography, such as the date and time of photography and the weather at the time of photography, is included in said information related to the time of photography;

said standard image information is stored in said storage part, classified by said environmental factor; and

a designation of said environmental factor is included in said acquisition request.

17. A server device according to claim 14, characterized in that:

speed change information while the moving body that is moving along with the mobile terminal that receives said request for photography passes through said predetermined road junction, is included in said information related to the time of photography; and

said generation part configures to generate said standard image information, if said speed change information satisfies said predetermined speed variation condition.

18. A server device according to claim 14, wherein:

photographic position information for each image frame of said photographic image is included in said information related to the time of photography; and

said generation part employs, during the generation of said standard image information, an image frame of said photographic image for which said photographic position information satisfies a positional condition that is derived from said predetermined speed variation condition.

19. A mobile terminal that moves along with a moving body and that can communicate with a server device according to claim 14, wherein:

a display part configures to displays an image;

an acquisition part configures to makes an acquisition request to said server device, and acquires from said server device image information when passing through a road junction, corresponding to said acquisition request; and

a display control part configures to perform control of display upon said display part of an image based upon the result of acquisition by said acquisition part.

20. A mobile terminal according to claim 19, wherein said display control part controls display upon said display part of said image based upon said result of acquisition, while referring to the way in which said moving body passes through said road junction.

21. A mobile terminal according to claim 19, further comprising:

a photographic part configures to photographs the surroundings of said moving body;

a driving time information acquisition part configures to acquires driving time information for said moving body; and

a photographic information reporting part configures to reports to said server device the result of photography by said photographic part when passing through at least one predetermined road junction for which a request for photography has been received, and information related to the time of photography when passing through said at least one predetermined road junction, generated on the basis of the result of acquisition by said driving time information acquisition part.

22. A mobile terminal according to claim 21, wherein at least one of the current positions of said moving body and the speed of said moving body is included in said driving time information.

23. A mobile terminal according to claim 22, wherein at least one environmental factor, of the date and time and the weather, is further included in said driving time information.

24. A road junction guidance system, comprising a server device according to claim 14;

and at least one mobile terminal that can communicate with said server device, and in that said mobile terminal comprises;

a display part configures to display an image;

an acquisition part configures to make an acquisition request to said server device, and acquires from said server device image information when passing through a road junction, corresponding to said acquisition request; and

a display control part configures to perform control of display upon said display part of an image based upon the result of acquisition by said acquisition part.

25. A road junction guidance system according to claim 24, wherein said mobile terminal further comprises:

a photographic part configures to photographs the surroundings of said moving body;

a driving time information acquisition part configures to acquire driving time information for said moving body; and

a photographic information reporting part configures to reports to said server device the result of photography by said photographic part when passing through at least one predetermined road junction for which a request for photography has been received, and information related to the time of photography when passing through said at least one predetermined road junction, generated on the basis of the result of acquisition by said driving time information acquisition part.

27. A server device according to claim 15, characterized in that:

speed change information while the moving body that is moving along with the mobile terminal that receives said request for photography passes through said predetermined road junction, is included in said information related to the time of photography; and

said generation part configures to generate said standard image information, if said speed change information satisfies said predetermined speed variation condition.

28. A server device according to claim 16, characterized in that:

speed change information while the moving body that is moving along with the mobile terminal that receives said request for photography passes through said predetermined road junction, is included in said information related to the time of photography; and

said generation part configures to generate said standard image information, if said speed change information satisfies said predetermined speed variation condition.

29. A server device according to claim 15, wherein:

photographic position information for each image frame of said photographic image is included in said information related to the time of photography; and

said generation part employs, during the generation of said standard image information, an image frame of said photographic image for which said photographic position information satisfies a positional condition that is derived from said predetermined speed variation condition.

30. A server device according to claim 16, wherein:

photographic position information for each image frame of said photographic image is included in said information related to the time of photography; and

said generation part employs, during the generation of said standard image information, an image frame of said photographic image for which said photographic position information satisfies a positional condition that is derived from said predetermined speed variation condition.

31. A mobile terminal that moves along with a moving body and that can communicate with a server device according to claim 15, wherein:

a display part configures to displays an image;

an acquisition part configures to makes an acquisition request to said server device, and acquires from said server device image information when passing through a road junction, corresponding to said acquisition request; and

a display control part configures to perform control of display upon said display part of an image based upon the result of acquisition by said acquisition part.

32. A mobile terminal that moves along with a moving body and that can communicate with a server device according to claim 16, wherein:

a display part configures to displays an image;

an acquisition part configures to makes an acquisition request to said server device, and acquires from said server device image information when passing through a road junction, corresponding to said acquisition request; and

a display control part configures to perform control of display upon said display part of an image based upon the result of acquisition by said acquisition part.

33. A mobile terminal that moves along with a moving body and that can communicate with a server device according to claim 17, wherein:

a display part configures to displays an image;

an acquisition part configures to makes an acquisition request to said server device, and acquires from said server device image information when passing through a road junction, corresponding to said acquisition request; and

a display control part configures to perform control of display upon said display part of an image based upon the result of acquisition by said acquisition part.

26. A road junction guidance method performed in cooperation by at least one mobile terminal and a server device that can communicate with said mobile terminal comprising the steps of:

collecting a photographic image and information in which said server device collects a photographic image and information related to the time of photography thereof, reported from a mobile terminal that receives a request for photography when passing through at least one predetermined road junction;

generating standard image information in which, on the basis of the results of collection by said collection process, said server device generates standard image information photographed while passing through said predetermined road junction with a predetermined speed variation condition being satisfied;

reporting a standard image in which said server device, upon receipt of an acquisition request for an image for a passage through one of said predetermined road junction, reports an image corresponding, in said standard image information, to said acquisition request, to the mobile terminal that issued said acquisition request; and

performing a display in which the mobile terminal that issued said acquisition request performs display on the basis of image information that corresponds to said acquisition request.