MAP INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE, MAP INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, AND MAP INFORMATION DISPLAY PROGRAM

• US 20160283054A1
• Filed: 08/13/2014
• Published: 09/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: SUZUKI, Takashi
• Granted Patent: US 10,627,990 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/007 using computer methods
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/10 Map spot or coordinate position indicators; Map reading aids optical projection apparatus per se G03B

Abstract

A map information display device includes a touch panel that displays map information and receives a user'"'"'s touch operation, a touch position detection unit that detects a touch position on the touch panel, a building determination unit that determines whether there is a building whose inside information is displayable in the map information displayed on the touch panel, and a floor selection menu display processing unit that displays a floor selection menu having selection items corresponding to displayable floors in close proximity to the touch position on the touch panel when the building determination unit determines that there is a building whose inside information is displayable.

Claims

1. A map information display device comprising:

an input receiving mechanism configured to display map information and receive a user'"'"'s input operation; and

circuitry configured to;

detect an input position on the input receiving mechanism;

determine whether there is a building whose inside information is displayable in the map information displayed on the input receiving mechanism; and

display a floor selection menu having selection items corresponding to displayable floors in close proximity to the input position on the input receiving mechanism when it is determined that there is a building whose inside information is displayable.

2. The map information display device according to claim 1, wherein

the circuitry is configured

to display a menu where the selection items are arranged in a circumferential direction centering on the input position as the floor selection menu.

3. The map information display device according to claim 1, wherein

the circuitry is configured to move a display position of the floor selection menu in conjunction with movement of the input position.

4. The map information display device according to claim 1, wherein

the circuitry is configured to display the floor selection menu on a side of the building whose inside information is displayable with respect to the input position.

5. The map information display device according to claim 1, wherein

the circuitry is configured to, when there are a plurality of buildings whose inside information is displayable in the map information displayed on the input receiving mechanism, displays display the floor selection menu corresponding to each of the plurality of buildings.

6. The map information display device according to claim 1, wherein

the circuitry is configured to increase or decrease a display size of the floor selection menu in conjunction with zoom in or out of the map information displayed on the input receiving mechanism.

7. The map information display device according to claim 1, wherein

the circuitry is configured to:

detect a first input position and a second input position as the input position;

display a first floor selection menu in close proximity to the first input position and displays a second floor selection menu in close proximity to the second input position;

display selection items corresponding to floors of equal to or higher than a reference floor determined based on a predetermined criterion as selection items of the first floor selection menu;

display selection items corresponding to floors of lower than the reference floor as selection items of the second floor selection menu.

8. The map information display device according to claim 7, wherein

the circuitry is configured to display the first floor selection menu on an opposite side to the second input position with respect to the first input position and displays the second floor selection menu on an opposite side to the first input position with respect to the second input position.

9. The map information display device according to claim 1, wherein:

the circuitry is configured to;

determine, based on a moving speed and a moving direction of the input position detected b for a series of user'"'"'s touch operations on the input receiving mechanism, whether the user'"'"'s touch operation is a map operation that changes the map information displayed on the input receiving mechanism or a floor selection operation that selects a floor from the floor selection menu.

10. The map information display device according to claim 9, wherein

the circuitry is configured to:

detect a first input position and a second input position as the input position;

display a first floor selection menu in close proximity to the first input position;

display a second floor selection menu in close proximity to the second input position;

recognize, during a period when the floor selection operation on the first floor selection menu or the second floor selection menu is performed by movement of the first input position or the second input position, a center of a display position of the floor selection menu where the floor selection operation is performed as one input position; and

determine that an operation of moving the input position where the floor selection operation is not performed as the map operation.

11. A map information display method comprising:

an input position detection step of detecting an input position on an input receiving mechanism;

a building determination step of determining whether there is a building whose inside information is displayable in map information displayed on the input receiving mechanism; and

a floor selection menu display processing step of displaying a floor selection menu having selection items corresponding to displayable floors in close proximity to the input position on the input receiving mechanism when it is determined in the building determination step that there is a building whose inside information is displayable.

12. A non-transitory storage medium that stores a map information display program causing a computer with an input receiving mechanism configured to display map information and receive a user'"'"'s input operation to:

detect an input position on the input receiving mechanism;

determine whether there is a building whose inside information is displayable in the map information displayed on the input receiving mechanism; and

display a floor selection menu having selection items corresponding to displayable floors in close proximity to the input position on the input receiving mechanism when it is determined that there is a building whose inside information is displayable.