Mobile portable terminal, communication host apparatus, and weather forecasting system

• US 7,171,307 B2
• Filed: 04/01/2005
• Issued: 01/30/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Socionext Inc.
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Matsumoto, Takenori
• Primary Examiner(s): MCELHENY JR, DONALD E
• Application Number:
  US11/096,249
• Publication Number:
  US 20050222771A1
• Time in Patent Office: 669 Days
• Field of Search: 702/3, 702/4
• US Class Current: 702/3
• CPC Class Codes: G01W 1/10 Devices for predicting weather conditions computers per se G06; display devices G09

Abstract

A mobile portable terminal may have a sensor section that measures weather information including temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, and sunshine. A first weather information storage section stores the weather information, a first threshold information storage section stores threshold information used to sift the weather information, and a first information computation section computes necessary weather information from the weather information based on the threshold information. A first weather forecast section makes a first weather forecast based on the necessary weather information, a communication section transmits the weather information and receives the threshold information, and a weather forecast output section outputs the first weather forecast.

Claims

1. A mobile portable terminal comprising:

a sensor section that measures weather information including any one or a plurality of temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, and/or sunshine;

a first weather information storage section that stores said weather information;

a first threshold information storage section that stores threshold information used to sift said weather information;

a first information computation section that computes necessary weather information from said weather information based on said threshold information;

a first weather forecast section that makes a first weather forecast based on said necessary weather information;

a communication section that transmits said weather information and receives said threshold information;

a weather forecast output section that outputs said first weather forecast; and

a first information control section that controls said sensor section, said first weather information storage section, said first threshold information storage section, said first information computation section, said first weather forecast section, said communication section, and said weather forecast output section.

2. The mobile portable terminal according to claim 1, wherein said weather forecast output section is one or both of a display section that outputs said first weather forecast to a user as visible information and/or a sound source section that outputs said first weather forecast to said user as audible/tactile information.

3. The mobile portable terminal according to claim 1, further comprising a first forecasting coefficient storage section that stores forecasting coefficients for weighting weather factors of temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, and sunshine of said weather information;

wherein said first weather forecast is made using said forecasting coefficients.

4. The mobile portable terminal according to claim 3, further comprising a hit information transmitting section that transmits correctness/incorrectness hit information for said first weather forecast using said forecasting coefficients.

5. The mobile portable terminal according to claim 3, further comprising a first authentication information storage section that stores security related authentication information in transmission of said weather information or reception of said threshold information.

6. The mobile portable terminal according to claim 5, further comprising:

a first host forecast storage section that stores information of a second weather forecast generated by a communication host apparatus; and

a first forecast display instruction storage section that stores information of a forecast display instruction that causes said second weather forecast to be output by said weather forecast output section.