Method and system for changing geographic information displayed on a mobile device

• US 8,971,928 B2
• Filed: 04/10/2012
• Issued: 03/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HERE Global B.V. (HERE Holding Corporation)
• Original Assignee: HERE Global B.V. (HERE Holding Corporation)
• Inventors: Barnes, Craig
• Primary Examiner(s): Lai, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US13/443,612
• Publication Number:
  US 20130267248A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,057 Days
• Field of Search: 4554561-457, 455/566, 455/456.3, 701/431, 701/432, 701/438, 701/439, 701/487, 701/410, 701/426, 701/428, 701/433, 701/491, 701/532, 701/533, 715/863, 345/156, 345/158
• US Class Current: 455/456.3
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/367 Details, e.g. road map scale, orientation, zooming, illumination, level of detail, scrolling of road map or positioning of current position marker
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1637 Sensing arrangement for detection of housing movement or orientation, e.g. for controlling scrolling or cursor movement on the display of an handheld computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

Convenient control of navigation or mapping image content on a mobile device is provided. Map and/or navigation information is displayed. Movement of the mobile device or a user associated with the mobile device is detected. The content of the display is changed as a function of the detected movement.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

obtaining first, second, and third geographic information associated with a geographic region, wherein the first geographic information includes road link data, the second geographic information includes point-of-interest data, and the third geographic information includes topographic data;

providing, by a processor, the first geographic information including road link data on a display of a mobile device at an orientation relative to a view of the display;

detecting a first movement of the mobile device the first movement being other than a change in a geographic location of the mobile device, the first movement having a first magnitude;

changing, by the processor, the display of the mobile device to display the second geographic information including the point-of-interest data in response to the first movement of the mobile device, wherein the second geographic information is displayed at the same orientation relative to the same view of the display as the first geographic information, and the second geographic information includes the same geographic region as the first geographic information;

detecting a second movement of the mobile device the first movement being other than a change in a geographic location of the mobile device, the second movement having a second magnitude different than the first magnitude; and

changing, by the processor, the display of the mobile device to display the third geographic information including the topographic data in response to the second movement of the mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first geographic information further comprises a first map of the geographic region and the second geographic information comprises a second map of the geographic region, the second map being different than the first.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first geographic information comprises a first map of a base layer of geographic data in the geographic region.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the first map of the base layer comprises data indicative of a road network in the geographic region.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the second geographic information comprises a second map of the geographic region, the second map being a map of the base layer of the geographic data in the geographic region combined with a second layer of the geographic data in the geographic region.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the second geographic information comprises a second map of a second layer of the geographic data in the geographic region.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the second map of the second layer comprises data indicative of one or more points of interest (POI) in the geographic region.

8. The method of claim 3, wherein the second geographic information comprises a second map of the geographic region, the second map being a map of the base layer of the geographic data in the geographic region blended with two or more maps of two or more respective additional layers of the geographic data in the geographic region.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein detecting comprises detecting a rotational movement of the mobile device using an accelerometer in the mobile device.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein detecting comprises detecting the rotational movement of the mobile device about a vertical axis of the mobile device.

11. A mobile device comprising:

a processor operable to obtain geographic data associated with a geographic region;

a display operable to display a first image comprising a map of a base layer of the geographic data in the geographic region at an orientation based on the geographic data; and

a sensor operable to detect a movement of the mobile device and a magnitude of the movement of the mobile device,

wherein the processor is further operable to;

change the first image displayed on the display to a second image associated with a first detected movement having a first magnitude, the second image comprising a second layer of the geographic data in the geographic region combined with the base layer, wherein the second layer contains geographic data not displayed in the first image, and

change the second image displayed on the display to a third image associated with a second detected movement having a second magnitude different than the first magnitude, the third image comprising a third layer of the geographic data in the geographic region combined with the base layer, wherein the third layer contains geographic data not displayed in the first image or the second image.

12. The mobile device of claim 11, wherein the sensor comprises an accelerometer and the movement is a rotational movement of the mobile device.

13. The mobile device of claim 11, wherein the second image comprises a second map of the second layer of the geographic data in the geographic region.

14. The mobile device of claim 11, wherein the second layer of the geographic data comprises data relating to a point of interest (POI) not available in the base layer.

15. The mobile device of claim 11, wherein the base layer includes data relating to road links and the second layer includes data relating to a point of interest (POI).

16. A system comprising:

a server in communication with a mobile device and operable to obtain geographic data representing a geographic region from a geographic database;

wherein the server is operable to receive, from the mobile device, data indicative of a magnitude of a movement of the mobile device; and

wherein the server is further operable to;

enable the mobile device to;

switch from a first layer of the geographic data to a second layer of the geographic data associated with a first magnitude of the movement when the movement having the first magnitude is detected, the second layer including a different type of data than the first layer, and

switch from the first layer of the geographic data to a third layer of the geographic data associated with a second magnitude of the movement when the second magnitude of the movement is detected, the third layer including a different type of data than the first layer or the second layer.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the first layer is a map and the second layer is route guidance.