Apparatus for searching for information within space of interest

• US 9,002,880 B2
• Filed: 01/29/2014
• Issued: 04/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Park, Cheol-Woo, Kwon, Soon-Sung, Kim, Hong-Hoi
• Primary Examiner(s): Beausoliel, Jr., Robert
• Assistant Examiner(s): ALLEN, NICHOLAS E
• Application Number:
  US14/167,209
• Publication Number:
  US 20140149396A1
• Time in Patent Office: 433 Days
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries

Abstract

An apparatus for searching for a space object SOI. The apparatus includes a Space Of Interest (SOI) data base (DB) including a plurality of space object SOIs and relationship objects, a search input unit configured to receive at least one of the plurality of space object SOIs and a search word from a user, a relationship display unit configured to output at least one relationship object with respect to the received at least one space object SOI, a relationship selection unit configured to receive a selection for a portion of the output relationship objects from the user, a search processing unit configured to perform searching on the SOI DB based on the selected relationship object, the received space object SOI, and a search word, and a search output unit configured to output a searching result for the searching. The relationship object indicates a relationship, which has been previously defined on the SOI DB, between the received space object SOI and a space object SOI related to the received space object SOI among the plurality of space object SOIs.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising a non-transitory storage medium storing a software module for searching for position information, the software module comprising:

a Space Of Interest (SOI) data base (DB) including a plurality of space object SOIs and relationship objects;

a search input unit configured to receive at least one of the plurality of space object SOIs and a search word from a user;

a relationship display unit configured to output at least one relationship object with respect to the received at least one space object SOI;

a relationship selection unit configured to receive a selection for a portion of the output relationship objects from the user;

a search processing unit configured to perform searching on the SOI DB based on the selected relationship object, the received space object SOI, and a search word; and

a search output unit configured to output a searching result for the searching,

wherein the relationship object indicates a relationship, which has been previously defined on the SOI DB, between the received space object SOI and a space object SOI related to the received space object SOI among the plurality of space object SOIs˜

wherein the relationship display unit represents at least one relationship object and the space object SOI connected to the received space object SOI by the at least one relationship object in a relationship graph structure on the basis of the received space object SOI, and

wherein when information for a relationship object included in the specific SOI in the relationship graph structure and a related SOI is selected, the relationship graph structure is again displayed on the basis of the specific SOI.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the searching sets the received space object SOI and a space object SOI connected to the received space object SOI as the selected relationship object to a searching range for the search word.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the relationship display unit outputs the at least one relationship object as a list form.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein ranks of the relationship object included in the list is determined according to a preset generation criterion and the list is output in order of the ranks.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the relationship graph structure includes a vertical structure including an upper level space object SOI, at least one lower level space object SOI, and a first relationship object defining relationship between the an upper level space object SOI and the at least one lower level space object SOI,

when the upper level space object SOI or the first relationship object is selected, both the upper level space object SOI and at least one lower level space object SOI are selected.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the relationship graph structure includes a horizontal structure including at least two space object SOIs and a second relationship object defining common relationship for the at least two space object SOIs,

when the second relationship object is selected, the at least two space object SOIs are selected.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the relationship graph structure includes a layered structure and the layered structure includes a building SOI, a third relationship object defining structures of floors constituting the building SOI, a relationship object defining the floors constituting the building, and individual SOIs included in the respective floors.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein all SOI objects constituting the building SOI are selected when the third relationship object is selected and entire individual SOIs included in the respective floors when the relationship objects defining the respective floors are selected.

9. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when a plurality of relationship objects are exist between the received space object SOI and the space object SOI connected to the received space object SOI, the plurality of relationship objects are indicated as one linear relationship and when the linear relationship is selected, a list for the plurality of relationship objects is displayed.

10. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when a plurality of relationship objects are exist between the received space object SOI and the space object SOI connected to the received space object SOI, a plurality of linear relationship for the plurality of relationship objects are indicated and the plurality of displayed linear relationships are selectable.

11. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the relationship output unit classify the searching results according to the selected relationship object and outputs a classifying result.