Electronic apparatus and method of receiving information, and recording medium for recording program executing method of receiving information

• US 9,196,156 B2
• Filed: 02/24/2012
• Issued: 11/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Intellectual Discovery Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Cho, Changbin, Lee, Haeil, Woo, Seungwan, Kim, Jinyoung
• Primary Examiner(s): Alharbi, Adam
• Application Number:
  US14/001,571
• Publication Number:
  US 20140046580A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,369 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3691 Retrieval, searching and output of information related to real-time traffic, weather, or environmental conditions arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions G08G1/09
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/00 Traffic control systems for road vehicles arrangement of road signs or traffic signals E01F9/00 ; automatic vehicle control B62D
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096741 where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096838 where the user preferences are taken into account or the user selects one route out of a plurality
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096844 where the complete route is dynamically recomputed based on new data
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles

Abstract

The present invention relates to an electronic apparatus and method for receiving various pieces of information, after setting various search conditions, based on the set search conditions. According to the present invention, the electronic apparatus comprises: a communication unit; and in the case that a particular event occurs, a control unit transmitting search conditions including at least one of a search direction, search range and search region, related to the event through the communication unit, and receiving information corresponding to the search conditions.

Claims

1. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a first communication unit for communicating with a second communication unit to receive data from a navigation database containing traffic information;

a display unit for displaying first navigation information;

an input unit for receiving an input of a stroke on the first navigation information from a user; and

a control unit transmitting, through the first communication unit to the second communication unit, a search condition for navigation data based at least in part on a start point location of the stroke and an end point location of the stroke on the displayed first navigation information, receiving the specific navigation data corresponding to the search condition, and displaying second navigation information on the display unit based on the received navigation data,

wherein the control unit configures the search condition of the navigation data to include at least one of search direction, search range, and search region, and

wherein the control unit sets, when the input stroke includes a first stroke and a second stroke, sets the search region by considering the first stroke and sets at least one of the search direction and the search range by considering the second stroke.

2. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the search condition is further based on acquiring a movement speed of the electronic apparatus.

3. The electronic apparatus of claim 2, wherein the search condition can also be based on at least one of a shape of the stroke, a direction of the stroke, a length of the stroke, and a speed of the stroke on the displayed first navigation information.

4. The electronic apparatus of claim 3, wherein the control unit sets the search range based on at least one of the length of the stroke and the speed of the stroke.

5. The electronic apparatus of claim 3, wherein the control unit sets the search direction corresponding to the direction of the stroke by considering the direction of the stroke.

6. The electronic apparatus of claim 3, wherein the control unit sets, when the stroke is a closed curve, the search range corresponding to the inside of the closed curve.

7. The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control unit sets a road displayed in the first navigation information crossing the first stroke as the search region.

8. The electronic apparatus of claim 2, wherein the control unit provides a user input screen displaying first navigation information for setting the search condition when there is a request from a user.

9. The electronic apparatus of claim 8, wherein the control unit displays at least one item corresponding to a specific search region on the user input screen.

10. The electronic apparatus of claim 9, wherein the control unit further displays at least one indicator indicating a direction when the item is selected.

11. The electronic apparatus of claim 10, wherein the control unit selects the item based on a start point of the stroke, selects the indicator based on the direction of the an end point of the stroke, and sets the search region and the search direction by considering the selected item and the selected indicator.

12. The electronic apparatus of claim 2, wherein the control unit sets a search range of the navigation data depending on the movement speed when acquiring the movement speed.

13. A method of receiving traffic information of an electronic apparatus, comprising:

displaying first navigation information on a display unit;

receiving a stroke of a user on the first navigation information from input unit over the display unit;

determining a search condition for data based at least in part on a start point location of the stroke and an end point location of the stroke on the displayed first navigation information with a controller unit, wherein the search condition is further based on acquiring a movement speed of the electronic apparatus such that the search condition is configured to include a search range of the navigation data depending on the movement speed when the movement speed is acquired;

transmitting, through a first communication unit to a second communication unit, the search condition;

receiving navigation data from a navigation database containing traffic information, through the first communication unit from the second communication unit, corresponding to the search condition; and

displaying second navigation information on the display unit based on the received navigation data.

14. The method of receiving traffic information of an electronic apparatus of claim 13, wherein the control unit configures the search condition of the navigation data to include at least one of search direction, search range, and search region.

15. The method of receiving traffic information of an electronic apparatus of claim 14, wherein the search condition can also be based on at least one of a shape of the stroke, a direction of the stroke, a length of the stroke, and a speed of the stroke on the displayed first navigation information.

16. The method of receiving traffic information of an electronic apparatus of claim 13, further comprising:

providing a user input screen on the display unit for setting the search condition when there is a request from a user.

17. A recording medium having a program for performing a method of claim 13 therein.