Method of controlling mobile information terminal and mobile information terminal

• US 9,341,699 B2
• Filed: 12/23/2013
• Issued: 05/17/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Sato, Takuya
• Primary Examiner(s): Brandt, Christopher M
• Application Number:
  US14/138,566
• Publication Number:
  US 20140287774A1
• Time in Patent Office: 876 Days
• Field of Search: 340/990, 340/995.24, 340/988, 340/994, 342/457, 342/450, 342/357.31, 701/469, 701/517, 701/500, 455/456.1, 455/456.6, 455/556.1, 455/574
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/01 Determining conditions which influence positioning, e.g. radio environment, state of motion or energy consumption
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/017 Detecting state or type of motion
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/06 including a wireless LAN interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0254 detecting a user operation or a tactile contact or a motion of the device
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A method of controlling a mobile information terminal including a positioning sensor includes creating a speed profile to a destination location based on a distance to the destination location, information on a speed of a mode of travel to the destination location, and information on stopping before the destination location, and calculating a crock time to cause the positioning sensor to perform positioning based on the speed profile.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a mobile information terminal including a positioning sensor, the method comprising:

creating a travel speed model indicating a time variation of an estimated value of a travel speed when the mobile information terminal moves from a current location to a destination location, based on a distance to the destination location, information on a speed of a mode of travel to the destination location, and information on stopping before arriving at the destination location; and

calculating a next measurement time to cause the positioning sensor to perform positioning based on the travel speed model.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the creating uses information on a speed of another mode of travel to the destination location as the information on the speed of the mode of the travel to the destination location when the speed of the mode of travel used for travelling to the destination location is slower than the speed of the another mode of travel.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the information on stopping includes a number of stopping times before arriving at the destination location.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein

the information on stopping includes time period of the stopping.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the information on the speed of a mode of travel to the destination location is a travel speed, and

the creating creates the travel speed model based on acceleration from the travel speed to the stopping or acceleration from the stopping to the travel speed.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the creating creates the travel speed model every time the stopping is detected.

7. The method according to claim 3, wherein

the creating determines the number of stopping times before the destination location based on a frequency of detecting the stopping.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein

the creating corrects the number of stopping times before arriving at the destination location based on a variation in the frequency of detecting the stopping.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the travel speed model accelerates as leaving away from the current location with respect to a travel speed detected at the current location.

10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether a user of the mobile information terminal is capable of stopping at the destination location, wherein

the calculating of the next measurement time includes;

calculating the next measurement time by using the distance to the destination location, a setting speed, and a setting acceleration when it is determined that the user is not capable of stopping at the destination location; and

calculating the next measurement time by using the distance to the destination location and the setting acceleration when it is not determined that the user is capable of stopping at the destination location.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the next measurement time is a time when obtainment of positional information is completed.

12. The method according to claim 11, further comprising:

calculating a time when measurement of the positional information is started by subtracting a measuring time of the extracted positioning sensor from the calculated next measurement time.

13. A mobile information terminal including a positioning sensor, the mobile information terminal comprising:

a memory; and

a processor coupled to the memory and configured to;

create a travel speed model indicating a time variation of an estimated value of a travel speed when the mobile information terminal moves from a current location to a destination location based on a distance to the destination location, information on a speed of a mode of travel to the destination location, and information on stopping before arriving at the destination location; and

calculate a next measurement time to cause the positioning sensor to perform positioning based on the travel speed model.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process comprising:

creating a travel speed model indicating a time variation of an estimated value of a travel speed when the mobile information terminal moves from a current location to a destination location, based on a distance to the destination location, information on stopping before arriving at the destination location; and

calculating a next measurement time to cause the positioning sensor to perform positioning based on the travel speed model.