Pairing a mobile terminal with a wireless device

• US 9,380,621 B2
• Filed: 04/12/2012
• Issued: 06/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Original Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Inventors: Jamal-Syed, Shaheer, Vahlne, Daniel
• Primary Examiner(s): TRANDAI, CINDY HUYEN
• Application Number:
  US13/505,793
• Publication Number:
  US 20150133051A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,538 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/20 in augmented reality scenes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals

Abstract

A mobile terminal includes a camera for capturing a first image, a radio transceiver for discovering wireless devices and determining a position of the discovered wireless devices with respect to the mobile terminal, processing means for projecting the position of each discovered wireless device onto the first image and creating a second image by overlaying symbols at the projected positions, and a display for displaying the second image, the mobile terminal being arranged for pairing, in response to a request from a user of the mobile terminal selecting one of the overlaid symbols, the corresponding wireless device with the mobile terminal.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal comprising:

a camera that captures a first image,

a radio transceiver that;

discovers one or more wireless devices capable of effecting wireless communications with the mobile terminal,

determines a bearing and a distance from the mobile terminal to a position of each of the discovered wireless devices, and

receives, from at least one of the discovered wireless devices, information pertaining to respective distances from the at least one discovered wireless device to other discovered wireless devices,

a processor that;

correlates the bearing and distance from the mobile terminal to the position of the at least one discovered wireless device determined by the mobile terminal with the distances from the at least one discovered wireless device to other discovered wireless devices received from the discovered wireless devices to generate a three-dimensional map including the position of each of the discovered wireless devices,

projects the position of each of the discovered wireless devices onto the first image, and

creates a second image by overlaying symbols, onto the first image, at the projected positions of each of the discovered wireless devices, and

a display that displays the second image, wherein the processor further pairs, in response to a request from a user of the mobile terminal selecting one of the discovered wireless devices, the selected discovered wireless device with the mobile terminal.

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the processor further:

identifies, by image processing the first image, at least one object suitable for pairing, and

correlates the projected position of each of the discovered wireless devices with the identified objects suitable for pairing.

3. The mobile terminal according to claim 2, wherein the radio transceiver further:

receives, from each of the discovered wireless devices, information pertaining to a type of the discovered wireless device, and the processor further;

retrieves, from a database, information pertaining to a visual appearance of each type of discovered wireless device, and identifies at least one object suitable for pairing based on the information pertaining to the visual appearance of each type of discovered wireless device.

4. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the display is a touch screen.

5. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the radio transceiver is a Bluetooth radio transceiver.

6. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the radio transceiver is a WiFi radio transceiver.

7. A method of pairing a mobile terminal comprising a radio transceiver, a camera, and a display, with a wireless device, the method comprising:

capturing a first image,

discovering at least one wireless device capable of effecting wireless communications with the mobile terminal,

determining a bearing and a distance from the mobile terminal to a position of each of the discovered wireless devices,

receiving, from each of the discovered wireless devices, information pertaining to respective distances from the discovered wireless device to other discovered wireless devices,

correlating the bearing and distance from the mobile terminal to the position of the at least one discovered wireless device determined by the mobile terminal with the distances from the at least one discovered wireless device to other discovered wireless devices received from the discovered wireless devices to generate a three-dimensional map including the position of each of the discovered wireless devices,

projecting the position of each of the discovered wireless devices onto the first image,

creating a second image by overlaying symbols, onto the first image, at the projected positions of the discovered wireless devices,

displaying the second image on the display, and

pairing, in response to a request from a user of the mobile terminal selecting one of the discovered wireless devices, the selected discovered wireless device with the mobile terminal.

8. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

identifying, by image processing the first image, at least one object suitable for pairing, and

correlating the projected position of each of the discovered wireless devices with the identified objects suitable for pairing.

9. The method according to claim 8, further comprising:

receiving, from each of the discovered wireless devices, information pertaining to a type of the discovered wireless device, and

retrieving, from a database, information pertaining to a visual appearance of each type of discovered wireless device, wherein the identifying at least one object suitable for pairing is based on the information pertaining to the visual appearance of each type of discovered wireless device.

10. A non-transitory computer program product embodied with a computer-executable computer program comprising computer program code, the computer program code being adapted, if executed on a processor, to implement the method according to claim 7.

11. A non-transitory computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium, the computer readable storage medium having the computer program according to claim 10 embodied therein.