Mobile terminal, location information related content providing server, content panel display method, and mobile terminal program

• US 9,532,167 B2
• Filed: 09/22/2014
• Issued: 12/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Optim LLC
• Original Assignee: Optim LLC
• Inventors: Sugaya, Shunji
• Primary Examiner(s): Garcia, Santiago
• Application Number:
  US14/492,217
• Publication Number:
  US 20160007145A1
• Time in Patent Office: 827 Days
• Field of Search: 455/456.3
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information

Abstract

A content is provided based on a questionnaire using a wireless communication. The mobile terminal 10 communicatively connected to a location information related content providing server 200 performs a wireless communication or a short-range wireless communication, acquires a wireless ID of a counterpart terminal used for the wireless communication or the short-range wireless communication, and transmits the acquired wireless ID or location information acquired from the wireless ID to the location information related content providing server 200. The mobile terminal 10 receives a content that is within a predetermined range from the transmitted location information or location information identified by the transmitted wireless ID from the location information related content providing server 200, displays a link to the content on a screen, and detects that the user physically has contact with the content by a short-range wireless communication or location information acquisition including a scheme using the wireless ID.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal communicatively connected to a location information related content providing server, the mobile terminal comprising:

a wireless communication module configured to perform a wireless communication or a short-range wireless communication;

a wireless ID acquisition module configured to acquire a wireless ID of a counterpart terminal used for the wireless communication or the short-range wireless communication;

a wireless ID transmission module configured to transmit the acquired wireless ID or location information acquired from the wireless ID to the location information related content providing server;

a content reception module configured to receive a content that is within a predetermined range from the transmitted location information or location information identified by the transmitted wireless ID from the location information related content providing server, the content being extracted from a plurality of contents included in a database of the location information related content providing server and each of the plurality of contents being associated with its location information;

a content display module configured to display the content or a link to the content on a screen;

a content contact detection module configured to detect that the user physically has contact with the content by a short-range wireless communication or location information acquisition including a scheme using the wireless ID;

a direction acquisition module configured to acquire a direction to which the mobile terminal is oriented; and

a positional relationship computing module configured to compute a positional relationship between the mobile terminal and the content based on location information of the mobile terminal, the direction, and the acquired location information of the content,

wherein the content display module comprises;

a content panelization module configured to display the content or the link on a panel;

a panel size determination module configured to increase a size of the panel as a distance included in the positional relationship is shorter; and

a panel positioning module configured to match a direction of the panel from a reference point of the screen with a direction included in the positional relationship.

2. A method of displaying a content by a mobile terminal communicatively connected to a location information related content providing server, the method comprising:

performing a wireless communication or a short-range wireless communication;

acquiring a wireless ID of a counterpart terminal used for the wireless communication or the short-range wireless communication;

transmitting the acquired wireless ID or location information acquired from the wireless ID to the location information related content providing server;

receiving a content that is within a predetermined range from the transmitted location information or location information identified by the transmitted wireless ID from the location information related content providing server, the content being extracted from a plurality of contents included in a database of the location information related content providing server and each of the plurality of contents being associated with its location information;

displaying content or a link to the content on a screen;

detecting that the user physically has contact with the content by a short-range wireless communication or location information acquisition including a scheme using the wireless ID;

acquiring a direction to which the mobile terminal is oriented; and

computing a positional relationship between the mobile terminal and the content based on location information of the mobile terminal, the direction, and the acquired location information of the content,

wherein displaying the content or the link to the content comprises;

displaying the content or the link on a panel;

increasing a size of the panel as a distance included in the positional relationship is shorter; and

matching a direction of the panel from a reference point of the screen with a direction included in the positional relationship.

3. A non-transitory recording medium that stores a program for executing a content display method on a mobile terminal communicatively connected to a location information related content providing server, the method comprising:

performing a wireless communication or a short-range wireless communication;

acquiring a wireless ID of a counterpart terminal used for the wireless communication or the short-range wireless communication;

transmitting the acquired wireless ID or location information acquired from the wireless ID to the location information related content providing server;

receiving a content that is within a predetermined range from the transmitted location information or location information identified by the transmitted wireless ID from the location information related content providing server;

displaying the content or a link to the content on a screen; and

detecting that the user physically has contact with the content by a short-range wireless communication or location information acquisition including a scheme using the wireless ID;

acquiring a direction to which the mobile terminal is oriented; and

computing a positional relationship between the mobile terminal and the content based on location information of the mobile terminal, the direction, and the acquired location information of the content, wherein displaying the content or the link to the content comprises;

displaying the content or the link on a panel;

increasing a size of the panel as a distance included in the positional relationship is shorter; and

matching a direction of the panel from a reference point of the screen with a direction included in the positional relationship.