Mobile terminal and control method for the mobile terminal

• US 9,541,405 B2
• Filed: 09/10/2015
• Issued: 01/10/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: An, Sooyeon, Shin, Jeongeun, Kim, Seungman, Kim, Mingoo, Lee, Kwangjae
• Primary Examiner(s): Tarcza, Thomas
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dunn, Alex C
• Application Number:
  US14/849,660
• Publication Number:
  US 20160116292A1
• Time in Patent Office: 488 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3614 through interaction with a road map, e.g. selecting a POI icon on a road map
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3617 using user history, behaviour, conditions or preferences, e.g. predicted or inferred from previous use or current movement
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3682 output of POI information on a road map G01C21/3614, G01C21/3685 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal capable of providing POI information suitable to user environments and a control method thereof, and a mobile terminal according to the embodiments of the present disclosure may include a display unit configured to display map data; and a controller configured to detect user preference information associated with a place from the plurality of communication terminals, detect POI information from a server, detect candidate POI information based on the detected POI information and the user preference information, detect representative POI information from the candidate POI information based on user schedule information, and display the representative POI information on the map data.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a communication unit configured to connect to a communication network with a plurality of communication terminals within a vehicle based on the mobile terminal being mounted to the vehicle;

a display unit configured to display map data; and

a controller configured to;

access, from the plurality of communication terminals, user preference information associated with preference for one or more places by one or more users associated with the plurality of communication terminals,

access, from a server and through the communication unit, point of interest (POI) information,

determine candidate POI information based on the accessed POI information and the accessed user preference information, the candidate POI information being a subset of the accessed POI information,

access user schedule information associated with schedule for the one or more users associated with the plurality of communication terminals,

detect, from the candidate POI information, representative POI information based on the accessed user schedule information, the representative POI information being a subset of the candidate POI information, and

display, on the map data, the representative POI information.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to register the representative POI information to a user schedule of at least one of the one or more users associated with the plurality of communication terminals to update the user schedule to include the representative POI information, and at least one of display, on the display unit, the updated user schedule or register, with the server, the updated user schedule.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to access vehicle data for the vehicle and detect, from the candidate POI information, the representative POI information based on the accessed vehicle data.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the controller is configured to register the representative POI information to a user schedule of at least one of the one or more users associated with the plurality of communication terminals based on the accessed vehicle data to update the user schedule.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the controller is configured to assign priority to the user schedule information and the vehicle data, provide the representative POI information based on the vehicle data according to the assigned priority indicating that the vehicle data is prioritized over the user schedule information, and provide the representative POI information based on the user schedule information according to the assigned priority indicating that the user schedule information is prioritized over the vehicle data.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to access user preference scores for a plurality of POI information, respectively, the user preference scores having been generated by classifying the user preference information according to POI categories and evaluating user recommendation scores for the accessed POI information as a POI recommendation level, and automatically set, as a destination, POI information having a highest POI recommendation level among the plurality of POI information and the accessed POI information.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to identify POI information corresponding to the user preference information among the accessed POI information, and arrange the identified POI information according to a weighted value applied to the user preference information.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the vehicle data comprises air conditioner information of a vehicle, engine oil level information, engine temperature information, tire air pressure information, battery information, radio channel setting information, current vehicle speed information of the vehicle, RPM (revolution per minute) information of the vehicle, steering angle information of the vehicle, and brake operation information of the vehicle.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the preference information comprises preference information stored in at least one of the plurality of communication terminals including a recent destination, a navigation or Internet search destination, and a place registered as a favorite.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 6, wherein the controller is configured to:

detect that the vehicle is stopped,

based on detection that the vehicle is stopped, display, at relevant positions of the map data, icons indicating POI information according to the POI recommendation level,

detect that the vehicle is moving, and

based on detection that the vehicle is moving, display icons indicating the POI information at one or more of a left side, a right side, a top, and a bottom of the map data.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein the controller is configured to:

detect that the vehicle is moving, and based on detection that the vehicle is moving, display icons indicating the POI information at one or more of a left side, a right side, a top, and a bottom of the map data in areas outside of display of a route from a current location to a destination.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 11, wherein the controller is configured to display, on at least one of the plurality of communication terminals, the representative POI information, and automatically set, as a destination, a POI selected from the representative POI information displayed on the plurality of communication terminals according to a user'"'"'s request for a stopover on a route from a current location to the destination.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 4, wherein the controller is configured to display a time line in an adjoining region of the map data, and display icons indicating the user schedule including the representative POI information on the time line according to a time sequence.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein the controller is configured to determine that a first POI icon among the plurality of POI icons displayed on the map data has moved into a first time region of the time line by a user input, and, based on the determination that the first POI icon has moved into the first time region of the time line, register, on the user schedule, POI information corresponding to the first POI icon for a time corresponding to the first time region.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein the controller is configured to determine that a first icon displayed in the first time region of the time line among icons indicating the user schedule displayed in a sequence on the time line has moved into a second time region of the time line, and, based on the determination that the first icon has moved into the second time region of the time line, change a time for the user schedule corresponding to the first icon to the second time region.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein the controller is configured to display an icon indicating POI information having a higher POI recommendation level among the icons in a size larger than that of an icon indicating POI information having a lower POI recommendation level.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein the controller is configured to display backgrounds of icons indicating POI information with different colors according to the POI recommendation level.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein the controller is configured to set varying degrees of sharpness or transparency of icons indicating POI information according to the POI recommendation level.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein information associated with the selected POI information comprises a cloud user rating for the relevant POI.

20. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a display unit configured to concurrently display map data and a time line; and

a controller configured to;

access a user schedule,

access POI information,

determine a time sequence for the POI information based on the user schedule, and

based on determination of the time sequence for the accessed POI information, display, on the time line and in the determined time sequence, icons indicating the user schedule including the POI information.

21. The mobile terminal of claim 20, wherein the controller is configured to determine that a first POI icon among a plurality of POI icons displayed on the map data has moved into a first time region of the time line by a user input, and, based on the determination that the first POI icon has moved into the first time region of the time line, register POI information corresponding to the first POI icon for a time corresponding to the first time region on the user schedule.