Mobile terminal and control method for the mobile terminal

• US 9,909,899 B2
• Filed: 01/09/2017
• Issued: 03/06/2018
• 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): Dunn, Alex C
• Application Number:
  US15/401,172
• Publication Number:
  US 20170115130A1
• Time in Patent Office: 421 Days
• 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 at least one communication terminal;

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

a controller configured to;

access information from the at least one communication terminal via the communication network;

determine point-of-interest (POI) information based on the information accessed from the at least one communication terminal via the communication network; and

based on a determination of the POI information, display, on the time line, icons indicating the POI information.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the information accessed from the at least one communication terminal via the communication network comprises user preference information, and

the controller is configured to determine the POI information based on the accessed user preference information.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the user preference information comprises at least one of a recent geographic destination of a user, a navigation or Internet search destination by a user, a geographic location visited by a user, or a geographic location registered in a Favorites list of a user.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the information accessed from the at least one communication terminal via the communication network comprises weighting information corresponding to use frequencies, by a user, of information associated with one or more locations, and

the controller is configured to determine the POI information based on the accessed weighting information.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 4, wherein the controller is further configured to:

identify, from among the POI information that was determined based on the information accessed from the at least one communication terminal, POI information corresponding to the one or more locations associated with the use frequencies corresponding to the weighting information; and

arrange the identified POI information according to the weighting information.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the information accessed from the at least one communication terminal via the communication network comprises vehicle data, and

the controller is configured to determine the POI information based on the accessed vehicle data.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 6, wherein the vehicle data comprises at least one of air conditioner information of a vehicle, engine oil level information of the vehicle, engine temperature information of the vehicle, tire air pressure information of the vehicle, battery information of the vehicle, radio channel setting information of the vehicle, current vehicle speed information of the vehicle, RPM (revolutions per minute) information of the vehicle, steering angle information of the vehicle, or brake operation information of the vehicle.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to determine the POI information based on the information accessed from the at least one communication terminal via the communication network by, at least in part:

accessing, from a server and through the communication unit, the POI information based on the information accessed from the at least one communication terminal via the communication network.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:

register the POI information to a user schedule of at least one user associated with the at least one communication terminal to update the user schedule to include the POI information; and

at least one of display, on the display unit, the updated user schedule or register, with a server, the updated user schedule.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to:

determine that a first POI icon among a plurality of POI icons displayed on the map data has been moved into a first time region of the time line by a user input; and

based on a determination that the first POI icon displayed on the map data has been moved into the first time region of the time line by the user input, display, on the first time region of the time line, an icon indicating POI information associated with the first POI icon.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein the user input comprises a touch input applied by a user on the display unit that moves the first POI icon displayed on the map data into the first time region of the time line.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to concurrently display the map data and the time line on the display unit by displaying the time line in a region that adjoins the displayed map data.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:

access user preference scores for a plurality of POI information, respectively, the user preference scores having been generated by 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.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein the controller is further configured to:

connect to the communication network based on the mobile terminal being mounted to a vehicle;

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, or a bottom of the map data.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 14, wherein the controller is further 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, or a bottom of the map data in areas outside of display of a route from a current location to a destination.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 15, wherein the controller is further configured to:

display, on at least one of the at least one communication terminal, the POI information; and

automatically set, as a destination, a POI selected from the POI information displayed on the at least one of the at least one communication terminal according to a user'"'"'s request for a stopover on a route from a current location to the destination.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein the controller is further configured to, based on a first icon indicating POI information having a first POI recommendation level that is higher than a second POI recommendation level of POI information for a second icon, perform at least one of:

displaying the first icon in a size larger than that of the second icon,

displaying the first icon with a first background color that is different from that of the second icon, or

displaying the first icon with a sharpness or transparency that is different from that of the second icon.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 13, wherein information associated with the selected POI information comprises a cloud user rating for the relevant POI.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to, based on the POI information that was determined based on the information accessed from the at least one communication terminal via the communication network:

display, on the time line, information associated with one or more locations indicated by the POI information.

20. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller is further configured to:

determine that a first icon displayed in a first time region of 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, display POI information associated with the first icon in the second time region of the time line.