KR20120075609A - Providing contents information using point-of-interest, contents there-for, and client terminal implementing the same - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed is a method of providing personalized content corresponding thereto based on geographical location information of a user. The present invention provides a method for generating POI content information by reading geographic location information related to the content from the content; And providing POI content information corresponding to the location information to the client terminal based on the location information from the client terminal. According to the present invention, by adding relevant content to POI information of interest to the user, the user can easily obtain content information.

Description

Providing Contents Information Using Point-of-Interest, Contents There-for, And Client Terminal Implementing The Same}

The present invention relates to a method for providing related information based on a place of interest of a user, and more particularly, a method for providing customized content corresponding thereto based on the geographical location information of the user, and a content and a client implementing the same. It relates to a terminal.

Location Based Service (LBS) is based on mobile terminals such as mobile phones, PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), and notebook PCs to accurately locate locations of people or objects, and additional information services related to the identified locations Collectively refers to the system. LBS has been expanding its area by combining with spatial information processing technologies such as mobile communication technology, portable terminal technology, Geographical Information System (GIS), Global Positioning System (GPS), Intelligent Transport System (ITS).

On the other hand, the Geographic Information System (GIS) is used as an important data to cope with various changes of the user's geographic information by providing the desired geographic information on the web. Many sites that provide this type of map information service are currently in operation, and these sites enter search terms such as address, business name, and postal code into the search box of the map search engine, and then execute the screen to display a flat map of the searched location. Will output

Recently, in the location-based information providing service, a technology for providing a customized service according to the user's interest has been continuously developed.

Point of Interest (POI) is a term that refers to buildings and shops displayed on electronic maps such as navigation. In the location-based information system of the present invention, a point of interest (POI) refers to a building, a store, etc. in a surrounding area where information is provided to a user's mobile terminal. It is a term to refer to. Recently, various applications for displaying such POI information to the user terminal in order of proximity to the user's location have been developed.

However, the conventional POI not only suggests the location and name of a business, store, or building in the area, but also inserts a location tag into a picture or video of the area so that the corresponding picture or video can be viewed. Service is provided.

However, a user who visits a particular area has a strong desire for other information related to the POI as well as POI information for that area.

For example, according to the conventional POI provision method, if a user who tours near Bongpyeong, the background of "when buckwheat blooms", provides an overview of Lee Hyo-seok's work, the user is interested in various places that are the background of the work. You can do it. However, in the case of the most advanced POI service, the location may be provided as a POI with a sign of "Hyo Hyo Lee's birthplace", but Lee Hyo Suk's work or the outline of the work cannot be confirmed through a separate search. However, in the case of a mobile terminal, it is very inconvenient for the user to search manually.

In addition, for example, providing a map and POI of a region to a user who visits a region for the first time may be very useful compared to searching for an application by providing an application for tour guidance of the region.

Therefore, providing POI information by combining local information and content information will be a very useful content providing method that meets the needs of users.

In order to solve the problems of the prior art, an object of the present invention is to provide customized content information related to a specific region.

More specifically, an object of the present invention is to provide information on the work of the author associated with the specific area, information about the work in the background of the specific area, information about the application for guiding the specific area.

In addition, an object of the present invention is to provide a content data structure suitable for providing the above-described content information, and a client terminal for providing the above-described content information.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of generating POI content information by reading geographic location information related to a content from a content; And providing POI content information corresponding to the location information to the client terminal based on the location information from the client terminal.

In the present invention, the providing of the POI content information may include selecting POI content information corresponding to location information of the client terminal from among stored content information; And transmitting the selected POI content information to the client terminal.

In the present invention, the content is a work, the POI content information includes the name and location information of the work, it is preferable to include the author of the work or the relationship of the work and the location information.

In addition, in the present invention, the POI content information preferably includes a link related to the copyrighted work.

In addition, in the present invention, the relationship between the author of the work or the work and the location information may include at least one selected from the group consisting of the place of origin of the author of the work, the region of activity and the background of the work.

In the present invention, the content is preferably an e-book or a music file.

Alternatively, in the present invention, the content is an application, and the content POI information may include the name of the application.

At this time, the application is an application that provides area information of the area indicated by the location information.

In the present invention, the generating step may include reading geographic location information from metadata of the content.

In order to achieve the above another technical problem, the present invention relates to at least one geographical location, and is readable content in a client terminal, wherein the metadata of the content is related to the geographical location, the background of the content, and the content. Provides content including geographic location information, characterized in that it is included as location information about the place of birth or activity area of the author.

In addition, to achieve the above technical problem, the present invention transmits the location information of interest, receives content information related to the location information of interest transmitted in response thereto, and displays the received content information as POI information. In the client terminal, the content is to provide a client terminal, characterized in that the content or the author of the content associated with the location of interest.

The client terminal may display the name of the content or the author of the content as POI information.

According to the present invention, it is possible to provide customized content information related to a particular area in which the user is interested. For example, the present invention provides information about a work of an artist related to the specific region, information about a work based on the background of the specific region, and information about an application for guiding the specific region, thereby easily providing POI related contents to the user. can do. In addition, the present invention can provide a content data structure suitable for providing the above-described content information, and a client terminal for providing the above-described content information.

1 is a diagram illustrating a data structure of geographical location information included in an e-book as an example of a content data structure applicable to the present invention.
2 is a diagram illustrating a data structure of geographical position information included in a music file as an example of a content data structure applicable to the present invention.
3 is a diagram illustrating a data structure of geographic location information included in an application as an example of a content data structure applicable to the present invention.
4 illustrates an ID3v2 tag format.
5 is a system block diagram for implementing a preferred POI content providing system of the present invention.
6 is a block diagram illustrating an operation relationship between a POI content information providing server and a POI related DB for providing POI content information according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
7 is a diagram illustrating a structure of data stored in a POI content DB.
8 is a diagram illustrating a method of displaying POI content information according to an embodiment of the present invention.
9 is a diagram illustrating a method of displaying POI content information according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, with reference to the drawings will be described a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

The present invention is directed to content that is operable in a mobile terminal and that includes at least one work associated with a geographic location and an application related to the geographic location. Hereinafter, this is referred to as 'geographic location-related content'.

For example, in the present invention, the geographical location and the work include those related to the place of origin, the main activity area of the author, or the background of the work. In addition, the representative examples of the geographical location-based works in the present invention include electronic books and music files.

In addition, an application targeted in the present invention is an application targeted at a geographical location. Applications that provide local information, such as tourist information, shopping information, etc. of a specific region are included in the application of the present invention.

According to the present invention, the content provided in the present invention may include geographic location information related to the content and annotations on the location information. These information may be used to display POI information close to a place of interest of the user in the present invention, as described below.

1 to 3 are diagrams illustrating a data structure of geographic location related information stored in geographic location related content applicable to the present invention.

First, FIG. 1 illustrates an e-book file as content, and as shown, includes a name (work name) of a work, information on an author, and location information associated with the work and the author. do.

For example, the location information is related to the author and may include a place of birth, an activity region, and the like of the author. In Fig. 1, the location information (latitude and longitude) of the place of birth of Tolstoy, the author of the novel "War and Peace", is displayed. In the present invention, as the method of providing the location information, any location marking method (X, Y coordinate) that can be identified as a geographic location may be used, and a display method based on latitude and longitude is one example.

The above geographic location information data may be provided in the e-book file in a suitable manner that can be recorded. Preferably, the geographic location data is included in the form of metadata in the e-book.

For example, the geographical location data can be stored in the 'META-INF' directory of the OCF Container defined in 'OEBPS Container Format (OCF) 1.0', the container standard of EPUB, an open free e-book standard. Specifically, the META It is possible to record geographical location information in 'Metadata-META-INF / metadat.xml' file among -INF definition items. Of course, the geographic location data may be stored in a dedicated storage space by extending the standard, for example, may set a separate standard called "Geodata-META-INF / geodata.xml (Optional)". For reference, the META-INF structure according to the OCF standard is as follows.

<META-INF structure>

Container-META-INF / container.xml (Required)

Manifest-META-INF / manifest.xml (Optional)

Metadata-META-INF / metadata.xml (Optional)

Digital Signatures-META-INF / signatures.xml (Optional)

Encryption-META-INF / encryption.xml (Optional)

Rights Management-META-INF / rights.xml (Optional)

In addition, the location information may include one or more location information that is the background of the work. For example, Moscow's location information, which is the background of "war and peace," may be provided with comments.

Next, FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a data structure of geographic location related information stored in a music file.

Referring to FIG. 2, a music file having a song name "Bach Unaccompaniment Cello Suite" includes geographic location information of Eisenach, the birthplace of Bach, the composer of the song.

As mentioned above, the geographic location data described above may be provided in the form of metadata in the music file in a suitable recordable manner.

For example, the geographical location related data may be recorded in an ID3 tag widely used as a metadata container such as MP3. In more detail, the geographical location-related data may be recorded in frame items of the ID3v2 tag format as shown in FIG. 4. More specifically, the song name of the music file may be recorded in the "TALB" frame of ID3V2 and the composer in the "TCOM" frame. Latitude and longitude data and annotation data can be added to the USER frame. Of course, the song name, composer, latitude and longitude data, and annotations on the latitude and longitude data may be included in one frame.

3 is a diagram illustrating a data structure of geographic location related information stored in an application.

Referring to FIG. 3, an application called “Seoul Tourism Guide” includes a name of a corresponding application, a place name to be guided, geographical location information, and an annotation.

As described above, the geographic location data described above may be provided to the application in the form of metadata in a suitable, recordable manner. For example, in the case of an Android application, it can be added to the <meta-data> element of AndroidManifest.xml as follows.

<meta-data android: name = "Geodata"

android: value = "Eastern 126 ˚58 '40" North 37˚ 33' 59 "/>

The method of adding geographical location information to the above content has been described above. The above-described manner is one example of implementing the present invention, and it is within the scope of the present invention to add content in various ways by replacing or changing it in view of the skilled person.

The present invention reads out geographic location information from meta data added to the content as described above and manages it by a database. Furthermore, the present invention may recommend content related to a location close to the user's location of interest (hereinafter, referred to as 'POI content') as POI information. In the present invention, the user's location of interest includes the current location of the user or the user's client terminal as well as the geographical location input by the user with interest.

5 is a system block diagram for implementing a preferred POI content providing system of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, at least one client terminal 100 is communicatively connected to the POI content providing server 200 via a network. In the present invention, the network includes an integrated communication network covering the wired / wireless Internet and a wireless data network connecting the client terminal 100 and the POI content providing server 200.

As the client terminal 100, various types of terminals including a processor, a wireless transceiver, a GPS receiver, and a memory capable of driving an application for providing a location based service may be used. Preferably the terminal is a mobile terminal.

In the present invention, the POI content providing server 200 receives information on the POI content from the POI content DB 300 and provides it to the client terminal.

6 is a block diagram illustrating an operation relationship between a POI content information providing server of the present invention and a POI content DB for providing POI content information according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 6, the content POI providing server 200 includes a POI content generating module 210 and a POI content providing module 200.

The POI content generation module 210 collects and analyzes location information related to the above-described content. The POI content generation module 210 accesses metadata representing geographic location information in the corresponding content file.

In the present invention, the content file includes an e-book, a music file, and an application, and the POI content generation module 210 collects relevant geographic location information corresponding to the content file from metadata included in the content file.

As described above, the POI content generation module 210 includes 'Metadata-META-INF / metadat.xml' according to the EPUB standard, Frames of ID3v2 tag format, and <meta-data> element of AndroidManifest.xml. element and the like to collect POI content related information.

In the present invention, well-known search and indexing techniques may be used by the POI content generation module 210 to analyze the POI content information data. For example, the POI content generation module 210 may parse the text of the POI content information data and extract geographic location and / or annotation information.

In order to extract geographic location information, the POI content generation module 210 may include a separate reference database (not shown) for determining whether text or the like in the metadata is characteristic text related to the geographic location information.

For example, "º", "" "," "", etc. indicating latitude and longitude coordinates may be managed by the reference database as characteristic indicators indicating geographic location information, and "birthplace", "birthplace", " Idiomatic terms such as "background" can be managed to indicate the relevance of the work to the geographical location.

The POI content generation module 210 analyzes and stores the collected POI content information. For example, the generation module 210 stores the relationship (comment) between the geographical location data and the corresponding content file in the POI content DB 300. In this case, the name, type, and author of the corresponding content file may be added to the stored data. The data may also include a brief introduction to the content or a link to an online URL that provides an introduction to the content. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a structure of data stored in the POI content DB.

Referring back to FIG. 6, in response to a request from the client terminal 100, the POI content providing module 220 provides POI content information of a location where the client terminal 100 is close.

The POI content providing module 220 receives location information of the client terminal 100 and selects POI content information close to the location information. In detail, the POI content providing module 220 requests POI content DB 300 of the requested region and receives corresponding POI content information.

The client terminal 100 may include an application for calculating a location from an embedded GPS receiver and / or an application for positioning in a 3G data network, or may receive location information from the application.

The POI content providing module 220 provides the selected proximity POI content information to the client terminal 100. The proximity POI content information provided is POI content information belonging to a predetermined area from the user's location of interest. The POI area may be appropriately preset or change depending on the area of the map that the user views.

POI content information provided in the present invention basically includes the name and / or relationship (comment) of the POI, and may additionally include an introduction of the content related to the POI or a linked URL for this.

The present invention has been described with reference to the POI content providing server 200. Hereinafter, the operation in the client terminal 100 for the implementation of the present invention.

Information for the user to focus the POI through the client terminal 100, for example, the user inputs a name or address of the POI. Of course, in the present invention, the user input may be replaced by GPS or 3G location recognition of the client terminal 100. The input place of interest or the location of the client terminal is transmitted to the POI content providing server as described above.

Subsequently, the client terminal 100 receives POI content information provided from the POI content providing server 200. The POI content information may be stored in the memory of the client terminal 100.

The client terminal 100 displays the POI content provided from the POI content providing server 200 to the user. As mentioned above, the POI content includes an asset and an application.

For example, if the user is adjacent to Bongpyeong, the client terminal 100 may provide the content as a novel "whole buckwheat flower." In addition, for example, when the user enters the Seoul toll gate, the client terminal may recommend the “Seoul Tour Guide Map” application to the user.

In the present invention, the recommended work or application may be displayed to the user in various ways.

8 is a diagram illustrating a method of displaying POI content information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown, POI content information is provided in the form of signpost information including the name and relationship of the POI information according to the coordinates of the POI based on the position of the client terminal 100. In this case, when the user selects the corresponding signpost, detailed content information about the corresponding POI, for example, a name of the content related to the corresponding location, a brief introduction of the content, and / or a linked URL may be provided.

9 is a diagram illustrating a method of displaying POI content information according to another embodiment of the present invention.

As shown, POI content information belonging to the ROI of the user may be listed. For example, when a user visits Changdong-ri, Bongpyeong-myeon, Pyeongchang-gun, Gangwon-do, and runs an application in which the present invention is implemented, the POI content providing server may include "wheat buckwheat peeling" and "welcome to Dongmakgol" corresponding to a location close to the corresponding area. The name and type of POI content of the list may be listed, and a selection button may be displayed to provide a plot of the corresponding content, a purchaseable site, and a birthplace of the author.

By clicking a button, for example, when the user wants to know the birthplace of the author, the client terminal 100 displays the birthplace of the author on the map or provides the birthplace address of the author.

Although not described separately, it is understood that some or all of the procedures of the above-described method of providing POI content information or the functional blocks for performing the same may be implemented in computer-readable software or hardware including physical circuits. Anyone skilled in the art will recognize.

In addition, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that POI content information presentation in the client terminal may be implemented in an application form in the present invention. In this case, the application preferably provides a user with a map for displaying a geographic location related to the content, and may also provide POI information provided by a general POI providing application.

Although preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described above with reference to the drawings, these embodiments do not limit the present invention. Those skilled in the art can modify it or replace some means, and such changes or modifications fall within the scope of the present invention without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention.

100 client terminal 200 POI content providing server
210 POI Content Creation Module 220 POI Content Provision Module
300 POI Content DB

Claims (12)

Generating POI content information by reading geographic location information related to the content from the content; And
And providing POI content information corresponding to the location information to the client terminal based on the location information from the client terminal.
The method of claim 1,
Providing the POI content information,
Selecting POI content information corresponding to location information of the client terminal among stored content information; And
And transmitting the selected POI content information to the client terminal.
The method of claim 1,
The content is a work,
The POI content information includes a name and location information of a work, and the place of interest-based content information providing method of the user, characterized in that it includes the author of the work or the relation between the work and the location information.
The method of claim 3,
And the POI content information includes a link related to the asset.
The method of claim 3,
The relation between the author of the work or the work and the location information includes at least one selected from a group consisting of a place of origin of the author of the work, an activity region, and a background of the work. Way.
The method of claim 3,
And the content is an e-book or a music file.
The method of claim 1,
The content is an application,
And the content POI information includes a name of the application.
The method of claim 7, wherein
And the application is an application for providing region information of a region indicated by the location information.
The method of claim 1,
Wherein the generating comprises:
And reading geographic location information from the metadata of the content.
Content that is associated with at least one geographic location and is readable by a client terminal,
The metadata of the content includes the geographical location information, characterized in that it includes the relationship with the geographical location as the location information on the background of the content, the place of origin of the content creator, the activity area.
A client terminal for transmitting location of interest information, receiving content information related to the location of interest transmitted in response thereto, and displaying the received content information as POI information.
The content is a client terminal, characterized in that the content or the author of the content associated with the location of interest.
The method of claim 12,
And displaying the name of the content or the author of the content as POI information.

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