Position providing method and apparatus therefor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10560809-B2
Application number	US-201816193519-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 16, 2018
Priority date	Sep 2, 2016
Publication date	Feb 11, 2020
Grant date	Feb 11, 2020

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a position providing apparatus installed in a server or a terminal device and configured to calculate a current position of a terminal device user by analyzing voice information or image information and to indicate the calculated position on a map database.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A position providing apparatus comprising:
a processor configured to:
acquire voice information from a user about a plurality of buildings or facilities existing within a range of view of the user at a current position of the user; and
extract identification information of the plurality of buildings or facilities from the voice information;

a position calculator configured to:
acquire location information of the plurality of buildings or facilities from the voice information based on the identification information; and
determine the current position of the user as a position where all of the plurality of buildings or facilities would be visible to the user by analyzing a positional relationship between the user and each building or facility of the plurality of buildings or facilities extracted from the voice information; and

a memory configured to store a map database including the identification information and the location information of the plurality of buildings or facilities.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to extract the identification information of the plurality of buildings or facilities by converting the voice information into text.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the position calculator is further configured to associate and indicate the calculated current position with and on the stored map database.

4. A position providing method performed by a position providing apparatus, the method comprising:
acquiring voice information from a user about a plurality of buildings or facilities existing within a range of view of the user at a current position of the user;
extracting identification information of the plurality of buildings or facilities from the voice information;
acquiring location information of the plurality of buildings or facilities from the voice information based on the identification information; and
determining the current position of the user as a position where all of the plurality of buildings or facilities would be visible to the user by analyzing a positional relationship between the user and each building or facility of the plurality of buildings or facilities extracted from the voice information.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein extracting the identification information of the plurality of buildings or facilities comprises converting the voice information into text.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein the method further comprises:
associating and indicating the calculated current position with and on a stored map database.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having a program, recorded thereon, for executing a position providing method comprising:
acquiring voice information from a user about a plurality of buildings or facilities existing within a range of view of a user at a current position of the user;
extracting identification information of the plurality of buildings or facilities from the voice information;
acquiring location information of the plurality of buildings or facilities from the voice information based on the identification information; and
determining the current position of the user as a position where all of the plurality of buildings or facilities would be visible to the user by analyzing a positional relationship between the user and each building or facility of the plurality of buildings or facilities extracted from the voice information.

Assignees

• Sk Planet Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lim Jaewoo

Classifications

• H04W4/029 Primary

  Location-based management or tracking services · CPC title

• G06T2207/30184

  Infrastructure · CPC title

• G06T7/70

  Determining position or orientation of objects or cameras (camera calibration G06T7/80) · CPC title

• G10L15/22

  Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue · CPC title

• H04W4/18

  Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals · CPC title