TWI442021B - System and method for providing local information - Google Patents

Description

Regional information providing system and method

The present invention relates to a regional information providing system and method for providing relevant regional information based on the eye gaze direction of a vehicle driver.

With the development of communication and navigation technology, the Location Based Service (LBS) has gradually taken shape. The use of regional information services first needs to be transmitted through the telecom mobile radio network (eg GSM network, CDMA network) or external positioning. (eg, GPS) to determine the geographic location of the mobile device user, and then provide various types of information services related to the geographic location based on the geographic location. And with the popularity of smart phones, car navigation systems, and the Internet, it is no longer difficult for mobile device users (such as vehicle drivers) to know the various types of information services in their geographic location.

While driving a vehicle, the driver's line of sight is focused on the front, but the driver still needs to watch the roadside information, such as: looking for a house in an unfamiliar place, looking for an address, or looking for a business. However, there is usually a distance between the car and the roadside merchants, house numbers or alley information, and the fonts of the house or the lane information are usually small. If there are no other passengers on the car to help with the watch, the driving in the car cannot be easily Look at the information on the roadside, it is easy to miss the house number, or to stop parking in order to see clearly. Whether it is missing a house or a temporary stop is an inconvenience for the driver.

Therefore, it is necessary to provide a regional information providing system and provide regional resources. The method of communication allows the driving in the car to easily see the information on the roadside, and further displays the details of the information just viewed to solve the problems of the prior art when the car stops moving.

The main object of the present invention is to provide a regional information providing system and method for providing regional information related to the vehicle driver's eye direction gaze.

To achieve the above objective, the regional information providing system of the present invention comprises a positioning module, an eye tracking positioning module, a control unit, a transmission unit, and a display unit, and the control unit and the positioning module, the eyeball tracking positioning module, and the transmission unit respectively And the display unit is electrically connected. The positioning module is used to obtain a body position of the vehicle; the eyeball tracking positioning module is used to obtain the eye gaze direction of the vehicle driver; the control unit obtains the target position according to the body position and the eye gaze direction; the transmission unit is electrically connected to the control a unit, the transmission unit transmits the target location to a service server, and receives the service server to transmit one of the regional information corresponding to the target location or one of the regional information corresponding to the target information; and the display unit is electrically connected to the control unit, And the display unit displays the area information or the detailed information.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the area information includes a road information, an advertisement information or a store information, and the road information includes a road name or an address message. According to an embodiment of the present invention, when the vehicle is moving, the control unit controls the display unit to display the area information; when the vehicle stops moving, the control unit controls the display unit to display the detailed information corresponding to the area information.

The invention provides a method for providing regional information, which is applied to a vehicle, which provides regional information related to the eye gaze direction according to a driver's eye gaze direction, and the method for providing regional information includes the following steps: Obtaining a body position of the vehicle; obtaining an eye gaze direction of the driver of the vehicle; obtaining a target position according to the body position and the eye gaze direction; transmitting the target position to a service server; receiving the service server returning and the target The location corresponds to one of the regional information or one of the regional information corresponding to the details; and, displays the regional information or the detailed information.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the area information includes a road information, an advertisement information or a store information, and the road information includes a road name, a house number, or an alley information.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the area information is displayed when the vehicle is moving, and the detailed information corresponding to the area information is displayed when the vehicle stops moving.

The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become more <

Please refer to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 for an embodiment of the regional information providing system 1 of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the use environment of the regional information providing system of the present invention; FIG. 2 is a regional information providing system of the present invention. Hardware architecture diagram.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the area information providing system 1 of the present invention can provide area information related to the eye gaze direction 91 in accordance with the eye gaze direction 91 of one of the drivers 90 of the vehicle 100.

As shown in FIG. 2, the regional information providing system 1 of the present invention includes: a positioning module 10, an eyeball tracking positioning module 20, a control unit 30, a transmission unit 40, and a display unit 50, wherein the control unit 30 and the positioning module respectively 10. The eye tracking positioning module 20, the transmission unit 40, and the display unit 50 are electrically connected.

As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the positioning module 10 of the regional information providing system 1 is configured to obtain a body position of the vehicle 100, and obtain an eyeball gaze direction 91 by using the eyeball tracking positioning module 20, and then according to the control unit 30. The body position and the eye gaze direction 91 obtain a target position at which the driver 90 is currently gazing. After obtaining the target location, the control unit 30 transmits the target location to the service server 80 through the transmission unit 40, and the transmission unit 40 receives the service server 80 to transmit the regional information 70 corresponding to the target location and the regional information. Correspond to one of the details 71. The regional information 70 and the detailed information 71 corresponding to the regional information 70 will be displayed on the display unit 50.

Moreover, according to an embodiment of the present invention, when the control unit 30 detects that the vehicle 100 is moving, the display unit 50 displays only the area information 70. When the control unit 30 detects that the vehicle 100 stops moving, the display unit 50 displays the detailed information 71 corresponding to the area information.

The positioning module 10 of the present embodiment is a satellite positioning system (GPS), and the technology for obtaining the position of one body of the vehicle using the satellite positioning system (GPS) is a conventional technology, so the operation details thereof will not be described again. It should be noted that this The positioning module 10 of the invention is not limited to this embodiment, and the positioning module 10 can also be a mobile communication network positioning system (such as a 3G or 3.5G mobile communication network) or a wireless network positioning system (WiFi or WiMax), or other The present invention is applicable to a positioning system that obtains the position of the body of the vehicle 100.

It should be noted that the eye tracking and positioning module 20 and the control module 30 of the regional information providing system 1 can be configured as a hardware device, a software program, a firmware, or a combination thereof, and can also be configured by a circuit loop or other appropriate type. . Wherein, when any module is implemented by using software, it can be carried on a computer readable storage medium. In addition to the individual type configuration, each module can also be combined with the type configuration. The transmission unit 40 can be a wireless transmission module such as a Bluetooth, WiFi, or mobile communication network.

The display unit 50 of this embodiment is a display screen on a satellite positioning system (GPS), but the invention is not limited thereto. According to the development of the current display, the display unit 50 can also be a transparent display installed in front of the windshield, and the regional information 70 and the detailed information 71 corresponding to the regional information 70 are displayed on the premise of not affecting the driving safety. The driver is 90 in front for viewing.

The area information 70 includes a road information, an advertisement information or a store information, the road information includes a road name or an address information, and the area information 70 and the detailed information 71 may be a text message or a pattern message.

Please refer to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 hereinafter, and refer to FIG. 3 to FIG. 5 together to understand the detailed steps of the method for providing regional information according to the present invention, wherein FIG. 3 is a flow chart of steps of the method for providing regional information according to the present invention. FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing display area information of the display unit, and FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing detailed information corresponding to the area information by the display unit.

As shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2, the method for providing regional information of the present invention is applied to a vehicle 100. The method of providing regional information of the present invention provides regional information related to the eye gaze direction 91 based on an eye gaze direction 91 of a driver 90.

The vehicle 100 of the present embodiment is a self-use passenger car, wherein the vehicle 100 has a body position, and the vehicle 100 is provided with a positioning module 10, an eyeball tracking positioning module 20, a control unit 30, a transmission unit 40, and a display. The unit 50 is electrically connected to the positioning module 10, the eyeball tracking and positioning module 20, the transmission unit 40, and the display unit 50, respectively. As shown in FIG. 3, the method for providing regional information of the present invention includes the following steps:

Step S1: Acquire the body position of the vehicle.

In the present embodiment, the positioning module 10 is a satellite positioning system (GPS), so the body position of the vehicle 100 is obtained through a satellite positioning system (GPS). However, the present invention is not limited to this embodiment, and the positioning module 10 can also be a mobile communication network positioning system (such as a 3G or 3.5G mobile communication network) or a wireless network positioning system (WiFi or WiMax), or other means of obtaining a vehicle. The present invention is applicable to a positioning system of 100 body positions.

Step S2: Obtaining the eye gaze direction of the driver of the vehicle.

The eyeball tracking and positioning module 20 of the embodiment includes a photographic lens (not shown) for capturing and tracking the movement of the eye of the driver 90, and then determining the driver 90 through the operation module in the eye tracking positioning module 20. The viewing direction (the orientation of the eyeball up and down and left and right) is to confirm the eyeball gaze direction 91 of the driver 90.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 1 , the eyeball tracking and positioning module 20 chases The eyeball of the driver 90 is viewed to the left, so it can be confirmed that the eye gaze direction 91 is the left side (the driver 90 is watching the road ahead left).

Step S3: obtaining the target position according to the position of the body and the direction of the eye gaze.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the body position of the vehicle 100 has been obtained through a satellite positioning system (GPS), and the eye tracking positioning module 20 has confirmed that the eye gaze direction 91 of the driver 90 is the left side, and the control module at this time The target position is obtained based on the body position and the eye gaze direction 91. In the present embodiment, the target position is the road to the left of the position where the vehicle 100 is located.

Step S4: Transfer the target location to the service server.

The target position (the road to the left in front of the position where the vehicle 100 is located) is confirmed, and the target position is transmitted to the service server 80 through the transmission unit 40. As shown in FIG. 2, in an embodiment of the present invention, the transmission unit 40 transmits the target location to the service server 80 via the communication platform 200, and the communication platform 200 can be the Internet.

Step S5: The receiving service server returns the detailed information corresponding to one of the service information or the service information corresponding to the target location.

After the service server 80 receives the target location, the service server 80 returns the detailed information 71 corresponding to the regional information 70 corresponding to the target location or the regional information 70 according to the target location transmitted by the transmission unit 40. In the present embodiment, the service server 80 returns the area information 70 related to the left front road of the location where the vehicle 100 is located and the detailed information 71 corresponding to the area information 70.

In this embodiment, the service server 80 returns the area information 70. It is a road information, an advertisement information (roadside advertisement), or a store name on a street. In addition, if the regional information 70 is road information, it further includes a road name, a house number, or an alley information. At the same time, the service server 80 also returns the detailed information 71 corresponding to the area information 70. This detailed information 71 includes the details of the road information (for example: road construction closure), the details of the advertisement information (for example: special information of the store), or the details of the store on the street (for example: information or catalogue of the goods sold) ).

Step S6: Does the vehicle move?

If the vehicle 100 is moving, step S61 is performed; if the vehicle 100 is not moving, step S62 is performed. The detection of whether the vehicle 100 is moved or not is detected by the control unit 30. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the control unit 30 can be connected to the control computer signal in the vehicle 100, thereby knowing whether the vehicle 100 is moving.

Step S61: Display area information.

When the vehicle 100 is moving, the display unit 50 displays only the area information 70. In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 1, the area information 70 is the house number 123 of the road in front of the position where the vehicle 100 is located, and the store information. At this time, the house number "123" and the store information are displayed on the display unit. 50 (as shown in FIG. 4), and the display unit 50 of the present embodiment is a display screen on the satellite positioning system (GPS) for the driver 90 to view, facilitating the driver 90 to find a way, but the present invention does not The display unit 50 may also be a display device inside the vehicle 100 or a transparent display disposed in front of the windshield.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 4, when the vehicle 100 is moving, in order to avoid distraction of the driver 90, the display unit 50 only displays advertisement information or quotient. The main title of the store information, such as: XX convenience store coffee 50% discount or oo clothing big specials and other information. At this time, the display unit 50 does not display details related to the advertisement information or the store information, for example, information such as: XX convenience store coffee discount content or oo clothing catalogue to ensure driving safety.

Step S62: The display unit displays detailed information corresponding to the area information.

When the vehicle 100 stops moving, such as: waiting for a red light or parking, as shown in FIG. 5, the display unit 50 will further display detailed information related to the advertisement information or the store information, such as: XX convenience store coffee offer is to buy A large cup of coffee with a large cup of coffee, or a discount on the cup of coffee. Let Driver 90 know more about the advertising information or the details of the store information.

In summary, the regional information providing system 1 and the method for providing regional information of the present invention can track the viewing direction of the driver 90 according to the eye gaze direction of the driver 90 to find the target position currently viewed by the driver 90, and then The service server 80 provides the area information 70 associated with the target location, and the area information 70 will be displayed directly in the vehicle to solve the problem of prior art information that is too far away for the driver 90 to see easily. In order to avoid the driver's distraction, when the vehicle 100 moves, the display screen only displays the area information 70. When the vehicle 100 stops moving, the detailed information 71 corresponding to the area information 70 is displayed to ensure driving safety. .

In summary, the present invention is a breakthrough in terms of its purpose, means and efficacy, and it is different from the characteristics of the prior art. It is a great breakthrough for the reviewer to ask for an early patent, and to benefit the society. Debian. It should be noted that the above embodiments are merely illustrative of the principles and functions of the present invention. It is not intended to limit the scope of the invention. Modifications and variations of the embodiments can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. The scope of protection of the present invention should be as described in the scope of the patent application to be described later.

1‧‧‧Regional Information Providing System

10‧‧‧ Positioning Module

20‧‧‧Eye tracking module

30‧‧‧Control unit

40‧‧‧Transportation unit

50‧‧‧ display unit

90‧‧‧ Drivers

91‧‧‧ Eye gaze direction

100‧‧‧vehicle

200‧‧‧Communication platform

80‧‧‧Service Server

70‧‧‧Regional Information

71‧‧‧Details

1 is a schematic diagram of a usage environment of a regional information providing system of the present invention.

2 is a hardware architecture diagram of a regional information providing system of the present invention.

3 is a flow chart showing the steps of the method for providing regional information of the present invention.

Figure 4 is a schematic diagram showing the display of regional information by the unit.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing the detailed information corresponding to the area information displayed by the unit.

1‧‧‧Regional Information Providing System

10‧‧‧ Positioning Module

20‧‧‧Eye tracking module

30‧‧‧Control unit

40‧‧‧Transportation unit

50‧‧‧ display unit

100‧‧‧vehicle

200‧‧‧Communication platform

80‧‧‧Service Server

70‧‧‧Regional Information

71‧‧‧Details

Claims (10)

A regional information providing system is applied to a vehicle. The regional information providing system includes: a positioning module for obtaining a body position of the vehicle; and an eye tracking positioning module for obtaining driving of the vehicle One eyeball gaze direction; a control unit is electrically connected to the positioning module and the eyeball tracking positioning module respectively, the control unit obtains a target position according to the body position and the eyeball gaze direction; a transmission unit, electricity Connected to the control unit, the transmission unit transmits the target location to a service server, and receives the service server to transmit a detailed information corresponding to one of the regional information or the regional information corresponding to the target location; and a display The unit is electrically connected to the control unit, and the display unit is configured to display the area information or the detailed information. For example, the regional information providing system described in claim 1 wherein the regional information includes a road information, an advertisement information or a store information. For example, the regional information providing system described in claim 2, wherein the road information includes a road name or an address message. The regional information providing system of claim 1, wherein the control unit controls the display unit to display the regional information when the vehicle is moving. The regional information providing system of claim 1, wherein the control unit controls the display unit to display the detailed information corresponding to the regional information when the vehicle stops moving. A method for providing regional information is applied to a vehicle, and the method for providing regional information includes the steps of: obtaining a body position of the vehicle; obtaining an eye gaze direction of the driver of the vehicle; Obtaining a target position by the eye gaze direction; transmitting the target location to a service server; receiving the service server to transmit a region information corresponding to the target location or a detailed information corresponding to the region information; and displaying the Regional information or the details. The method for providing regional information as described in claim 6 wherein the information of the area includes a road information, an advertisement information or a store information. The method for providing regional information as described in claim 7 wherein the road information includes a road name, a house number, or an alley information. The method for providing regional information as described in claim 6 wherein the information of the area is displayed when the vehicle is moving. The method for providing a region information according to claim 6, wherein when the vehicle stops moving, the detailed information corresponding to the region information is displayed.