Chatroom Image Location Embedding for Route Guidance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing instant messaging services lack an efficient method to share location information associated with images, such as photos or stickers, across electronic devices, limiting the ability to provide location-based services and route guides.
Innovation Solution
An information providing method and system that connects electronic devices over a network to receive and display images with embedded location information, generating a user interface with link services related to the image, allowing users to select and provide route guides or other location-related services based on the included location data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If location information is transmitted through instant messaging services, then location sharing capability is improved, but the ability to provide location-based services and route guides is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines location information transmission with image transmission in instant messaging services. When a user sends an image, the location information is embedded within the image data, allowing simultaneous transmission of both visual content and location data through a single communication channel, thereby enabling both location sharing and location-based service provision
Solution Approach 2:
The image transmission mechanism is designed to serve multiple functions: it acts as both a visual communication medium and a location information carrier. The system can extract location data from transmitted images and provide various location-based services such as route guidance, making the image transmission system universal and multi-functional
2Adaptability or versatility
If location information is embedded in images for transfer, then location-based services become accessible, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary component that automatically extracts location information from transmitted images and interfaces with location-based service systems. This intermediary layer handles the complex processing of embedding and extracting location data, shielding users from system complexity while enabling access to location-based services through simple image transmission
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AI summary
An information providing system and apparatus, and method and non-transitory computer readable medium for providing location information using an image through a communication session may include connecting, at an electronic device, to a communication session with at least one another electronic device over a network receiving, at the electronic device, an image including location information from the other electronic device through the communication session, displaying, at the electronic device, the received image or information about the received image on a screen of the electronic device, providing, at the electronic device, a user interface for providing a link service associated with the image displayed on the screen or the information displayed on the screen, and providing, at the electronic device, a link service selected through the user interface based on the location information included in the image.