Mobile Terminal Content Display by Location
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of mobile terminals face difficulties in collectively identifying content items created at specific locations, as they need to examine each item individually to determine the shooting location, lacking a method to collectively display content items based on creation location.
Innovation Solution
A mobile terminal apparatus and method that stores content items with location information, including latitude, longitude, and altitude, and displays them based on creation location using a sensing unit, control unit, and display unit, allowing content items to be marked on a map or image according to their creation location.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If users check each content item individually to identify shooting location, then location information can be accessed, but time consumption increases and efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically attaches location information to content items at the time of creation, and pre-organizes content by location before the user needs to view it. This preliminary organization eliminates the need for users to manually check each item individually, as the location data is already prepared and indexed in advance.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary system (the mobile terminal's content management system) that acts as a mediator between the user and the content items. This intermediary automatically handles location information attachment, storage, and retrieval, allowing users to access location-based content without manually examining each item.
2Loss of information
If users manually select and examine each photograph to check shooting location, then location details can be viewed, but operational complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments content items based on their location information, organizing them into distinct location-based groups. This segmentation allows users to access all content from a specific location through a single query rather than manually searching through individual items, significantly simplifying the operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a virtual copy of location information that is attached to and stored with content items. This copied location data can be independently queried and displayed without requiring users to open or examine the actual content items, simplifying the retrieval process.
3Adaptability or versatility
If location information is attached to content items during creation, then collective identification by location becomes possible, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile terminal's existing sensors and processing units are utilized for multiple functions: location determination is integrated with content creation, and the same location data serves both storage organization and retrieval operations. This multi-functionality approach avoids adding separate dedicated systems while still achieving comprehensive location-based content management.
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AI summary
An apparatus and method for content display in a mobile terminal include: a sensing unit including a location determiner generating current location information of the mobile terminal including latitude, longitude and altitude; a content storage storing content items; a control unit controlling a process of storing, when a content item is created, the created content item together with location information in the content storage, setting a display region for content display, examining location information of stored content items, and displaying content items created at a place belonging to the display region in three dimensions; and a display unit displaying content items at corresponding places of the display region under control of the control unit.