Telecommunications – Radiotelephone system – Zoned or cellular telephone system
Reexamination Certificate
2000-09-20
2003-06-24
Kincaid, Lester G. (Department: 2685)
Telecommunications
Radiotelephone system
Zoned or cellular telephone system
C455S414200, C455S525000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06584320
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a positioning system in which a plurality of terminal equipments are connected by way of a communication network, and a terminal equipment can detect the present position of other terminal equipment.
2. Description of Related Art
FIG. 20
shows an example for the constitution of a positioning system of the prior art. In the positioning system, user A has portable remote terminal
11
A and GPS (Global Positioning System) device
12
A connected with terminal equipment
11
A. In the same manner, other user B has portable remote terminal
11
B and GPS device
12
B connected with portable remote terminal
11
B.
Portable remote terminals
11
A and
11
B are enabled to conduct radio communication between each other by way of radio communication network
13
. The GPS devices
12
A,
12
B receive radiowaves outputted from a plurality of low earth orbit satellites
10
A,
10
B (usually by the number of three or more although illustrated by two in this embodiment), and the present positions of each of the terminals is determined by calculation.
When user A intends to recognize the present position of user B for instance, user A calls to portable remote terminal
11
B of the user B by way of radio communication network
13
(telephone). Then, user A asks user B to inform the present position by telephone (voices).
Upon receiving the request, user B reads the present position from GPS device
12
B and informs the read present position to user A by telephone (voices).
The procedures are the same when user B intends to recognize the present position of user A.
In the positioning system of the prior art, since each of the users informs the present position by the voices, it is difficult to recognize an accurate position of the mating terminal.
Further, since portable remote terminal
11
A or
11
B for informing the present position to the mating terminal and GPS device
12
A or
12
B for detecting the present position are provided separately, they have to be carried about individually, which makes the device larger in the size and inconvenient to carry about.
The present invention has been accomplished in view of the foregoing situations and it is an object of the invention for simply recognizing the present position of other user and avoiding the enlargement for the size of the device.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
For attaining the foregoing problems, in accordance with the present invention, there is provided a terminal equipment comprising;
detection means for detecting positional information indicating the present position of terminal equipment,
transmission means for transmitting the positional information detected by the detection means to a communication channel when the transmission of the positional information for the present position is demanded from other terminal equipment; and
receiving means for receiving positional information of other terminal equipment sent by way of the communication channel.
Further, in accordance with the present invention, there is provided a positional information display method comprising:
a detection step of detecting positional information indicating the present position of a terminal equipment,
a sending step of sending the positional information to a communication channel when transmission of the positional information for the present position is demanded from other terminal equipment,
a receiving step of receiving the positional information of other terminal equipment transmitted by way of the communication channel, and
a displaying step of displaying the positional information of other terminal equipment based on the received positional information of other terminal equipment.
Further, in accordance with the present invention, there is provided a positional information providing device comprising:
demand receiving means for receiving a positional information demand instruction from a first terminal equipment connected by way of a communication channel,
connection demand transmission means for transmitting a connection demand instruction to a second terminal equipment based on the positional information demand instruction from the first terminal equipment,
positional information receiving means for receiving positional information indicating the present position of the second terminal equipment from the second terminal equipment, and
a positional information transmission means for transmitting the data indicating the present position of the second terminal equipment connected by way of the communication channel to the first terminal equipment based on the positional information received from the second terminal equipment.
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a positional information providing method comprising:
a demand receiving step of receiving a positional information demand instruction from a first terminal equipment connected by way of a communication channel,
a connection demand transmission step of transmitting a connection demand instruction to a second terminal equipment connected by way of a communication channel based on the positional information demand instruction from the first terminal equipment,
a positional information receiving step of receiving positional information indicating the present position of the second terminal equipment from the second terminal equipment, and
a positional information transmission step of transmitting data indicating the present position of the second terminal equipment to the first terminal equipment based on the positional information received from the second terminal equipment.
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Frommer William S.
Frommer & Lawrence & Haug LLP
Kincaid Lester G.
Polito Bruno
Sony Corporation
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