CN105157722A - Geographic position monitoring method and equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a geographical location monitoring method and equipment. The geographic location monitoring method is applied to a geographic location monitoring device, and the method includes: acquiring motion information of the geographic location monitoring device; determining the total amount of motion of the geographic location monitoring device within a predetermined period of time before the current positioning moment according to the motion information; and when the When the total amount of exercise satisfies the preset condition, the geographic location of the geographic location monitoring device is determined. In the geographical position monitoring method and device provided by the present invention, the geographical position is determined only when the movement amount of the geographical position monitoring device satisfies a preset condition. This can avoid frequent unnecessary positioning of the geographic location monitoring device, thereby reducing power consumption, enhancing the battery life of the geographic location monitoring device, and facilitating the miniaturization and portability of the geographic location monitoring device.

Description

Geographic location monitoring method and equipment

technical field

The invention relates to the field of intelligent equipment, in particular to a geographical position monitoring method and equipment.

Background technique

With the development of society, more and more smart devices have appeared, which are applied in various fields of society to facilitate people's work and life. The geographic location monitoring device is a kind of smart device, which can locate the user equipped with or carrying the geographic location monitoring device in real time, so as to track the user's geographic location. An example of a geo-location monitoring device is a smart wristband. A smart bracelet is a wearable smart device. The smart bracelet can record real-time data such as the user's exercise, sleep, diet, and time in daily life, and synchronize these data with the user's mobile terminals, such as smart phones, tablet computers, laptops, etc., to play a role in passing these The role of real-time data in guiding healthy living. Smart wristbands can be used to monitor children's geographic location, and upload children's geographic location data to parents' mobile terminals for viewing by parents, thereby preventing children from getting lost.

For a geographic location monitoring device such as a smart wristband, it usually locates itself at fixed time intervals, and then locates a user equipped with the geographic location monitoring device. However, the geographic location of the geographic location monitoring device may not change much for a long period of time. For example, when the user equipped with the geographic location monitoring device is at home, kindergarten or school, it may not move for a long time or move a large amount. very small. Therefore, it is meaningless and power consumption will be increased if the location monitoring device is still positioned at fixed time intervals when the user does not move or the amount of movement is small.

Contents of the invention

In view of the above problems, the present invention is proposed to provide a geographical location monitoring method and a corresponding geographic location monitoring device that at least partly solve the above problems.

According to one aspect of the present invention, a geographic location monitoring method is provided, which is applied to a geographic location monitoring device. The geographical location monitoring method includes the following steps. Obtain the movement information of the location monitoring device. According to the movement information, the total movement amount of the geographic location monitoring device within a predetermined period before the current positioning moment is determined. When the total amount of exercise satisfies the preset condition, the geographic location of the geographic location monitoring device is determined.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a geographic location monitoring device is provided. The geographic location monitoring device includes an acquisition device, an exercise amount determination device and a positioning device. The obtaining means is used for obtaining the motion information of the geographic location monitoring device. The movement amount determining means is used for determining the total movement amount of the geographic location monitoring device within a predetermined period before the current positioning moment according to the movement information. The positioning device is used to determine the geographic location of the geographic location monitoring device when the total amount of exercise satisfies a preset condition.

According to the geographical position monitoring method and device provided in the present invention, the geographical position is determined only when the movement amount of the geographical position monitoring device satisfies a preset condition. This can avoid frequent unnecessary positioning of the geographic location monitoring device, thereby reducing power consumption, enhancing the battery life of the geographic location monitoring device, and facilitating the miniaturization and portability of the geographic location monitoring device.

The above description is only an overview of the technical solution of the present invention. In order to better understand the technical means of the present invention, it can be implemented according to the contents of the description, and in order to make the above and other purposes, features and advantages of the present invention more obvious and understandable , the specific embodiments of the present invention are enumerated below.

Description of drawings

Various other advantages and benefits will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment. The drawings are only for the purpose of illustrating a preferred embodiment and are not to be considered as limiting the invention. Also throughout the drawings, the same reference numerals are used to designate the same components. In the attached picture:

Fig. 1 shows the flowchart of the geographical location monitoring method according to one embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2 shows the flow chart of the geographical location monitoring method according to another embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 3 shows a flow chart of a geographical location monitoring method according to yet another embodiment of the present invention; and

Fig. 4 shows a schematic block diagram of a geographic location monitoring device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed ways

Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. Although exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are shown in the drawings, it should be understood that the present disclosure may be embodied in various forms and should not be limited by the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided for more thorough understanding of the present disclosure and to fully convey the scope of the present disclosure to those skilled in the art.

According to one aspect of the present invention, a geographic location monitoring method is provided, which is applied to a geographic location monitoring device. In the description herein, the geographic location monitoring device may be a smart bracelet, a smart watch or any other smart device suitable for locating a user known or unknown in the art.

The geographic location monitoring method will be described in detail below in conjunction with FIG. 1 . Fig. 1 shows a flow chart of a geographical location monitoring method 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The geographic location monitoring method 100 includes the following steps.

In step S110, the motion information of the geographic location monitoring device is acquired. It can be understood that the geographic location monitoring device moves along with the movement of the user equipped with the geographic location monitoring device, so the user and the geographic location monitoring device move synchronously, and the user's motion information is also the motion information of the geographic location monitoring device . The geographic location monitoring device may include sensors for acquiring motion information, such as vibration sensors, acceleration sensors, and the like. The vibration sensor may include a counterweight and an electronic counter. When the user moves, the counterweight vibrates accordingly, causing the balance to be destroyed, and the trigger contacts perform corresponding on/off actions. This on/off action is recorded by an electronic counter, thereby generating motion information. The acceleration sensor may be a conventional acceleration sensor such as a three-axis acceleration sensor, a six-axis acceleration sensor, etc., which will not be repeated here. When the geographic location monitoring device moves with the user's movement, the acceleration sensor can sense this movement and generate acceleration data that changes with time, that is, movement information. Those skilled in the art can understand that the above-mentioned vibration sensor and acceleration sensor are only examples of sensors used to acquire motion information, rather than limiting the present invention.

In step S120, the total movement amount of the geographic location monitoring device within a predetermined period before the current positioning moment is determined according to the movement information. From the above movement information, the movement situation of the geographical location monitoring device within a certain period of time can be known. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the positioning moment may be determined at predetermined time intervals, and there is one positioning moment at every predetermined time interval. The total amount of movement within a predetermined period of time before each positioning moment may be calculated. As described below, whenever the total amount of exercise satisfies a preset condition, the location monitoring device can be positioned. Therefore, it can be understood that the positioning moment described herein refers to the moment of judging whether to locate the geographic location monitoring device, that is, judging whether to determine the geographic location of the geographic location monitoring device, and not necessarily the location of the geographic location monitoring device. moment of positioning.

In step S130, when the total amount of exercise satisfies the preset condition, the geographic location of the geographic location monitoring device is determined. Only when the total amount of movement of the geographic location monitoring device in the predetermined period before the current time reaches a certain level, that is, when the preset conditions are met, the geographic location monitoring device will be positioned; otherwise, the positioning operation will not be performed, that is, the geographic location will not be determined Operations that monitor the geographic location of the device. In this way, although the geographic location monitoring device detects the movement of the geographic location monitoring device at predetermined time intervals, it does not necessarily locate the geographic location monitoring device.

According to the geographical position monitoring method provided by the present invention, the geographical position of the geographical position monitoring device is determined only when the movement amount of the geographical position monitoring device satisfies a preset condition. This can avoid frequent unnecessary positioning of the geographic location monitoring device, thereby reducing power consumption, enhancing the battery life of the geographic location monitoring device, and facilitating the miniaturization and portability of the geographic location monitoring device.

Optionally, the total amount of exercise may be the total number of steps of the user of the geographic location monitoring device within a predetermined period of time. The preset condition may be that the total number of steps is greater than or equal to the step number threshold. Since the total number of steps of the user of the geographical location monitoring device is roughly proportional to the user's moving distance, the total number of steps can reflect the user's moving distance. When the user has moved enough steps within a predetermined period of time before the current positioning moment, it can be considered that the user has moved a certain distance. Therefore, it is more meaningful to perform a positioning operation at this time.

According to one embodiment, the motion information is acceleration data of the user over time. The geographic location monitoring device can detect the user's steps by detecting the user's acceleration data. When the user is walking, in the horizontal walking movement, the acceleration in the vertical and horizontal directions will show periodic changes. When the user walks and retracts the feet, since the center of gravity goes up and one foot touches the ground, the acceleration in the vertical direction increases in a positive direction. After continuing to move forward, the center of gravity moves down and the two feet touch the ground, and the acceleration in the vertical direction decreases in a positive direction. the trend of. Horizontal acceleration decreases when the user retracts the foot and increases when taking a stride. Thus, in the walking motion, the acceleration generated in the vertical and horizontal directions is roughly sinusoidal with time, and there is a peak at a certain point. Among them, the acceleration in the vertical direction changes the most. By detecting and calculating the peak value of the sinusoidal curve, the number of steps the user moves can be calculated in real time. The above embodiment provides detection of the user's step count based on acceleration data, but those skilled in the art can understand that other motion information can also be used to detect the user's step count, which is not limited in the present invention.

After determining the total number of steps of the user within a predetermined period of time before the current positioning moment, it may be determined whether the total number of steps is greater than or equal to a step number threshold. Afterwards, it is determined whether to locate the geographic location monitoring device according to the judgment result. Assume that the predetermined period is 100 seconds (s), and the step count threshold is 150 steps. If the total number of steps of the user within 100 seconds is 100, it means that the exercise amount of the geographic location monitoring device does not meet the preset condition, so the positioning operation is not performed. If the total number of steps of the user within 100 seconds is 200, it means that the exercise amount of the geographic location monitoring device satisfies the preset condition, so positioning the geographic location monitoring device means determining the geographic location of the geographic location monitoring device. The method of measuring whether the location monitoring device is positioned by the total number of steps of the user of the location monitoring device is fast, simple and easy to implement, and is compatible with the existing technology.

Optionally, the aforementioned predetermined period of time includes a fixed number of time intervals. It can be understood that the total movement amount of the geographic location monitoring device can be calculated every single time interval. In this way, there is a time interval difference between two adjacent positioning moments. For example, a single time interval may be 5s, and the predetermined period may be 100s, then 20 time intervals are included in the predetermined period. For a geographic location monitoring device, the total amount of movement can be calculated every 5s, and it can be determined whether to perform positioning. The above 20 time intervals may be defined in chronological order as a first time interval, a second time interval, a third time interval, and so on. In this way, the end time of the twentieth time interval (also called the last time interval) is the current positioning moment, and the start time of the twentieth time interval (or the end time of the nineteenth time interval) is the previous positioning time time. Therefore, the predetermined period of 100s can be regarded as a time window. When the current positioning moment arrives, this time window can be moved backward, discarding the first time interval in the time window of the previous positioning moment, and updating the second time interval in the time window of the previous positioning moment to the first time interval , and the rest of the time intervals are similar. And, the time window takes the next time interval after the previous positioning moment as the last time interval in the time window of the current positioning moment. The time window advances in a similar "first in, first out" fashion as described above. The geographic location monitoring device calculates the total movement amount in the time window before the positioning moment at each positioning moment. Since the user may stop and go during the walking process, in this case, the total number of steps accumulated within a predetermined period of time may not reach the threshold of the number of steps, and thus the location monitoring device will not be triggered. positioning operation. Therefore, this way of calculating the total amount of exercise through the "first-in-first-out" time window can eliminate or reduce the impact of the user's stop-and-go situation on positioning, thereby further reducing power consumption.

Optionally, step S120 may include the following steps. An amount of exercise is determined for each of a fixed number of time intervals. The amount of exercise in all time intervals of the fixed number of time intervals is added up to obtain the above-mentioned total amount of exercise. At each positioning moment, the movement amount in each time interval within the predetermined period before the positioning moment is accumulated, and the total movement amount in the predetermined period can be obtained directly.

Optionally, step S120 may include the following steps. The difference between the total movement amount in the predetermined period before the previous positioning moment and the movement amount in the first time interval in the predetermined period before the previous positioning moment is calculated. Subsequently, the above difference is added to the movement amount in the last time interval in the predetermined period before the current positioning moment to obtain the total movement amount in the predetermined period before the current positioning moment. Refer to the above case where the predetermined period is 100s. Since the total movement amount in the 20 time intervals before the previous positioning moment has been obtained at the previous positioning moment, and the second time interval to the twentieth time interval are the first and tenth time intervals before the current positioning moment Therefore, the difference between the predetermined period before the previous positioning moment and the predetermined period before the current positioning moment is that the first time interval in the predetermined period before the previous positioning moment and the predetermined period before the current positioning moment The twentieth time interval (i.e. the last time interval) of . Therefore, the total movement amount in the predetermined period before the previous positioning moment, the movement amount in the first time interval in the predetermined period before the previous positioning moment, and the movement amount in the last time interval in the predetermined period before the current positioning moment can be used. Calculate the total amount of movement within a predetermined period before the current positioning moment.

Optionally, step S130 may include: according to the base station information related to the geographic location monitoring device, the wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) access information of the geographic location monitoring device, and the global positioning system (GPS) information of the geographic location monitoring device At least one of identifies the geographic location.

The geographic location monitoring device may include at least one of a mobile communication module, a Wi-Fi module and a GPS function module. The geographic location monitoring device can access the base station through a mobile communication module, such as a global system for mobile communication (GSM) module, and communicate with a mobile phone of an associated user via the base station. When the geographic location monitoring device has a mobile communication module, it can measure the downlink pilot signals of different base stations around, and obtain the time of arrival (TimeofArrival, TOA) or time difference of arrival (TimeDifferenceofArrival, TDOA) of the downlink pilot signals of different base stations. According to the measurement result and combined with the coordinates of the base station, for example, using a trigonometric formula estimation algorithm, the geographic location of the geographic location monitoring device can be calculated. The method for determining the geographic location of the geographic location monitoring device through base station information has low power consumption, high efficiency, and is easy to implement.

The geographic location monitoring device can access the Internet through the Wi-Fi module, so as to communicate with the remote server or the user of the geographic location detecting device or the mobile terminal of its associated user. The mobile terminal may be a terminal device such as a smart phone, a tablet computer, or a laptop computer. When the geographic location monitoring device has a Wi-Fi module, it can learn the geographic location of the geographic location monitoring device through Wi-Fi access information. When the geographic location monitoring device turns on the Wi-Fi function to prepare for accessing the Internet through a Wi-Fi hotspot (Wi-Fi access point, referred to as AP), it will search and collect surrounding AP signals, and generate a Wi-Fi access information of symbols and AP signal strength information. The geographic location monitoring device can obtain the geographic location of each AP according to the AP identifier, and determine the geographic location of the geographic location monitoring device in combination with the signal strength of each AP. The method of determining the geographic location of the geographic location monitoring device through Wi-Fi access information has higher positioning accuracy and lower power consumption.

In addition, when the geographic location monitoring device has a GPS functional module, the geographic location of the geographic location monitoring device can also be obtained according to GPS information. GPS is an all-round, all-weather, all-time, high-precision satellite navigation system, which can provide global users with low-cost, high-precision three-dimensional position, speed and precise timing navigation information. The method of determining the geographic location of the geographic location monitoring device through GPS information can quickly obtain more accurate positioning results.

FIG. 2 shows a flow chart of a geographical location monitoring method 200 according to another embodiment of the present invention. Steps S210, S220, and S230 of the geographic location monitoring method 200 correspond to steps S110, S120, and S130 of the geographic location monitoring method 100, respectively. Those skilled in the art can understand the above-mentioned steps in FIG. 2 according to FIG. 1. For brevity, here No longer. According to this embodiment, after step S230, the geographic location monitoring method 200 may further include: step S240, recording the geographic location; and/or step S250, transmitting the geographic location to a remote server or a mobile terminal associated with the geographic location monitoring device . The mobile terminal associated with the geographic location monitoring device may be the mobile terminal of the user of the geographic location monitoring device, or the mobile terminal of the associated user. The geographic location monitoring device can record its geographic location in real time locally, which is convenient for checking its geographic location later. Transmitting the geographic location to the remote server or the mobile terminal associated with the geographic location monitoring device facilitates the remote server or the associated user to know the geographic location so as to monitor the user's actions at any time. For example, the user of the geographic location monitoring device may be a child, and the associated user may be a parent. Real-time transmission of children's location to parents' mobile terminals, such as smart phones, can facilitate parents to control children's dynamics and prevent children from getting lost.

Fig. 3 shows a flow chart of a geographical location monitoring method 300 according to yet another embodiment of the present invention. Steps S310, S320, and S330 of the geographic location monitoring method 300 correspond to steps S110, S120, and S130 of the geographic location monitoring method 100, respectively. Those skilled in the art can understand the above steps in FIG. 3 according to FIG. No longer. According to this embodiment, after step S330, the geographic location monitoring method 300 may further include the following steps. In step S340, the geographic location is recorded. In step S350, a tracking route is generated according to multiple geographic locations of the geographic location monitoring device. In step S360, the tracking route is transmitted to a remote server or a mobile terminal associated with the geographic location monitoring device. Since the geographic location of the geographic location monitoring device is recorded locally in real time, at least a part of the recorded geographic location can be selected at any time to generate a tracking route of the geographic location, that is, the user's action route. Tracking routes can be generated in conjunction with actual maps. Tracking a route can help a remote server or an associated user know where a user equipped with a geo-location monitoring device has been during a certain period of time.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a geographic location monitoring device is provided. Referring to FIG. 4 , it shows a schematic block diagram of a geographic location monitoring device 400 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The geographic location monitoring device 400 includes an acquisition unit 410 , an exercise amount determination unit 420 and a positioning unit 430 .

The obtaining means 410 is used for obtaining the motion information of the geographic location monitoring device 400 . The motion information may be motion information of a user equipped with the geographic location monitoring device 400 , such as acceleration data over time. The acquiring device 410 may be any device suitable for acquiring motion information, such as an acceleration sensor. As mentioned above, the acceleration sensor may be a conventional acceleration sensor such as a three-axis acceleration sensor or a six-axis acceleration sensor. The obtaining means 410 can measure the motion information of the geographic location monitoring device 400 in real time.

The movement amount determining means 420 is used for determining the total movement amount of the geographic location monitoring device 400 within a predetermined period before the current positioning moment according to the movement information. The exercise amount determining device 420 may be a device capable of data processing, for example, it may be a part of the processor of the geographic location monitoring device 400 . The geographic location monitoring device 400 may include a main processor and co-processors. Real-time processing of motion information can be implemented in the coprocessor to reduce power consumption, and then the processed motion information data can be transmitted to the main processor for further analysis and processing. The exercise amount determining device 420 can also be implemented as a separate data processing module.

The positioning device 430 is used to determine the geographic location of the geographic location monitoring device 400 when the total amount of exercise satisfies a preset condition. Positioning device 430, which may be a mobile communication module, a Wi-Fi module and/or a GPS function module, which may be based on the base station information related to the geographic location monitoring device 400, the Wi-Fi access information of the geographic location monitoring device 400, and the geographic location Corresponding information in the GPS information of the location monitoring device 400 determines the geographic location of the location monitoring device 400 . The positioning device 430 may also be a part of the processor of the geographic location monitoring device 400 or a separate circuit module.

According to the geographic location monitoring device provided by the present invention, its geographic location is determined only when the amount of movement of the geographic location monitoring device meets the preset conditions, which can avoid frequent unnecessary positioning of the geographic location monitoring device, thereby reducing power consumption and enhancing geographical location. The battery life of the location monitoring device is conducive to the miniaturization and portability of the location monitoring device.

Optionally, the above-mentioned total amount of exercise may be the total number of steps of the user of the geographic location monitoring device 400 within a predetermined period of time. The preset condition may be that the total number of steps is greater than or equal to the step number threshold. As mentioned above, the user equipped with the geographic location monitoring device 400 moves synchronously with the geographic location monitoring device 400 , so the motion of the geographic location monitoring device 400 can be represented by the user's motion. The motion information of the geographic location monitoring device 400 may be acceleration data of the user over time. The geographic location monitoring device 400 can detect the user's steps by detecting the user's acceleration data. After the geographic location monitoring device 400 determines the total number of steps of the user within a predetermined period before the current positioning moment, it may determine whether the total number of steps is greater than or equal to a step number threshold. The step threshold can be any suitable threshold that provides a reasonable measure of how fast the user is walking. The method of measuring whether the location monitoring device 400 is positioned by using the total number of steps of the user of the location monitoring device 400 is fast, simple and easy to implement, and is compatible with the existing technology.

Alternatively, the predetermined period of time may comprise a fixed number of time intervals. The exercise amount determination device 420 may include an exercise amount determination module and an accumulation module (not shown). The exercise amount determining module is used to determine the amount of exercise in each of the fixed number of time intervals. The accumulating module is used for accumulating the amount of exercise in all the time intervals of the fixed number of time intervals to obtain the total amount of exercise. It can be understood that, in the geographic location monitoring device 400 , there may be a memory device for caching the movement amount of the geographic location monitoring device 400 . As mentioned above, the predetermined period of time may be considered a time window. The memory device may cache the amount of motion in each time interval within the time window. Further, the memory device may cache the amount of movement in each time interval within the time window in a first-in-first-out manner. The predetermined period includes a fixed number of time intervals, and the amount of exercise in all time intervals of these fixed number of time intervals can be regarded as an array. The number of elements contained in the array is fixed. When the next positioning moment arrives, that is, when the time window moves backward, the memory device discards the first element in the previously stored array, and adds the motion amount in the new time interval as the last element in the array.

Optionally, the predetermined period may include a fixed number of time intervals, and there is a time interval difference between the current positioning moment and the previous positioning moment. The exercise amount determining device 420 may include a subtraction module and an addition module (not shown). The subtraction module is used to calculate the difference between the total movement amount in the predetermined period before the previous positioning moment and the movement amount in the first time interval in the predetermined period before the previous positioning moment. The adding module is used to add the above difference to the movement amount in the last time interval in the predetermined period before the current positioning moment, so as to obtain the total movement amount in the predetermined period before the current positioning moment. It can be understood that the subtraction module and the addition module can be integrated in digital circuits such as application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), field programmable logic arrays (FPGAs), and implemented by subtractors and adders in such digital circuits, It is also possible to implement them with separate analog circuits.

Optionally, the geographic location monitoring device 400 may further include a recording device and/or a first transmission device (not shown). The recording device is used for recording the geographic location of the geographic location monitoring device 400 . The recording device may be any suitable memory device implemented as various types of storage media including, but not limited to: flash memory, read only memory (ROM), random access semiconductor memory, or any type of volatile or non-volatile permanent semiconductor memory. The first transmission means is used for transmitting the geographic location to a remote server or a mobile terminal associated with the geographic location monitoring device 400 . The first transmission device may be a wireless transmission interface, such as a Wi-Fi interface.

Optionally, the geographic location monitoring device 400 further includes a recording device, a route generation device and a second transmission device (not shown). The recording device is used for recording the geographic location of the geographic location monitoring device 400 . The recording device has been described in detail above, and will not be repeated here. The route generating means is used for generating a tracking route according to multiple geographic locations of the geographic location monitoring device 400 . The second transmission means is used to transmit the tracked route to a remote server or a mobile terminal associated with the geographic location monitoring device 400 . The second transmission device may be the same device or a different device than the above-mentioned first transmission device. The recording means realizes real-time local recording of the geographic location of the geographic location monitoring device 400 . Subsequently, the route generation device may select at least a part of the recorded geographic location at any time to generate a tracking route of the geographic location, that is, the user's action route. Subsequently, the second transmission means may transmit the tracked route to the remote server or the associated user, so as to help the remote server or the associated user understand the whereabouts of the user equipped with the geographic location monitoring device 400 in a certain period of time.

In the above description about the geographical position monitoring method, the implementation method and function of each step have been described in detail. Those skilled in the art can understand the specific structure and operation mode of the geographic location monitoring device 400 based on the above description of the geographic location monitoring method in FIGS. 1-3 .

The algorithms and displays presented herein are not inherently related to any particular computer, virtual system, or other device. Various generic systems can also be used with the teachings based on this. The structure required to construct such a system is apparent from the above description. Furthermore, the present invention is not specific to any particular programming language. It should be understood that various programming languages can be used to implement the content of the present invention described herein, and the above description of specific languages is for disclosing the best mode of the present invention.

In the description provided herein, numerous specific details are set forth. However, it is understood that embodiments of the invention may be practiced without these specific details. In some instances, well-known methods, structures and techniques have not been shown in detail in order not to obscure the understanding of this description.

Similarly, it should be appreciated that in the foregoing description of exemplary embodiments of the invention, in order to streamline this disclosure and to facilitate an understanding of one or more of the various inventive aspects, various features of the invention are sometimes grouped together in a single embodiment, figure, or its description. This method of disclosure, however, is not to be interpreted as reflecting an intention that the claimed invention requires more features than are expressly recited in each claim. Rather, as the following claims reflect, inventive aspects lie in less than all features of a single foregoing disclosed embodiment. Thus, the claims following the Detailed Description are hereby expressly incorporated into this Detailed Description, with each claim standing on its own as a separate embodiment of this invention.

Those skilled in the art can understand that the modules in the device in the embodiment can be adaptively changed and arranged in one or more devices different from the embodiment. Modules or units or components in the embodiments may be combined into one module or unit or component, and furthermore may be divided into a plurality of sub-modules or sub-units or sub-assemblies. All features disclosed in this specification (including accompanying claims, abstract and drawings) and any method or method so disclosed may be used in any combination, except that at least some of such features and/or processes or units are mutually exclusive. All processes or units of equipment are combined. Each feature disclosed in this specification (including accompanying claims, abstract and drawings) may be replaced by alternative features serving the same, equivalent or similar purpose, unless expressly stated otherwise.

Furthermore, those skilled in the art will understand that although some embodiments described herein include some features included in other embodiments but not others, combinations of features from different embodiments are meant to be within the scope of the invention. and form different embodiments. For example, in the following claims, any one of the claimed embodiments may be used in any combination.

The various component embodiments of the present invention may be implemented in hardware, or in software modules running on one or more processors, or in a combination thereof. Those skilled in the art should understand that a microprocessor or a digital signal processor (DSP) may be used in practice to implement some or all functions of some or all components in the geographic location monitoring device according to the embodiment of the present invention. The present invention can also be implemented as an apparatus or an apparatus program (for example, a computer program and a computer program product) for performing a part or all of the methods described herein. Such a program for realizing the present invention may be stored on a computer-readable medium, or may be in the form of one or more signals. Such a signal may be downloaded from an Internet site, or provided on a carrier signal, or provided in any other form.

It should be noted that the above-mentioned embodiments illustrate rather than limit the invention, and that those skilled in the art will be able to design alternative embodiments without departing from the scope of the appended claims. In the claims, any reference signs placed between parentheses shall not be construed as limiting the claim. The word "comprising" does not exclude the presence of elements or steps not listed in a claim. The word "a" or "an" preceding an element does not exclude the presence of a plurality of such elements. The invention can be implemented by means of hardware comprising several distinct elements, and by means of a suitably programmed computer. In a unit claim enumerating several means, several of these means can be embodied by one and the same item of hardware. The use of the words first, second, and third, etc. does not indicate any order. These words can be interpreted as names.

The embodiment of the present invention discloses A1. A geographic location monitoring method, which is applied to a geographic location monitoring device, and the geographic location monitoring method includes:

Acquiring motion information of the geographic location monitoring device;

determining the total amount of movement of the geographic location monitoring device within a predetermined period of time before the current positioning moment according to the movement information; and

When the total amount of exercise satisfies a preset condition, the geographic location of the geographic location monitoring device is determined.

A2. The geographic location monitoring method as described in A1, the total amount of exercise is the total number of steps of the user of the geographic location monitoring device within the predetermined period of time, and the preset condition is that the total number of steps is greater than or equal to Step threshold.

A3. The geographical position monitoring method as described in A1 or A2, the predetermined period of time includes a fixed number of time intervals,

The determining the total amount of movement of the geographic location monitoring device within a predetermined period before the current positioning moment includes:

determining an amount of exercise in each of the fixed number of time intervals; and

The amount of exercise in all time intervals of the fixed number of time intervals is accumulated to obtain the total amount of exercise.

A4. The geographical location monitoring method as described in A1 or A2, the predetermined period of time includes a fixed number of time intervals, and there is a time interval difference between the current positioning moment and the previous positioning moment,

The determining the total amount of movement of the geographic location monitoring device within a predetermined period before the current positioning moment includes:

calculating the difference between the total amount of movement in a predetermined period of time before the previous location moment and the amount of movement in a first time interval in the predetermined period of time before the previous location moment; and

Adding the difference to the movement amount in the last time interval in the predetermined period before the current positioning moment to obtain the total movement amount in the predetermined period before the current positioning moment.

A5. The geographic location monitoring method as described in any one of A1 to A4, after determining the geographic location, the geographic location monitoring method further includes:

record said geographic location; and/or

Transmitting the geographic location to a remote server or a mobile terminal associated with the geographic location monitoring device.

A6. The geographic location monitoring method as described in any one of A1 to A4, said geographic location monitoring method further comprising:

record said geographic location;

generating a tracking route based on a plurality of geographic locations of the geographic location monitoring device; and

Transmitting the tracked route to the remote server or a mobile terminal associated with the geographic location monitoring device.

A7. The geographic location monitoring method according to any one of A1 to A6, the determining the geographic location of the geographic location monitoring device includes:

The geographic location is determined based on at least one of base station information associated with the geographic location monitoring device, Wi-Fi access information of the geographic location monitoring device, and Global Positioning System information of the geographic location monitoring device.

The embodiment of the present invention also discloses B8, a geographical location monitoring device, comprising:

an acquiring device, configured to acquire motion information of the geographic location monitoring device;

An exercise amount determining device, configured to determine the total amount of exercise of the geographic location monitoring device within a predetermined period before the current positioning moment according to the exercise information; and

A positioning device, configured to determine the geographic location of the geographic location monitoring device when the total amount of exercise satisfies a preset condition.

B9. The geographic location monitoring device as described in B8, the total amount of exercise is the total number of steps of the user of the geographic location monitoring device within the predetermined period of time, and the preset condition is that the total number of steps is greater than or equal to Step threshold.

B10, the geographical location monitoring device as described in B8 or B9, the predetermined period of time includes a fixed number of time intervals, and the amount of exercise determining means includes:

an exercise amount determining module, configured to determine an amount of exercise in each of the fixed number of time intervals; and

An accumulating module, configured to accumulate the amount of exercise in all time intervals of the fixed number of time intervals to obtain the total amount of exercise.

B11. The geographical location monitoring device as described in B8 or B9, the predetermined period of time includes a fixed number of time intervals, and there is a time interval difference between the current positioning moment and the previous positioning moment,

The exercise determination device includes:

A subtraction module, used to calculate the difference between the total movement amount in the predetermined period before the previous positioning moment and the movement amount in the first time interval in the predetermined period before the previous positioning moment; and

An adding module, configured to add the difference to the movement amount in the last time interval in the predetermined period before the current positioning moment, so as to obtain the total movement amount in the predetermined period before the current positioning moment.

B12. The geographic location monitoring device as described in any one of B8 to B11, said geographic location monitoring device further comprising:

recording means for recording said geographic location; and/or

The first transmitting means is configured to transmit the geographic location to a remote server or a mobile terminal associated with the geographic location monitoring device.

B13. The geographic location monitoring device as described in any one of B8 to B11, said geographic location monitoring device further comprising:

recording means for recording said geographic location;

a route generating device, configured to generate a tracking route according to multiple geographic locations of the geographic location monitoring device; and

The second transmitting means is configured to transmit the tracked route to the remote server or a mobile terminal associated with the geographic location monitoring device.

Claims (10)

1. a geographic location monitoring method, be applied to a geographic position monitoring equipment, described geographic location monitoring method comprises:

Obtain the movable information of described geographic position monitoring equipment;

The total amount of exercise of described geographic position monitoring equipment in the scheduled time slot before the prelocalization moment is determined according to described movable information; And

When described total amount of exercise meets pre-conditioned, determine the geographic position of described geographic position monitoring equipment.

2. geographic location monitoring method as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that, described total amount of exercise is the total step number of user in described scheduled time slot of described geographic position monitoring equipment, described pre-conditioned be that described total step number is more than or equal to step number threshold value.

3. geographic location monitoring method as claimed in claim 1 or 2, it is characterized in that, described scheduled time slot comprises the time interval of fixed number,

Describedly determine that the total amount of exercise of described geographic position monitoring equipment in the scheduled time slot before the prelocalization moment comprises:

Determine the amount of exercise in each time interval in the time interval of described fixed number; And

Amount of exercise in all time intervals in the time interval of described fixed number is added up, to obtain described total amount of exercise.

4. geographic location monitoring method as claimed in claim 1 or 2, it is characterized in that, described scheduled time slot comprises the time interval of fixed number, described when differing a time interval between prelocalization moment with last location moment,

Describedly determine that the total amount of exercise of described geographic position monitoring equipment in the scheduled time slot before the prelocalization moment comprises:

Calculate the difference between the amount of exercise in the total amount of exercise in the scheduled time slot before the described last location moment and the very first time interval in described last scheduled time slot of locating before the moment; And

Described difference is added with the amount of exercise in last time interval in described scheduled time slot before the prelocalization moment, to obtain described total amount of exercise in the scheduled time slot before the prelocalization moment.

5. the geographic location monitoring method as described in any one of Claims 1-4, is characterized in that, after determining described geographic position, described geographic location monitoring method comprises further:

Record described geographic position; And/or

Described geographic position is transferred to the mobile terminal of remote server or the association of described geographic position monitoring equipment.

6. the geographic location monitoring method as described in any one of Claims 1-4, is characterized in that, described geographic location monitoring method comprises further:

Record described geographic position;

Multiple geographic position according to described geographic position monitoring equipment generate trace; And

Described trace is transferred to the mobile terminal of described remote server or the association of described geographic position monitoring equipment.

7. a geographic position monitoring equipment, comprising:

Acquisition device, for obtaining the movable information of described geographic position monitoring equipment;

Amount of exercise determining device, for determining the total amount of exercise of described geographic position monitoring equipment in the scheduled time slot before the prelocalization moment according to described movable information; And

Locating device, for when described total amount of exercise meets pre-conditioned, determines the geographic position of described geographic position monitoring equipment.

8. geographic position as claimed in claim 7 monitoring equipment, it is characterized in that, described total amount of exercise is the total step number of user in described scheduled time slot of described geographic position monitoring equipment, described pre-conditioned be that described total step number is more than or equal to step number threshold value.

9. geographic position as claimed in claim 7 or 8 monitoring equipment, it is characterized in that, described scheduled time slot comprises the time interval of fixed number, and described amount of exercise determining device comprises:

Amount of exercise determination module, for determining the amount of exercise in each time interval in the time interval of described fixed number; And

Accumulator module, for adding up to the amount of exercise in all time intervals in the time interval of described fixed number, to obtain described total amount of exercise.

10. geographic position as claimed in claim 7 or 8 monitoring equipment, it is characterized in that, described scheduled time slot comprises the time interval of fixed number, described when differing a time interval between prelocalization moment with last location moment,

Described amount of exercise determining device comprises:

Subtraction block, for calculating the difference between the amount of exercise in the total amount of exercise in the scheduled time slot before the described last location moment and the very first time interval in described last scheduled time slot of locating before the moment; And

Addition module, for described difference being added with the amount of exercise in last time interval in described scheduled time slot before the prelocalization moment, to obtain described total amount of exercise in the scheduled time slot before the prelocalization moment.