Mobile device with weather condition display served by a network
AssigneeHTC Corporation
InventorsPeter Chou, Hsu-Jung Chen, Sheng-Hsin Huang, Chia-Chia Shieh
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Abstract
A method and an apparatus for displaying a weather condition and a recording medium are provided. In the present method, positioning information of a mobile device is detected, and weather information of the current location of the mobile device is inquired. Then, a weather type is determined according to the weather information, and a weather type image corresponding to the weather type is displayed on a screen of the mobile device. Finally, a corresponding weather condition animation is determined according to the weather type and the weather information and played on a background of the screen.
Claims21
A weather condition display method, adaptable to a mobile device, the weather condition display method comprising:
- detecting positioning information of the mobile device;
- inquiring weather information according to the positioning information of the mobile device;
- determining a weather type according to the weather information and time by selecting a weather type according to a mapping table which comprises a discrete number of predetermined weather types with each discrete predetermined weather type mapped to a corresponding weather condition animation, wherein a plurality of the weather types are mapped to a same weather condition animation;
- displaying a weather type image corresponding to the weather type on a screen of the mobile device;
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- determining the corresponding weather condition animation according to the weather type and playing the weather condition animation on a background of the screen in addition to displaying the weather type image, wherein different weather condition animations are displayed for different time of the same weather type image.
A non-transitory recording medium, recording program instructions for
- detecting positioning information of the mobile device;
- inquiring weather information according to the positioning information of the mobile device;
- determining a weather type according to the weather information and time by selecting a weather type according to a mapping table which comprises a discrete number of predetermined weather types with each discrete predetermined weather type mapped to a corresponding weather condition animation, wherein a plurality of the weather types are mapped to a same weather condition animation;
- displaying a weather type image corresponding to the weather type on a screen of the mobile device;
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- determining a corresponding weather condition animation according to the weather type and playing the weather condition animation on a background of the screen in addition to displaying the weather type image, wherein different whether condition animations are displayed for different time of the same weather type image.
A handheld electronic apparatus, comprising:
- a display unit, for displaying a screen page;
- a positioning unit, for detecting positioning information of the weather condition display apparatus;
- a network unit, for connecting to a network;
- an inquiry module, for inquiring weather information according to the positioning information;
- a weather type display module, for determining a weather type according to the weather information and time by selecting a weather type according to a mapping table which comprises a discrete number of predetermined weather types with each discrete predetermined weather type mapped to a corresponding weather condition animation obtained by the inquiry module, and displaying a weather type image corresponding to the weather type on the screen, wherein a plurality of the weather types are mapped to a same weather condition animation;
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- a weather condition animation play module, for determining a corresponding weather condition animation according to the weather type determined by the weather type display module and playing the weather condition animation on a background of the screen page in addition to displaying the weather type image, wherein different whether condition animations are displayed for different time of the same weather type image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.