JP2008058267A - Information providing system and information providing method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To diversify navigation information that is distributed from information management server device. <P>SOLUTION: An information providing user transmits the present position information to an information management server device 2 by prescribed time intervals, by using a mobile telephone 1 and concurrently transmits the information provided, such as still images, moving images and text data, to the information management server device 2. The information management server device 2 prepares navigation information, with migration pathway and information of the information providing user provided, based on the positional information pasted on map data. Then, when an access is made from a mobile telephone 3 of an information receiving user, the navigation information is distributed. Since the distribution of navigation information prepared, based on the migration pathway and the information provided of each information delivery user, becomes available, the navigation information to be distributed is diversified. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention provides, for example, a local information distribution system and navigation information using a portable device such as a mobile phone, a PHS phone (PHS: Personal Handyphone System), a PDA device (PDA: Personal Digital Assistant), or a notebook personal computer device. Information provision system and information provision method suitable for application to a system and the like, and in particular, each user can easily upload his / her travel route information, building information, regional information, etc. to an information management server device using a portable device. An information providing system capable of distributing a variety of information by enabling an unspecified number of users or designated users to easily receive information uploaded to the information management server device, and Information provision method.

  Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2003-44990 (Patent Document 1) discloses a travel support device that aims to benefit both a user and a travel company while supporting a user's travel. .

  In the case of this travel support device, when a user makes a travel application to a travel agent, the travel agent requests the travel support server to distribute regional information related to the travel process. The travel support server selects appropriate information according to the process, and distributes it to the mobile terminal that the travel agency lent to the user in advance. The user carries the portable terminal, visits a sightseeing spot, and answers a questionnaire regarding the sightseeing spot. When the trip is over, the user returns the mobile terminal to the travel agency. The travel agency tabulates the user's processes stored in the mobile terminal and tabulates the questionnaire results answered by the user. Then, it is checked whether or not the user has visited a pre-designated visit spot, and a prize is given according to the number of visits.

JP 2003-44990 A (page 4: FIG. 2)

  However, in the travel support device disclosed in Patent Document 1 described above, the regional information related to the travel process distributed from the travel support server is limited to, for example, a travel agency employee or a city hall staff in the region. Therefore, there is a problem that the regional information to be distributed is not diverse.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and enables users to upload information to a server device using a mobile device from each user, and a user who wants to distribute information uploaded from each user. It is an object of the present invention to provide an information providing system and an information providing method capable of distributing diverse information.

The information providing system according to the present invention is a means for solving the above-described problems.
A mobile device of an information providing user that transmits current location information every predetermined time and transmits provided information associated with a specific location to be moved; and
An information management server that creates a travel route of the information providing user based on the current location information transmitted from the mobile device of the information providing user and navigation information indicating the provided information corresponding to the specific position on the travel route Equipment,
And a mobile device of an information receiving user that transmits the current position information to the information management server device and receives the navigation information from the information management server device.

  Then, the information management server device monitors the current position of the information receiving user based on the current position information transmitted from the portable device of the information receiving user, and the current position of the information receiving user is added to the provided information. When it is located within the geographical range corresponding to the corresponding specific position, the provision information corresponding to the specific position is transmitted to the portable device of the information receiving user.

Further, the information providing method according to the present invention is a means for solving the above-described problems.
The information providing user's portable device transmits the current location information every predetermined time and transmits the provision information associated with the specific location to be moved; and
Navigation information indicating the travel route of the information providing user based on the current location information transmitted from the mobile device of the information providing user and the provision information corresponding to the specific position on the travel route by the information management server device The steps of creating
A portable device of the information receiving user transmits the current position information to the information management server device and receives the navigation information from the information management server device;
The information management server device monitors the current location of the information receiving user based on the current location information transmitted from the mobile device of the information receiving user, and the current location of the information receiving user corresponds to the provided information Transmitting the provision information corresponding to the specific position to the portable device of the information receiving user when it is located within the geographical range corresponding to the specific position.

  According to the present invention, the information management server device uses the current position information transmitted from the portable device of the information providing user every predetermined time and the provided information associated with the specific position to be the movement destination as the navigation information. And the navigation information is distributed to the portable device of the information receiving user who wants to receive the information. As a result, various navigation information can be created and distributed based on the travel route and provided information of each information providing user, and diverse navigation information can be distributed.

  According to the present invention, various navigation information can be created based on the movement route and provision information of each information providing user. For this reason, various types of navigation information can be distributed.

  The present invention can be applied to a navigation information providing system that distributes navigation information such as area information, travel route information, and building information.

[System configuration]
The navigation information providing system according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a mobile phone 1 of a user (information providing user) who uploads desired providing information such as area information and a message together with current position information as shown in FIG. An information management server device 2 that forms and distributes navigation information based on the current location information and the provided information uploaded via the mobile phone 1 of the information providing user and the corresponding map information; and an information management server And a mobile phone 3 of a user (information receiving user) that receives navigation information distributed from the device 2.

[System Overview]
In this navigation information providing system, an information providing user uses a still image, a moving image, and a document creation function captured using the camera function of his mobile phone 1 in a geographical range where he / she has acted at a travel destination or the like. The desired provision information is created from the text data and is uploaded to the information management server device 2 together with the position information detected by the GPS unit (GPS: Global Positioning System) (or the position information received from the base station). . When the information receiving user goes to the same location as the information providing user, the navigation information uploaded by the information providing user is obtained by accessing the information management server device 2 via the mobile phone 3 of the information receiving user. The receiving user is to receive.

[System operation]
[Upload Navigation Information]
First, in the case of this navigation information providing system, the information providing user transmits a provision information creation start request to the information management server device 2 via his mobile phone 1. Upon receiving this creation start request, the information management server device 2 accesses the mobile phone 1 of the information providing user at a predetermined interval such as an interval of several minutes, and is detected by the mobile phone 1 The current position information is acquired on the information management server device 2 side. Thereby, the information management server device 2 side automatically accumulates the travel routes of the information providing user.

  Next, the information providing user creates desired provided information using the still image captured using the camera function, the moving image, the text data created using the document creation function, etc. Then, the created provision information is uploaded to the information management server device 2 together with the current position information via the mobile phone 1 of the information provision user. As a result, the information management server device 2 accumulates the travel route of the information providing user and the provision information for each travel location.

Next, the information providing user transmits a provision information creation end request to the information management server device 2 via his / her mobile phone 1 when the main movement is completed. When receiving the creation end request, the information management server device 2 ends the access to the mobile phone 1 and navigates based on the provided information and the current location information uploaded from the mobile phone 1 as described below. Create information.

[Create navigation information]
The information management server device 2 has map data corresponding to a geographical range in which navigation information can be provided in a database. The information management server device 2 reads the map data corresponding to the current position information sequentially acquired from the information providing user's mobile phone 1 from the database, and sequentially acquires the map data from the information providing user's mobile phone 1. The navigation information is created by adding the current position information, an arrow connecting the current position information, and a mark indicating the presence of the provided information for each location uploaded from the mobile phone 1 of the information providing user.

  At this time, the information management server device 2 classifies a portion used for movement of a road or the like on the map data and a portion not used for the movement. Then, a filtering process is performed so that the current position information corresponding to a portion that is not used for movement in each of the current position information is not reflected on the map data.

  Further, the information management server device 2 performs a filtering process so that current position information with a short moving distance within a predetermined time is not reflected on the map data. However, for an important place such as a large facility or a tourist attraction, even if the moving distance within a predetermined time is short, the current position information is reflected on the map data.

  An example of the navigation information created in this way is shown in FIG. In FIG. 2, white circles indicate current positions sequentially acquired from the information providing user's mobile phone 1, and black circles indicate among the current positions sequentially acquired from the information providing user's mobile phone 1 by the above filtering process. It shows the current position that will be reflected on the map data. Further, in FIG. 2, Δ indicates a mark where the provided information uploaded from the mobile phone 1 of the information providing user exists.

  As can be seen from the white circles in FIG. 2, the information providing user stops at the facility A, then passes in front of the facility B, and then moves to the facility C. For this reason, the staying time at the facility A and the facility C at which they stopped is long, and a large amount of current position information corresponding to the facility A and the facility C is acquired even though the moving distance is short. In this case, the information management server device 2 has a short moving distance within a predetermined time, and since the facility A and the facility C do not exist on the road used for movement, the current position corresponding to the facility A and the facility C Information is removed by the filtering process.

  By such filtering processing, the current position information indicated by black circles in FIG. 2 remains as the current position information reflected on the map data. The information management server device 2 pastes the current position indicated by a black circle on the map data and pastes an arrow connecting the reflected current positions on the map data.

  The information management server device 2 does not perform filtering processing on the provided information, and pastes a mark indicating that the provided information exists on a corresponding location on the map data. In the case of the example shown in FIG. 2, it is shown that the provision information (= Δ mark) exists for the facility A, the intersection, and the facility C.

  When the information management server device 2 creates the navigation information in this way, it adds navigation identification information to the created navigation information. Then, the navigation identification information is transmitted to the mobile phone 1 of the information providing user.

  When the mobile phone 1 of the information providing user receives the navigation identification information, a display target selection menu such as “not specified”, “group”, “individual” or the like is displayed on the display unit of the mobile phone 1. To do. Among these, the “not specified” selection menu is a menu that is selected when the provided information uploaded by the user may be distributed to an unspecified number of users, and the “group” selection menu is an upload by the user. The menu to be selected when the provided information can be distributed only to each user belonging to the desired group, and the “personal” selection menu distributes the provided information uploaded by the user only to the desired user. It is a menu that can be selected when it is acceptable.

The mobile phone 1 of the information providing user transmits information indicating a menu selected from such a menu to be disclosed to the information management server device 2. The information management server device 2 stores information indicating the selected menu transmitted from the mobile phone 1 of the information providing user in the database in association with the created navigation information and navigation identification information. The information management server device 2 selectively distributes the navigation information created from the travel route of the information providing user and the provided information to an unspecified number, group, or individual user designated by the information providing user.

[Distribution of navigation information]
Next, when the navigation information is distributed from the information management server device 2, the information receiving user shown in FIG. 1 uses the mobile phone 3 in the area where the navigation information is distributed to the information management server device 2. The navigation identification information obtained from a friend or the like is input to the mobile phone 3 or the publicly disclosed navigation identification information searched by region is input. The input navigation identification information is transmitted to the information management server device 2.

  When the information management server device 2 receives the transmitted navigation identification information, the information management server device 2 reads the navigation information associated with the navigation identification information and stored in the database, and transmits it to the mobile phone 3 of the information receiving user.

  The mobile phone 3 of the information receiving user displays the navigation information received from the information management server device 2 on the display unit 3 and uses a current position detection function provided in the mobile phone 3 on the map of the navigation information. The detected current position information is displayed. The mobile phone 3 of the information receiving user constantly monitors the movement state of the information receiving user based on the current position detected by the current position detecting function, and makes it correspond to the current position detected by the current position detecting function. Then, the map of the navigation information is scrolled and the current position information on the map is moved and displayed.

  FIG. 3 shows an example of navigation information displayed on the display unit of the mobile phone 3 of the information receiving user. FIG. 3 shows an example in which navigation information created based on the travel route of the information providing user and the provided information described with reference to FIG. 2 is displayed on the display unit of the mobile phone 3 of the information receiving user. . From the navigation information displayed on the display unit, the information receiving user can recognize that the information providing user has passed the facility A, turned left at the intersection, and has followed the movement route that has passed in front of the facility C. The current position of the information receiving user is a position in front of the facility A, and it can be recognized that the provided information uploaded by the information providing user exists in the facility A, the intersection, and the facility C.

  Here, the cellular phone 3 of the information receiving user transmits the current location information detected by the current location detection function to the information management server device 2 every predetermined time, and the information management server device 2 The current position of the information receiving user is monitored based on the current position information transmitted every time and the navigation information transmitted to the mobile phone 3. Then, when the information receiving server 2 is located within a predetermined range such as 500 m from the place where the provision information such as the facility A, the intersection, and the facility C exists, the information management server device 2 The right to access the provided information corresponding to the facility A, intersection, facility C, etc. is transmitted to the mobile phone 3 of the information receiving user.

When receiving the access right, the mobile phone 3 of the information receiving user controls the sound generation of a predetermined sound effect, and obtains information such as “There is information on this facility. Do you want to obtain information?” A message for prompting is displayed on the display unit. When information acquisition is designated by the information receiving user, an information acquisition request is transmitted to the information management server device 2. Upon receiving this information acquisition request, the information management server device 2 transmits provision information corresponding to the current location of the information receiving user to the mobile phone 3 of the information receiving user. Thereby, the information receiving user can acquire the provision information provided from the information provision user each time the user moves to a place where the provision information exists.

[Effect of the embodiment]
As is clear from the above description, in the navigation information providing system of this embodiment, each user can easily create navigation information for each user by using his / her mobile phone, and this navigation information is unspecified. It can be distributed to other users or designated users.

  Also, for example, by creating and distributing attractive and high-quality navigation information by celebrities and travel specialists, for example, the increase in the number of visitors to specific places and the number of travelers due to the effect of the advertising tower, the navigation concerned An increase in the number of users of the information providing system can be expected, and such a new business can be provided.

  In addition, since a user who distributes information can be specified, for example, a message can be distributed to a specific user.

  In addition, by using the current position detection function of a mobile phone such as a GPS unit, it is possible to provide easy-to-understand navigation on a map and to receive a message only when entering a specific area. It is possible to realize an attractive service that can be performed.

  In addition, unique navigation information can be created for each user using a mobile phone and uploaded to the information management server device 2. For this reason, it is possible to provide a variety of navigation information to an unspecified number or designated users.

  Further, since the current position information is periodically acquired on the mobile phone side when the navigation information is created, the travel route can be easily recorded without the user of the mobile phone being conscious.

In addition, navigation information can be easily created by functions provided in today's popular mobile phones such as a document creation function, a still image capturing function, and a moving image capturing function.

[Modification]
In the description of the above-described embodiment, navigation information and the like are uploaded and distributed using a mobile phone. Instead of this mobile phone, a PHS phone (PHS: Personal Handyphone System), a PDA device (PDA: Personal) Other portable devices such as a digital assistant), a notebook personal computer device, and a portable game machine may be used. Even in this case, the same effect as described above can be obtained.

  Finally, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, which is disclosed only as an example of the present invention. For this reason, as long as it is the range which does not deviate from the technical idea which concerns on this invention, it adds that it is needless to say that various changes are possible according to a design etc. also except the above-mentioned embodiment. .

1 is a schematic diagram of a navigation information providing system according to an embodiment to which the present invention is applied. It is a schematic diagram for demonstrating the production | generation operation | movement of the navigation information in the navigation information provision system of embodiment. It is a schematic diagram of the navigation information provided by the navigation information providing system of the embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Mobile phone of information providing user 2 Information management server device for creating and distributing navigation information 3 Mobile phone of information receiving user

Claims (4)

A mobile device of an information providing user that transmits current location information every predetermined time and transmits provided information associated with a specific location to be moved; and
An information management server that creates a travel route of the information providing user based on the current location information transmitted from the mobile device of the information providing user and navigation information indicating the provided information corresponding to the specific position on the travel route Equipment,
A mobile device of an information receiving user that transmits current position information to the information management server device and receives the navigation information from the information management server device;
The information management server device monitors the current position of the information receiving user based on the current position information transmitted from the portable device of the information receiving user, and the current position of the information receiving user corresponds to the provided information. An information providing system for transmitting provision information corresponding to the specific position to the portable device of the information receiving user when the position is within a geographical range corresponding to the specific position. The information providing system according to claim 1,
The information management server device creates navigation information in which the movement route of the information providing user and a predetermined mark indicating the provision information corresponding to the specific position are pasted on a map corresponding to the movement route. An information provision system characterized by The information providing system according to claim 2,
The information management server device creates the travel route using only the current position information along the road on the map among the current position information transmitted from the portable device of the information providing user. Information provision system. The information providing user's portable device transmits the current position information every predetermined time and transmits the provision information associated with the specific position to be moved; and
Navigation information indicating the travel route of the information providing user based on the current location information transmitted from the mobile device of the information providing user and the provision information corresponding to the specific position on the travel route by the information management server device The steps of creating
A mobile device of an information receiving user transmits current position information to the information management server device and receives the navigation information from the information management server device;
The information management server device monitors the current location of the information receiving user based on the current location information transmitted from the mobile device of the information receiving user, and the current location of the information receiving user corresponds to the provided information Transmitting the provision information corresponding to the specific position to the portable device of the information receiving user when it is located within a geographical range corresponding to the specific position.

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