JP2018041182A - Information processing device, information processing method and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a user to easily select a restaurant by allowing the user to retrieve restaurants with a taste or texture interesting to the user as a retrieval condition and allowing the user to grasp a menu of each restaurant corresponding to the taste or texture in a list of the retrieval results.SOLUTION: An information processing device includes storage means, communication means and control means. The storage means stores restaurant information including menu information about a plurality of menus which can be provided by a plurality of restaurants. The communication means can communicate with a user terminal. The control means creates a list of restaurant information columns of each restaurant which includes a menu corresponding to a keyword in the menu information on the basis of the restaurant information, and controls the communication means so as to transmit a retrieval result page publishing corresponding menu information showing at least one menu corresponding to the keyword among menus providable by each restaurant on the list of restaurant information columns to the user terminal in the case of receiving a restaurant retrieval request with a keyword about taste or texture as a retrieval condition from the user terminal.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that can provide information about restaurants.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there is a restaurant information providing system that can search for restaurants by location, category, and the like and can provide information on the searched restaurants.

  For example, in the following Patent Document 1, when a user inputs a desired meal type such as Japanese food, Chinese food, Western food, etc., the restaurant is searched using the current location around the vehicle and the input meal type as search conditions, When a list of restaurants that meet the conditions is displayed and the user selects one restaurant, a list of menus provided by the restaurant is displayed. When the user selects a menu from the list of menus and designates a visit time A car navigation system for reserving the restaurant at the store visit time is described.

JP 2002-310686 A

  However, in the technique described in Patent Document 1, although a restaurant can be searched by a category of restaurant such as Japanese food or Chinese food, a menu of taste and texture that the user wants to eat among the menus belonging to that category. To find a menu, select one restaurant from the list of searched restaurants and display the menu list, and grasp or imagine the menu of the taste and texture you want to eat from the menu name etc. There is only.

  In view of the circumstances as described above, an object of the present invention is to search a restaurant using a taste or texture that the user is interested in as a search condition, and to each restaurant corresponding to the taste or texture in a list of search results. It is to provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that allow a user to grasp the menu and thereby make it easy to select a restaurant.

  In order to achieve the above object, an information processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes a storage unit, a communication unit, and a control unit. The said memory | storage means memorize | stores the restaurant information containing the menu information regarding the some menu which a some restaurant can provide. The communication means can communicate with a user terminal. When the control means receives a restaurant search request using a keyword relating to taste or texture from the user terminal as a search condition, the control means includes a menu corresponding to the keyword in the menu information based on the restaurant information. A search result in which a restaurant information column list for each restaurant is generated and corresponding menu information indicating at least one menu corresponding to the keyword among the menus that can be provided by each restaurant on the restaurant information column list is posted The communication means can be controlled to transmit a page to the user terminal.

  Thus, when the information processing apparatus searches for a restaurant using the taste or texture that the user is interested in as a search condition, the menu of each restaurant corresponding to the taste or texture in the list of the restaurant information column of the search result By displaying, the user can grasp a menu that matches the taste or texture from the list, and based on that, the user can select a desired restaurant. Here, the restaurant information columns of different restaurants are listed in the restaurant information column list. That is, when the number of listed corresponding menu information for each restaurant information column is one, the total number of restaurants corresponding to the restaurant information on the restaurant information column list, and the total number of the corresponding menu information Match. The corresponding menu information may be text data of a corresponding menu name, or image data such as a photograph showing a corresponding menu. The keywords related to taste or texture are, for example, sweet (sweet), bitter (bitter), sour (sour), salty (salty), umami, spicy, extremely hot, sweet and sour, greasy, refreshing, light, creamy , Mellow, fragrant, fluffy, crispy, crunchy, crisp, moist, moist, juicy, rich, etc., but are not limited to these.

  The storage means may store the menu information in association with different levels of the taste or texture. In this case, the control means corresponds to the keyword related to the taste or texture, and the menu information includes a menu associated with a particular level of taste or texture in the taste or texture. A restaurant information column list may be generated, and the corresponding menu information indicating a menu associated with the particular level of taste or texture may be posted on the search result page.

  Thereby, the information processing apparatus searches for restaurants by a menu corresponding to the level of the taste or texture corresponding to the keyword, not just the taste or texture, and allows the user to grasp the corresponding menu information corresponding to the level. The restaurant can be selected by. For example, if the taste is “spicy”, the level is higher than the standard level of hotness (such as “very hot”, “very hot”, “very hot”, “very hot”) ) And lower levels (corresponding to keywords such as “slightly spicy”, “spicy”, “slightly spicy”, “slightly spicy”).

  Further, when the storage means stores the menu information in association with different levels of the taste or texture, the control means includes a menu corresponding to the keyword related to the taste or texture, The above-mentioned restaurant information column list of restaurants that includes a menu associated with a taste or texture of a level above a predetermined level in the menu information, and a menu associated with a taste or texture above that level The corresponding menu information indicating that may be posted on the search result page.

  As a result, the information processing device allows a user who wants a menu that is not satisfied with the normal level of taste or texture among the favorite tastes or textures to grasp the restaurant that provides the menu. Can do.

  When the storage means stores the menu information in association with different levels of the taste or texture, the control means associates with a menu corresponding to the keyword related to the taste or texture. The determined taste or texture level may be determined, and information indicating the determined level may be posted on the search result page together with the corresponding menu information.

  Thereby, the information processing apparatus is not a mere taste or texture, but to which level of the taste or texture the menu corresponding to the taste or texture belongs (for example, not just a spicy menu, It is possible to make the user grasp a spicy menu or a spicy menu and thereby select a restaurant. Here, the information indicating the level is, for example, an image of a number of stars or the like corresponding to the level, or a number or a color indicating the level, but is not limited thereto.

  The said memory | storage means may memorize | store the information regarding the typical taste or food texture of each said menu. In this case, the control means includes a menu corresponding to a taste or texture different from the representative taste or texture among the menus corresponding to the keyword related to the taste or texture, and the menu information includes the menu corresponding to the taste or texture. A restaurant information column list may be generated, and the corresponding menu information indicating a menu corresponding to the different taste or texture may be posted on the search result page.

  Accordingly, the information processing apparatus can allow a user who desires a menu of unusual taste or texture different from the taste or texture of the menu to know the restaurant that provides the menu.

  The communication means may be able to communicate with a restaurant terminal of each restaurant. In this case, the control means controls the communication means so as to receive information indicating the taste or texture and information indicating a level in the taste or texture for each menu from the restaurant terminals. The storage means may be controlled to store the received information.

  Accordingly, the information processing device receives information indicating the level of the taste or texture of each menu that is different for each restaurant from each restaurant terminal, thereby leveling each taste or texture based on a different standard for each restaurant. Can be searched at once.

  The control means may set a hyperlink to the menu list page generated based on the stored menu information in the corresponding menu information.

  Thereby, the information processing apparatus can grasp other menus in addition to the menu of taste or texture that the user mainly wants to eat at restaurants where the user is interested.

  When a restaurant that includes a plurality of menus corresponding to the keyword set as the search condition is searched for in the menu information, the control means sets one menu among the plurality of menus in each restaurant information column. May be posted.

  As a result, the information processing apparatus can prevent the space required for displaying the restaurant information column from becoming large and the listability from being impaired, and a plurality of restaurant information columns can be generated and displayed for each restaurant. It is possible to prevent complications and easily select a restaurant that is of interest to the user.

  The said control means may determine the number of corresponding menu information published in each said restaurant information column according to the area set about the said restaurant information column.

  Thereby, the information processing apparatus can display a plurality of corresponding menu information if there is room in the restaurant information column. The information processing apparatus may determine the number of corresponding menu information to be posted according to the length of the restaurant information column in the scroll direction of the search result page in the user terminal.

  The said memory | storage means may memorize | store several image data regarding each said restaurant as said restaurant information for every restaurant. In this case, the control means may post image data corresponding to the keyword set as the search condition among the plurality of image data in each restaurant information column.

  Thus, the information processing apparatus can easily grasp the appearance of the menu that the user wants to eat from the images, and each of the images corresponding to the keyword set as the search condition among the plurality of images related to one restaurant By displaying it in the restaurant information column, it is possible to prevent an image unrelated to the menu that the user is interested in from being displayed, and to check the appearance of the menu according to the taste or texture of the menu. A store can be selected.

  When the search condition includes a keyword related to the taste or texture and a keyword other than the keyword related to the taste or texture, the number of keywords other than the keyword related to the taste or texture is determined. The smaller the number, the higher the posting priority of the corresponding menu information in each restaurant information column.

  Accordingly, the information processing apparatus can cause the user to preferentially browse the corresponding menu information as the importance of the taste or texture as a search condition for the user is higher. Here, the posting priority includes a display position (for example, the higher the priority is, the higher the priority is), a font size (for example, the higher the priority is, the higher).

An information processing method according to another aspect of the present invention includes:
A restaurant search request is received from the user terminal with keywords relating to taste or texture as search conditions,
Based on restaurant information including menu information on a plurality of menus that can be provided by a plurality of restaurants, generate a restaurant information column list for each restaurant including the menu corresponding to the keyword in the menu information,
Transmitting a search result page on which corresponding menu information indicating at least one menu corresponding to the keyword among the menus that can be provided by each restaurant on the restaurant information column list is transmitted to the user terminal.

A program according to another embodiment of the present invention is provided in an information processing device.
Receiving a restaurant search request from a user terminal using a keyword relating to taste or texture as a search condition;
Based on restaurant information including menu information on a plurality of menus that can be provided by a plurality of restaurants, generating a restaurant information column list for each restaurant including the menu corresponding to the keyword in the menu information;
Transmitting a search result page on which the corresponding menu information indicating at least one menu corresponding to the keyword among the menus that can be provided by each restaurant on the restaurant information column list is transmitted to the user terminal. .

  As described above, according to the present invention, a restaurant is searched using a taste or texture that the user is interested in as a search condition, and the menu of each restaurant corresponding to the taste or texture in the search result list. Can be grasped by the user, thereby making it easier to select a restaurant. However, this effect does not limit the present invention.

It is the figure which showed the structure of the restaurant information provision system which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is the figure which showed the hardware constitutions of the restaurant information provision server which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is the figure which showed the structure of the database which the restaurant information provision server which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention has. It is the flowchart which showed the flow of the restaurant information provision process by the restaurant information provision server which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is the figure which showed an example of the restaurant search result page displayed on a user terminal in one Embodiment of this invention. It is the figure which showed the other example of the restaurant search result page displayed on a user terminal in one Embodiment of this invention.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

[System configuration]
FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a restaurant information providing system according to the present embodiment.

  As shown in the figure, this system includes a restaurant information providing server 100 on the Internet 50 and a plurality of user terminals 200.

  The restaurant information providing server 100 is a web server that operates a portal site that posts information about restaurants. The restaurant information providing server 100 is connected to a plurality of user terminals 200 via the Internet 50.

  The restaurant information providing server 100 provides a restaurant information search system for the user of the user terminal 200 in the portal site. Specifically, the restaurant information providing server 100 searches for restaurant information that matches the search condition based on a search request from the user terminal 200, generates a Web page on which the search result is posted, and sends it to the user terminal 200. Send.

  The user terminal 200 (200A, 200B, 200C ...) is a terminal used by a user, and is, for example, a smartphone, a mobile phone, a tablet PC (Personal Computer), a notebook PC, a desktop PC, or the like. The user terminal 200 accesses the restaurant information providing server 100, receives the Web page, and displays it on the screen using a browser or the like.

  The user terminal 200 determines a restaurant search condition based on a user operation, and transmits a restaurant search request based on the search condition to the restaurant information providing server 100. In the present embodiment, a search request can be transmitted by the user of the user terminal 200 selecting a preset search condition such as a restaurant location (nearest station) or category, and the user can use a keyword as a search condition. The search request can be transmitted by inputting. The keyword may be, for example, a keyword related to taste or texture in addition to the location, category, and restaurant name. In the following description, a case will be described in which keywords relating to taste or texture are included as keywords as search conditions.

[Hardware configuration of restaurant information providing server]
FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of the restaurant information providing server 100. As shown in the figure, a restaurant information providing server 100 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 11, a ROM (Read Only Memory) 12, a RAM (Random Access Memory) 13, an input / output interface 15, and these components connected to each other. A bus 14 is provided.

  CPU11 accesses RAM13 grade | etc., Suitably as needed, and controls each whole block of the restaurant information provision server 100 centrally, performing various arithmetic processing. The ROM 12 is a non-volatile memory in which an OS to be executed by the CPU 11, firmware such as programs and various parameters are fixedly stored. The RAM 13 is used as a work area for the CPU 11 and temporarily holds the OS, various applications being executed, and various data being processed.

  A display unit 16, an operation receiving unit 17, a storage unit 18, a communication unit 19, and the like are connected to the input / output interface 15.

  The display unit 16 is a display device using, for example, an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display), an OELD (Organic ElectroLuminescence Display), a CRT (Cathode Ray Tube), or the like.

  The operation reception unit 17 is, for example, a pointing device such as a mouse, a keyboard, a touch panel, and other input devices. When the operation reception unit 17 is a touch panel, the touch panel can be integrated with the display unit 16.

  The storage unit 18 is a non-volatile memory such as an HDD (Hard Disk Drive), a flash memory (SSD; Solid State Drive), or other solid-state memory. The storage unit 18 stores the OS, various applications, and various data.

  In particular, in the present embodiment, in response to a restaurant search request including a keyword related to taste or texture from the user terminal 200, a restaurant information list of restaurants that provides the user terminal 200 with a menu corresponding to the taste or texture. The program and data required for the process (restaurant information providing process) for returning the search result page on which is posted are stored. Although mentioned later, the memory | storage part 18 has a restaurant information database, a user information database, and a taste-menu corresponding | compatible information database as a database containing such data.

  The communication unit 19 is a wireless communication module such as an Ethernet NIC (Network Interface Card) or a wireless LAN, and is responsible for communication processing with the user terminal 200.

  Although not shown, the basic hardware configuration of the user terminal 200 is substantially the same as the hardware configuration of the restaurant information providing server 100.

[Database configuration of restaurant information server]
FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a configuration of a database included in the restaurant information providing server 100.

  As shown in the figure, the restaurant information providing server 100 has a restaurant information database 31, a user information database 32, and a taste-menu correspondence information database 33 in the storage unit 18.

  The restaurant information database 31 includes, for each restaurant, the store name and location information of the restaurant, the ID (store ID) for identifying the restaurant, the category information of the restaurant business type and service, and the restaurant. , That is, information indicating the characteristics of the store, such as PR statements of the store, event information performed by the restaurant, area information where the restaurant is located, restaurant address, telephone number, restaurant ( Stores image data (introducing stores), menu information about menus provided by restaurants, business hours, website URLs, and the like.

  The menu information is information corresponding to a menu posted on each restaurant site on the portal site, and stores menu names of a plurality of menus that each restaurant can provide for each restaurant. . The menu information may be stored for each menu category such as appetizer / main and lunch / dinner / course. If the image data corresponds to a menu, the image data is stored in association with the menu information.

  The area information is, for example, in units of prefectures, but information may be stored in units of a narrower range such as municipalities. The category information may include, for example, main categories such as Japanese food, Chinese, Italian, French, and yakiniku, and more detailed subcategories such as yakitori and tempura in Japanese food, pasta and pizza in Italian, and the like.

  The user information database 32 stores information about a user who owns the user terminal 200 and is a user (member) of a restaurant information service through the portal site provided by the restaurant information providing server 100. Specifically, the user information database 32 stores information such as a user ID, a password, a name, an e-mail address, a telephone number, an address, an age (layer), a sex, and a birthday for each user.

  The taste-menu correspondence information database 33 stores keywords relating to taste or texture in association with each menu (and corresponding image data) included in the menu information in the restaurant information.

  The keywords related to the taste or texture are created by, for example, an administrator of the restaurant information providing server 100 based on an impression that the user will have when viewing an image corresponding to the menu in the menu information. The taste-menu correspondence information database 33 is input. The keywords relating to the taste or texture are, for example, sweet (sweet), bitter (bitter), sour (sour), salty (salty), umami, spicy, extremely hot, sweet and sour, greasy, refreshing, refreshing, creamy, It is mellow, fragrant, fluffy, crispy, crispy, crisp, moist, awkward, juicy, rich, but not limited to these.

  In addition, the taste-menu correspondence information database 33 may associate keywords representing tastes and textures that cannot be grasped only by a user looking at an image corresponding to the menu with the menu. For example, when a menu of cakes that looks normal but does not have an actual taste is not sweet, a keyword of “spicy” may be associated with the menu of the cake.

  In addition, the taste-menu correspondence information database 33 may associate the same taste and texture with a menu for each of a plurality of stages (levels). Specifically, on the basis of a certain standard taste or texture, a higher (strong) level and a lower (weak) level taste or texture are set, and a menu corresponding to each level is set. It may be associated. For example, with regard to the taste of “sweet”, in addition to the keyword “sweet” that represents the standard sweetness, keywords such as “very sweet” and “very sweet” that represent a higher level of sweetness than the standard, and lower In addition to keywords such as “slightly sweet” and “slightly sweet” that indicate the sweetness of the level, and “spicy” that indicates the standard hotness, “very hot” that indicates a higher level of hotness than the standard , Keywords such as “very hot”, and keywords such as “slightly hot”, “little hot”, and “spicy” that indicate a lower level of hotness than the standard. Menus may be associated.

  The level may be set in common for all restaurants according to a uniform standard set by the restaurant information providing server 100, or may be set for each restaurant according to a unique standard. For example, for the same “spicy” taste, in the case of the former, even if each restaurant does not recognize it as a hot menu, for example, the menu recognized as very hot based on the taste of ordinary people is the standard Corresponds to a higher level than the painfulness. On the other hand, in the latter case, since the level is set according to the subjectivity of the restaurant side, for example, the level of hotness in restaurants that provide a generally spicy menu, such as Sichuan restaurant, is a menu for children. It is different from the level of hotness in the family restaurant that provides the menu, and the menu associated with the standard hotness in the Sichuan restaurant may be associated with extreme hotness in the family restaurant. In the latter case, the taste-menu correspondence information database 33 stores the menu and the taste or texture level in association with each restaurant.

  When each restaurant defines the standard of the taste or texture level, the restaurant information providing server 100 registers the menu information in each restaurant via the communication unit 19 when the menu information is registered. An interface for associating these may be provided. That is, the restaurant information providing server 100 provides a management screen for creating / updating restaurant information of each restaurant on the portal site so as to be accessible from each restaurant terminal, and registering a menu on the management screen. On the screen, for example, a taste / texture input field and a taste / texture level input field may be provided. As a result, the manager of each restaurant inputs the taste or texture of each menu and the level determined by each restaurant for the taste or texture to each input field via the restaurant terminal. By transmitting the information to the store information providing server 100, the restaurant information providing server 100 can register the information in the taste-menu correspondence information database 33.

  Each of these databases is used by referring to each other as necessary in the restaurant information providing process by the restaurant information providing server 100 described later. In particular, when there is a restaurant search request by keyword from the user terminal 200, the taste-menu correspondence information database 33 is also referred to together with the menu information in the restaurant information database 31.

[Operation of restaurant information provision server]
Next, operation | movement of the restaurant information provision server 100 comprised as mentioned above is demonstrated. The operation is executed in cooperation with the hardware such as the CPU 11 and the communication unit 19 of the restaurant information providing server 100 and the software stored in the storage unit 18. In the following description, for the sake of convenience, the CPU 11 is an operation subject.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the flow of restaurant information provision processing by the restaurant information provision server 100.

  As shown in the figure, the CPU 11 of the restaurant information providing server 100 first determines from the user terminal 200 whether or not a restaurant search request including a keyword related to taste or texture is received as a search condition ( Step 41).

  When it is determined that a search request including a keyword related to taste or texture is received as a search condition (Yes), the CPU 11 extracts a menu corresponding to the keyword from the taste-menu correspondence information database 33, and the extracted The restaurant including the menu in the menu information is searched from the restaurant information database 31 (step 42).

  Subsequently, as a result of the search, the CPU 11 determines whether there is a menu corresponding to the keyword and whether there is a restaurant that includes the extracted menu in the menu information (step 43).

  When there is no menu corresponding to the keyword and when it is determined that there is no restaurant that includes the extracted menu in the menu information in the restaurant information (No), the restaurant that matches the search condition Is generated (step 48), and is transmitted to the search request source user terminal 200 (step 49).

On the other hand, when it is determined that there is a restaurant that includes the extracted menu in the menu information (Yes), the CPU 11 extracts the restaurant information for each restaurant from the restaurant information database 31 and the restaurant information. Based on the above, a list of restaurant information posting columns (store cassettes) is generated (step 44).
Subsequently, the CPU 11 determines whether or not there are a plurality of menu names corresponding to the keywords relating to the taste or texture in the menu information of each restaurant information (step 45).

  If it is determined that there are a plurality of menu names corresponding to the keywords in the menu information of the restaurant information of any restaurant (Yes), the CPU 11 extracts one from the plurality of menu names ( Step 46). As the extraction method, for example, in the menu information list of each restaurant, the menu name posted at the top of the plurality of menu names may be extracted or may be extracted randomly.

  When one menu name is extracted from the plurality of menu names in step 46 or when only one menu name corresponding to the keyword exists in step 45 (No), the CPU 11 One menu name is posted in the store cassette as the corresponding menu information of a keyword related to taste or texture, and a hyperlink to the menu list information of the restaurant corresponding to the store cassette is set in the menu name ( Step 47).

  The processing of step 44 to step 47 is executed for each restaurant corresponding to the store cassette.

  And CPU11 produces | generates the store cassette list containing the said corresponding | compatible menu information as a restaurant search result page (step 48), and transmits it to the user terminal 200 of a search request origin (step 49).

  5 and 6 are diagrams illustrating examples of restaurant search result pages generated by the restaurant information providing server 100 and displayed on the display unit of each user terminal 200. FIG. Both figures are display examples when the user terminal 200 is a smartphone, and when the user terminal 200 is a notebook PC or a tablet PC, the display modes differ depending on the sizes of the display units.

  As shown in the figure, the restaurant search result page includes a list of store cassettes 54 for each searched restaurant. Only one store cassette 54 is provided for one restaurant, and a plurality of store cassettes 54 are not provided for the same restaurant. In addition, an area / station name input box 51, a taste / texture keyword input box 52, and a search button 53 are provided, for example, at the top of the list of the store cassette 54.

  These input box and search button 53 are also displayed on a search request screen (not shown) when the user terminal 200 transmits a search request to the restaurant information providing server 100 and are also reflected on the search result page as it is. . In the example of FIG. 5, “Ginza” is input in the area / station name input box 51 on the search request screen, “Koteri” is input in the taste / texture keyword input box 52, and the search request is transmitted by the search button 53. It is an example of a search result page in the case of. The example of FIG. 6 is an example of a search result page in the case where “spicy” is entered in the taste / texture keyword input box 52 of FIG. is there.

  In the search request screen, it is possible to select a mode for searching for restaurants by a keyword related to taste or texture in addition to an area or a station, and a mode for searching by other keywords. And the example of FIG. 6 is an example of a screen when the former mode is selected.

  Each store cassette 54 includes, for example, basic information such as restaurant names, restaurant access information, average budget information, vacancy information on the day, restaurant introduction images 55, and the above-mentioned taste / texture keywords. Corresponding menu information 56 corresponding to the keyword input in the input box 52 is included.

  As described above, the corresponding menu information 56 is extracted from the menu information of the restaurant information of each restaurant by referring to the taste-menu corresponding information database 33. As shown in FIG. 5, when “kottori” is input as a keyword relating to taste or texture, “rich carbonara” and “back oil tonkotsu ramen” are menus that the user will have an impression of “taste”. Menu information corresponding to each restaurant such as “extra-sized cheese in hamburger” is extracted and displayed as corresponding menu information 56. In addition, as shown in FIG. 6, when “spicy” is input as a keyword related to taste or texture, the menus that the user will have an impression of “spicy” are “Shikawa Danmen”, “special spicy curry” "," Spicy miso ramen "menu information corresponding to each restaurant is extracted and displayed as corresponding menu information 56.

  Although not shown, when a keyword corresponding to a specific level in the same taste or texture is input to the taste / texture keyword input box 52 and a search request is transmitted, the restaurant information providing server 100 A search limited to the specific level of taste and texture of the taste and texture is executed. For example, when the keyword “extremely spicy” is input, only the menu associated with a higher level of spiciness than the standard spiciness is searched from the spicy menu in the taste-menu correspondence information database 33, The corresponding menu information 56 is displayed in the store cassette 54 of the restaurant having the menu.

  When a keyword related to a certain taste or texture is input to the taste / texture keyword input box 52 and a search request is transmitted, the restaurant information providing server 100 corresponds to the searched keyword in the search result page. For each menu, the taste or texture level to which they belong may be displayed. For example, when the keyword “spicy” is input, it is determined from the taste-menu correspondence information database 33 to which level the searched menu belongs to the standard hotness from the taste-menu correspondence information database 33. Information indicating the level may be displayed at a position adjacent to the corresponding menu information 56, for example. The information indicating the level includes, for example, images such as a number of stars corresponding to the level, numbers and colors indicating the level, but is not limited thereto.

  In addition, as described above, when the standard of the taste or texture level is different for each restaurant, the taste and texture of the menu corresponding to the keyword may be different according to the standard of each restaurant. For example, if the keyword "extremely hot" is entered, a menu associated with a higher level than standard spiciness at one restaurant will correspond to standard spicy at other restaurants with a high spicy standard. In some cases, the former is posted but the latter is not posted on the search result page.

  As described above, in the present embodiment, the number of corresponding menu information 56 listed is only one for the store cassette 54. Therefore, in the list of store cassettes 54, the total number of store cassettes 54 (corresponding to restaurants) and the total number of corresponding menu information 56 posted on the store cassette 54 match. That is, the list of the store cassettes 54 is generated when the menu name is included in the search condition, but is displayed only as a restaurant search result page, and the menu name input as the keyword Even if a plurality of menus including are included in the menu information of one restaurant, a plurality of store cassettes 54 of the same restaurant are not generated correspondingly. Therefore, the user can select a restaurant that he / she wants to visit (interests) while referring to the corresponding menu information 56 by browsing the list of the store cassette 54. This also prevents an increase in the space required for display of each store cassette 54 and a loss of listing, and prevents a plurality of store cassettes 54 from being generated for each restaurant and making the display complicated. Therefore, the user can easily select an interested restaurant.

  Further, as described above, the corresponding menu information 56 includes a hyperlink to the menu information page of the restaurant information of each restaurant. Therefore, when the corresponding menu information 56 in the store cassette is clicked or tapped on the user terminal 200, the page transitions to the menu information page of the restaurant corresponding to the store cassette.

  Each restaurant name in each store cassette is set with a hyperlink to the top page of the restaurant information of each restaurant, and when the restaurant name is clicked or tapped on the user terminal 200 The page transitions to the top page of each restaurant.

  Here, CPU11 of the restaurant information provision server 100 is designated as an image with high priority by each restaurant from the plurality of images stored in the restaurant information database 31 as the restaurant introduction image 55, for example. However, if there is an image corresponding to the menu name corresponding to the keyword related to the taste or the texture, the image is extracted and posted. May be. Therefore, in this case, even if the restaurants listed on the search result page are the same, the restaurant introduction image 55 may be different if the menu names corresponding to the keywords relating to taste or texture are different. Thereby, the restaurant information providing server 100 can visually grasp the menu of the taste or texture that the user of the user terminal 200 wants to eat (interest) together with the corresponding menu information 56. In addition, the restaurant information providing server 100 prevents an image that is not related to a menu that the user is interested in from being displayed, and is interested in eating and drinking while checking the appearance according to the taste or texture of the menu. A store can be selected.

[Summary]
As described above, according to the present embodiment, when the restaurant information providing server 100 requests a search for a restaurant using a keyword related to a taste or texture that the user is interested in as a search condition, the store on the search result page is displayed. By displaying the corresponding menu information of each restaurant corresponding to the taste or texture in the list of the cassette 54, the user can grasp the menu that matches the taste or texture from the list of the store cassette 54. It is possible to make the user select a desired restaurant based on this.

[Modification]
The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the present disclosure.

  In the above-described embodiment, when a keyword related to taste or texture is input, a restaurant having a menu corresponding to the level of the taste or texture is searched, and the corresponding menu information 56 is included in the search result page. Published as store cassette 54. However, when a keyword related to the taste or texture is input, the restaurant information providing server 100 searches only for restaurants having a menu associated with a level equal to or higher than a predetermined level for the taste or texture. May be. For example, when the keyword “spicy” is input, only restaurants having a menu associated with a level of “very hot” that is hotter than the standard may be searched among restaurants having a spicy menu. As a result, a user who wants a menu that is not satisfied with the normal level of taste or texture among the favorite tastes or textures and that has a distinctive feature can be made aware of the restaurant that provides the menu.

  In addition to the association in the taste-menu correspondence information database 33, for each menu, the typical and typical taste and texture (for example, “spicy” for curry or mapo tofu, cake If it is “sweet”, the above-mentioned is associated in advance, and when a search request based on a keyword related to the taste and texture is transmitted, the taste and texture different from such general taste and texture A restaurant having a menu associated with the taste-menu correspondence information database 33 may be searched. For example, when a keyword “spicy” is input, a restaurant having a menu of cakes associated with the keyword “spicy” is searched out of cakes that generally belong to the taste “sweet”. Also good. As a result, a user who desires a menu of unusual taste or texture different from the taste or texture that the menu usually has can be made aware of the restaurant that provides the menu.

  In the embodiment described above, only the area / station name input box 51 is shown in addition to the taste / texture keyword input box 52 as the keyword input box. However, in addition to the area / station name, keywords of other types (for example, genre, menu name, etc.) may be input as search conditions. In this case, if the search condition includes a keyword related to the taste or texture and other keywords (for example, area / station name, genre, other keywords), the keyword related to the taste or texture. The posting priority of the corresponding menu information 56 in each store cassette 54 may be set higher as the number of other keywords is smaller.

  That is, since it is presumed that the keyword related to the taste or the texture is more important for the user of the user terminal 200 as the number of keywords other than the keyword related to the taste or the texture is small, such a case. The CPU 11 publishes the corresponding menu information 56 in the store cassette 54 so as to be easily recognized by the user (conspicuously). On the contrary, if the number of keywords other than the keywords related to the taste or the texture is large, the degree of interest in the taste or the texture is relatively low for the user. Therefore, the CPU 11 displays the corresponding menu information 56 in the store cassette 54. Although it does, it does not have to be posted more prominently than other information.

  For example, as the number of keywords other than the keywords relating to taste or texture is smaller, the CPU 11 places the corresponding menu information 56 on the upper position in the store cassette 54 or increases the font size of the corresponding menu information 56. You may make the font thicker.

  Moreover, in the above-mentioned embodiment, when the user terminal 200 transmits a restaurant search request to the restaurant information providing server 100, a combination of a keyword indicating the area / station name of the restaurant and a keyword related to taste or texture. The restaurant information providing server 100 searches the restaurant information database 31 for all the restaurant information in the restaurant information database 31. However, the keyword may be input only to keywords related to taste or texture. In this case, the restaurant information providing server 100 searches the restaurant for only the menu information in the restaurant information database 31 with reference to the taste-menu correspondence information database 33 for the input keyword. .

  In the above-described embodiment, when a plurality of menu names (corresponding menu information) corresponding to keywords relating to taste or texture are searched from the menu information of each restaurant, only one of them is extracted and posted. . However, a plurality of corresponding menu information may be posted. In that case, the CPU 11 of the restaurant information providing server 100 may determine the number of the corresponding menu information according to the area set for the store cassette 54.

  Alternatively, the CPU 11 may determine the number of the corresponding menu information according to the length of the store cassette 54 in the scroll direction of the search result page in the user terminal 200. Further, the length of the store cassette 54 may be determined by the number of restaurants searched for matching the search condition. Therefore, for example, when the number of searched restaurants is relatively small, the area of each store cassette 54 or the length in the scroll direction also becomes relatively large, and space is generated accordingly. The number of information may increase accordingly.

  In the above-described embodiment, in each store cassette on the search result page, corresponding menu information for a keyword related to taste or texture is posted as a menu name (text information). However, the corresponding menu information is used instead of text information. It may be posted as an image (photo). This image is an image stored in association with the menu name as menu information in the restaurant information database 31. In this case, the restaurant introduction image 55 may be posted on the store cassette 54 separately from the image as the corresponding menu information, or the restaurant introduction image 55 may not be posted.

  In the above-described embodiment, the restaurant information providing server 100 includes the taste-menu correspondence information database 33, stores the taste-related or taste-related keywords transmitted from the user terminal 200 in association with each other, and stores the correspondence. On the basis of the date, restaurants searching for menu information corresponding to the keyword were searched. However, there is no correspondence database such as the taste-menu correspondence information database 33, and menu names including keywords (or similar characters) related to taste or texture transmitted from the user terminal 200 are used as menu information. You may search the restaurant which has. In this case, the restaurant information providing server 100 performs a fuzzy search for keywords related to taste or texture transmitted from the user terminal 200, such as notation shaking or synonyms, expressions using aliases, and common typographical errors. Rules may be stored and used for restaurant search processing. For example, if the keyword is “spicy” in FIG. 6 above, a restaurant including the word “spicy” in the menu name is searched, and “spicy” like “spicy miso ramen” is synonymous with “spicy”. Restaurants that include the word “hot” in the menu name are also searched.

  Among the inventions described in the claims of the present application, the invention described as “information processing method” is such that each step is automatically performed by at least one device such as a computer by information processing by software. Yes, it is not performed by humans using devices such as computers. That is, the “information processing method” is an information processing method using computer software, and is not a method in which a human operates a computing tool called a computer.

11 ... CPU
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 18 ... Memory | storage part 19 ... Communication part 31 ... Restaurant information database 32 ... User information database 33 ... Taste-menu corresponding | compatible information database 52 ... Taste / texture keyword input box 54 ... Store cassette (restaurant information publication column)
55 ... Restaurant introduction image 56 ... Corresponding menu information 100 ... Restaurant information providing server 200 ... User terminal

Claims (8)

Storage means for storing restaurant information including menu information on a plurality of menus that can be provided by a plurality of restaurants;
A communication means capable of communicating with the user terminal;
When a restaurant search request using a keyword related to taste or texture as a search condition is received from the user terminal, a menu corresponding to the keyword is included in the menu information based on the restaurant information. A search result page that generates a store information column list and includes corresponding menu information indicating at least one menu corresponding to the keyword among menus that can be provided by each restaurant on the restaurant information column list is displayed on the user terminal. An information processing apparatus comprising: control means capable of controlling the communication means so as to transmit to the network. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,
The storage means stores the menu information in association with different levels of the taste or texture,
The control means corresponds to the keyword related to the taste or the texture, and the menu information includes a menu associated with a specific level of the taste or the texture in the taste or the texture. An information processing apparatus that generates an information column list and posts the corresponding menu information indicating a menu associated with the specific level of taste or texture on the search result page. An information processing apparatus according to claim 2,
The control means includes a menu associated with a taste or texture at a level equal to or higher than a predetermined level among the menus corresponding to the keywords related to the taste or texture. An information processing apparatus that generates a list and posts the corresponding menu information indicating a menu associated with a taste or texture higher than the level on the search result page. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,
The storage means stores the menu information in association with different levels of the taste or texture,
The control means determines a level of the taste or texture associated with a menu corresponding to the keyword related to the taste or texture, and searches the information indicating the determined level together with the corresponding menu information. Information processing device to be posted on the result page. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1,
The storage means stores information related to a typical taste or texture of each menu,
The control means includes the menu corresponding to a taste or texture different from the representative taste or texture among the menus corresponding to the keywords related to the taste or texture, the restaurant of the restaurant including the menu information. An information processing apparatus that generates an information column list and posts the corresponding menu information indicating a menu corresponding to the different taste or texture on the search result page. An information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 2 to 5,
The communication means can communicate with a restaurant terminal of each restaurant.
The control means controls the communication means to receive, from each restaurant terminal, information indicating the taste or texture and information indicating a level in the taste or texture for each menu, and the reception An information processing apparatus for controlling the storage means so as to store the processed information. A restaurant search request is received from the user terminal with keywords relating to taste or texture as search conditions,
Based on restaurant information including menu information on a plurality of menus that can be provided by a plurality of restaurants, generate a restaurant information column list for each restaurant including the menu corresponding to the keyword in the menu information,
An information processing method for transmitting, to the user terminal, a search result page in which corresponding menu information indicating at least one menu corresponding to the keyword among menus that can be provided by each restaurant on the restaurant information column list is posted. In the information processing device,
Receiving a restaurant search request from a user terminal using a keyword relating to taste or texture as a search condition;
Generating a restaurant information column list for each restaurant including the menu corresponding to the keyword in the menu information based on restaurant information including menu information on a plurality of menus that can be provided by a plurality of restaurants;
Transmitting a search result page including corresponding menu information indicating at least one menu corresponding to the keyword among menus that each restaurant can provide on the restaurant information column list to the user terminal. program.

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