JP2005157977A - Sightseeing information delivery apparatus and sightseeing information delivery system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sightseeing information delivery apparatus and sightseeing information delivery system by which useless information delivery to a mobile object terminal is prevented. <P>SOLUTION: A guide contents recorder 22b stores guide contents on a plurality of sightseeing objects located at a sightseeing site. A user previously selects, through a network 50, only the sightseeing object for which the delivery of the guide contents is desired out of the plurality of sightseeing objects, and transmits the sightseeing object as 'personal information' to a processing section 21. The processing section 21 searches a personal information recorder 22c and a guide contents recorder 22b based on the present position information on the user automatically transmitted, through the network 50, from the mobile object terminal 10 and delivers the guide contents on only the desired sightseeing object to the mobile object terminal 10. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a tourist information distribution device and a tourist information distribution system that use a mobile terminal capable of acquiring user position information to distribute specific information according to the acquired position information.

  Conventionally, current position information is obtained using a mobile terminal capable of obtaining user position information, for example, a mobile phone having a GPS (Global Positioning System) function, and specific information corresponding to the position information is obtained. Various information distribution systems for distributing to the mobile terminal have been proposed.

  Such an information distribution system is used for, for example, a guide service in a zoo or a sightseeing spot. FIG. 7 shows an example of a configuration of a tourism information distribution system that distributes guide contents to the user's mobile terminal 110.

  The tourism information distribution system 101 in FIG. 7 includes a mobile terminal 110 and a tourism information distribution apparatus 120 to which the mobile terminal 110 is connected via a network 150 such as the Internet.

  The mobile terminal 110 is, for example, a mobile phone having a GPS function, acquires current location information, and automatically transmits the location information to the tourist information distribution device 120 via the network 150 at regular intervals, for example. It has a function to do.

  The tourist information distribution device 120 includes a map recording device 122a, a guide content recording device 122b, and a processing unit 121 connected to both of the recording devices 122a and 122b.

  In the map recording device 122a, map data of sightseeing spots and the like are registered in advance. In the guide content recording device 122b, information (guide content) related to a sightseeing target existing in the sightseeing spot is registered in advance.

  The processing unit 121 searches the guide recording device 122a and the guide content recording device 122b according to the current position information of the user transmitted from the mobile terminal 110, and acquires the corresponding guide content from the guide content recording device 122b. The guide contents are distributed to the mobile terminal 110 via the network 150.

  The tourism information distribution system 101 configured as described above operates as follows.

  When a user moves in a predetermined tourist area while carrying the mobile terminal 110, the current location of the user is transmitted to the tourist information distribution device 120 at regular intervals as GPS location information and received by the processing unit 121. . The processing unit 121 searches for map data registered in advance in the map recording device 122a based on the position information. When the mobile terminal 110 is in a position close to a predetermined tourist object, the processing unit 121 reads out the guide contents related to the tourist object from the guide content recording device 122b, and the guide contents are transmitted via the network 150 to the mobile terminal. 110 is delivered.

  As described above, the tourist information distribution system 101 can transmit guide content suitable for the current position to a user who travels a tourist spot while carrying the mobile terminal 110.

A system that distributes specific information based on the current position of the user as described above is also proposed in, for example, Patent Document 1.
Japanese Patent Application No. 2002-245077

  However, in the information distribution system as described above, when approaching a plurality of sightseeing objects existing in a sightseeing spot, guide contents relating to the sightseeing objects are always transmitted to the mobile terminal. There was a case to be delivered.

  Then, an object of this invention is to provide the sightseeing information delivery apparatus and the sightseeing information delivery system which prevented delivering useless information with respect to a mobile terminal.

  To achieve the above object, a tourism information distribution apparatus according to the present invention includes a guide content recording apparatus in which guide contents relating to a plurality of tourism objects existing in a sightseeing spot are registered, and a user transmitted from a mobile terminal via a network. The position information of the user is acquired, the guide content corresponding to the position information is read from the guide content recording device based on the position information of the user, and the read guide is transmitted to the mobile terminal via the network. In a tourism information distribution device comprising a processing unit for distributing content, personal information including information about a tourism object that is selected from the plurality of tourism objects and for which the user wishes to distribute the guide contents is registered. A personal information recording device, wherein the processing unit searches the personal information based on the user's location information, and distributes the guide contents. The guide contents only related to the tourist objects is Nozomu, characterized in that for delivery to the mobile terminal.

  In addition, a mobile terminal capable of acquiring user location information and transmitting the user location information via a network is connected to the tourism information distribution device according to the present invention via the network. A tourism information distribution system according to the invention is configured.

  According to the tourism information distribution device and the tourism information distribution system of the present invention, the user selects, in advance, only the tourism object for which distribution of the guide content is desired from among a plurality of tourism objects as the “personal information”. Therefore, the guide contents related only to the desired sightseeing object are distributed. Therefore, useless information is prevented from being distributed to the user's mobile terminal.

  According to the tourism information distribution device and the tourism information distribution system of the present invention, it is possible to distribute useless guide contents to a user's mobile terminal by making it possible to select in advance a tourist object for which guide contents are desired to be distributed. This makes it possible for users to enjoy sightseeing more efficiently and efficiently.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a tourism information distribution system 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

  The tourist information distribution system 1 in FIG. 1 is similar to the conventional tourist information distribution system 101 shown in FIG. 7 and includes tourist information to which the mobile terminal 10 is connected via a network 50 such as the Internet. And a distribution device 20. In FIG. 1, only one mobile terminal 10 is illustrated for simplicity of explanation, but the number of mobile terminals 10 is not limited to one.

  The mobile terminal 10 is a device that can be carried and carried by a user, such as a mobile phone having a GPS function or a portable personal computer having the same function. Although not shown, the mobile terminal 10 is distributed from a GPS receiving unit that receives radio waves from GPS satellites at regular intervals, a transmitting / receiving unit that transmits / receives data to / from the network 50, and a tourist information distribution device 20. It has a display unit that displays the guide contents and a control unit that controls driving of the guide. The control unit automatically transmits the GPS position information received by the GPS receiving unit to the network 50 at regular intervals. Control each part to do. In addition, the mobile terminal 10 includes software such as a web browser for enabling transmission of position information and browsing of guide contents distributed from the tourist information distribution device 20.

  The tourism information distribution device 20 is an information processing device such as a server, for example, and includes a map recording device 22a, a guide content recording device 22b, and a processing unit 21, and further stores personal information of the user. A device 22c is newly provided. Each of the recording devices 22a, 22b, 22c and the processing unit 21 are connected to each other.

  Map data of a predetermined sightseeing spot is registered in advance in the map recording device 22a.

  FIG. 2 exemplarily shows each data in “sightseeing spot”. As shown in this map data 25a, it is assumed that there are a plurality of “stop spots” in the “sightseeing spot”, and that there are a plurality of “tour points” for each “stop spot”. Both “stop spot” and “tourist point” can be handled as “tourist object” in the present invention, but in order to simplify the description, hereinafter, the tourist information distribution system 1 in FIG. In the following description, it is assumed that the user selects only a desired “stop spot” from a plurality of “stop spots” as “tourist object”.

  The map data 25a includes information on each “sightseeing point” (for example, a well, a gate, a Buddha image at A temple), information on “GPS classification” that is position information on each “touristing point”, and each “tourism”. “Guide content code” for the guide content corresponding to “Point” is included.

  The “guide content code” functions as an identifier that associates a guide content (see FIG. 4) described later with each “tourist point” in FIG.

  FIG. 3 is a map showing the entire “A temple”, which is one of the “stop spots”. As shown in this map 30, the map 30 is divided into a plurality of GPS sections 30a. Further, the position information of the GPS section 30a corresponding to “sightseeing points” such as a well, a gate, and a Buddha image is registered in the “GPS section” of the map data 25a in FIG.

  In the guide content recording device 22b, the guide content for each “sightseeing point” as shown in FIG. 4 is registered in advance in the form of information such as voice (guide announcement), image (photo, etc.), and text. The guide content 25b shown in FIG. 4A includes the guide content A that is character information and the guide content B that is image information, and these guide contents are combined, as shown in FIG. 4B. The final guide content is generated.

  Personal information 25c as shown in FIG. 5 is registered in the personal information recording device 22c. The personal information 25c includes the “address (e-mail address)” of the user terminal 10 that is the distribution destination of the guide content, the information of “stop spot” that the user desires to distribute the guide content, and the guide content by the user. Information of “distribution period”, which is a period in which the distribution of data is desired. The “personal information” may include “name”, “sex”, “age”, and the like in addition to these items.

  For registration of the personal information 25c, software such as a web browser of the mobile terminal 10 is started, the mobile terminal 10 is connected to the tourist information distribution apparatus 20 via the network 50, and the above-mentioned information is displayed on the homepage arranged there. This can be done by inputting each item. Of course, registration may be made by connecting to the home page from a personal computer at home.

  Based on the function of registering new data in each of the recording devices 22a, 22b, and 22c, and the location information of the mobile terminal 10 transmitted from the mobile terminal 10, the processing unit 21 records each recording device 22a, 22b and 22c, a function of reading out desired data from registered data, and a function of transmitting the read data to the mobile terminal 10 via the network 50 are provided.

  The operation of the tourism information distribution system 1 configured as described above will be described below with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. The personal information of the user is the personal information 25c shown in FIG. 5, and the sightseeing points and maps of “A temple” are shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, respectively. In addition, it is assumed that the user selects only “A temple” among the “stop spots”.

  First, the user uses the mobile terminal 10 to obtain personal information 25c (see FIG. 5) as a processing unit of the tourism information distribution apparatus 20 in order to receive the service of the tourism information distribution system 1 of FIG. 21 (S1). Then, the processing unit 21 registers the personal information 25c in the personal information recording device 22c (S2).

  Next, the user takes a sightseeing tour while carrying the mobile terminal 10 with the personal information 25c registered in the personal information recording device 22c. Then, by driving the mobile terminal 10 so as to automatically transmit the current position information to the tourist information distribution apparatus 20 at regular intervals, the position information of the mobile terminal, that is, the position information of the user Is automatically transmitted to the processing unit 21 (S3).

  Next, the processing unit 21 searches the personal information recording device 22c based on the GPS position information, and the current position of the user is the “stop spot (tourist object)” of the personal information 25c registered in advance. It is determined whether it is within “A temple” (S4).

  When the current position of the user is not in “A temple”, the sightseeing information distribution system 1 ends the distribution operation of the guide content.

  When the current position of the user is within “A temple”, the processing unit 21 searches for map data 25a (see FIG. 2 or FIG. 3) in the map recording device 22b (S5).

  Next, the processing unit 21 determines whether or not the current position of the user is within any GPS segment 30a (see FIG. 3) of “sightseeing point (well, gate, Buddha)” within “A temple”. (S6).

  When the current position of the user is not in any GPS section where the “tourist point (well, gate, Buddha image)” exists, the tourist information distribution system 1 ends the guide content distribution operation.

  When the current position of the user is in any GPS section where “sightseeing points (wells, gates, Buddha statues)” exist, the processing unit 21 reads “guide content code” in the map data 25a (see FIG. 2). Based on the above, the guide content recording device 22b is searched, and for example, guide content corresponding to “sightseeing point (gate)” as shown in FIG. 4B is generated (S7).

  Next, the processing unit 21 immediately transmits the guide content generated in this way to the mobile terminal 10 via the network 50 (S8). Thereby, the guide content corresponding to the sightseeing point as shown in FIG. 4B is displayed on the display unit (not shown) of the mobile terminal 10 and is acquired by the user.

  The above series of operations may be performed each time the current position information is received from the mobile terminal 10 at regular intervals. Thereby, the guide content suitable for the user's position is distributed in real time. Therefore, when the user finishes looking at one sightseeing point and approaches another sightseeing point, the guide content of the other sightseeing point is newly transmitted to the mobile terminal by the above-described series of operations.

  In the tourism information distribution system 1 described above, the user selects in advance only “stop spots” for which guide contents are desired to be distributed from a plurality of “stop spots” as the “personal information”. Only the guide content related to the desired “stop spot” is distributed. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent unnecessary information from being distributed to the user's mobile terminal 10.

  More specifically, the information distribution system 1 may operate as follows. For example, after acquiring the user's position information (first position information) at a certain point in time until the guide content corresponding to the position information is distributed to the mobile terminal 10, the user's new information When the location information is acquired, it is preferable that the tourism information delivery system 1 terminates the guide content delivery operation based on the previous location information at that time. Thereby, the distribution of useless information is prevented. The “guide content distribution operation” includes not only an operation of distributing guide content to the mobile terminal 10, but also an operation of generating guide content.

  In the information distribution system 1, the automatic transmission of position information from the mobile terminal 10 to the tourist information distribution device 20 is more specifically a period for automatic transmission on the mobile terminal 10 side (for example, “distribution period” in FIG. 2). In this case, the determination of whether or not within the “delivery period” is a sequence of steps shown in FIG. Periodic conditions may be determined in the personal information search step (S4).

It is a figure which shows the structure of the sightseeing information delivery system by one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the map data stored in a map recording apparatus. It is a map which shows the whole "A temple" which is one of the stop-off spots. It is a figure which shows an example of the guide content delivered by the information delivery system of FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of a user's personal information stored in a personal information recording device. It is a figure which shows the flowchart for demonstrating operation | movement of the information delivery system of FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of a structure of the conventional sightseeing information delivery system.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Sightseeing information delivery system 10 Mobile terminal 20 Sightseeing information delivery device 21 Processing part 22a Map recording device 22b Guide content recording device 22c Personal information recording device 25a Map data 25b Guide content 25c Personal information 30 Map 30a GPS classification 50 Network

Claims (7)

A guide content recording device in which guide contents relating to a plurality of tourist objects existing in a sightseeing spot are registered, and a user's location information transmitted via a network from a mobile terminal is acquired, and based on the location information of the user A tourist information distribution device comprising: a processing unit that reads the guide content corresponding to the position information from the guide content recording device and distributes the read guide content to the mobile terminal via the network. ,
A personal information recording device in which personal information including information about a tourism target that is selected from the plurality of tourism targets and for which the user wishes to distribute the guide content is registered;
The processing unit searches the personal information based on the location information of the user, and distributes the guide content related to only the sightseeing target for which distribution of the guide content is desired to the mobile terminal. Tourism information distribution device.   When new second position information of the user is acquired after the first position information of the user is acquired and before the guide content corresponding to the first position information is distributed. The sightseeing information distribution device according to claim 1, wherein the distribution operation of the guide content based on the first position information is terminated. A map recording device in which the map data for the tourist is registered;
The processing unit collates position information of the user with the map data, and reads the corresponding guide content from a guide content recording device in which the guide content is registered based on the result. Tourism information distribution device described in 1. A mobile terminal capable of acquiring user location information and transmitting the user location information via a network;
A guide content recording device in which guide contents relating to a plurality of sightseeing objects existing in a sightseeing spot are registered, and the user location information is acquired, and the location information is acquired from the guide content recording device based on the user location information. In a tourist information distribution system comprising: a tourist information distribution device comprising: a processing unit that reads the guide content corresponding to the mobile terminal and distributes the read guide content to the mobile terminal via the network.
The tourism information distribution device includes:
A personal information recording device in which personal information including information about a tourism target that is selected from the plurality of tourism targets and for which the user wishes to distribute the guide content is registered;
The processing unit searches the personal information based on the location information of the user, and distributes the guide content related to only the sightseeing target for which distribution of the guide content is desired to the mobile terminal. Tourism information distribution system. The tourism information distribution device includes:
When new second position information of the user is acquired after the first position information of the user is acquired and before the guide content corresponding to the first position information is distributed. The tourism information distribution system according to claim 4, wherein the distribution operation of the guide content based on the first position information is terminated. The tourism information distribution device includes:
A map recording device in which the map data for the tourist is registered;
The said processing part collates the said user's positional information and the said map data, and reads the said guide content corresponding from the guide content recording apparatus in which the said guide content was registered based on the result. Tourism information distribution system described in 1. The mobile terminal has a GPS (Global Positioning System) function,
A GPS receiving unit that receives radio waves from GPS satellites at regular intervals, a transmitting / receiving unit that transmits and receives data to and from the network, a display unit that displays the guide content distributed from the tourism information distribution, and the GPS 7. The control unit according to claim 4, further comprising: a control unit configured to automatically transmit the GPS position information received by the reception unit to the tourism information distribution device via the network at regular time intervals. Tourism information distribution system.

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