JP2006277168A - Preparation for web page data - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prepare Web page data which can be retrieved based on the position information of image data. <P>SOLUTION: A Web page data preparing means 10 acquires the location information of a facility, and acquires the peripheral information of a facility by using the acquired location information. The Web page data preparing device 10 generates Web page data by describing the acquired location information and peripheral information as tag information in Web page data. The Web page data preparing device 10 uploads the generated Web page data to a WWW server. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a technique for creating Web (Web) page data.

  When arbitrary image data is input as an image-based image database based on the input image data, similar image data is searched from the image database based on the positional information of the input image data, and the similar image data A technique is known in which a shooting location name is specified as a shooting location name of input image data. In addition, a technique for determining an address area to which the current position belongs is known based on the current position information and each vertex position information for each area stored in the address area data memory.

JP 2002-373168 A JP 2000-161980 A

  However, there has not been provided a Web page that can easily search for the shooting location name of the image data and other information related to the image data, for example, information associated with the shooting location name. As a result, it has been difficult to obtain the name of the shooting location of the image data and other information related to the image data from the Web based on the position information of the specific image data.

  SUMMARY An advantage of some aspects of the invention is to create web page data that can be searched based on position information of image data.

  In order to solve the above problems, a first aspect of the present invention provides a web page data creation apparatus. The web page data creation device according to the first aspect of the present invention includes a position information acquisition unit that acquires position information including latitude and longitude, and a position specified by the latitude and longitude included in the acquired position information. Peripheral information acquisition means for acquiring peripheral information, and web page data generation means for generating web page data including the acquired position information and peripheral information.

  According to the web page data creation device according to the first aspect of the present invention, web page data including the acquired position information and peripheral information can be generated, so that search is possible based on the position information of the image data. Web page data can be created.

The web page data creation device according to the first aspect of the present invention further includes:
An input means for inputting the position information may be provided, and the position information acquisition means may acquire the input position information. In this case, web page data is created using the positional information input via the input means.

The web page data creation device according to the first aspect of the present invention further includes:
A facility information input unit for inputting information about the facility, and a location information storage unit that stores the information about the facility and the location information in association with each other, and the location information acquisition unit uses the input information about the facility The position information may be acquired. In this case, position information can be acquired using information about the facility.

The web page data creation device according to the first aspect of the present invention further includes:
It comprises facility information input means for inputting information related to facilities, and the web page data creation device is connected to a position information database server that stores information related to facilities and position information in association with each other, and acquires the position information The means may acquire the position information from the position information database server using the input information on the facility. In this case, position information can be acquired using information about the facility.

The web page data creation device according to the first aspect of the present invention further includes:
A facility information input unit for inputting information about the facility; a location peripheral information storage unit that stores the information about the facility, the location information and the peripheral information in association with each other; and the location information acquisition unit includes the input The location information and the surrounding information may be acquired using information on the facility that has been provided. In this case, position information and surrounding information can be acquired using information about the facility.

The web page data creation device according to the first aspect of the present invention further includes:
A facility information input means for inputting information related to the facility, wherein the web page data creation device is connected to a location / periphery information database server that stores information related to the facility, location information, and peripheral information in association with each other; In addition, the position information acquisition unit may acquire the position information and the peripheral information from the position peripheral information database server using the information regarding the input facility. In this case, position information and surrounding information can be acquired using information about the facility.

  In the web page data creation device according to the first aspect of the present invention, the location information is information for specifying the location of a facility by latitude and longitude, and the peripheral information is the center of the facility specified by the location information. Information indicating a position and a range with respect to the center position may be included. In this case, the location of the facility can be expressed in a predetermined range based on the peripheral information.

  In the web page data creation device according to the first aspect of the present invention, the position information is information for specifying the position of a facility by latitude and longitude, and the peripheral information is a region of the facility specified by the position information. It may also include polygon vertex position information indicating In this case, the location of the facility can be represented by a region based on the peripheral information.

The web page data creation device according to the first aspect of the present invention further includes:
Comprising facility information acquisition means for acquiring information related to the facility specified by the position information;
The web page data creation device is connected to a peripheral information database server that stores information related to facilities and peripheral information in association with each other, and the peripheral information acquisition unit is configured to generate the peripheral information based on the acquired information about the facilities. The peripheral information may be acquired from an information database server. In this case, the peripheral information can be acquired from the peripheral information database server based on the information regarding the facility acquired based on the position information.

The web page data creation device according to the first aspect of the present invention further includes:
Peripheral information storage means for storing information related to facilities and peripheral information in association with each other, and facility information acquisition means for acquiring information about facilities specified by the position information from the peripheral information storage means,
The peripheral information acquisition unit may acquire the peripheral information from the peripheral information database server based on the acquired information on the facility. In this case, the peripheral information can be acquired from the peripheral information storage unit based on the information about the facility acquired based on the position information.

  In the web page data creation device according to the first aspect of the present invention, the web page data generation means describes the web page data by describing the position information and peripheral information using a tag in hypertext markup language data. May be created. In this case, it becomes possible to describe the position information and the peripheral information according to a certain rule, and the search for the web page data can be facilitated.

  A second aspect of the present invention provides a method for creating Web (Web) page data executed on a computer. The web page data creation method according to the second aspect of the present invention acquires position information including latitude and longitude, and acquires peripheral information of a position specified by the latitude and longitude included in the acquired position information. Generating web page data including the acquired position information and peripheral information.

  According to the web page data creation method according to the second aspect of the present invention, it is possible to obtain the same operational effects as those of the web page data creation apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention, and the second aspect of the present invention. The web page data creation method according to the aspect can be realized in various aspects in the same manner as the web page data creation apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention.

  In addition to this, the method according to the second aspect of the present invention can also be realized as a program and a computer-readable recording medium recording the program.

  Hereinafter, a web page data creation device and a web page data creation method according to the present invention will be described based on embodiments with reference to the drawings.

  A web page data creation apparatus according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing an outline of a web page data creation process executed by the web page data creation apparatus according to this embodiment. FIG. 2 is a schematic explanatory diagram illustrating the internal configuration of the Web page data creation apparatus according to the present embodiment. FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram schematically showing a web page data creation program and various tables stored in the external storage device of the web page data creation apparatus according to the present embodiment. FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the facility name-position information table. FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the facility name-peripheral information table. FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the facility name-position / peripheral information table.

  Position information or facility name information is input by the user to the Web page data creation apparatus 10 as information for specifying the position information to be described on the Web page. When the facility name information is input, the position information is acquired from the facility name-position information correspondence table T1 or the facility name-position information database 30 based on the input facility name information. The Web page data creation device 10 acquires peripheral (hereinafter also referred to as an area) information from the facility name-peripheral information correspondence table T2 or the facility name-peripheral information database 31 based on the acquired position information. Here, based on the facility name information, the position information and the peripheral information may be simultaneously acquired from the facility name-position / peripheral information table (database).

  The Web page data creation device 10 describes the acquired position information and surrounding information as tag information in the Web page data, creates Web page data including the position information and surrounding information, and uploads it to the www server. Web page data is described by, for example, HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), and position information and peripheral information are described as HTML tags.

  The Web page data creation apparatus 10 according to the present embodiment is a general computer that can be connected to the Internet, for example. As shown in FIG. 2, the Web page data creation device 10 includes a control circuit 11, an external storage device 12, an input / output operation unit 13, and a data input / output unit 14. The control circuit 11 includes a central processing unit (CPU) 111, a memory 112, and an I / O interface 113 that are connected to each other via a bus. The CPU 111 executes various calculation processes including Web page data creation processing such as acquisition of position information, facility name information, peripheral information, and description of positional information and peripheral information for Web page data. The memory 112 is an internal storage device that temporarily stores acquired position information, facility name information, and peripheral information. The I / O interface 113 transmits and receives commands and data to and from the external circuit of the control circuit 11.

  The external storage device 12 is a non-volatile storage device such as a hard disk drive (HDD), for example. A program executed by the CPU 111, such as a Web page data creation program, a facility name-position information correspondence table T1, a facility name-periphery An information correspondence table T2 and a facility name-position / peripheral information correspondence table T3 are stored.

  The input operation unit 13 is an interface unit that receives input from the outside, and is connected to an external input device such as a keyboard and a mouse, for example. An instruction from the user is input to the Web page data creation device 10 via an external input device.

  The data input / output unit 14 has a terminal to which a network connection cable is connected and a signal conversion processing function, and is used to access an external computer (server) via the network. More specifically, the data input / output unit 14 is connected to the facility name-location information server 30 and the facility name-peripheral information server 31 via a local area network, and further connected to the Internet via a router (not shown). The facility name-location information server 30 and the facility name-peripheral information server 31 are accessed.

  A display device 20 is further connected to the Web page data creation device 10. The display device 20 displays a Web page based on the Web page data being created via browser software.

  Referring to FIGS. 3 to 6, Web page data creation program P 1, facility name-position information table T 1, facility name-peripheral information table T 2, facility name-position / The peripheral information table T3 will be described. The web page data creation program P1 includes a position information acquisition module M1, a peripheral information acquisition module M2, a facility information acquisition module M3, a web page data creation module M4, and an upload execution module M5.

  As shown in FIG. 4, the facility name-position information table T1 stores a facility name (location name) and representative position information of the facility in association with each other as information about the facility. As shown in FIG. 5, the facility name-peripheral information table T2 stores a facility name (place name) and peripheral information indicating the area of the facility in association with each other as information related to the facility. As shown in FIG. 6, the facility name-position / peripheral information table T3 stores a facility name (location name), representative position information of the facility, and peripheral information indicating the area of the facility in association with each other as information related to the facility. ing.

  The position information acquisition module M1 acquires position information including longitude / latitude input via the input operation unit 13. Alternatively, the position information acquisition module M1 may use the facility name-position information correspondence table T1 stored in the external storage device 12 based on the facility information input via the input operation unit 13, or the facility name-position information. Position information including longitude / latitude information is acquired from the facility name-position information database stored in the server 31. The location information is information for specifying the geographical location of a specific facility. The facility name is an example of information about the facility. In addition, for example, a place name, an address, a telephone number, and a postal code may be used. Furthermore, the facility is not limited to a building, and may be a specific place such as a park, a mountain, or a lake.

  The peripheral information acquisition module M2 is stored from the facility name-peripheral information correspondence table T2 stored in the external storage device 12 or stored in the facility name-peripheral information server 32 based on the acquired position information or facility information. The peripheral information indicating the area of the facility is acquired from the facility name-peripheral information database. The peripheral information is information indicating a geographical area and a range related to the facility. The position information indicates one representative point of a specific facility, but for a user, a certain area and range including the facility are recognized as the specific facility. Therefore, by using the peripheral information, it is possible to create Web page data that can be searched according to the user's feeling.

  When the facility name-position / peripheral information correspondence table T3 is provided in the external storage device 12, or when the facility name-position / peripheral information database is stored in the external server, the input facility The position information and the peripheral information are acquired based on the information (facility name).

  The facility information acquisition module M3 acquires information (facility name) related to the facility from the position information input via the input operation unit 13, using the facility name-position information correspondence table T1. The acquired facility name is used by the peripheral information acquisition module M2, and the peripheral information is acquired from the facility name-peripheral information correspondence table T2 or the facility name-peripheral information database.

  The Web page data generation module M4 describes, for example, the acquired position information and peripheral information as tag information for Web page data in HTML format created in advance, and includes a Web page including the positional information and the peripheral information Generate data. Alternatively, the Web page data creation module M4 generates HTML page data including HTML information including the acquired position information and peripheral information as tag information and other content information, for example, content description and image data.

  The upload execution module M5 uploads the generated web page data to a www server via the Internet. As a result, the generated web page data including the position information and the peripheral information can be browsed as a web page by web page data browsing software through HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol).

  Web page data creation processing executed by the web page data creation device 10 according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a web page data creation processing routine executed by the web page data creation device according to this embodiment. FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a database of facility names, position information, and peripheral information. FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing a description example of a tag indicating position information. FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing a description example of a tag indicating position information and a range of position information. FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram showing a description example of a tag indicating an area including position information. FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram schematically showing a region represented by a tag indicating a region including position information.

  The CPU 111 creates HTML data (Web page data) using the text data and image data input via the input operation unit 13 (step S100). The CPU 111 acquires facility location information included in the Web page data (step S102), and further acquires facility peripheral information included in the Web page data (step S104). In other words, in this embodiment, the web page data provides a web page related to a facility, and position information and peripheral information about the facility included in the web page are described in the web page data. In addition to buildings, the facilities include specific places such as parks, mountains, and lakes.

  Acquisition of the location information of the facility is executed by acquiring the input location when the location (latitude, longitude) of the facility is input via the input operation unit 13. On the other hand, when information related to a facility, for example, a facility name, is input via the input operation unit 13, the CPU 111 refers to the facility name-position information correspondence table T1 or the facility name-position information database. The location information is acquired from the facility name by referring to. The facility name is an example of information about the facility, and any other facility name such as a place name, a telephone number, an address, and a zip code may be used.

  When the facility location (latitude, longitude) is input via the input operation unit 13, the CPU 111 refers to the facility name-position information correspondence table T1 or By referring to the facility name-location information database, the facility name is obtained from the location information. The CPU 111 acquires the peripheral information from the facility name by referring to the facility name-peripheral information correspondence table T2 using the acquired facility name or by referring to the facility name-peripheral information database.

  On the other hand, when information related to a facility, for example, a facility name is input via the input operation unit 13, the CPU 111 uses the acquired facility name to refer to the facility name-peripheral information correspondence table T2. Alternatively, the peripheral information is acquired from the facility name by referring to the facility name-peripheral information database. When a position information-peripheral information correspondence table or a position information-peripheral information database is prepared, the CPU 111 can acquire peripheral information from the position information.

  Further, when a facility name-position / peripheral information correspondence table T3 or a facility name-position / peripheral information database as shown in FIG. 8 is used, the CPU 111 uses the facility name input from the input operation unit 13, Get location information and surrounding information at the same time.

  The CPU 111 describes the acquired position information and peripheral information as tag information in the HTML data. The position information is described as tag information as shown in FIG. 9, for example. Here, the Geo vocabulary proposed by the RDF Interest Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is used.

  The peripheral information may be described as a range of latitude and longitude specified by position information, for example, as shown in FIG. 10, or the latitude and longitude specified by position information, as shown in FIG. It may be described as the vertex position (latitude, longitude) of the enclosing polygon. Note that the description format of the position information and the peripheral information is not limited to the examples of FIGS. 9 to 11 and may be any description format that can be interpreted by Web browsing software that interprets HTML data. For example, in the example of FIGS. 10 and 11, an original tag is used.

  The area shown in FIG. 12 is represented by the position information and the peripheral information described by the tag shown in FIG. In other words, in general, the location information of a facility indicates a specific location of the facility, for example, the front gate and the front entrance, but it can also represent the area occupied by the facility by using peripheral information. .

  The CPU 111 uploads the created web page data to the www server via the Internet (step S108), and ends this processing routine. The storage position (address, directory) on the www server is specified by the URL for the Web page data uploaded to the www server. That is, by designating a URL in the web browsing software, a web page based on the web page data is browsed.

  According to the Web page data creation apparatus 10 according to the present embodiment described above, facility location information and peripheral information can be described in the Web page data. In addition, when describing the location information and surrounding information of the facility in the Web page data, the facility name and surrounding information can be acquired from the location information, and the location information and surrounding information can be acquired from the facility name. Web page data having position information and peripheral information can be easily created. In addition to longitude and latitude, the position information and the peripheral information may include information related to the direction.

  In addition, by creating Web page data having the location information of the facility and the peripheral information by the Web page data creation device 10 according to the present embodiment, each Web page (Web page data) is information about the facility based on the location information. It can be used as a database for extracting

  Furthermore, since the peripheral information is used in addition to the position information indicating one arbitrary point of the facility, the Web page data that can improve the facility search success rate even when searching for the facility by longitude and latitude information Can be created.

Other examples:
In the above-described embodiment, description has been made by taking, as an example, data described in HTML as Web page data, but other markup languages such as XML and SGML may be used. In any case, if the location information of the facility and the peripheral information can be described as tag information, the same effect as the above embodiment can be obtained.

  In the above embodiment, location information, peripheral information, and facility information are described in the Web page data. However, a facility name-peripheral information conversion service is prepared as a common gateway interface (CGI). It is also possible to describe that this CGI is called by using the name as an argument and return peripheral information as a return value. In such a case, when the web page data is browsed by the web browsing software, the facility location information and the peripheral information are acquired.

  In the above embodiment, the Web page data creation processing is executed in software, that is, in the form of a computer program. However, the Web page data creation processing is executed using a hardware circuit that includes a logic circuit that executes each processing (step). May be. In such a case, the load on the CPU 111 can be reduced, and each process at a higher speed can be realized. The hardware circuit can be implemented as an add-on card for a personal computer, for example.

  As described above, the web page data creation device and the web page data creation method (program) according to the present invention have been described based on some embodiments. However, the above-described embodiments facilitate the understanding of the present invention. Therefore, the present invention is not limited thereto. The present invention can be changed and improved without departing from the spirit and scope of the claims, and it is needless to say that the present invention includes equivalents thereof.

It is explanatory drawing which shows the outline of the web page data creation process performed by the web page data creation apparatus concerning a present Example. It is a schematic explanatory drawing which shows the internal structure of the web page data creation apparatus which concerns on a present Example. It is explanatory drawing which shows typically the web page data creation program and various tables which are stored in the external storage device of the web page data creation apparatus which concerns on a present Example. It is explanatory drawing which shows an example of a facility name-position information table. It is explanatory drawing which shows an example of a facility name-periphery information table. It is explanatory drawing which shows an example of a facility name-position / periphery information table. It is a flowchart which shows the web page data creation process routine performed by the web page data creation apparatus concerning a present Example. It is explanatory drawing which shows an example of the database of a facility name, a positional information, and periphery information. It is explanatory drawing which shows the example of a description of the tag which shows position information. It is explanatory drawing which shows the description example of the tag which shows the range of a positional infomation and a positional infomation. It is explanatory drawing which shows the example of description of the tag which shows the area | region containing position information. It is explanatory drawing which shows typically the area | region represented by the tag which shows the area | region containing position information.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Image database construction apparatus 11 ... Control circuit 111 ... Central processing unit (CPU)
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 112 ... Memory 113 ... I / O interface 12 ... External storage device 13 ... Input operation part 14 ... Data input / output part 20 ... Display apparatus 30 ... Facility name-location information server 31 ... Facility name-peripheral information server P1 ... Web page data Creation program M1 ... Location information acquisition module M2 ... Peripheral information acquisition module M3 ... Facility information acquisition module M4 ... Web page data generation module M5 ... Upload execution module

Claims (12)

An apparatus for creating web (Web) page data,
Position information acquisition means for acquiring position information including latitude and longitude;
Peripheral information acquisition means for acquiring peripheral information of a position specified by latitude and longitude included in the acquired positional information;
A web page data creation device comprising web page data generation means for generating web page data including the acquired position information and peripheral information. The web page data creation device according to claim 1 further includes:
Comprising position information input means for inputting the position information;
The position information acquisition unit is a web page data creation device that acquires the input position information. The web page data creation device according to claim 1 further includes:
Facility information input means for inputting information about the facility;
Comprising location information storage means for storing information relating to facilities and location information in association with each other;
The location information acquisition unit is a web page data creation device that acquires the location information using information about the input facility. The web page data creation device according to claim 1 further includes:
Provide facility information input means for entering information about facilities,
The web page data creation device is connected to a location information database server that stores information related to facilities and location information in association with each other,
The location information acquisition unit is a web page data creation device that acquires the location information from the location information database server using the information regarding the input facility. The web page data creation device according to claim 1 further includes:
Facility information input means for inputting information about the facility;
A location surrounding information storage means for storing information on facilities, location information and surrounding information in association with each other;
The location information acquisition unit is a web page data creation device that acquires location information and peripheral information using information about the input facility. The web page data creation device according to claim 1 further includes:
Provide facility information input means for entering information about facilities,
The web page data creation device is connected to a location / periphery information database server that stores information related to facilities, location information and surrounding information in association with each other,
The position information acquisition unit is a web page data creation device that acquires the position information and the peripheral information from the position peripheral information database server using the input information about the facility. The web page data creation device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the position information is information for specifying a facility position by latitude and longitude,
The web page data creation device, wherein the peripheral information includes information indicating a center position of the facility specified by the position information and a range with respect to the center position. In the web page data creation device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, The position information is information for specifying a facility position by latitude and longitude,
The web page data creation device, wherein the peripheral information includes polygon vertex position information indicating the facility area specified by the position information. The web page data creation device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, 7, and 8 is further provided.
Comprising facility information acquisition means for acquiring information related to the facility specified by the position information;
The web page data creation device is connected to a peripheral information database server that stores information related to facilities and peripheral information in association with each other,
The peripheral information acquisition unit is a web page data creation device that acquires the peripheral information from the peripheral information database server based on the acquired information on the facility. The web page data creation device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, 7, and 8 is further provided.
Peripheral information storage means for storing information about facilities and peripheral information in association with each other;
Facility information acquisition means for acquiring information about the facility specified by the position information from the peripheral information storage means,
The peripheral information acquisition unit is a web page data creation device that acquires the peripheral information from the peripheral information database server based on the acquired information on the facility. In the web page data creation device according to any one of claims 1 to 10,
The web page data generation unit is a web page data creation device that creates the web page data by describing the position information and peripheral information using a tag in hypertext markup language data. A method for creating web (Web) page data to be executed on a computer,
Get location information including latitude and longitude,
Obtain peripheral information of the position specified by the latitude and longitude included in the acquired position information,
A web page data creation method for generating web page data including the acquired position information and peripheral information.

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