JP2008041061A - Railroad guidance system, railroad guidance device, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce gate passage failure of an automatic ticket gate due to insufficient balance and facilitates confirming whether a transit fare is within the balance or not. <P>SOLUTION: A control section 110 of a mobile communication terminal 100 requests railroad guidance via a network by executing a program stored in a railroad guidance request section 171, and a balance insufficiency determination section 111 of the control section 110 compares a route fare received as a search result with a charge balance stored in a charge storage section 182 by executing a program stored in a railroad search result editing section 172, and the control section 110 displays the search result of the route on a display 150, and shows the same effect when the balance is not sufficient. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a railway line guide system, a railway line guide apparatus, and a program thereof.

  A technique is disclosed in which a non-contact IC is incorporated into a mobile phone and a transportation fee such as a railway fee is settled from the balance registered in the non-contact IC each time an automatic ticket gate passes. (For example, patent document 1).

  However, in this type of settlement method, the user must register (charge) the balance in advance. When passing through the automatic ticket gate, the gate of the automatic ticket gate closes if the charge balance is insufficient. If the gate is closed when trying to pass, the flow of people in the automatic ticket gates will be delayed, causing congestion.

  Since it is troublesome to confirm the balance charged in the non-contact IC in advance in the mobile phone, the above-mentioned passing failure can frequently occur.

  In recent years, it has become possible to use a railroad route guidance service that enables a user to search for a route using a railway organization from a boarding station to a stop station in cooperation with a guidance center using a mobile phone (for example, Patent Document 2).

However, in order to check whether the fare checked by this service is within the balance charged in the contactless IC, the balance verification software has to be activated each time. The user himself / herself has to determine whether the fare stored by the user is within the balance.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-16011 JP-A-11-166838

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and reduces the failure to pass through the gate of an automatic ticket gate due to a shortage of balance, facilitating confirmation of whether or not the traffic fee is within the balance, It is an object of the present invention to provide a railway line guide device and a program thereof.

The railway route guidance system according to the first aspect of the present invention is:
The railway route guidance server includes a railway route guidance device and a railway route guidance server that are connected via a network. The railway route guidance server retrieves a route guidance request including a retrieval condition from the railway route guidance device based on the retrieval condition. A railway route guidance system for transmitting route guidance information including route information and toll information for the route,
The railway line guide device
A payment means for communicating with an external device by non-contact communication and paying a railway fee from a balance having a monetary value stored in advance;
The value indicating the route charge included in the route guidance information transmitted from the railway route guide server is compared with the value indicating the balance of the payment means, and the balance of the payment means is insufficient for the charge of the route. Balance shortage determination means for determining whether or not,
The route guidance information transmitted from the railway route guidance server and, when the balance shortage determining means determines that the balance is insufficient, displays that the balance of the payment means is insufficient for the fee of the route Display means;
It is characterized by providing.

The search condition includes a departure station,
The railway line guide device includes a current position acquisition unit that acquires current position information of the railway line guide device, and the current position information acquired by the current position information acquisition unit when requesting route guidance. A current position transmitting means for transmitting to
The railway route guide server, nearest station search means for searching for the nearest station from the current position information transmitted from the current position transmission means of the railway route guide device,
A route search means for searching for a route by setting the nearest station searched by the nearest station search means as a departure station of the search condition;
May be provided.

The railway route guide server further includes search condition storage means for storing a search condition transmitted from the railway route guide device,
The railway line guide device includes a re-search request means for requesting the railway line guidance server to re-search for a route,
In response to a request for re-search from the re-search request means of the railway line guide device, the railway line guide server searches for a station that is next to the nearest station searched by the nearest station search means. A search means,
The route search means sets the departure station of the search condition stored in the search condition storage means to a station closest to the nearest station searched by the departure station re-search means, and re-searches the route,
You may further provide the re-search result transmission means which transmits the route re-searched by the route search means to the railway route guidance device as route guidance information.

  The railway line guide device performs a predetermined operation for replenishing the balance of the payment means via the network in response to a user operation when the balance shortage determining means determines that the balance is insufficient. You may further provide a balance supplement means.

The railway line guide apparatus according to the second aspect of the present invention is:
A payment means for communicating with an external device by non-contact communication and paying a railway fee from a balance having a monetary value stored in advance;
Route guidance acquisition means for acquiring route guidance information including route information and fare information of the route via a network;
Whether the balance of the payment means is insufficient for the charge of the route by comparing the value indicating the charge of the route included in the route guide information acquired by the route guide acquisition means with the value indicating the balance of the payment means Balance shortage determination means for determining whether or not
Display that displays the route guidance information acquired by the route guidance acquisition unit and that the balance of the payment unit is insufficient for the charge of the route when the balance shortage determination unit determines that the balance is insufficient Means,
It is characterized by providing.

The program according to the third aspect of the present invention is:
On the computer,
A payment function that communicates with an external device by non-contact communication and pays a railway fee from a balance having a monetary value stored in advance,
A route guidance acquisition function for acquiring route guidance information including route information and fare information of the route via the network;
Whether the balance of the payment means is insufficient for the charge of the route by comparing the value indicating the charge of the route included in the route guide information acquired by the route guide acquisition means with the value indicating the balance of the payment means Balance shortage determination function to determine whether
Display that displays the route guidance information acquired by the route guidance acquisition unit and that the balance of the payment unit is insufficient for the charge of the route when the balance shortage determination unit determines that the balance is insufficient function,
It is characterized by realizing.

  Since the balance of the non-contact IC is referred at the time of railway route guidance, the user can guide the railway line according to the balance without confirming the balance by himself / herself. In addition, failure to pass through the gate of the automatic ticket gate can be reduced due to insufficient balance.

An railway route guidance system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of the overall configuration of a railway route guidance system using a mobile communication terminal 100 according to the present embodiment. The railway line guidance system of this embodiment includes a mobile communication terminal 100, an railway line guidance center 200, and a charge point issuance center 300. The mobile communication terminal 100 is connected to the railway route guide center 200 and the charge point issuing center 300 via a network such as the base station 10, the mobile network 20, the gateway 30, and the Internet 40. The railway route guide center 200 and the charge point issuing center 300 are connected via the Internet 40.

  The base station 10 is a device corresponding to the end of the mobile network 20 that directly communicates with the mobile communication terminal 100. Although not shown in the figure, an arbitrary number of base stations 10 are connected to the mobile network 20. The base station 10 receives radio waves of a predetermined frequency transmitted from the mobile communication terminal 100 registered by itself. Alternatively, radio waves having a predetermined frequency are transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 100. The mobile network 20 is a network for transmitting those radio waves. For the mobile network 20, for example, a communication method such as a CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) method is used. The mobile communication terminal 100 can make a call through the mobile network 20.

  The mobile network 20 is connected to the gateway 30. The gateway 30 is a device that enables communication by mutually converting data of the mobile network 20 and the Internet 40 having different communication methods. Thereby, the mobile network 20 and the Internet 40 are connected.

  The Internet 40 is a communication network based on TCP / IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol).

  The mobile communication terminal 100 can be connected to the Internet 40 via the base station 10, the mobile network 20, and the gateway 30 described above. The mobile communication terminal 100 can be connected to the railway route guide center 200 and the charge point issuing center 300 via these networks. Then, route guidance can be requested from the mobile communication terminal 100 to the railway route guidance center 200.

  Next, the configuration of the mobile communication terminal 100 will be described. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the mobile communication terminal 100. The mobile communication terminal 100 includes a control unit 110, a communication processing unit 120, a call unit 130, an operation unit 140, a display unit 150, a GPS (Global Positioning System) unit 160, a railway line guide unit 170, a non-contact IC unit 180, and the like. Consists of The mobile communication terminal 100 of this embodiment constitutes a railway line guide device in the railway line guidance system.

  The control unit 110 includes, for example, a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a ROM (Read Only Memory) that stores an operation program, a RAM (Random Access Memory) that serves as a work area, and the like. The control unit 110 controls each unit of the mobile communication terminal 100 and executes each process described later based on the operation program. Each component of the mobile communication terminal 100 is connected to the control unit 110, and data transmission / reception between the components is performed via the control unit 110.

  In addition, the control unit 110 includes a balance shortage determination unit 111. The balance shortage determination unit 111 refers to a non-contact IC unit 180, which will be described later, and determines whether the fare on the route guided by the route guidance is insufficient.

  The communication processing unit 120 receives an audio signal from the base station 10 via the antenna 121. Then, the received audio signal is sent to the call unit 130 described later. Further, the communication processing unit 120 transmits the audio signal received from the call unit 130 to the base station 10 via the antenna 121. Furthermore, the communication processing unit 120 controls communication related to the data communication function, and performs, for example, access to a website and transmission / reception of e-mails. In the present embodiment, the communication processing unit 120 is connected to the railway route guide center 200 and the charge point issuing center 300 via the above-described network.

  Under the control of the control unit 110, the call unit 130 receives an input of a digital audio signal from the communication processing unit 120, decodes it into analog audio, and outputs it through the speaker 131. Further, the call unit 130 encodes the voice input from the microphone 132 into a digital voice signal. The encoded digital audio signal is sent to the communication processing unit 120 under the control of the control unit 110.

  The operation unit 140 receives a user operation from a key configured on the outer surface of the mobile communication terminal 100. The operation unit 140 sends an input signal corresponding to a user operation to the control unit 110.

  The display unit 150 displays a route guidance input screen 410 shown in FIG. 7A and a route guidance display screen 420 shown in FIG. 7B under the control of the control unit 110. The display unit 150 displays other various screens under the control of the control unit 110.

  The GPS unit 160 measures the current position of the mobile communication terminal 100 using a radio wave signal received from a GPS satellite by the GPS antenna 161.

  The railway line guide unit 170 stores a program for causing the mobile communication terminal 100 to function as an railway line guide device. The railway line guide unit 170 includes an railway line guidance request unit 171 and an railway line search result editing unit 172.

  The railway line guide request unit 171 stores a program for requesting railway line guidance. The program is activated in response to an operation of the operation unit 140 by the user. When a program for requesting railway route guidance is activated, the control unit 110 connects to the railway route guidance center 200 and requests route guidance. At this time, the control unit 110 acquires the current position information from the GPS unit 160 and transmits the current position information to the railway route guidance center 200 together with the route guidance request. And the control part 110 acquires the route guidance input screen 410 shown to Fig.7 (a) from the railway guide center 200, and displays it on the display part 150. FIG. When the user inputs route search conditions such as “target station name”, “time classification”, “date”, “time”, “search order”, etc., displayed on the route guidance input screen 410 by the operation of the operation unit 140, control is performed. The unit 110 transmits these search conditions to the railway line guide center 200. This requests route guidance.

  In this embodiment, the “departure station name” is automatically input by the railway route guide center 200 based on the current position information transmitted together with the route guide request. The “departure station name” may be manually input by the user by operating the operation unit 140. As for “date” and “time”, the date and time acquired from the network or the date and time set in the mobile communication terminal 100 may be automatically input.

  The railway line search result editing unit 172 stores a program for editing the railway line search result acquired by the control unit 110 executing the program stored in the railway line guide request unit 171. Then, the control unit 110 executes the program to edit the search result, and as shown in FIG. 7B, the route of the search result indicates whether the fare, the required time, and the balance are insufficient. Display along with the amount of money.

  The non-contact IC unit 180 has a fare payment function for ticket gate processing by an automatic ticket gate. With the fare payment function, a predetermined charge can be paid from a pre-charged (deposited) charge balance and passed through the automatic ticket gate. From the charge balance, it is also possible to pay a predetermined fee by communicating with a reader / writer other than the automatic ticket gate. In the present embodiment, an example of paying from a pre-paid charge balance will be described as a fare payment function. However, payment may be made from fee information having credit value such as a pre-registered credit card.

  The non-contact IC unit 180 may be fixed to the mobile communication terminal 100, or may be constituted by a removable non-contact IC unit card.

  The non-contact IC unit 180 includes a charge control unit 181, a charge storage unit 182, and an antenna 183.

  The charge control unit 181 implements a payment function for the ticket gate process. The charge control unit 181 transmits / receives data necessary for payment of charges via an antenna 183 to an external automatic ticket gate by non-contact communication.

  The charge storage unit 182 stores a program for controlling the operation of the charge control unit 181. In addition, the charge balance is stored.

  Each configuration of the mobile communication terminal 100 described above is a configuration necessary for realizing the present invention, and other configurations necessary for basic functions as the mobile communication terminal and configurations necessary for various additional functions. Etc. shall be provided as necessary.

  Next, the railway route guide center 200 will be described. FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of the railway route guide center 200.

  The railway route guidance center 200 provides route guidance information to the mobile communication terminal 100 in response to a request from the mobile communication terminal 100. The railway guide center 200 is connected to the Internet 40. The railway line guide center 200 includes a transmission / reception control unit 210, a nearest station search unit 220, a map information database 230, a railway line search unit 240, and a railway movement information database 250.

  The transmission / reception control unit 210 includes, for example, a CPU (Central Processing Unit), a ROM (Read Only Memory) that stores an operation program, a RAM (Random Access Memory) that serves as a work area, and the like.

  The transmission / reception control unit 210 receives the route guidance request from the mobile communication terminal 100 together with the current position information. The transmission / reception control unit 210 controls the nearest station search unit 220 to search for the nearest station of the mobile communication terminal 100 from the current position input from the mobile communication terminal 100. Then, a route guidance input screen 410 with the searched nearest station as the departure station name is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 100. When the current position information is not input from the mobile communication terminal 100 (for example, when the mobile communication terminal 100 is a model that does not support GPS), the nearest station is not searched, and the route guidance input screen 410 with the departure station name blank is displayed. Send.

  When the transmission / reception control unit 210 receives from the mobile communication terminal 100 data input with the route guidance search condition, the transmission / reception control unit 210 controls the railway line search unit 240 to search for a route based on the search condition. Then, the search result is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 100.

  In addition, when a re-search request is received from the mobile communication terminal 100, the nearest station search unit 220 is controlled to search for a route with a station closest to the nearest nearest station as a departure station.

  The nearest station search unit 220 searches for the nearest station of the mobile communication terminal 100 based on the current position information input from the mobile communication terminal 100 under the control of the transmission / reception control unit 210. The nearest station search unit 220 searches the nearest station with reference to the map information database 230. In the case of re-searching, the nearest station is searched from the departure station set immediately before.

  The map information database 230 is a database of map information including information on railway stations. The nearest station search unit 220 searches for the nearest station of the mobile communication terminal 100 from the current position information of the mobile communication terminal 100 and the map information of the map information database 230.

  The railway line search unit 240 searches for an railway line based on the search condition input from the mobile communication terminal 100 under the control of the transmission / reception control unit 210. The railway line search unit 240 refers to the railway movement information database 250 and searches for one or a plurality of route information.

  The railway movement information database 250 is a database that stores railway route data and timetable data.

The railway route guide center 200 is configured as described above.
Next, the charge point issuing center 300 shown in FIG. 1 will be described.
The charge point issuing center 300 is a center for charging the charge balance of the non-contact IC unit 180 of the mobile communication terminal 100 via the network. The charge point issuing center 300 stores information for identifying the mobile communication terminal 100, information for paying the charged amount (account, credit card information, etc.), and the like. The mobile communication terminal 100 can connect to the charge point issuing center 300 to charge the charge balance of the non-contact IC unit 180.

  For example, as shown in FIG. 8, (1) identification information and a charge request are transmitted from the mobile communication terminal 100. (2) When the charge point issuing center 300 identifies the mobile communication terminal 100, the charge point issuing center 300 transmits the payment information of the requested amount to the corresponding payment server 500. (3) When the payment is normally completed, a charge point is issued to the mobile communication terminal 100.

  Next, the operation of the railway route guidance system having the above configuration will be described. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the mobile communication terminal 100 when executing railway route guidance.

  When the user operates the operation unit 140 to request railway line guidance, the control unit 110 executes the program stored in the railway line guidance request unit 171 and starts the operation illustrated in FIG.

  First, the control unit 110 controls the communication processing unit 120 to send a connection request to the railway line guide center 200 (step S101). Then, a connection with the railway line guide center 200 is established (step S102).

  When the connection with the railway route guidance center 200 is established, the control unit 110 requests the route guidance input screen 410 from the railway route guidance center 200 (step S103).

  Subsequently, the control unit 110 refers to the GPS unit 160 to acquire current position information, and transmits the acquired current position information to the railway line guide center 200 (step S104).

  When the current position information is transmitted to the railway route guidance center 200 in step S104, the control unit 110 waits until the route guidance input screen 410 is acquired (step S105; No). If the route guidance input screen 410 is not received within a predetermined time (step S105; No), it may be determined that the time-out has occurred and the process may be terminated.

  In the present embodiment, the railway line guide center 200 searches for the nearest station based on the current position information transmitted in step S104. In the route guidance input screen 410 received in step S105, the searched nearest station is input as the “departure station name”.

  When the route guidance input screen 410 is received from the railway route guidance center 200 (step S105; Yes), the control unit 110 waits until the user finishes the condition input necessary for the route search by the operation unit 140 (step S106; No). ). In this embodiment, since the “departure station name” has been input, the process waits until the input of the conditions of “target station name”, “time division”, “date”, “time”, and “search order” is completed. Also in this case, when the indispensable condition input is not completed within a predetermined time (step S106; No), it may be determined that the time is out and the process may be terminated.

  When the user finishes indispensable condition input in step S106 (step S106; Yes), the control unit 110 transmits the input route guide condition data to the railway route guide center 200 (step S107).

  When the route guidance condition data is transmitted to the railway route guidance center 200 in step S107, the control unit 110 stands by until a route search result is received from the railway route guidance center 200 (step S108; No). Also in this case, when the route search result is not received within the predetermined time (step S108; No), it may be determined that the time-out has occurred and the processing may be terminated.

  When the route search result is received from the railway route guide center 200 (step S108; Yes), the control unit 110 executes a balance matching process (step S109).

  Here, the operation of the balance matching process (step S109) will be described. FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the balance matching process.

  In the balance check process (step S109), first, the control unit 110 refers to the non-contact IC unit 180 and acquires a charge balance (step S1091).

  Then, the control unit 110 assigns “1” to the counter n for specifying the guided route (step S1092).

  Subsequently, the control unit 110 determines whether or not the charge for the nth route guided by the route search result is larger than the charge balance acquired in step S1091 (step S1093).

  When the charge on the nth route is larger than the charge balance acquired in step S1091, (step S1093; Yes), the control unit 110 calculates the shortage of the charge and stores the shortage in a RAM or the like provided in the control unit 110. (Step S1094).

  When the process of step S1094 is completed, or if the charge on the route is within the charge balance in step S1093 (step S1093; No), “1” is added to the counter n (step S1095).

  Subsequently, it is determined whether or not n is larger than the number m of routes guided by the railway guide center 200 (step S1096). That is, it is determined whether or not the comparison with the charge balance has been completed for the charges on all of the guided routes.

  When it is determined that n is larger than the number m of guided routes (step S1097; Yes), the control unit 110 outputs a route guidance display screen 420 shown in FIG. 7B to the display unit 150 (step S1097). ). Then, the balance checking process (step S109) is finished.

  The route guidance display screen 420 displays a list of m routes guided by the railway route guide center 200, as shown in FIG. 7B. The list display includes the departure time of the departure station, the arrival time of the destination station, the required time, the fee, the shortage amount calculated and stored in step S1094, and the like. By displaying the shortage amount together with the route guidance in this way, the user can easily grasp that the charge balance of the mobile communication terminal 100 is insufficient, and avoid the failure of passing through the automatic ticket gate.

  In addition, when a fee shortage has occurred, a re-search button 421 and a charge button 422 are displayed as shown in FIG. 7B. When the re-search button 421 is operated by a predetermined operation of the user operation unit 140, a re-search of a route in which the departure station is set to the station closest to the nearest station is executed. When the charge button 422 is operated, the charge balance can be replenished by connecting to the charge point issuing center 300. This facilitates the user's response when the fee is insufficient.

  The route guidance display screen 420 is not limited to the screen of FIG. 7B as long as the user can easily grasp the shortage of the balance and can cope with the shortage of the balance such as charge or re-search. The route guidance may be displayed in the “search order” input in step S106, or the route that is the charge in the charge balance may be preferentially displayed.

  On the other hand, if it is determined in step S1096 that the number m of routes is smaller than n (step S1096; No), the control unit 110 returns the processing to step S1093 until the comparison of the charges for all routes with the charge balance is completed. The processes from step S1093 to S1096 are repeated.

  When the balance matching process (step S109) is completed, the process returns to FIG. 4 and the control unit 110 determines whether or not the charge button 422 on the route guidance display screen 420 has been operated (step S110).

  If it is determined that the charge button 422 has been operated (step S110; Yes), the control unit 110 controls the communication processing unit 120 to connect to the charge point issuing center 300, and requests replenishment of the charge balance according to the user operation. (Step S111).

  Then, a predetermined amount newly issued from the charge point issuing center 300, for example, a charge amount equivalent to 3000 yen is stored in the non-contact IC unit 180 (step S112).

  As described above, when the balance is insufficient, the balance can be charged by a series of operations from the route guidance request without requiring troublesome operations such as starting dedicated software again, so that convenience for the user is improved.

  When the process of step S112 is completed, the control unit 110 waits until the user performs an operation to end the route guidance (step S113; No). When the end operation is performed (step S113; Yes), the control unit 110 goes to the Internet 40. Is disconnected (step S117), and the process ends.

  When the charge button 422 is not operated in step S110 (step S110; No), the control unit 110 determines whether or not the re-search button 421 on the route guidance display screen 420 is operated by the user (step S114).

  If it is determined that the re-search button 421 has been operated (step S114; Yes), the control unit 110 controls the communication processing unit 120 to request the railway route guidance center 200 to re-search for route guidance (step S115). Then, the process returns to step S108 and waits until the route search result is received again (step S108).

  If the re-search button 421 is not operated in step S114 (step S114; No), the control unit 116 determines whether or not the user has performed an operation to end the route guidance (step S116). When the termination operation is performed (step S116; Yes), the connection to the Internet 40 is disconnected (step S117), and the process is terminated.

  If the end operation is not performed in step S116 (step S; No), the process returns to step S110, and the operation of the charge button 422 and the re-search button 421 or the end operation is determined again (steps S110, S114, and S116).

  As described above, the mobile communication terminal 100 guides the railway line with the conditions specified by the user. Further, the shortage balance of the charge balance of the mobile communication terminal 100 with respect to the fare of the guided route is displayed, and the user is notified of the shortage of the balance. If the balance is insufficient, a response such as charging or re-searching can be promoted. Thereby, the user can easily confirm whether the charge for the route to be used is within the charge balance of the non-contact IC unit 180 mounted on the mobile communication terminal 100. Further, when the automatic ticket gate passes by the non-contact IC unit 180, it is possible to reduce the failure of passing due to insufficient balance.

  Next, the operation of the railway line guidance center 200 in the railway line guidance system will be described. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the railway line guide center 200 when the railway line guide is executed.

The railway line guide center 200 is connected to the Internet 40 and waits for a connection request from the mobile communication terminal 100 (step S201; No).
When the railway guide center 200 receives a connection request from the mobile communication terminal 100 (step S201; Yes), the transmission / reception control unit 210 establishes a connection with the mobile communication terminal 100 (step S202).

  And it waits until it receives the route guidance request from the mobile communication terminal 100 and the current location information of the requesting mobile communication terminal 100 (step S203; No, step S204; No).

  When the route guidance request and the current position information are received from the mobile communication terminal 100 (step S203; Yes, step S204; Yes), the transmission / reception control unit 210 controls the nearest station search unit 220 to The nearest station is searched from the current position information of the mobile communication terminal 100 (step S205).

  When the search for the nearest station is completed, the transmission / reception control unit 210 creates a route guidance input screen 410 (for example, departure station name “AAA”) as shown in FIG. 7A, with the searched nearest station as the departure station name. (Step S206).

  Then, the transmission / reception control unit 210 transmits the route guidance input screen 410 created in step S206 to the requesting mobile communication terminal 100 (step S207).

  Note that when the mobile communication terminal 100 does not receive the current position information, such as not having a GPS function, the above steps S204 to S206 may be skipped. In this case, the “departure station name” in the route guidance input screen 410 transmitted in step S207 is blank. The “departure station name” is manually input by the user.

  If there is no response for a predetermined time in step S203 or step S204, it may be determined that a timeout has occurred and the process may be terminated.

  When the route guidance input screen 410 is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 100 in step S207, the transmission / reception control unit 210 waits until it receives search condition input data from the mobile communication terminal 100 (step S208; No).

  When the condition input data is received from the mobile communication terminal 100 (step S208; Yes), the transmission / reception control unit 210 stores the received search condition input data in a RAM or the like (step S209).

  Even if there is no response for a predetermined time in step S208, it may be determined that a timeout has occurred and the processing may be terminated.

  When the search condition input data is stored in step S209, the transmission / reception control unit 210 controls the railway line search unit 240 to search for a route based on the condition input data (step S210).

  When the route search is completed, the transmission / reception control unit 210 creates a route list of search results based on the “search order” of the search condition (step S211).

  Then, the transmission / reception control unit 210 transmits the route list created in step S211 to the requesting mobile communication terminal 100 (step S212).

  When the route list is transmitted to the request source, the transmission / reception control unit 210 determines whether or not there is a connection disconnection request from the mobile communication terminal 100 (step S213).

  When there is a disconnection request (step S213; Yes), the transmission / reception control unit 210 disconnects the connection with the mobile communication terminal 100 and ends the process.

  When there is no disconnection request in step S213 (step S214; No), the transmission / reception control unit 210 determines whether or not there is a route re-search request from the requesting mobile communication terminal 100 (step S214).

  If there is no re-search request (step S213; No), the process returns to step S213, and reception of a disconnection request or a re-search request is waited (steps S213 and S214). Even when there is no response for a predetermined time, it may be determined that a timeout has occurred and the processing may be terminated.

  When there is a route re-search request in step S214 (step S214; Yes), the transmission / reception control unit 210 controls the nearest station search unit 220, and the “departure station” of the search condition input data stored in step S209 is stored. Stations next to "are searched (step S215).

  When searching for the next nearest station, the transmission / reception control unit 210 acquires the input data of the other search conditions stored in step S209 (step S216). Then, the process returns to step S210, and the station searched in step S215 is searched again for the route based on “departure station” and other search conditions acquired in step S216 (step S210).

  As described above, the railway guide center 200 searches for a route in response to a request from the mobile communication terminal 100 and searches again. When the current position information is received, the nearest station is searched from the current position information, and the nearest station is set as the departure station. This saves the user from having to enter the departure station and improves convenience.

A specific example of the operation of the above-described railway route guidance system will be described with reference to FIGS.
When a user requests route guidance from the mobile communication terminal 100, the user connects to the railway route guidance center 200 via the base station 10, the mobile network 20, the gateway 30, and the Internet 40.

  The mobile communication terminal 100 transmits the current position information to the railway guideline 200. The railway line guide center 200 searches for the nearest station from the current position information. In the example of FIG. 1, the AAA station with the distance D1 is searched as the nearest station.

  Then, the railway line guidance center 200 transmits a route guidance input screen shown in FIG. 7A to the mobile communication terminal 100 with the AAA station as the departure station.

  The user who has received the route guidance input screen 410 inputs the destination station name, time division, date, time, and search order. The mobile communication terminal 100 transmits the input condition data to the railway guideline 200. Here, for example, the destination station is the FFF station.

  The railway route guide center 200 that has received the condition data searches for a route from the AAA station to the FFF station. Then, the search result is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 100.

  The mobile communication terminal 100 that has received the search result compares the guided route charge with the charge balance of the mobile communication terminal 100. Then, a route guidance display screen 420 as shown in FIG. 7B is displayed.

  When the user operates the re-search button 421 to request a re-search for a route with respect to the display result, the mobile communication terminal 100 transmits a re-search request to the railway route guidance center 200.

  The railway line guide center 200 that has received the re-search request searches for a station next to the nearest nearest station. In this example, a CCC station having a distance D2 is searched. And the route which makes CCC station a departure station is searched. The search result is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 100.

  When the mobile communication terminal 100 receives the re-search result, it compares the charge with the charge balance again and displays a new route guidance display screen.

  Further, when the user requests charging of the charge balance by operating the charge button 422 for the display result, the mobile communication terminal 100 connects to the charge point issuing center 300 and transmits a charge request.

  The charge point issuing center 300 transmits charge amount data to the mobile communication terminal 100 in response to a request. The mobile communication terminal 100 can replenish the charge balance in this way.

  In addition, this invention is not limited to the said embodiment, A various deformation | transformation and application are possible.

  The mobile communication terminal 100 of the above embodiment may be a mobile phone, a PHS (Personal Handyphone System), or another phone. Further, although the present invention has been described as being applied to the mobile communication terminal 100, it can also be applied to other portable terminals such as a PDA (Personal Digital Assistance) having a communication function.

  Moreover, in the said embodiment, although the program which the control part 110 performs was previously memorize | stored in the railway route guide part 170, you may make it memorize | store it via a network.

It is a schematic diagram of a railroad line guidance system concerning an embodiment of the invention. It is a block diagram which shows the system configuration | structure of the mobile communication terminal shown in FIG. It is a block diagram which shows the system configuration | structure of the railway route guide center shown in FIG. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of the mobile communication terminal at the time of performing railway line guidance. It is a flowchart for demonstrating operation | movement of the balance collation process shown in FIG. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement of the railway line guidance center at the time of performing railway line guidance. It is a figure which shows the display screen of route guidance. It is a figure which shows an example of replenishment of a charge balance.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Base station, 20 ... Mobile network, 30 ... Gateway, 40 ... Internet, 100 ... Mobile communication terminal, 110 ... Control part, 111 ... Balance shortage determination part, 120 ... Communication processing part, 121 ... Antenna, 130 ... Call , 131 ... Speaker, 132 ... Microphone, 140 ... Operation part, 150 ... Display part, 160 ... GPS part, 161 ... GPS antenna, 170 ... Railway road guidance part, 171 ... Railway road guidance request part, 172 ... Railway road guidance Result editing unit, 180 ... non-contact IC unit, 181 ... charge control unit, 182 ... charge storage unit, 183 ... antenna, 200 ... railway route guide center, 210 ... transmission / reception control unit, 220 ... nearest station search unit, 230 ... Map information database, 240 ... Railway line search unit, 250 ... Railway movement information database, 300 ... From charge point Center, 410 ... route guidance input screen, 420 ... route guidance display screen, 421 ... re-search button, 422 ... charge button, 500 ... settlement server

Claims (6)

The railway route guidance server includes a railway route guidance device and a railway route guidance server that are connected via a network. The railway route guidance server retrieves a route guidance request including a retrieval condition from the railway route guidance device based on the retrieval condition. A railway route guidance system for transmitting route guidance information including route information and toll information for the route,
The railway line guide device
A payment means for communicating with an external device by non-contact communication and paying a railway fee from a balance having a monetary value stored in advance;
The value indicating the route charge included in the route guidance information transmitted from the railway route guide server is compared with the value indicating the balance of the payment means, and the balance of the payment means is insufficient for the charge of the route. Balance shortage determination means for determining whether or not,
The route guidance information transmitted from the railway route guidance server and, when the balance shortage determining means determines that the balance is insufficient, displays that the balance of the payment means is insufficient for the fee of the route Display means;
A railway route guidance system characterized by comprising: The search condition includes a departure station,
The railway line guide device includes a current position acquisition unit that acquires current position information of the railway line guide device, and the current position information acquired by the current position information acquisition unit when requesting route guidance. A current position transmitting means for transmitting to
The railway route guide server, nearest station search means for searching for the nearest station from the current position information transmitted from the current position transmission means of the railway route guide device,
A route search means for searching for a route by setting the nearest station searched by the nearest station search means as a departure station of the search condition;
The railway route guidance system according to claim 1, comprising: The railway route guide server further includes a search condition storage means for storing a search condition transmitted from the railway route guide device,
The railway line guide device includes a re-search request means for requesting the railway line guidance server to re-search for a route,
In response to a request for re-search from the re-search request means of the railway line guide device, the railway line guide server searches for a station that is next to the nearest station searched by the nearest station search means. A search means,
The route search means sets the departure station of the search condition stored in the search condition storage means to a station closest to the nearest station searched by the departure station re-search means, and re-searches the route,
Re-search result transmission means for transmitting the route re-searched by the route search means to the railway route guidance device as route guidance information;
The railway route guidance system according to claim 2.   The railway route guidance device performs a predetermined operation for replenishing the balance of the payment means via the network in response to a user operation when the balance shortage determining means determines that the balance is insufficient. The railway route guidance system according to claim 1, 2 or 3, further comprising means. A payment means for communicating with an external device by non-contact communication and paying a railway fee from a balance having a monetary value stored in advance;
Route guidance acquisition means for acquiring route guidance information including route information and fare information of the route via a network;
Whether the balance of the payment means is insufficient for the charge of the route by comparing the value indicating the charge of the route included in the route guide information acquired by the route guide acquisition means with the value indicating the balance of the payment means Balance shortage determination means for determining whether or not
Display that displays the route guidance information acquired by the route guidance acquisition unit and that the balance of the payment unit is insufficient for the charge of the route when the balance shortage determination unit determines that the balance is insufficient Means,
A railway line guide device comprising: On the computer,
A payment function that communicates with an external device by non-contact communication and pays a railway fee from a balance having a monetary value stored in advance,
A route guidance acquisition function for acquiring route guidance information including route information and fare information of the route via the network;
Whether the balance of the payment means is insufficient for the charge of the route by comparing the value indicating the charge of the route included in the route guide information acquired by the route guide acquisition means with the value indicating the balance of the payment means Balance shortage determination function to determine whether
Display that displays the route guidance information acquired by the route guidance acquisition unit and that the balance of the payment unit is insufficient for the charge of the route when the balance shortage determination unit determines that the balance is insufficient function,
A program to realize

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