JP2010204853A - Weather information distribution device, weather information distribution method, and weather information distribution program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a user with weather information about another railroad station relating to a current station. <P>SOLUTION: When acquiring weather information, a weather information distribution device specifies a line to which a railroad station corresponding to the weather information belongs. Then, by referring to line/station information, the weather information distribution device distributes the acquired weather information to a large screen display device adjacent to a station except the railroad station corresponding to the acquired weather information among railroad stations on the specified line. For example, when weather information of a station A is acquired, by referring to the line/station information, a line Y to which the station A belongs is specified, and weather information about the station A is distributed to large screen display devices adjacent to stations B and C on the specified line Y. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a weather information distribution device, a weather information distribution method, and a weather information distribution program.

  Conventionally, there are services that provide weather information to users. For example, there has been proposed a technique for collecting information related to the weather in each region and realizing a service that provides weather information for each region on the Web.

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  By the way, in the technology for providing the weather information to the user as described above, there is no technology that focuses on providing the user with weather information at other railway stations related to the own station such as a railway station on the same route. . Although it is useful for railway users when considering measures at destination stations, it has become a blind spot in the technology of providing weather information to users.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above, and is a weather information distribution device, a weather information distribution method, and a weather information distribution program capable of providing a user with weather information about a station on a route to which a railway station belongs. The purpose is to provide.

  In order to solve the above-described problems and achieve the object, the present invention is a weather information distribution device that distributes weather information of each railway station, and the correspondence relationship between the railway line and the station in the line is preliminarily determined. Corresponding relationship storage means for storing, weather information acquiring means for acquiring weather information at each railway station, and when the weather information is acquired by the weather information acquiring means, the correspondence relationship storing means stores the information With reference to the correspondence relationship, the route to which the railway station corresponding to the acquired weather information belongs is specified, and among the railway stations in the specified route, other than the station corresponding to the acquired weather information Weather information distribution means for distributing the acquired weather information to a station is provided.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the weather information about the station in the route to which a railway station belongs, such as a railway station in the same route, can be provided to the user.

FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining the features of the weather information distribution apparatus according to the first embodiment. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of the weather information distribution apparatus according to the first embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of the weather information DB according to the first embodiment. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of the route / station information DB according to the first embodiment. FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining the flow of processing by the weather information distribution apparatus according to the first embodiment. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of the weather information distribution apparatus according to the second embodiment. FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a route / station information DB according to the second embodiment. FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining the flow of processing by the weather information distribution apparatus according to the second embodiment. FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a computer that executes a weather information distribution program.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of a weather information distribution device, a weather information distribution method, and a weather information distribution program according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  In the following first embodiment, the outline and features of the weather information distribution apparatus according to the first embodiment, the configuration and processing of the weather information distribution apparatus will be described in order, and finally the effects of the first embodiment will be described. The present invention is not limited to the first embodiment.

[Outline and Features of Weather Information Distribution Device (Example 1)]
The weather information distribution apparatus according to the first embodiment is summarized to distribute the weather information of each railway station. And the feature of the weather information distribution apparatus which concerns on Example 1 exists in the point which can provide a user with the weather information about the station in the route to which a railway station belongs.

  Hereinafter, the features of the weather information distribution apparatus according to the first embodiment will be specifically described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining the features of the weather information distribution apparatus according to the first embodiment. As shown in the figure, the weather information distribution apparatus according to the first embodiment is installed adjacent to a station (for example, a weather observation apparatus in a station premises) or a station via a network such as a public telephone network or the Internet. It is in a state where it can communicate with the large screen display device.

  Further, as shown in the figure, the weather information distribution apparatus according to the first embodiment includes route / station information that stores in advance the correspondence relationship between the railway routes and the stations in the route. For example, this route / station information has a correspondence that can specify that the A station and the B station belong to the Y route and the C station belongs to the Y route and the Z route.

  And the weather information delivery apparatus which concerns on Example 1 will identify the route to which the railway station corresponding to weather information belongs, if weather information is acquired. Then, with reference to the route / station information, among the railway stations in the identified route, the obtained information is obtained for the large screen display device adjacent to the station other than the railway station corresponding to the obtained weather information. Deliver weather information. For example, when the weather information of station A is acquired, the route / station information is referenced to identify the Y route that is the route to which station A belongs, and the station B and the station C that are adjacent to the identified Y route are identified. The weather information of station A is distributed to the screen display device.

  As described above, the weather information distribution apparatus according to the first embodiment can provide weather information about a station on a route to which a railway station belongs to a user. And the weather information distribution apparatus which concerns on Example 1 can provide a user with the weather information about the station in the route to which a railway station belongs. From the user's side, for example, when using a train on the Y route from C station to A station, useful information such as clothes and belongings (for example, umbrellas) is considered for dealing with A station. be able to.

[Weather Information Distribution Device (Example 1)]
Next, the configuration of the weather information distribution apparatus according to the first embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of the weather information distribution apparatus according to the first embodiment. As shown in the figure, a weather information distribution apparatus 200 according to the first embodiment is installed adjacent to a weather observation apparatus 100 in a station premises or a station via a network 1 such as a public telephone network or the Internet. Communication with the large screen display device 300 is possible.

  For example, the weather observation apparatus 100 waits for a preset observation time to observe the weather around the railway station and the station. Specifically, the atmospheric state is measured using a general observation device having a sensor for measuring temperature, pressure, wind direction, wind speed, and the like. And the weather around a railway station and a station is observed by analyzing a measurement result. The weather observation apparatus 100 may use any known technique as a method for observing the weather. When the weather observation is completed, the weather observation apparatus 100 transmits the weather information that is the observation result to the weather information distribution apparatus 200.

  When the weather information of each station is received from the weather information distribution device 200, the large screen display device 300 associates the received weather information with the corresponding station and displays it on a display or the like in a state where it can be viewed from the surroundings.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the weather information distribution apparatus 200 includes a weather information DB 210, a route / station information DB 220, a communication control unit 230, a weather information storage unit 240, and a weather information distribution processing unit 250.

  The weather information DB 210 stores the weather information received from the weather observation apparatus 100 in association with the railway route name and station name. For example, as shown in FIG. 3, the weather information “rain” of station A observed at “12:20”, the route name “Y route”, and the station name from the weather observation apparatus 100 that observes the weather of station A It is stored in association with “A station”. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of the weather information DB according to the first embodiment.

  The route / station information DB 220 stores a correspondence relationship between a railroad route and a station in the route in advance. For example, as shown in FIG. 4, a correspondence relationship that can specify that the A station and the B station belong to the Y route and that the C station belongs to the Y route and the Z route is stored. Furthermore, the large-screen display device information related to the large-screen display device 300 installed adjacent to each station is stored for each station. The large screen display device information corresponds to address information for distributing weather information to the large screen display device 300. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of the route / station information DB according to the first embodiment.

  The communication control unit 230 controls communication regarding various information exchanged with the weather observation apparatus 100 and the large screen display apparatus 300. The weather information storage unit 240 stores the weather information received from the weather observation apparatus 100 in the weather information DB 210.

  The weather information distribution processing unit 250 distributes the weather information received from the weather observation apparatus 100. Specifically, the weather information distribution processing unit 250 acquires undelivered weather information from the weather information DB 210 and identifies a route to which a station corresponding to the acquired weather information belongs. After the route is specified, the weather information distribution processing unit 250 displays the large screen display device 300 installed adjacent to a station other than the station corresponding to the previously acquired weather information among the stations in the specified route. On the other hand, undelivered weather information acquired from the weather information DB 210 is distributed.

  For example, in the case illustrated in FIG. 3, the weather information distribution processing unit 250 acquires undelivered weather information “rain” from the weather information DB 210, and the route “Y route” to which the station A corresponding to the acquired weather information belongs. Is identified.

  After specifying the route, the weather information distribution processing unit 250 refers to the route / station information DB 220 for “B station, C station,...” Other than the A station in the previously specified route “Y route”. The large screen display information associated with the confirmed “B station, C station,...” Is acquired. Then, the weather information distribution processing unit 250 distributes the undistributed weather information acquired from the weather information DB 210 using the acquired large screen display information as the distribution destination of the weather information.

  In addition, when the station corresponding to the acquired weather information belongs to a plurality of routes, the weather information distribution processing unit 250 distributes the weather information to each of the stations in the plurality of routes. For example, in the case shown in FIG. 3, when the station corresponding to the undelivered weather information acquired from the weather information DB 210 is “C station”, the weather information distribution processing unit 250 has the route “ “Y route” and “Z route” are specified.

  After specifying the route, the weather information distribution processing unit 250 is in “A station, B station,...” And “Z route” other than the C station in the previously specified route name “Y route”. “D station, F station,...” Other than C station is determined with reference to the route / station information DB 220, and the determined “A station, B station,...” And “D station, F station,. ... ”Is acquired. Then, the weather information distribution processing unit 250 distributes the undistributed weather information acquired from the weather information DB 210 using the acquired large screen display information as the distribution destination of the weather information.

  After the completion of the distribution of the weather information, the weather information distribution processing unit 250 sets a distribution completed flag (already) at the corresponding location in the weather information DB 210 so that the weather information that has been distributed can be known.

  The weather information distribution processing unit 250 may acquire undelivered weather information from the weather information DB 210 and distribute weather information in real time each time new weather information is stored in the weather information DB 210. Further, the weather information distribution processing unit 250 may acquire and distribute undistributed weather information from the weather information DB 210 at a periodic timing that sets a predetermined time interval.

[Processing by Weather Information Distribution Device (Example 1)]
Next, the flow of processing by the weather information distribution apparatus according to the first embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining the flow of processing by the weather information distribution apparatus according to the first embodiment.

  As shown in the figure, the weather information distribution apparatus 200 acquires undelivered weather information from the weather information DB 210 (step S1), and identifies the route to which the station corresponding to the acquired weather information belongs (step S2). . After the route is specified, the weather information distribution processing unit 250 is installed on the large screen display device 300 adjacent to a station other than the station corresponding to the previously acquired weather information among the stations in the specified route. In response to this, the undelivered weather information acquired from the weather information DB 210 is distributed (step S3).

[Effects of Example 1]
As described above, according to the first embodiment, when the weather information distribution apparatus 200 acquires the weather information, the route to which the railway station corresponding to the weather information belongs is specified. Then, out of the railway stations in the identified route, stations other than the railway station corresponding to the acquired weather information are confirmed with reference to the route / station information DB 220, and a large screen display adjacent to the confirmed station is displayed. The acquired weather information is distributed to the device.

  As described above, according to the first embodiment, it is possible to provide the user with weather information about a station in a route to which the railway station belongs, such as a railway station in the same route. From the viewpoint of the user who receives the weather information, for example, when going from the C station to the A station using the Y-line train, it is necessary to consider measures at the A station such as clothes and belongings (for example, umbrellas). You can get useful information.

  In the first embodiment, the case where the weather information transmitted from the weather observation apparatus 100 in the station premises is received and the weather information of each railway station is acquired has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this. Instead, for example, the information may be acquired from a device that collectively manages the weather information of each railway station.

  In the first embodiment, for example, weather information about a station in a route to which the railway station belongs, such as a railway station in the same route, may be provided to stores around the railway station. Therefore, in the following second embodiment, after describing the configuration and processing of the weather information distribution apparatus according to the second embodiment, the effects of the first embodiment will be described.

[Weather Information Distribution Device (Example 2)]
FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating the configuration of the weather information distribution apparatus according to the second embodiment. As shown in the figure, the weather information distribution apparatus 200 according to the second embodiment is arranged around the railway station in addition to the weather observation apparatus 100 and the large screen display apparatus 300 via the network 1 such as a public telephone network or the Internet. Communication with a certain store apparatus 400 is possible.

  The store device 400 is installed in a store around the railway station, and receives weather information from the weather information distribution device 200. A store that wishes to distribute weather information from the weather information distribution device 200 notifies the address information assigned to the device in the store used as the store device 400, and performs prior registration in the weather information distribution device 200. .

  The weather information distribution apparatus 200 has basically the same configuration as that of the first embodiment described above, but differs in the points described below.

  As shown in FIG. 7, the route / station information DB 220 is located in the vicinity of the railway station in addition to the correspondence between the railway route and the station in the route and the large screen display device information described in the first embodiment. Store information related to the store apparatus 400 is stored for each station. The store information corresponds to address information for delivering weather information to the store apparatus 400. FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a route / station information DB according to the second embodiment.

  The weather information distribution processing unit 250 not only distributes undelivered weather information acquired from the weather information DB 210 to the large screen display device 300 in the same manner as in the first embodiment described above, but also from the weather information DB 210. The undelivered weather information acquired from the weather information DB 210 is distributed to store devices around the station other than the station corresponding to the acquired weather information.

  For example, in the case illustrated in FIG. 7, the weather information distribution processing unit 250 acquires undelivered weather information “rain” from the weather information DB 210, and the station corresponding to the acquired weather information is “A station”. The route “Y route” to which “A station” belongs is specified.

  After specifying the route, the weather information distribution processing unit 250 refers to the route / station information DB 220 for “B station, C station,...” Other than the A station in the previously specified route “Y route”. The large screen display information associated with the confirmed “B station, C station,...” Is acquired. Further, the weather information distribution processing unit 250 acquires store information regarding stores near the station associated with the determined “B station, C station,...”. Then, the weather information distribution processing unit 250 distributes the undistributed weather information acquired from the weather information DB 210 using the acquired large screen display information and store information as the distribution destination of the weather information.

[Processing by Weather Information Distribution Device (Example 2)]
Next, the flow of processing performed by the weather information distribution apparatus according to the second embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining the flow of processing by the weather information distribution apparatus according to the second embodiment. Step S1 and step S2 shown in FIG. 8 are the same as step S1 and step S3 shown in FIG. 5 described in the first embodiment, but step S3 shown in FIG. 8 is different from the first embodiment. Different.

  That is, as in the first embodiment, the weather information distribution apparatus 200 acquires undelivered weather information from the weather information DB 210 (step S1), and identifies the route to which the station corresponding to the acquired weather information belongs. (Step S2).

  Then, after specifying the route, the weather information distribution processing unit 250 applies the weather information DB 210 to the large screen display device 300 installed adjacent to a station other than the station corresponding to the weather information acquired from the weather information DB 210. In addition to delivering undelivered weather information acquired from, the undelivered weather information acquired from the weather information DB 210 to store devices around stations other than the station corresponding to the weather information acquired from the weather information DB 210 Deliver weather information. The undistributed weather information acquired from the weather information DB 210 is distributed to the large screen display device 300 installed adjacent to the station on the identified route (step S3).

[Effects of Example 2]
As described above, according to the second embodiment, weather information is distributed not only to the large screen display device 300 installed adjacent to the station, but also to the store apparatus 400 of stores located around the station. For this reason, it is possible to provide weather information about the station on the route to which the railway station belongs to a store or the like that has a shop near the railway station. From the perspective of the store receiving the weather information, it is possible to obtain useful information for grasping business opportunities for selling products such as umbrellas according to the weather.

  Hereinafter, Example 2 will be described as another embodiment of the communication processing device, the communication processing method, and the communication processing program according to the present invention.

(1) Device Configuration Each component of the weather information distribution device 200 shown in FIG. 2 is functionally conceptual and does not necessarily need to be physically configured as illustrated. That is, the specific form of distribution / integration of the weather information distribution apparatus 200 is not limited to that shown in the figure, and for example, the weather information storage unit 240 and the weather information distribution processing unit 250 are integrated. As described above, all or part of the weather information distribution apparatus 200 can be configured to be functionally or physically distributed and integrated in arbitrary units according to various loads and usage conditions. Furthermore, each processing function (refer to FIG. 5 and FIG. 8) performed in the weather information distribution apparatus 200 is realized by a CPU and a program that is analyzed and executed by the CPU. Alternatively, it can be realized as hardware by wired logic.

(2) Weather Information Distribution Method The following weather information distribution method is realized by the weather information distribution device 200 described in the above embodiment.

  That is, a weather information acquisition step (for example, see step S1 in FIG. 5) for acquiring weather information at each railway station, and when weather information is acquired by the weather information acquisition step, With reference to the correspondence storage means for storing the correspondence with the station in advance, the route to which the railway station corresponding to the previously acquired weather information belongs is identified, and among the railway stations in the identified route, Weather information including a weather information distribution step (for example, see steps S2 and S3 in FIG. 5) for distributing the previously acquired weather information to stations other than the station corresponding to the previously acquired weather information. A delivery method is realized.

(3) Weather information distribution processing program Various processes (for example, see FIG. 5 and FIG. 8) of the weather information distribution apparatus 200 described in the above embodiment are executed by using a program prepared in advance as a personal computer or workstation. It can implement | achieve by running with computer systems, such as. Therefore, in the following, an example of a computer that executes a weather information distribution processing program having the same function as that of the above embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a computer that executes a weather information distribution processing program.

  As shown in the figure, a computer 500 as a weather information distribution apparatus 200 is configured by connecting a communication control unit 510, an HDD 520, a RAM 530, and a CPU 540 via a bus 600.

  Here, the communication control unit 510 controls communication related to the exchange of various information. The HDD 520 stores information necessary for the CPU 540 to execute various processes. The RAM 530 temporarily stores various information. The CPU 540 executes various arithmetic processes.

  As shown in FIG. 9, the HDD 520 includes a weather information distribution processing program 521 that exhibits the same function as each processing unit of the weather information distribution apparatus 200 shown in the above embodiment, and weather information distribution processing data. 522 is stored in advance. Note that the weather information distribution processing program 521 may be appropriately distributed and stored in a storage unit of another computer that is communicably connected via a network.

  Then, the CPU 540 reads this weather information distribution processing program 521 from the HDD 520 and expands it in the RAM 530, so that the weather information distribution processing program 521 functions as a weather information distribution processing process 531 as shown in FIG. . That is, the weather information distribution processing process 531 reads out the weather information distribution processing data 522 and the like from the HDD 520, expands it in the area allocated to itself in the RAM 530, and executes various processes based on the expanded data and the like. The weather information distribution processing process 531 corresponds to the processing executed in the weather information distribution processing unit 250 of the weather information distribution device 200 shown in FIG.

  The weather information distribution processing program 521 does not necessarily need to be stored in the HDD 520 from the beginning. For example, a flexible disk (FD), a CD-ROM, a DVD disk, or a magneto-optical disk inserted into the computer 500. Each program is stored in a “portable physical medium” such as an IC card, and “another computer (or server)” connected to the computer 500 via a public line, the Internet, a LAN, a WAN, or the like. In addition, the computer 500 may read out and execute each program from these.

  As described above, the weather information distribution device, the weather information distribution method, and the weather information distribution program according to the present invention are useful for distributing the weather information of each railway station, and in particular, the stations in the route to which the railway station belongs. It is suitable for providing the user with weather information about.

1 Network 100 Weather Observation Device 200 Weather Information Distribution Device 210 Weather Information DB
220 Route / Station Information DB
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 230 Communication control part 240 Weather information preservation | save part 250 Weather information delivery process part 300 Large screen display apparatus 400 Store apparatus 500 Computer 510 Communication control part 520 HDD (Hard Disk Drive)
521 Weather information distribution processing program 522 Data for weather information distribution processing 530 RAM (Random Access Memory)
531 Weather Information Distribution Process 540 CPU (Central Processing Unit)
600 buses

Claims (6)

A weather information distribution device that distributes weather information for each railway station,
Correspondence storage means for storing in advance the correspondence between a railway line and a station in the line;
Weather information acquisition means for acquiring weather information at each railway station;
When the weather information is acquired by the weather information acquisition means, the route to which the railway station corresponding to the acquired weather information belongs is identified with reference to the correspondence relation stored in the correspondence relation storage means And a weather information distribution means for distributing the acquired weather information to a station other than the station corresponding to the acquired weather information among the railway stations in the specified route. Weather information distribution device characterized by the above. It further comprises store information storage means for storing store information about stores located around the railway station,
The weather information distribution means distributes the acquired weather information to a railway station in the specified route, and refers to store information stored in the store information storage means, and acquires the acquired weather information. The weather information distribution apparatus according to claim 1, wherein stores near a railway station corresponding to the specified weather information are specified, and the acquired weather information is distributed to the specified stores. A weather information distribution method applied to a weather information distribution device that performs a process of distributing weather information of each railway station,
A weather information acquisition step of acquiring weather information at each railway station;
When the weather information is acquired by the weather information acquisition step, it corresponds to the acquired weather information with reference to the correspondence storage means that stores in advance the correspondence between the railway line and the station in the line. The weather to which the train station to which the train station belongs is identified and the acquired weather information is distributed to stations other than the station corresponding to the acquired weather information among the train stations in the identified route. A weather information distribution method comprising: an information distribution step.   The weather information distribution means distributes the acquired weather information to a railway station on the specified route, and stores store information about stores located around the railway station. The store of the vicinity of a railway station corresponding to the acquired weather information is specified with reference to the above, and the acquired weather information is distributed to the specified store. Weather information delivery method. A weather information distribution program for causing a computer to execute processing for distributing weather information of each railway station,
Weather information acquisition procedure for acquiring weather information at each railway station,
When the weather information is acquired by the weather information acquisition procedure, it corresponds to the acquired weather information with reference to a correspondence storage unit that stores in advance the correspondence between a railway line and a station in the line. The weather to which the train station to which the train station belongs is identified and the acquired weather information is distributed to stations other than the station corresponding to the acquired weather information among the train stations in the identified route. A weather information distribution program that causes a computer to execute an information distribution procedure.   The weather information distribution procedure distributes the acquired weather information to a railway station in the specified route, and stores store information about stores located around the railway station. The store in the vicinity of the railway station corresponding to the acquired weather information is specified with reference to the above, and the acquired weather information is distributed to the specified store. Weather information distribution program.

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