JP2011129143A - Information providing system, information processing device and program - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a user with, in providing an information service using cellular phone, information on a building located within a predetermined distance from the position of a user terminal, service information on a shop located within a specific building within the field of view or the like, and also to properly acquire the moving direction of the user. <P>SOLUTION: The system includes: a database 15 which holds bubble data in which address information showing an address of content to be provided to a user terminal is associated with space occupation information having latitude/longitude and dimension; a receiving unit 16 which receives position information having a direction of the user terminal and a position of the user terminal; a space search unit 40 which searches for, based on the received position information, bubble data having space occupation information which has a crossing relation with a vector extended from the position of the user terminal in a direction specified based on the direction of the user terminal from the database; and a search result report unit 41 which displays, based on the space occupation information of the bubble data searched by the space search unit, a virtual object which occupies a desired space and accepts a content access request operation on a screen of the user terminal. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an information providing system, an information processing apparatus, and a program.

In general, when storing electronic data, a user (company or individual) uses a processing device such as a keyboard and a mouse. In order to express his intention, the user converts to another hardware, instructs the processing device, and searches and stores data according to the contents to be processed.
In recent years, with the widespread use of mobile terminals, mobile environments have been improved, and small GPS (Global Positioning System) modules that can measure human positions have become widespread and various services have been provided. A part of it is used as a route guidance service for measuring and informing where a user is located.

  However, when the user retrieves and stores the data, the user has to convert the user's intention once into data of another format, and according to this method, the data must be processed digitally. Therefore, the user cannot perform direct processing such as putting something that enters his or her field of view on the shelf. In other words, the user cannot search by analog sense such as “going north”, “relatively right / left”, “slightly right / front / backward”, so it is easy to become familiar with human senses. It is difficult to use.

For this reason, when it is convenient for the user to search and store data using an analog sense, the user must perform digital processing, and the digital processing is There is a problem that special knowledge and experience are required.
In addition, the service of the mobile terminal is mainly for voice service, and since the display is small, it is not suitable for displaying the position where the user is.

Further, in the route guidance (navigation) service by voice, the user can grasp the position by using a GPS module built in or attached to the portable terminal. For this reason, in the navigation service, it is possible for the system side to provide a route guidance “Please go north” as an absolute expression.
On the other hand, the direction in which the user is facing cannot be grasped, and therefore, the system cannot guide the user to “go straight ahead” as a relative expression in consideration of the user's position. For this reason, this service has a problem that it is difficult to navigate when the east, west, north, and south cannot be grasped.

Further, when the moving speed is high like a vehicle, the moving direction of the user can be grasped by the Doppler effect generated between the GPS satellite and the portable terminal. However, there is a problem that the moving direction of the user or the vehicle cannot be grasped when the moving speed is low, such as walking, or when the user is stopped.
On the other hand, there is a problem that it is actually very difficult for a system operator to invest expensive equipment in order to grasp a user's movement.

The present invention was devised in view of such problems, and in providing an information service using a mobile phone, information on a building within a predetermined distance range from the user's terminal position, or in a specific building in the field of view. It is a first object to be able to acquire service information of a certain store and to accurately grasp the user's moving direction.
Furthermore, when the system operator provides this service information, it is necessary to improve the user interface. However, there is a problem that it is difficult to efficiently search for a service content desired by the user from a large number of service information and transmit it to the user.

In providing service information to the user terminal, the service information can be displayed to the user in a form linked to the map information of the user terminal, and the size of the information bubble can be optimally displayed on the screen. The purpose of 2.
In addition, recently, services that accurately receive route guidance to a destination when a user drives a vehicle have become widespread. To provide this service, system operators need to install expensive vehicle detectors, etc., and tracking the movement of the vehicle requires a huge investment, which is difficult to implement. is there.

  A third object is to enable the system operator to track the movement of the vehicle without installing an expensive vehicle detector or the like.

  For example, an information providing system that can be used from a user terminal having an azimuth detecting unit that can measure an azimuth and a position detecting unit that can measure a position, the address information indicating an address of content that can be provided to the user terminal; A database that holds bubble data in association with spatial occupancy information having latitude, longitude, and dimensions, an orientation that the user terminal has detected detected by the orientation detection means of the user terminal, and the user terminal A receiving unit that receives position information having the position of the user terminal detected by the position detecting means, and the position of the user terminal is identified based on the orientation of the user terminal based on the received position information. The bubble data having the space occupancy information in a relationship intersecting with a search vector which is a vector extended in the direction of And a request for access to the content that is a virtual object that occupies a desired space based on the space occupancy information that the bubble data searched by the space search unit has. An information providing system including a search result notification unit that displays the virtual object that receives an operation on the screen of the user terminal can be used.

  Further, for example, in the information processing apparatus, an orientation detection unit that detects the orientation of the own terminal, a position detection unit that detects the position of the own terminal, an orientation detected by the orientation detection unit, and the position detection unit A transmission means for transmitting the position information having the position detected by the above, and address information indicating the address of the content that can be provided to the user terminal in response to the transmission of the position information, and latitude / longitude and dimensions. From an information providing system having a database that holds bubble data in association with spatial occupancy information that has been extended from a position that the transmitted position information has in a direction that is specified based on the direction that the transmitted position information has Receiving means for receiving the bubble data having the space occupancy information that intersects with a search vector that is a vector; and Display means for displaying, on the screen, the virtual object that is a virtual object that occupies a desired space and that accepts a request for access to the content, based on the space occupancy information that the transmitted bubble data has; An information processing apparatus comprising

  Further, for example, it is a program executed in the information processing apparatus, the direction detection unit for detecting the direction of the own terminal, the position detection unit for detecting the position of the own terminal, and the direction detected by the direction detection unit A transmission means for transmitting position information having the position detected by the position detection means, and address information indicating the address of content that can be provided to the user terminal in response to the transmission of the position information, and latitude -From an information providing system having a database that holds bubble data in association with space occupation information having longitude and dimensions, it is specified based on the direction of the transmitted position information from the position of the transmitted position information. The bubble detector having the space occupancy information that intersects with a search vector that is a vector extended in a direction. And a virtual object that occupies a desired space and that accepts a request for access to the content based on the space occupancy information of the received bubble data. A program that operates the information processing apparatus as display means for displaying the image on the screen can be used.

  The server of the technology related to the present invention is a system that provides information to a user terminal capable of displaying a map, and includes a plurality of elements among information documents having attribute information representing attributes of service information to be provided. For a specific information document having index information, a database holding spatial range information in three-dimensional space and search information for obtaining service information as associated bubble data, and displayed on a map transmitted from the user terminal Search for specific bubble data including coordinate information and display target attribute information among bubble data based on a mapping request having coordinate information of the target and display target attribute information representing attributes of service information provided by the target And mapping with spatial range information, attribute information and search information included in specific bubble data The answer is characterized in that it is configured to include a notification unit that notifies the user terminal.

  Further, the server of the technology related to the present invention provides index information composed of a plurality of elements related to attribute information among information pages having attribute information representing attributes of various information related to an object or service information related to the various information. A database that holds, as bubble data, spatial information including the latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter of an object in a three-dimensional space, and address information for obtaining service information, with respect to the specific information page having The coordinate information in the three-dimensional space consisting of the latitude, longitude and altitude of the object displayed on the map and the various information related to the object displayed on the map or the service information related to the various information transmitted from the terminal. Coordinate information and table of bubble data based on a mapping request having display target attribute information to represent A search unit for searching for specific bubble data including target attribute information, and a notification unit for notifying the user terminal of a mapping response including the spatial range information, attribute information, and address information of the specific bubble data It is characterized by.

Further, the notification unit notifies a mapping response having spatial range information including a similar bubble diameter having a diameter corresponding to a scale of a map displayed by the user terminal and address information based on the coordinate information included in the mapping request. May be configured.
The database may be configured to hold bubble data in association with a unique number that can be identified for the content of the service information of the bubble data.

  In addition, the user terminal of the technology related to the present invention includes a map information output unit that outputs map information, a display unit that displays a target image based on the map information output from the map information output unit, and a display unit The mapping request having the coordinate information in the three-dimensional space of the target displayed on the screen and the display target attribute information indicating the attribute of the service information provided by the target is transmitted to the server connected to the user terminal via the network. The transmission unit, the spatial range information in the three-dimensional space corresponding to the coordinate information, the attribute information indicating the attribute information of the service information provided by the target, and the search information for obtaining the service information, notified by the server about the mapping request. The image shape is displayed on the display unit together with the map at the position indicated by the receiver that receives the mapping response and the spatial range information included in the mapping response. And Shimesuru mapping unit, is characterized in that it is configured to include a mapping data holding unit for holding in association with search information included in the image shape and mapping the response to be displayed by the mapping unit.

  In addition, the user terminal of the technology related to the present invention displays a map information output unit that outputs map information of an object in a three-dimensional space, and an object image on the screen based on the map information output from the map information output unit. Display target attribute information indicating the attribute of the display information to be displayed, the coordinate information in the three-dimensional space composed of the latitude, longitude, and altitude of the object displayed on the display and various information related to the object or the service information related to the various information A transmission unit that transmits a mapping request to the server connected to the user terminal via the network, and the latitude, longitude, and the latitude of the object in the three-dimensional space corresponding to the coordinate information notified by the server about the mapping request. A receiving unit for receiving a mapping response having spatial range information consisting of altitude and bubble diameter and address information for obtaining service information; The mapping unit that displays the image shape together with the image of the object on the display unit, and the image shape displayed by the mapping unit and the address information included in the mapping response are stored in association with each other at the position indicated by the spatial range information included in the ping response And a mapping data holding unit to be configured.

  Further, the information providing system of the technology related to the present invention is an information page having attribute information representing attributes of various information related to an object or service information related to the various information and document type definition information composed of a plurality of elements. As a bubble data in which a specific information page having document type definition information is associated with spatial range information including the latitude, longitude, altitude and bubble diameter of an object in three-dimensional space and address information for obtaining service information. From the database to be held, the user terminal connected to the database via the network and displaying various information retrieved using bubble data, and the latitude, longitude and altitude of the object displayed on the map transmitted from the user terminal Coordinate information in the 3D space and various information related to the object or support related to the various information. A search unit for searching for specific bubble data including coordinate information and display target attribute information from bubble data based on a mapping request having display target attribute information representing an attribute of service information; and spatial range information of the specific bubble data; A notification unit for notifying a user terminal of a mapping response having attribute information and address information, and outputting the map information output unit from which the user terminal outputs map information of an object in a three-dimensional space, and the map information output unit A display unit for displaying an image of an object on the screen based on the map information obtained, coordinate information including latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter in the three-dimensional space of the object displayed on the display unit, and various information related to the object Alternatively, a mapping request having attribute information indicating attributes of service information related to the various types of information is sent to the user terminal and the network. Spatial range information consisting of the latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter of the object in the three-dimensional space corresponding to the spatial range information notified by the server about the mapping request, and the transmission unit that transmits to the server connected via the network And a receiving unit that receives a mapping response having address information for obtaining service information, a mapping unit that displays an image shape on the display unit together with an image of an object at a position indicated by spatial range information included in the mapping response, It is characterized by comprising a mapping data holding unit that holds the image shape displayed by the mapping unit in association with the address information included in the mapping response.

  The information providing service method according to the technology related to the present invention includes a selection step in which a user terminal selects an object displayed on a map, and coordinate information and an object related to the object selected by the user terminal in the selection step. The user terminal transmission step for transmitting the display target attribute information representing the attribute of the service information to be transmitted to the server connected to the user terminal via the network, and the server is transmitted in the user terminal transmission step. Based on the coordinate information and the display target attribute information, the server transmission step for transmitting the spatial range information, the attribute information, and the address information to the user terminal, respectively, and the spatial range information transmitted by the user terminal in the server transmission step A mapping step for displaying the image shape on the display unit together with the object at the position indicated by Is characterized in that made the.

  In addition, the information providing service method of the technology related to the present invention includes a map display step in which a user terminal displays a map on a display unit that displays an image, and map information in which the user terminal is displayed in the map display step. A selection step of selecting an object from a network, and a user terminal comprising latitude, longitude, altitude and bubble diameter in a three-dimensional space related to the object selected in the selection step with respect to a server connected to the user terminal via a network A transmission step of transmitting a mapping request having coordinate information and display information attribute information indicating attributes of various information related to the object or service information related to the various information, and the server based on the mapping request of the transmission step, Spatial range information consisting of latitude, longitude, altitude and bubble diameter of objects in 3D space A search step for searching for specific bubble data including coordinate information and display target attribute information among bubble data associated with information or address information for obtaining service information related to the various types of information; A notification step of notifying the user terminal of the mapping response having the spatial range information and address information of the specific bubble data searched in step, and the user terminal based on the specific bubble data notified in the notification step The mapping response includes a mapping step for displaying the image shape on the display unit together with the object at the position indicated by the spatial range information of the mapping response.

  In addition, the information providing service method of the technology related to the present invention relates to attribute information among information pages in which a user terminal has attribute information representing attributes of various information related to an object or service information related to the various information. An information page recording step for recording a specific information page composed of a plurality of elements in a database, and a latitude, longitude, altitude and bubble of an object in a three-dimensional space based on the information page recorded by the server in the information page recording step. Bubble data registration step for registering bubble data in which spatial range information consisting of diameter and address information for obtaining service information are associated, and information resulting from the bubble data registered by the server in the bubble data registration step Characterized in that it comprises a providing step for providing a user terminal to a user terminal. To have.

According to the information providing system, the information processing apparatus and the program of the present invention, and the technology described in the supplementary notes described below, the following effects or advantages can be obtained.
(1) An information providing system according to the present invention is an information providing system that can be used from a user terminal having an azimuth detecting unit capable of measuring an azimuth and a position detecting unit capable of measuring a position, and can be provided to the user terminal. A database holding bubble data in which address information indicating the address of the content and space occupation information having latitude / longitude and dimensions are associated with each other, and the orientation of the user terminal that is detected by the orientation detection means of the user terminal Based on the orientation of the user terminal from the location of the user terminal based on the received location information, and a receiving unit that receives location information having the location of the user terminal detected by the location detection means of the user terminal Bubble data having space occupancy information that intersects with the search vector, which is a vector extended in the direction of And a virtual object that is a virtual object that occupies a desired space and accepts a request for access to content based on the space occupancy information that the bubble data searched by the space search unit has Since a search result notification unit that displays a simple object on the screen of the user terminal is provided, usability is improved.

  (2) According to the server of the technology related to the present invention, in a system for providing information to a user terminal capable of displaying a map, among a plurality of information documents having attribute information representing attributes of service information to be provided A specific information document having index information consisting of the elements of: a database that holds spatial range information in three-dimensional space and search information for obtaining service information as associated bubble data, and is transmitted from the user terminal, Based on the mapping request having the coordinate information of the target displayed on the map and the display target attribute information indicating the attribute of the service information provided by the target, the specific bubble data including the coordinate information and the display target attribute information is included in the bubble data. A search unit for searching, and a map having spatial range information, attribute information, and search information included in the specific bubble data. It is configured with a notification section that notifies the user terminal of the response to the user terminal, so the store owner and company information is registered, and the user can obtain the latest information and has excellent visual properties. The information can be obtained in the state.

  (3) According to the server of the technology related to the present invention, among the information page having the attribute information representing the attribute of the various information related to the object or the service information related to the various information, the attribute information includes a plurality of elements. A database that holds, as bubble data, spatial range information including the latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter of an object in three-dimensional space and address information for obtaining service information in relation to a specific information page having index information And coordinate information in the three-dimensional space composed of the latitude, longitude, and altitude of the object displayed on the map, and various information related to the object displayed on the map or service information related to the various information transmitted from the user terminal Based on the mapping request having the display target attribute information indicating the attribute of the And a search unit for searching for specific bubble data including display target attribute information, and a notification unit for notifying the user terminal of a mapping response including the spatial range information, attribute information, and address information of the specific bubble data. Therefore, companies and the like can also use this map application to provide their latest information to users.

(4) The notification unit notifies a mapping response including spatial range information including a similar bubble diameter having a diameter corresponding to a scale of a map displayed by the user terminal and address information based on the coordinate information included in the mapping request. The position information / URL link database held in advance can be mapped to the map.
(5) The database may be configured to hold bubble data in association with a unique number that can be identified with respect to the content of the service information of the bubble data. In this way, space occupancy information, URL, Service information can be specified individually and reliably.

  (6) According to the user terminal of the technology related to the present invention, in a system that provides information to a user terminal that can display a map, a map information output unit that outputs map information, and an output from the map information output unit A display unit that displays a target image based on the map information that has been displayed, and display target attribute information that represents the attribute of service information provided by the target and coordinate information in the target three-dimensional space displayed on the display unit A transmission unit that transmits a request to a server connected to a user terminal via a network, a spatial range information in a three-dimensional space corresponding to coordinate information notified by the server about a mapping request, and service information provided by the target A receiving unit for receiving a mapping response having attribute information representing the attribute information and search information for obtaining service information, and a mapping response A mapping unit that displays the image shape on the display unit together with the map at a position indicated by the spatial range information included, and a mapping data holding unit that holds the image shape displayed by the mapping unit and the search information included in the mapping response in association with each other In order to obtain various types of information, the user can obtain desired service information simply by clicking on an information bubble displayed on an image in which the size or arrangement of the building is reproduced. be able to.

  (7) According to the user terminal of the technology related to the present invention, the map information output unit that outputs the map information of the object in the three-dimensional space, and the image of the object based on the map information output from the map information output unit Display that displays on the screen, and displays the coordinate information in the three-dimensional space consisting of the latitude, longitude, and altitude of the object displayed on the display and the attributes of the various information related to the object or the service information related to the various information The transmission unit that transmits a mapping request having target attribute information to a server connected to the user terminal via the network, and the latitude of the object in the three-dimensional space corresponding to the coordinate information notified by the server about the mapping request Receiving a mapping response having spatial range information consisting of, longitude, altitude and bubble diameter and address information for obtaining service information The mapping unit that displays the image shape together with the image of the object on the display unit at the position indicated by the spatial range information included in the mapping response, and the image shape displayed by the mapping unit and the address information included in the mapping response The user can easily obtain information since the mapping data holding unit is held.

(8) According to the information providing service of the technology related to the present invention, the database includes a user terminal, a search unit, and a notification unit. The user terminal includes a map information output unit, a display unit, and a transmission unit. In addition, since the receiving unit, the mapping unit, and the mapping data holding unit are provided, the information can be obtained with excellent visual properties.
(9) According to the information providing service method of the technology related to the present invention, the user terminal selects the object displayed on the map, the coordinate information on the object selected by the user terminal in the selection step, and A user terminal transmission step of transmitting display target attribute information representing attributes of service information provided by an object to a server connected to the user terminal via a network, and the server in the user terminal transmission step Based on the transmitted coordinate information and display target attribute information, a server transmission step for transmitting space range information, attribute information, and address information to the user terminal, respectively, and the user terminal are transmitted in the server transmission step. A mapping step for displaying the image shape together with the object on the display unit at the position indicated by the spatial range information Which is configured Te, also corporate, by using this map application, it is possible to provide to the user the latest information of its own.

  (10) According to the information providing service method of the technology related to the present invention, the user terminal displays the map on the display unit that displays the image, and the user terminal is displayed in the map display step. A selection step of selecting an object from the map information, and a latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter in a three-dimensional space related to the object selected by the selection step with respect to a server connected by the user terminal to the user terminal via the network A transmission step of transmitting a mapping request having coordinate information consisting of: and various pieces of information related to an object or display target attribute information representing attributes of service information related to the various types of information; and a server based on the mapping request of the transmission step Related to objects and spatial range information consisting of latitude, longitude, altitude and bubble diameter of objects in 3D space A search step for searching for specific bubble data including coordinate information and display target attribute information among bubble data associated with various types of information or address information for obtaining service information related to the various types of information, and a server, The notification step of notifying the user terminal of the mapping response having the spatial range information and address information of the specific bubble data searched in the search step, and the user terminal in the specific bubble data notified in the notification step On the basis of the mapping response, the mapping center for displaying the image shape together with the object is displayed at the position indicated by the spatial range information of the mapping response. Main service information can be provided, and usage can be promoted.

  (11) According to the information providing service method of the technology related to the present invention, among the information pages in which the user terminal has attribute information indicating attributes of various information related to the object or service information related to the various information, An information page recording step for recording a specific information page composed of a plurality of elements with respect to attribute information in a database, and a server, based on the information page recorded in the information page recording step, the latitude, longitude, A bubble data registration step for registering bubble data in which space range information consisting of altitude and bubble diameter and address information for obtaining service information are associated with each other, and the server adds to the bubble data registered in the bubble data registration step. It is configured with a provision step for providing the resulting information to the user terminal In the user, by using a map application, it is possible to get the latest information.

  (12) A specific homepage having document type definition information including a plurality of tags related to attribute information among homepages having attribute information representing attributes of facility information related to a building or service information of the facility information in a three-dimensional space A database that stores as a bubble data associated with the uniform resource locator to obtain service information and spatial range information consisting of the latitude, longitude, altitude and bubble diameter of the building, and the map sent from the user terminal Mapping request having coordinate information in a three-dimensional space composed of the latitude, longitude, and altitude of the displayed building and display target attribute information indicating the attribute of the facility information related to the building displayed on the map or the service information of the facility information Based on the coordinate information and display target attribute information of the bubble data A search unit for searching for specific bubble data, and a notification unit for notifying the user terminal of a mapping response having the spatial range information, attribute information and uniform resource locator of the specific bubble data. The system operator can provide a high-quality service to the user, and can achieve a very large advertising effect for a customer such as a company.

(13) The search unit may be configured to search for specific bubble data from another database connected to the network based on the mapping request. In this way, according to the information required by the user A database stored in a database for each region and each country can be searched, and a user can receive a higher service.
(14) A web information output unit for holding user information may be provided, and an address generation unit for generating an address for holding user information held in the web information output unit may be provided. In this way, The service center can manage a list of URLs and can accurately provide service information corresponding to a search target.

(15) The database may be configured to hold the animation element displayed by the user terminal in the document type definition information. In this way, the user can obtain more visualized information. .
(16) The database may be configured to hold an application program element for displaying a map in the document type definition information, and in this way, the user uses the visualized map. Content can be obtained.

(17) The database may be configured to hold a communication partner information element relating to a specific communication partner in the document type definition information. In this way, each user communicates only with a desired partner. it can.
(18) The database may be configured to hold the document type definition information classified into a plurality of elements, and in this way, in the search, all files in the directory are searched in a brute force manner. Therefore, it is possible to extract desired information efficiently and at high speed.

  (19) The update unit holds monitoring bubble data for detecting the moving object, updates the bubble diameter of the monitoring bubble data based on the position information of the moving object, and moves the moving object to the file held in the database. In this way, the service center can track the vehicle with high accuracy and can provide accurate guidance to the driver.

(20) The database may be configured to record data related to a similar bubble diameter having a diameter corresponding to a scale of the map displayed by the user terminal in the file, and in this way, the data is mapped to the map. Information can be visualized, and the user can obtain an information bubble having a size corresponding to the scale of the map displayed by the user.
(21) The database may be configured to hold information on at least one of address information history information resulting from access of the user terminal and identifier information that can identify the user terminal in a file, In this way, the passage history is appropriately tracked even with a moving object, so that the user can receive accurate route guidance.

(22) The database may be configured to hold data related to a counter whose counter value may be changed in a file, or may be configured to hold data related to an accessible time. Processing is performed based on data transmitted from the user, and access can be restricted based on the processing result.
(23) The database may be configured to hold data relating to an application program for displaying a map at the user terminal in a file, and in this way, the database is executed in conformity with the user terminal. Can get visualized data.

(24) The database may be configured so that the address information based on the space range information is an e-mail address, and the space range information is held corresponding to the e-mail address. Becomes easier and the use of the service is promoted.
(25) A map information output unit that outputs map information of a building in a three-dimensional space, a display unit that displays an image of the building on the screen based on the map information output from the map information output unit, and a display unit A mapping request having coordinate information composed of latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter in a three-dimensional space of a building and display object attribute information indicating an attribute of facility information related to the building or service information of the facility information. Range information consisting of the latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter of the building in the three-dimensional space corresponding to the coordinate information notified by the server about the mapping request, and the transmission unit that transmits to the server connected via the network And a mapping unit having a uniform resource locator for obtaining service information and a mapping response, and mapping The mapping unit that displays the image shape on the display unit together with the building image at the position indicated by the spatial range information included in the response, and the image resource displayed by the mapping unit and the uniform resource locator included in the mapping response And the mapping data holding unit to be held, the user can appropriately display the information bubble, and the user can be promoted to join the communication carrier.

(26) The receiving unit receives a mapping response including spatial range information including a similar bubble diameter having a diameter corresponding to a scale of the map displayed by the display unit and address information based on the coordinate information included in the mapping request. In this way, the user can obtain bubble data in a visualized state.
(27) A detection unit that detects position information including the latitude, longitude, altitude, azimuth, and tilt angle of an object in three dimensions may be provided, and the detection unit may be configured to measure an azimuth; It may be configured to include at least one of a satellite information receiving unit capable of receiving satellite information using a global positioning system and a tilt sensor capable of measuring a tilt angle from the horizon of the user terminal, In this way, visualized information can be obtained.

(28) The transmission unit may be configured to transmit the mapping request using an e-mail address generated based on the coordinate information. In this way, the data transmission / reception amount is reduced, and the total amount is reduced. The power consumption can be reduced.
(29) A server, a user terminal, a server, a database, a search unit, and a notification unit, and a user terminal, a map information output unit, a display unit, a transmission unit, and a reception unit Since the mapping unit and the mapping data holding unit are configured, the user can obtain the latest information by using the map application.

  (30) A map display step in which the user terminal displays a map on a display unit that displays an image, a selection step in which the user terminal selects an object from the map information displayed in the map display step, and the user terminal: A mapping request having coordinate information in the three-dimensional space related to the object selected in the selection step and display target attribute information representing the attribute of service information to be provided is transmitted to a server connected to the user terminal via the network. Based on the mapping request of the transmission step, the transmission step, and the spatial information including the latitude, longitude, altitude and bubble diameter of the object in the three-dimensional space, and address information for obtaining the service information provided by the object Of the associated bubble data, specific bubble data including coordinate information and display target attribute information is detected. A search step, a notification step in which the server notifies the user terminal of a mapping response having the spatial range information and address information of the specific bubble data searched in the search step, and the user terminal in the notification step Providing a mapping step for displaying the image shape on the display unit together with the object at the position indicated by the spatial range information of the mapping response notified, and providing the user terminal with the image shape and the map displayed in the mapping step Since it is composed of steps, the operator can provide high-quality services to the users, and achieve a very large advertising effect for customers such as companies. be able to.

(31) The map display step may be configured such that the user terminal displays the map on the screen based on at least one of the acquired latitude or longitude, and in this way, at which location Even so, the user can get an information bubble.
(32) The notification step outputs a similar bubble diameter having a diameter corresponding to the scale of the map displayed on the display unit of the user terminal based on the coordinate information included in the mapping request transmitted in the transmission step. And a user terminal may be configured to include an insertion step in which the similar bubble diameter output in the change step is inserted into the mapping response. The information bubble can be obtained.

(33) The changing step may be configured such that the server changes the similar bubble diameter based on the number of accesses, the accessible time, or the accessible season, so that the service center can restrict access. Can provide a variety of services.
(34) The notification step may be configured such that the server notifies information related to an application program for displaying a map at the user terminal. In this way, the service center can perform access restriction and various types of information are available. Service can be provided.

  (35) Whether the search step is configured so that the server searches using a counter whose counter value can be changed by access or the predetermined file disappears when the count is stopped, It may be configured to search based on the number of accesses that can be accessed simultaneously, or may be configured to search based on communication partner information relating to a specific communication partner, and further matches information relating to a preset communication partner. Based on the communication partner bubble data and the current position information, the read step for reading the communication partner bubble data, the current position information receiving step for the server to receive the current position information of the user terminal, and the server An approach detection step for detecting an approach to the user terminal and an approach notification step for the server to notify the user terminal of the approach. Tsu may be configured to include a flop, in this manner, the service center can easily provide various visual services.

  (36) The specific document type definition information in which the server extracts a plurality of specific document type definition information having a predetermined element from the document type definition information of the information page recorded in the information page recording step. The extraction step and the server may be configured to include a first registration step for registering a plurality of specific document type definition information as bubble data. In this way, a user for obtaining service information by the user The interface can be improved.

  (37) A bubble data registration step includes: a recording step in which the server records the information page recorded in the information page recording step in another database; and an information page recorded in the recording step by the server in three dimensions. And a second registration step of registering in the database as bubble data in which spatial range information including the latitude, longitude, altitude and bubble diameter of an object in space and address information for obtaining service information are associated with each other. In this way, data defined in the system can be visualized and filtering can be performed using attribute information, so that necessary information retrieval can be easily performed.

It is a block diagram of the information provision service system which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a block diagram of the service center which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is another block diagram of the service center which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a block diagram of the portable terminal which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a figure showing typically building arrangement concerning a 1st embodiment. It is a figure which shows the image of the space occupation information of the bubble data which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a figure for demonstrating the bubble data which concern on 1st Embodiment. It is a figure for demonstrating the other bubble data which concern on 1st Embodiment. (A)-(h) is a figure which shows an example of the building data which all concern on 1st Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the sequence for demonstrating registration to the information provision service system which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a figure for demonstrating the charge system of the bubble data which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the sequence for demonstrating the registration using the personal computer to the information provision service system which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the sequence for demonstrating the registration using the mail to the information provision service system which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a block diagram of the information provision service system which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a block diagram of the personal computer which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a block diagram of the service center which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a schematic block diagram of PDA concerning a 2nd embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of a transmission / reception sequence for demonstrating the mapping method of the map information which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the image which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a figure which shows an example of the mapped image which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a figure which shows another example of the display of the bubble data which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a figure for demonstrating the DTD information which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. (A) is a figure for demonstrating the DTD information which concerns on 2nd Embodiment, (b) is a figure for demonstrating the state file which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a figure for demonstrating the mapping method which concerns on 1st Embodiment. It is a figure for demonstrating the map display which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a figure for demonstrating the search of the information bubble which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a figure which shows the image display at the time of superposition | polymerization concerning 2nd Embodiment. It is a figure for demonstrating the access restriction to the homepage which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. It is a figure for demonstrating the service at the time of the approach of bubble data which concern on 2nd Embodiment. It is a figure for demonstrating the car navigation system which concerns on 3rd Embodiment. It is a figure for demonstrating the car navigation system which concerns on 3rd Embodiment.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
(A) Description of First Embodiment FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an information providing service system according to the first embodiment. 1 is a system that provides information to a user terminal, and includes a service center 19, a plurality of portable terminals 11, and a plurality of terminals. In addition to a personal digital assistant (PDA) 32, a wireless base station (radio tower) 10a, a wireless network 10, a gateway server 13a, an Internet 12, a web server 13b, A DNS (Domain Name System) server 13c is connected.

The system 9 provides the following two types of services (1) and (2) in addition to the telephone service.
(1) A service for displaying information on a plurality of buildings in a predetermined distance range in a direction in which the mobile terminal 11 or the PDA 32 is directed on the mobile terminal 11 or the PDA 32 (hereinafter, referred to as service 1). For example, the user can use the mobile terminal 11 or the PDA 32 in a desired direction to obtain information on a building within a range of 100 meters (100 m) from the terminal position.

(2) A service that causes the portable terminal 11 or the PDA 32 to display information related to a specific building designated by the portable terminal 11 or the PDA 32 (hereinafter may be referred to as service 2). For example, the user can use the mobile terminal 11 or the PDA 32 toward a building in front of the user to obtain product information sold by a store in the building.
Further, according to the service 1, the user can obtain information regarding a building within 100 m from the user's position. According to the service 2, the user can obtain information about a building that is first seen in the user's line-of-sight direction.

In FIG. 1, a wireless network 10 is, for example, a mobile object communication system operated by a telecommunications carrier (communication carrier, hereinafter sometimes referred to as a carrier). The operator of the system 9 (hereinafter referred to as a system operator) is, for example, the carrier or an independent business operator.
The service center 19 is an object in a three-dimensional space (for example, a building, each floor of the building, an object that actually exists such as a signboard, or an object that moves in the space) or a space that includes latitude, longitude, altitude of a desired space, and a bubble diameter described later. Holds bubble data in which occupancy information (spatial range information or spatial region information) and various information related to the object or URL (Uniform Resource Locator) associated with the various information are associated with each other Includes servers. Furthermore, this server can also include bubble data in which space occupancy information of a desired space is associated with various information desired to be associated with the desired space or a URL associated with the various information. The bubble is a specific space in which the space occupancy information is in a three-dimensional space, which is a bubble that floats in the three-dimensional space, and reproduces an actual building using this. In general, a bubble is associated with a spherical shape, but is not limited to a spherical shape here.

  Thus, the server determines the method of linking the space occupancy information and the URL and the ease of searching the bubble diameter (represents the radius when the information bubble is a sphere. When the information bubble is an elliptic sphere, the major and minor diameters are indicated. It is necessary to set a value corresponding to each of the information bubbles, and when the information bubble has a quadrangular prism shape corresponding to the volume of the building, it represents the width of the quadrangular prism. Moreover, the user can represent the space occupation information built in the server by using not only a mobile terminal such as the mobile terminal 11 but also a personal computer.

  In addition, in 1st Embodiment, a user mainly acquires the position of a terminal using the portable terminal 11, and is the aspect which transmits the data regarding the position to the service center 19. FIG. On the other hand, in the second embodiment, a method of generating an image of bubble space occupation information (information bubble) on a user's personal computer will be described. In the second embodiment, the user mainly uses a personal computer to display the bubble data from the service center 19 superimposed on a map installed in advance on the personal computer.

  Here, in addition to having a telephone and communication function, the mobile terminal 11 is connected to the service center 19 via the Internet 12 and can display various types of information searched using the bubble data. The mobile terminal 11 is, for example, a mobile phone, and includes a wireless transmission / reception circuit, a modulation / demodulation circuit, an audio processing circuit, a display (window) for display, and the like, as will be described later with reference to FIG.

Furthermore, the PDA 32 has a communication function, is connected to the service center 19 via the Internet 12, and displays various types of information searched using the bubble data. The PDA 32 is, for example, a portable information display device, and includes a wireless transmission / reception circuit, a modulation / demodulation circuit, and a display for display (see FIG. 17 described later).
Moreover, the display of these portable terminals 11 and PDA 32 can also display a map.

  Both the portable terminal 11 and the PDA 32 function as user terminals and are subscriber terminals of the wireless network 10 and can freely access the service center 19 via the wireless base station 10a. ing. Then, in order for the user to access the service center 19, the user operates the numeric keypad of the mobile terminal 11, the touch panel of the PDA 32, and the like. Accordingly, the PDA 32 can access the service center 19 in the same manner as the portable terminal 11 accesses the service center 19. Hereinafter, the description will mainly be given of the portable terminal 11 as an example, and the PDA 32 is substantially the same as the portable terminal 11 and will not be described.

The radio base station 10a is connected to the mobile terminal 11 and the radio network 10 to transmit and receive radio signals, and the gateway server 13a allows only signals output from a server having a desired URL to pass.
The Internet 12 is a network that can use the WWW (World Wide Web) protocol, and is connected to a large number of servers using the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (http). The web server 13b holds a home page file in which contents such as individuals and companies are described. Further, the DNS server 13c outputs an IP (internet protocol) address corresponding to the host name.

  In addition to the web server 13b, a number of web servers (web site, not shown) are connected to the Internet 12, and these web servers may be referred to as a number of homepage source files (hereinafter referred to as homepage files). Is maintained) and is accessible from all over the world. That is, the user transfers the home page file to the web server 13b in order to hold (register) the created home page file, while the person and others designate the URL of the web server 13b. , You can see the created homepage.

  As address information, a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) or URN (Uniform Resource Name) can be used instead of the URL. The URL is a URL in which a protocol to be applied to the resource is entered before the URI indicating the resource of the Internet 12, and the format is represented by “protocol: URI”, http: // 130. ***, ftp: //130.***, gopher: //130.***, etc. The URI is a name given uniformly to the resources of the Internet 12 using http, and is an IP address representing a computer name that is a resource of the Internet 12. Furthermore, URN represents a unique address.

  In many cases, the user uses a personal computer to connect to the Internet 12 and can also connect using the mobile terminal 11 or the like. In the case of using a personal computer, the user can directly connect to the Internet 12 via a LAN (Local Area Network) from a company or the like using a communication function of the personal computer, or connect a modem or DSU (Digital Service Unit) from a home or the like. Used to connect to the Internet 12 via an Internet provider. In the case of using the mobile terminal 11 or the like, the user accesses a subscribed carrier and connects to the Internet 12 via a protocol conversion server (not shown) provided on the carrier. Yes.

Here, the amount of data transmitted by the portable terminal 11 or the like is limited because it passes through the wireless network 10. For this reason, the contents of the homepage file held in the web server 13b are often held in two types: when the user accesses using a personal computer, and when accessed using the mobile terminal 11.
The system 9 shown in FIG. 1 has the same configuration in second and third embodiments described later.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the service center 19 according to the first embodiment. In the first embodiment, an example in which one server having the following units configures the service center 19 will be described. The service center 19 shown in FIG. 2 includes a database 15, a first receiving unit 16, a first transmitting unit 17, an extracting unit 40, a providing unit 41, a web information output unit (web) 18b, and a gateway unit (GW: Gateway). 18a, a DNS (Domain Name Server) unit 18c, and a mail transmission / reception unit 18d.

Here, the database (space occupancy information / URL database) 15 is space occupancy information including the latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter of an object in a three-dimensional space, various information related to the object, and services related to the various information. It holds bubble data associated with a URL for obtaining information.
The database 15 also has three-dimensional geographic data for processing the space occupancy information. Note that the database 15 is not necessarily provided in the service center 19 and may be held in a server at another location connected to the Internet 12. The database function is realized by a hard disk, a ROM (Read Only Memory), a RAM (Random Access Memory), etc., although not shown.

  The various information related to the object is facility information related to the building, for example, the store information in the building, Tokyo Tower and those buildings, and the station information of public transportation. The service information related to various types of information is service information of the facility information, such as company building company information, Tokyo Tower opening information, restaurant and restaurant menus in the building, and station information. Refers to timetable information. Here, the URL functions as an address for obtaining service information. In the following description, these are used in the same meaning unless otherwise specified. Considering the ease of construction of the database 15, it is more efficient to construct the database 15 by associating the space occupation information with the URL rather than directly associating the space occupation information with various information.

  In the second embodiment to be described later, the creation of a database includes facility information related to a building (for example, Italian restaurant, hospital) or service information attribute of the facility information (for example, provision of Italian cuisine, treatment of illness). SGML (Structured Generalized Markup Language) or XML (Extensible Markup Language) having DTD information (Document Type Definition) consisting of a plurality of tags in the homepage having attribute information to represent About the homepage written using, the space occupancy information consisting of the latitude, longitude, altitude and bubble diameter of the building in the three-dimensional space and the uniform resource locator for obtaining service information are held as associated bubble data It is also like.

FIG. 7 is a diagram for explaining bubble data according to the first embodiment. The space occupancy information shown in FIG. 7 is information about an object such as a building registered in advance by a building owner, a company, a restaurant, etc., and this bubble data includes latitude / longitude / altitude / bubble diameter, , A / X / 0/3.
In addition, each URL makes it possible to easily search a home page in which service information to be provided is written. In other words, a web site displaying service information related to an object is held in association with the URL.

  Furthermore, attribute information (attribute information element) represents service information to be provided, and represents an industry such as a building. Also, bubble data related to specific schools, government offices, etc. should be registered in advance by the system operator, and the registered bubble data will be write-protected so that it will not be overwritten later. Yes. That is, each attribute information also has an attribute indicating write permission / prohibition. Therefore, the system operator can prohibit a user from registering bubble data as a private property for a specific area or building.

  The bubble number (bubble ID: bubble identification) shown in FIG. 7 is a unique (unique) number for identifying each bubble data. For example, the hospitals with bubble numbers 2 to 5 shown in FIG. 7 have the same space occupancy information and URL, but have multiple medical departments. By using bubble numbers, these medical departments are also unique. It can be identified. Therefore, the bubble data is held in association with a unique number that can be identified for the contents of the service information of the bubble data.

  The user can also specify and input a bubble number when transmitting data to the service center 19 using the mobile terminal 11 or the like. As an example, the user uses an Italian restaurant with bubble number 10 searched by service 1 or service 2 and “the food content was good” or “I want to tell other people about the Italian restaurant” If you think that, you can identify the bubble data. For this reason, the user again wants to know the service information of the Italian restaurant, or a third party who has heard from another person accesses the service center 19 and enters the bubble number 10 to receive the service information. (Menu, opening hours) and places can be obtained.

  In order to obtain the service information, the user inputs and transmits the bubble number 10, and the service center 19 transmits the space occupancy information (B / X / 2/1) and the URL (http: //www.xxx.201). ) Or both of them are transmitted to the portable terminal 11, the PDA 32, a personal computer, and the like. These pieces of information are displayed on the display. Thereby, the user can memorize | store specific service information with a bubble number.

On the other hand, the service center 19 searches for one of the space occupancy information or the URL when searching for the service 1 and service 2 requests from the user, and transmits the search result to the portable terminal 11 together with a plurality of bubble numbers. It has become.
Thus, by giving the bubble number to the unique service information, both the user and the service center 19 can specify the space occupation information, the URL, and the service information individually and reliably.

  Here, when the service center 19 receives the position information and the search distance range transmitted from the mobile terminal 11 in providing the service 1, bubble data corresponding to the building designated by the user using the position information. To search for a plurality of buildings, for example, 100 m in the north direction from the position of the mobile terminal 11, obtain a plurality of URLs corresponding to each of the plurality of buildings, and content held in the plurality of URLs Are transmitted to the mobile terminal 11 respectively.

Thereby, the service center 19 can provide service information about a building within 100 m from the user.
More specifically, the service center 19 searches the bubble data using the search vector V based on the position information. The search vector V is a vector from the terminal position toward a search object such as a building, building, store, or temple based on the position information transmitted by the mobile terminal 11. The search vector V is generated based on the position information transmitted from the mobile terminal 11 by the service center 19, and the service center 19 includes a plurality of information bubbles (bubble data of the bubble data) intersecting the search vector V in the direction of the search object. Image of space occupancy information) is output as a search result. The service center 19 can also select service information of a store within a building within a predetermined distance range from among a plurality of information bubbles and transmit it to the mobile terminal 11.

  Further, when the service center 19 receives the position information transmitted from the mobile terminal 11 in providing the service 2, the service center 19 generates a search vector V in the same manner as described above from the position and direction of the terminal. The intersecting information bubble is searched, and the content specified by the user, such as a lunch menu provided by a restaurant, is transmitted to the mobile terminal 11. Thereby, the service center 19 can provide service information such as a store designated by the user.

  Furthermore, the image of the space occupancy information has a shape of a square column in accordance with the volume of a sphere, an elliptic sphere, or a building in the space, as will be described later with reference to FIGS. 9A to 9H. This shape can be registered with various modifications. Further, the image can be set not only in a closed space (occupied space) but also in a predetermined range in the space or in an infinite range on one side.

When bubble data is written in the database 15, an image of space occupation information (information bubble) of the bubble data is generated. When the bubble data is deleted from the database 15, the information bubble disappears. It has the effect of.
Next, the service center 19 will be described with reference to FIG. The first receiving unit 16 shown in FIG. 2 receives position information having latitude, longitude, altitude, azimuth, and tilt angle transmitted from the mobile terminal 11. This function is realized by an input port, a CPU (Central Processing Unit: not shown), a ROM, a RAM, and the like of a personal computer or a workstation.

And the extraction part 40 contains positional information among the space occupation information which the database 15 hold | maintains based on the positional information which has the latitude, longitude, altitude, azimuth | direction, and inclination angle of the portable terminal 11 transmitted from the portable terminal 11. A specific URL (which means a specific address or specific search information) corresponding to specific space occupancy information (intersecting the search vector V) is extracted.
The providing unit 41 provides specific service information corresponding to the specific URL extracted by the extracting unit 40 to the mobile terminal 11. The providing unit 41 can provide (send) a URL to the mobile terminal 11 or provide a content name corresponding to the URL. This will be described later. As a result, the user can obtain information on a desired search object, and a complicated search becomes unnecessary.

  Then, based on the position information from the mobile terminal 11 received by the first reception unit 16, the first transmission unit 17 corresponds to the position information among the plurality of bubble data / URLs held by the database 15. This selects the bubble data / URL and transmits the service information displayed on the web server (web site) corresponding to the URL to the mobile terminal 11, and this function is an output of a personal computer or workstation. It is realized by a port, CPU, ROM, RAM and the like.

  The web information output unit 18 b holds user information (contents such as individuals, restaurants, and companies), and includes a URL generation unit (address generation unit) 55 and a message storage unit 56. The URL generation unit 55 generates a URL that holds service information of the individual, company, etc. held in the web information output unit 18b. The service center 19 can manage a list of URLs by the URL generation unit 55 and can accurately provide service information corresponding to the search object.

Further, the message storage unit 56 holds a message input from the user, and is composed of, for example, a memory. Then, this message is written in the message storage unit 56 in association with the space occupancy information among the bubble data (the space occupancy information and the URL for obtaining the service information). ing.
Furthermore, the correspondence between this message and space occupation information is such that a plurality of messages are assigned to a plurality of small information bubbles provided inside the space occupation information, and individual URLs are assigned to the plurality of small information bubbles, respectively. Is to be granted. A message is held in each individual URL.

Thereby, the service center 19 can manage the list of URLs and can accurately provide service information corresponding to the search object.
The DNS unit 18c has a host name / IP address conversion table and outputs an IP address corresponding to the received host name. The mail transmitting / receiving unit 18d transmits / receives an electronic mail (hereinafter may be abbreviated as mail). As will be described later, four types of information such as latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter and a mail address are stored. Has a function to associate. Further, the gateway unit 18a has a known gateway function.

Note that these functions are realized by cooperation of a CPU, ROM, RAM, and the like.
Each function of the service center 19 can be distributed.
FIG. 3 is another block diagram of the service center 19 according to the first embodiment. The service center 19 shown in FIG. 3 is an example in which the functions of the service center 19 constituted by one server shown in FIG. 2 are distributed among a plurality of servers. The service center 19 shown in FIG. 3 includes a gateway server 13a, a web server 13b, a DNS server 13c, a mail server 13d, a search server 13e, and a database 15.

Here, the gateway server 13a has the same function as the gateway unit 18a. Further, the web server 13b is the same as the web information output unit 18b, the DNS server 13c is the DNS unit 18c, the mail server 13d is the mail transmission / reception unit 18d, and the search server 13e is the same as the provision unit 41.
Furthermore, since the thing which has the same code | symbol as what was mentioned above has the same thing or a similar function, the overlapping description is abbreviate | omitted. The dispersed arrangement can be configured similarly in the second embodiment and the third embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of the mobile terminal 11 according to the first embodiment. The mobile terminal 11 shown in FIG. 4 includes antennas 11d and 11e, a detection unit 21, a wireless module 11f, a control module 11g, a display unit 11h, a speaker 11i, and a microphone 11j.
Here, the antenna 11 d is a GPS antenna that receives a radio signal transmitted from a satellite, and the antenna 11 e transmits and receives a radio signal to and from the radio network 10.

The detection unit 21 detects position information having the latitude, longitude, altitude, azimuth, and tilt angle of the terminal, and includes a GPS module (satellite information receiving unit) 11c, a geomagnetic sensor 11b, and a tilt sensor 11a.
The GPS module 11c can receive satellite information using a global positioning system. This satellite information is information on the latitude, longitude, and altitude of the mobile terminal 11. The GPS module 11c can control the direction of the antenna 11d.

  The geomagnetic sensor (orientation sensor) 11b can detect geomagnetism and measure the orientation. Here, the reference of the azimuth represents, for example, the direction in which the antenna 11e extends. The geomagnetic sensor 11b has a coil (not shown), and measures the geomagnetism based on the magnitude of the magnetic flux passing through the coil. In addition, since this measuring method is a well-known thing, detailed description is abbreviate | omitted.

Further, the tilt sensor (gyro sensor) 11 a can measure the tilt angle of the mobile terminal 11 from the horizontal line. The inclination sensor 11a detects the posture of the portable terminal 11 by cooperating with the gyro module.
Next, the wireless module 11f transmits and receives wireless signals, and includes a second transmission unit 22a and a second reception unit 22b.

  This 2nd transmission part 22a transmits the positional information on the portable terminal 11 detected by the detection part 21 with respect to the service center 19, and the 2nd reception part 22b transmitted by the 2nd transmission part 22a. As for the position information, the specific service information corresponding to the specific space occupancy information including the position information is received from the space occupancy information including the latitude, longitude, altitude and bubble diameter of the object in the three-dimensional space transmitted by the service center 19. Is. Each of the second transmission unit 22a and the second reception unit 22b includes a wireless circuit.

  In addition to controlling the operation of each part of the portable terminal 11, the control module 11g processes a data format for transmission / reception based on a predetermined protocol stack. This function is implemented by a CPU, ROM, RAM, and the like. Realized. The display unit 11h displays the specific service information received by the second receiving unit 22b, and this function is realized by a window display. Furthermore, the speaker 11i outputs sound, and the microphone 11j inputs sound. These are all amplified by an amplifier (not shown). Therefore, the portable terminal 11 has functions of display, GPS reception, direction detection, and wireless signal transmission / reception.

Note that both the mapping unit 58f and the map information holding unit 58c shown in FIG. 4 will be described in a second embodiment and a third embodiment to be described later.
When receiving the service 1, the user directs the mobile terminal 11 in a predetermined direction and inputs the search distance range to the mobile terminal 11 as 100 m, for example. Then, the mobile terminal 11 acquires the position information of the mobile terminal 11, transmits the position information and the distance range to the service center 19, and receives service information from the service center 19. The user can also request the service center 19 to select and transmit service information in a store in a building within a predetermined distance range. Instead of inputting the distance range, the user can set the mobile terminal 11 to be within 100 m in advance. Alternatively, the service center 19 may be set to search in advance within 100 m.

Thereby, the user can obtain information on A building, B building, C building and three types of buildings in the user's line-of-sight direction, or information related thereto.
Further, when receiving the service 2, the user points the mobile terminal 11 toward the 9th floor of the D building where the restaurant is located. Then, the mobile terminal 11 transmits the acquired location information to the service center 19 and obtains service information regarding the restaurant from the service center 19. Thereby, the user can obtain service information about a specific building.

Next, a service in which the service center 19 obtains desired service information from the location information of the mobile terminal 11 and provides the service information to the user with reference to FIGS. explain.
FIG. 5 is a diagram schematically showing the building arrangement according to the first embodiment. The four buildings shown in FIG. 5 all have the same longitude and different latitudes. For example, building A is located in the range of latitudes A-1 to A + 1, and the center positions of building B, C stadium, and D tower are latitudes B, C, and D, respectively. The units of latitude and longitude are both ° (degrees), '(minutes), and "(seconds). The same applies to the following description.

And a user acquires and transmits position information using the portable terminal 11 in order to receive the service 1, for example, on the third floor of the A building.
FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an image (information bubble) of space occupancy information of bubble data according to the first embodiment. Information bubbles 1 to 17 shown in FIG. 6 are formed in the buildings A to D shown in FIG. It represents the corresponding image. Each of these information bubbles 1 to 17 corresponds to space occupancy information including the latitude, longitude, altitude and bubble diameter of the object and various information related to the object or information such as URL related to the various information. It is attached.

  Here, information bubbles 1, 5, 8, and 9 represent A building, B building, C stadium, and D tower, respectively. An information bubble is generated in accordance with the space occupation information including the size of the building. The information bubble 1 has information bubbles 2, 3, and 4 therein. Each of these information bubbles 2, 3, and 4 represents an image corresponding to the floor of each floor of the A building.

The numbers shown in FIG. 7 are identification numbers given to the information bubbles shown in FIG. Also, space occupancy information composed of latitude / longitude / altitude / bubble diameter is represented by A / X / 0/3, respectively. Here, A and B are frequencies.
Altitude 0 represents a case where the building is in contact with the ground, and altitudes 1, 2, and 3 represent values corresponding to true values (for example, 15 m, 30 m, and 45 m). For underground stores, the altitude is expressed using a negative value.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining other bubble data according to the first embodiment. As shown in FIG. 8, the space occupation information can also hold a true value. Also, the URL shown in FIG. 8 or a content name (for example, A building, C stadium) corresponding to the URL is transmitted to the mobile terminal 11, and the content is displayed when the user clicks the URL or the content name. In order to display the content name, it is possible to register the content name in advance in association with the URL.

In FIG. 8 as well, each service information can be uniquely identified by using the bubble number.
The bubble diameter (see FIGS. 7 and 8) represents the radius when the information bubble is spherical. When the information bubble is an elliptical sphere, it represents the major axis and minor axis, and it is necessary to set a value corresponding to each. Further, when the information bubble has a quadrangular prism shape corresponding to the volume of the building, it represents the width of the quadrangular prism. Note that bubble diameters 1, 2 and 3 in FIGS. 7 and 8 both represent values corresponding to true values. In addition, it can also be made into a cylindrical shape as an information bubble.

FIGS. 9A to 9H are diagrams showing examples of building data according to the first embodiment, and (A, B, C) shown in these drawings are center positions of information bubbles. . Which position of the information bubble is set as the center position may be arbitrarily determined and used in a unified manner.
FIG. 9A shows a quadrangular prism, and the center position is the center of the bottom surface. D, E, and F shown in FIG. 9A represent a latitude width, a longitude width, and an altitude width, respectively, and have values of 20 m, 20 m, and 10 m, for example. These widths are stored in the database 15 in advance and are taken into consideration when generating an information bubble.

For example, in the (x, y, z) coordinates, the search vector V passing through the origin (0, 0, 0) is (x, y, z) = (0, 0, 0) + (V ₁ , V ₂ , V ₃ ). Here, V ₁ , V ₂ and V ₃ are the x, y and z components of the direction vector, respectively. Then, it is calculated whether the search vector V intersects within the solid width.
FIG. 9B shows a sphere, and the center position is the center of the sphere. When searching for an information bubble, the presence / absence of an intersection is detected using a formula representing a sphere and a formula representing a search vector V with the latitude, longitude, and altitude of the mobile terminal 11 as the coordinate origin.

For example, a sphere having a radius R centered at the origin (0, 0, 0) is represented by x ² + y ² + z ² = R ² . Then, the intersection is calculated using the expression of the search vector V and the expression of the sphere.
FIG. 9C shows an elliptic sphere, and the center position is the center of the elliptic sphere. The elliptical sphere of the major axis a and minor axis b centered at the origin (0, 0, 0) is (x / b) ² + (y / b) ² + (z / a) ² = 1
It is represented by

In addition, in the example shown in FIG. 9 (d), the lowest point of the sphere is the center position, and in the example shown in FIG. 9 (e), the lowest point of the ellipse sphere is the center position. In the example shown, the uppermost point of the sphere is the center position, and in the example shown in FIG. 9G, the uppermost point of the elliptic sphere is the center position.
FIG. 9H shows a cylinder, and the center position is the center of the bottom surface. A cylinder having the origin (0, 0, 0) as the center position and a radius R and a height H is represented by x ² + y ² = R ² and (0 ≦ z ≦ H).

The range of information bubbles displayed by the service center 19 can be variously changed depending on the contract fee. When registering individually, the information bubble is basically within a radius of 5 m.
Specifically, the radius, the major axis, and the minor axis of the sphere or ellipsoid shown in FIGS. 9B to 9G are changed. Further, for example, the space occupation information of the quadrangular prism shown in FIG. 9A can be set not only in the closed region but also in a wide range region in a direction parallel to the side marked with the latitude E. In addition, as an example, the cylindrical space occupation information shown in FIG. 9H can also be set to infinity above the center position in the z direction.

  As a result, the company in building A (see FIGS. 5 and 6) registers the URL of its own homepage for introducing its service content in bubble data in association with, for example, the space occupation information of the company building. That is, the entire building A is registered as an information bubble 1, and three stores on the first floor, two stores on the second floor, and one store on the third floor in the building A are information bubbles 10 to 15, respectively. It is registered.

Accordingly, company advertisements, restaurant menus, and reputations are registered in advance as bubble data, and the user transmits location information using the mobile terminal 11 as a search tag.
As a result, the user can easily obtain a menu of a distant restaurant. In addition, this makes it possible for the user to easily know service information of a store in the building from the outside of the building.

In this way, the user can receive the service 1 and obtain various service information from a plurality of bubble data simply by pointing the mobile terminal 11.
As for the service 2, the user can obtain service information for restaurant registration in the designated building B.
Therefore, the user can search by analog sense based on human sense without performing digital processing as in the search service on the Internet 12, and the user can easily search for information on stores within the range that he can see. Can get to. That is, the user can obtain desired service information by an analog sense such as “this place” or “that place”.

In addition, the restaurant owner or the like registers the store space occupation information and the URL as bubble data in the service center 19 without advertising the magazine or the like. Can be provided.
Since the information is disclosed in this way, the user can take out information on the object that the user can see very easily and quickly.

With the above-described configuration, the bubble data registration operation in the information providing service system will be described in detail with reference to FIGS.
FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a sequence for explaining registration in the information providing service system according to the first embodiment, in which data transmitted and received between the mobile terminal 11 and the service center 19 is schematically displayed. Yes. Moreover, it is an example in case a user registers using the positional information on the portable terminal 11. FIG.

First, in step P1 shown in FIG. 10, the user selects (4) (indicated by a circled number in the figure) from a plurality of menus displayed on the mobile terminal 11, and registers the position (message Position registration) is started, and the portable terminal 11 measures the position information including the latitude, longitude, and altitude of the terminal using the sensor group.
Next, in Step P <b> 2, the mobile terminal 11 transmits the measured position information and terminal identification information to the service center 19.

  When the service center 19 receives the data (step P3), the service center 19 transmits a usage rule or the like to the portable terminal 11 (step P4). This rule allows the user to select whether to receive a paid service or a free service. For example, the user selects whether to use a large bubble diameter (for example, 5 m or more) or a small bubble diameter (5 m or less).

  Here, in step P5, when the user expects an advertising effect and selects a large bubble, the mobile terminal 11 passes through the route labeled (2) (indicated by a circled number in the figure) Parameters necessary for specific registration are displayed (step P9). On the other hand, when the user selects a small bubble, the portable terminal 11 is prompted to input a message through a route (1) (indicated by a circled number in the figure) (step P6). .

  When the user finishes the input in step P7, the message is transmitted to the service center 19, and the service center 19 writes the information on the transmitted position information and the search object in the database 15, respectively. . Here, the service center 19 converts space occupancy information including the latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter of the object in the three-dimensional space into a URL, and writes this URL in the URL generation unit 55 of the web server 13b. In addition, the service center 19 writes the homepage URL to be linked to the database 15.

Then, the mobile terminal 11 displays that the registration is complete (step P8). Note that a dedicated application is used for this registration.
Thus, bubble data is generated by registration of a company or individual user.
Further, in this way, the user can access the service center 19 via the Internet 12 and register bubble data using a personal computer (not shown).

  FIG. 11 is a view for explaining a bubble data fee system according to the first embodiment. The fee structure shown in FIG. 11 is contracted between the system operator and those that advertise using the system 9. Specifically, a small bubble diameter (5 m) is set to a low charge, and a large bubble diameter (100 m) is set to a high charge. Alternatively, the fee can be set according to the posting period.

Therefore, when the user wants to register service information about Tokyo Tower, for example, the user can register from the personal computer regardless of the mobile terminal 11.
In addition, for the convenience of the user, the system operator sets information bubbles and basic information for famous buildings such as Tokyo Tower, public facilities, etc. that have sizes that match the size of those buildings in advance. You can also keep it.

As described above, with respect to the building that enters the user's field of view, it is possible to easily search for an object that the user is interested in based on a human sense and based on an analog sense. Therefore, the user can obtain information related to the building (modeled object, natural object) located in the direction specified by the user.
In this way, the user can point the mobile terminal 11 in a desired direction and obtain information regarding a building within a range of 100 m from the terminal position. Further, the user can point the mobile terminal 11 to a building in front of the building and obtain product information sold by a store in the building.

As described above, the advertiser can advertise to the user having the mobile terminal 11, and the operator of the service center 19 can provide the service with an advertising fee. Furthermore, the user can obtain service information freely and easily.
In addition, in this way, all of the advertiser, service operator, and user can benefit.

  By the way, as a modified service of the information providing service, data between the service center 19 and the portable terminal 11 or a personal computer can be transmitted and received by mail. Here, each of the mail server 13d (see FIG. 3) and the mail transmitting / receiving unit 18d (see FIG. 2) has a function (GPS mapping function) that associates latitude, longitude, altitude, bubble diameter, and mail address. .

In other words, the link destination of the URL represents mail data.
Also, the restaurant owner can register service information such as food and drink by linking to bubble data by himself / herself, thereby enabling the store owner to advertise the store to general users. Therefore, since the company indicates the mail address as a destination of opinions or the like to the user, bubble data corresponding to the mail address is used.

The information providing service method using mail in the system of the first embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIGS.
FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a sequence for explaining registration in the information providing service system according to the first embodiment, and shows an example of registration using mail.
First, the portable terminal 11 displays an input screen (step A1), and when the user selects an address from the screen, the screen is switched to the input screen for the address (step A2). In step A3, when the user selects “mapping a message in space”, the mobile terminal 11 acquires position information and converts it into an e-mail address.

  Then, the user inputs a message (step A4) and transmits the mail to the service center 19. When the service center 19 receives the mail data (step A5), the bubble diameter or the like is selected as the minimum value (step A6) and written to the database 15 of the web server (GPSWEB server) 13b or the web information output unit 18b (step A6). A7).

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a sequence for explaining the information providing service according to the first embodiment, and is between the mobile terminal 11, the mail server (GPS mapping compatible mail server) 13d, and the web server (GPSWEB server) 13b. Sending and receiving data is shown.
First, in step A10, a user (for example, a person in charge of a company) sets bubble data of a company profile of company F before the head office of company F in Tokyo. The position where the bubble data is set is 139 ° 46′01.4 ″ east longitude, 35 ° 40′46.1 ″ north latitude, an altitude of 15 m, and a bubble diameter of 100 m. Then, the user provides an email address corresponding to this company profile. This address is, for example, E13946014N3540461H1500B10000@gps.nifty.ne.jp. The user then emails the search condition and company profile to this address.

In step A11, the mail server 13d receives the above search conditions and the company profile, starts the search, and the attached file is registered in the web server 13b (WEB) as the company profile.
Here, for example, bubble data having a large bubble diameter is easily searched, but bubble data having a small bubble diameter is not easily searched. For this reason, the bubble diameter of bubble data having information to be kept secret is small, and the bubble diameter of bubble data having information to be advertised to as many users as possible such as a company profile can be set large.

As a result, the user transmits a value indicating a predetermined range as an e-mail address, and bubble data including space occupancy information in the range is searched.
Further, in this way, a search tag called position can be used, and the user can easily and quickly obtain information.
(B) Description of Second Embodiment In the first embodiment, the user mainly uses the portable terminal 11 to search bubble data during movement and obtain information about the building. In the second embodiment, a user mainly uses a personal computer while moving or at home, and superimposes an information bubble on a map such as an arrangement of a building in an urban area displayed on the personal computer (overlapping, mapping). This is a mode in which a service (hereinafter sometimes referred to as a mapping service) is provided.

  FIG. 14 is a configuration diagram of an information providing system according to the second embodiment. A system 9a shown in FIG. 14 is a system for providing information to a user terminal such as a personal computer 58, a portable terminal 11 or a PDA 32 that can display a map, and includes a service center (server) 19a and a plurality of portable terminals. In addition to a terminal 11, a plurality of PDAs 32, and a plurality of personal computers (PCs), a wireless base station 10a, a wireless network 10, a gateway server 13a, an Internet 12, a web A server 13b, a DNS server 13c, and the like are connected. Those having the same reference numerals as those described above have the same or similar functions, and will not be further described.

  Here, the service center 19a obtains DTD information from a home page (information document) having attribute information representing attributes of various information related to an object or service information related to the various information and DTD information including a plurality of tags. Search information (address) for obtaining home information described in SGML or XML having space occupancy information in 3D space (space range information or space region information consisting of latitude, longitude, altitude and bubble diameter of an object) and service information Information, URL) as associated bubble data.

  This object is an object that actually exists or moves in space, such as a building, each floor of a building, and a signboard. Further, DTD (document type definition) information corresponds to a tag described in a homepage file described in accordance with SGML, and is used for causing the web server 13b to recognize that the content is bubble data. It functions as an index. Furthermore, the search information is address information for the user to search for desired bubble data, and specifically, a URL is used.

The mobile terminal 11, the PDA 32, or the personal computer 58 is connected to the service center 19a via the Internet 12 and displays various types of information searched using bubble data. That is, both of these function as user terminals.
Further, the system 9a can provide the following services (3) to (7) as services accompanying the mapping service.

(3) A dynamic bubble diameter (having a diameter corresponding to a map scale) by dynamically changing the bubble diameter of an information bubble displayed on a user's personal computer according to the degree of access to the bubble data, time, season, etc. A service that provides similar bubble diameters to user terminals.
(4) A service that, when specific bubble data is accessed a predetermined number of times, deletes the homepage file of the bubble data or restricts (for example, prohibits) access to the homepage.

(5) A service for starting an application such as a JAVA (registered trademark) program instead of a URL. That is, a service in which the service center 19a searches for user position information and attribute information associated therewith by filtering.
(6) A service that sets restrictions such as permitting only access to “customers who have accessed up to the first 100 home pages” for bubble data of companies, for example.

(7) When the user registers in advance the communication partner as “female”, “up to what age”, etc., and the service center 19a detects that bubble data matching the mutually set conditions is approaching, A service to notify the owner of bubble data to that effect.
The services shown in (3) to (7) may be referred to as services 3 to 7, respectively. In providing these services, the service center 19a can also designate and display a specific bubble number (see FIGS. 7 and 8) to the user.

  Here, the personal computer 58 is provided with a keyboard and a mouse (not shown), has a communication function on the Internet 12 and a map display function for displaying a map, and various application programs (hereinafter referred to as a word processor, chart creation, etc.). (It may be abbreviated as an application.)). The personal computer 58 is of a desktop type or a notebook type, for example, and can be used in both a fixed environment and a mobile environment.

  Here, regarding the communication function when used as a fixed device, when the personal computer 58 is provided in a company or the like, the personal computer 58 is connected to the Internet 12 via a LAN and is provided in a personal place such as a home. In this case, although not shown, data can be transmitted / received to / from the Internet 12 by dial-up connection to an Internet provider using a modem or DSU.

  FIG. 15 is a block diagram of a personal computer 58 according to the second embodiment. The personal computer 58 shown in FIG. 15 is in the system 9a that provides information to a user terminal that can display a map. The personal computer 58 includes a receiving unit 58a, a RAM 58b, a map information holding unit (map information output unit) 58c, a transmitting unit 58d, a hard disk (mapping data holding unit) 58e, a mapping unit 58f, and a display unit 58g. . The personal computer 58 is connected to the interface unit 59 so that data can be transmitted to and received from the Internet 12.

  The interface unit 59 is a modem or a LAN, and an individual user at home uses the dial-up connection to connect to an access provider (not shown) from the personal computer 58 via the interface unit 59 (modem) and connect to the Internet 12. Connecting. A user in a company or the like connects to the Internet 12 via an interface unit 59 (LAN) and a proxy server (not shown) provided in the company or the like.

  Next, the map information holding unit 58c outputs map information, and this function is realized by a hard disk. This map information is map information of an object (a building or a natural object such as a mountain) in a three-dimensional space, which is a three-dimensional drawing of a building or a simplified drawing of the building. In addition, the map information includes characters, symbols, and the like attached to the information regarding the building. This map information is read from a library (specifically, digital data for displaying a map) stored in a hard disk or the like by installing a map application. Here, the user uses bubble data using a map application installed in the personal computer 58 in advance.

  Further, the map information output unit 58c can output various types of image files and vector files as image data. For example, the map information output unit 58c can output a file such as a GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) format. Therefore, the system 9a can map visual data supported by GIF or the like to a map, and can visualize information bubbles.

  Thereby, the user can map the bubble data received from the service center 19a to the map information displayed by the user as the mapping service. In addition, when using the portable terminal 11 or the like, the inconvenience of display limitation is solved, and the screen can be viewed on a fine screen. On the other hand, as a communication function when used as a mobile device, a mobile phone, a PHS (Personal Handy-phone System) phone, or the like is connected to the personal computer 58 so as to perform wireless transmission / reception.

This map application can display or reproduce the layout of buildings in a three-dimensional space on the display unit 58g. The user can input an address, a range, and the like desired to be displayed in accordance with an instruction displayed on the display unit 58g, and can input an altitude or an angle of the viewpoint.
Thus, the system operator can appropriately display the information bubble regardless of the map application used by the user, and can promote the participation in the communication carrier. Also, the service center 19a holds bubble data having the same space occupation information and the same URL so that it can be identified using a bubble number, and designates the identified specific bubble number to the user. The user can also designate and display a specific bubble number on the personal computer 58.

  In addition, instead of the map information holding unit 58c, the map information held in another database connected to the Internet 12 can be displayed. In this case, the map information is once held in the RAM 58b, and then the map information is stored. Information is output. In addition, instead of connecting the map information holding unit 58c to the personal computer 58, the user downloads data corresponding to the map information from the Internet 12, and uses the downloaded data as a hard disk, floppy (registered trademark) disk, CD- It can be stored in R, CD-RW, MO, etc. for use.

  The display unit 58g displays a target image on the screen based on the map information output from the map information holding unit 58c, and this function is realized by a display. The target image is an image of an object, and displays an image of the target such as a natural object in addition to the building. That is, the display unit 58g displays an information bubble on the screen in addition to various objects such as a building, a gymnasium, and a tower.

  Next, the transmission unit 58d sends a mapping request having the coordinate information in the three-dimensional space of the target displayed on the display unit 58g and the display target attribute information indicating the attribute of the service information provided by the target to the personal computer 58 and the Internet 12. It is transmitted to the service center (server) 19a connected via the. This function is realized by, for example, a CPU, ROM, RAM, modem, LAN card, and LAN. Here, the coordinate information in the target three-dimensional space is coordinate information including the latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter in the three-dimensional space of the object (building, natural object, etc.). Further, the display target attribute information is information representing the attribute of facility information related to an object (building, natural object, etc.) or service information of the facility information.

  Furthermore, the receiving unit 58a notifies the mapping request of the space occupancy information in the three-dimensional space corresponding to the coordinate information notified by the service center 19a (spatial range information including the latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter of the building and natural objects, the space A mapping response having (region information) and a URL for obtaining service information is received. The functions of the receiving unit 58a and the transmitting unit 58b are all realized by a CPU, ROM, RAM, modem, LAN card, LAN, and the like.

In addition, the receiving unit 58a receives a mapping response including space occupancy information including a dynamic bubble diameter having a diameter corresponding to the scale of the map displayed by the display unit 58g and a URL based on the coordinate information included in the mapping request. It is supposed to receive. That is, the receiving unit 58 a can obtain information from the network 12.
Thereby, the occupied area in the display part 58g of the information bubble displayed on the personal computer 58 is determined based on the bubble diameter and the scale of the map, and the user can obtain the bubble data in a visualized state. .

In addition, the mapping unit 58f reads the image shape held in the hard disk 58e and the URL included in the mapping response, and displays the contents on the display unit 58g. This function is realized by a display driver in addition to the CPU, ROM, and RAM.
Further, the hard disk 58e holds the image shape (information bubble image shape) displayed by the mapping unit 58f in association with the URL included in the mapping response, and functions as a mapping data holding unit. Further, the hard disk 58e is configured to hold the image shape (information bubble image shape) displayed by the mapping unit 58f in association with the URL included in the mapping response.

  Thereby, the information bubble is displayed on the display unit 58g by the mapping unit 58f and the map information holding unit 58c. By using the map information holding unit 58c, the amount of data necessary for transmission / reception between the service center 19a and the mobile terminal 11 or the personal computer 58 is reduced, so that the user can view the map without feeling stress. Can do. System operators can continue their business without reducing the number of subscribers.

  FIG. 19 is a diagram illustrating an example of an image according to the second embodiment, and specifically, is an image immediately after the user activates the map application. On this initial screen, a building map near the user's home and a building map around the office are displayed and can be changed by setting. The display unit 58g shown in FIG. 19 displays the image 100 and the icon group 57. Here, the image 100 is a three-dimensional representation of a building, and the personal computer 58 reads and displays graphic data (map data) registered in advance in the map application.

  The icon group 57 is an icon for operation for displaying the image 100, and includes a plurality of icons 57a to 57c. Here, the icon 57a is used by the user to send a search request from the personal computer 58 to the search robot (search engine) connected to the Internet 12, and the icons 57b and 57c are both searched by the user. A specific condition regarding the range is input. For example, the icon 57b is for the search range, and the icon 57c is for inputting other conditions. Furthermore, these icons are assigned to input bubble numbers (see FIGS. 7 and 8).

  Then, the user is displayed with a predetermined range in the image, and based on a reference point (see FIG. 25 described later) in the predetermined range, a range between the vertical direction and the horizontal direction of the screen using the icon group 57. Is specified. The designated image range (latitude and longitude range) is calculated by the map application based on the scale and the screen size, and the calculated data is transmitted from the personal computer 58 to the service center 19a. It is.

  Then, the service center 19a has a tag <bubble> indicating “bubble data” as DTD information among a number of homepage files held in the database 15a based on the transmitted data regarding the image range. Search what is described. Only the homepage file hit by the search is selected, and the URL of the selected homepage file is transmitted to the user.

  Thereby, on the user side, the information bubble is displayed overlapping the layout of the building. That is, an information bubble is mapped to a map of only buildings, and a link is set to the building in the map, and the user can obtain the current content by clicking the link portion. Therefore, the user can obtain information on what stores, facilities, etc. the building displayed in the image has.

  FIG. 20 is a diagram illustrating an example of a mapped image according to the second embodiment. In the image 100 shown in FIG. 20, information bubbles (spherical ones) 1 to 11 are displayed in addition to the buildings displayed by the map application. These information bubbles 1 to 11 are displayed so as to overlap with the display of the original building. Therefore, the system operator can provide the user with service information linked to the map information.

  Here, the display size of the image 100 can be freely changed according to the setting of the user. Each of the information bubbles 1 to 11 corresponds to space occupation information including the latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter of the object, and various information related to the object or information such as a URL related to the various information. It is attached. Specifically, each of the information bubbles 1 to 11 represents a bubble image corresponding to a building mapped to the map application. In addition, the user can designate and display a specific bubble number on the personal computer 58.

  As a result, a homepage describing the contents of the store can be registered in the web server 13b, such as a restaurant owner, and the user can view all the bubble data hit by the search as information bubbles. Further, since the bubble data having the content is displayed on the screen equally, the user can obtain all the bubble data.

  Note that the data transmitted from the service center 19a is created by the web robot 61a (see FIG. 16), and is not data created by the system operator linking bubble data and map information. That is, the information bubbles 1 to 11 are based on the bubble data extracted by searching the database 15a (see FIG. 16) for tags having the tag <bubble> from the tags described in the homepage file. Is generated.

  The size of the information bubble changes based on the size on the screen and the position information inherited from the bubble data. Further, when the user enlarges the display size of the image 100 using, for example, the icon 57a, the bubble diameter of the information bubble is increased according to the scale, so that the appropriate size is obtained when the image bubble is superimposed on the building image. It is set to.

In addition, the shape of the information bubble can be not only spherical but also elliptical. Further, the scale is realized by a state file described later.
When the user clicks the information bubbles 1 to 11 with a mouse (not shown) or the like, the personal computer 58 starts a browser program based on the URL simultaneously received from the service center 19a. Eleven homepages are displayed. Therefore, the user can obtain desired service information simply by clicking on an information bubble displayed on an image in which the size and arrangement of a building are reproduced in order to obtain various types of information.

  Each of the information bubbles shown in FIGS. 19 and 20 overlaps the building, but can be displayed so as not to overlap the building or other information bubbles. That is, an information bubble can be displayed outside the building, and the information bubble and a store in the building can be connected using a balloon. Therefore, it is possible to display so that the shadow of the building does not disappear. Further, when the user downloads desired information from the service center 19a, it is also possible to display the designated image 100 by changing it according to the bubble diameter instead of using the bubble diameter.

Further, when the information bubble overlaps with the building, it is possible to display a bubble hidden by a balloon or the like when the upper surface bubble is selected above and below the overlapped surface. In addition, a moving display by GIF animation or the like is also possible.
FIG. 21 is a diagram showing another example of bubble data display according to the second embodiment. In the image 100 shown in FIG. 21, information bubbles 21 to 25 are displayed. Each of these information bubbles 21 to 25 is displayed using a logo or a trademark that can identify a company. This logo can also use moving animations.

In addition, what is shown in this FIG. 21 and has the same code | symbol as what is shown in FIG. 20 has the same function, Therefore Further description is abbreviate | omitted.
Thus, the space occupation information including the size of the building is represented by the bubble diameter of the information bubble. Further, since the size of the bubble diameter is linked to the scale of the map, the user can obtain an image display with an optimum size.

In addition, in this way, a company or the like can provide a user with excellent visual properties. In other words, the bubble data is displayed more visually to the user. In addition, companies can advertise more efficiently.
Regarding the fee, for example, a company that provides only map information may be charged for the user if the service information of the user is simply displayed on the image 100. In other words, the system operator can collect a fee for posting the service information of the user on the image 100.

As a result, the system operator superimposes all hits in the search by the web robot 61a on the image 100, so that the user can display the service information on the image 100 for free.
In this way, the user can obtain map information visually. Therefore, the user does not need to purchase a magazine or the like and check information on stores in each downtown area or perform a similar search using the Internet.

This mapping method will be described with reference to FIG.
FIG. 18 is a diagram showing an example of a transmission / reception sequence for explaining a map information mapping method according to the second embodiment. The information providing service method is in the system 9a that provides information to the personal computer 58 that can display a map.
First, a map application is activated on the personal computer 58 (step W1). Then, a building map near the user's home is displayed as an initial screen. On the screen, an icon group 57 and a dialog box (not shown) for inputting numerical values are displayed. Enter it. And the user can see the information bubble of the service information regarding a desired area or building.

Next, the user clicks a predetermined icon or the like for the area to be displayed. Here, in step W2, the personal computer 58 selects an object from the displayed map information (selection step). Specifically, the personal computer 58 extracts coordinate information and range information regarding the object selected by the user.
Further, as a mapping request (attached with W3), the personal computer 58 receives coordinate information related to the object selected in the selection step and display target attribute information representing attributes of service information provided by the object, respectively, It transmits with respect to the server connected via the internet 12 (user terminal transmission step).

Here, the search server 61a searches the <bubble> tag based on the transmitted data, and extracts a plurality of bubble data.
Then, as a mapping response (W4), the service center 19a sends the space occupancy information, attribute information, and URL to the personal computer based on the coordinate information and display target attribute information transmitted in the user terminal transmission step, respectively. 58 (server transmission step).

Subsequently, the personal computer 58 displays the information bubble (image shape) on the display unit 58g together with the object at the position indicated by the space occupation information transmitted in the service center transmission step (mapping step).
Finally, the image shape and map displayed in the mapping step are provided to the personal computer 58 (providing step). That is, the personal computer 58 maps the information bubble to the map information (step W5).

Therefore, the user can obtain the latest information by using the map application, and can obtain the information with excellent visual properties. Furthermore, the system operator (communication carrier) can provide high-quality services to users, and can achieve a very large advertising effect for customers such as companies.
In this way, the user superimposes the bubble data held in the service center 19a on the map previously displayed on the personal computer 58 by using the database 15a that holds the position information and the URL linked to each other. Can do.

In addition, the system 9a of the second embodiment has a server configuration similar to that of the system 9 of the first embodiment, and provides services using additional data. That is, the system 9a displays the bubble data on the user's personal computer 58 as a map in addition to the provision of the telephone service, the service 1 and the service 2.
FIG. 16 is a block diagram of a service center according to the second embodiment. The service center 19a shown in FIG. 16 is in a system 9a that provides information to a personal computer 58 that can display a map, and includes a database 15a, a web robot (search unit) 61a, and a notification unit 61b (first unit). 1 transmission unit 17) and an updating unit 61c. In addition, in the reference numerals shown in FIG. 16, those having the same reference numerals as those described above have the same or similar functions, and thus further description thereof is omitted.

  First, the database 15a has a three-dimensional space for a specific homepage having DTD information including a plurality of tags with respect to attribute information among homepages having attribute information representing attributes of facility information related to buildings or service information of the facility information. The space occupancy information including the latitude, longitude, altitude and bubble diameter of the building and the URL for obtaining service information are held as associated bubble data.

The database 15a can provide the service 1 and the service 2 together with the web robot 61a and the notification unit 61b. By holding the bubble data, the user can easily obtain information on search objects such as buildings, floors of buildings, and signboards, and the user can obtain service information without investing expensive facilities. Moreover, the update part 61c is provided in the database 15a. The update unit 61c updates the bubble data held in the database 15a. The update unit 61c records a tag related to one of the tags included in the plurality of tags in the database 15a as a rewritable file.

Therefore, the database 15a holds the monitoring bubble data for detecting the moving object and the bubble diameter of the monitoring bubble data based on the position information of the moving object, and the moving object is stored in the state file held in the database 15a. Is configured to record a moving object element that can identify
That is, this database 15a holds bubble data and functions as a position / URL conversion database 15a (database server). This function is realized by a personal computer or a workstation (both not shown), and can also be realized by using a single hard disk. Thereby, new information is updated at any time, and both the user and the store owner such as a restaurant can provide or obtain visualized information.

  Next, the web robot 61a relates to the coordinate information in the three-dimensional space composed of the latitude, longitude and altitude of the object (building, natural object, etc.) displayed on the map transmitted from the personal computer 58 and the object displayed on the map. Search for specific bubble data including coordinate information and display target attribute information among bubble data based on a mapping request having display target attribute information representing attributes of service information related to the various information or the various information. is there. That is, the web robot 61a searches the bubble data (FIGS. 7 and 8) having the <bubble> tag based on the data from the personal computer 58 and outputs the specific bubble data.

  Furthermore, the web robot 61a searches for specific bubble data from another database (for example, another web server) connected to the Internet 12 based on the mapping request. Therefore, according to the information required by the user, the database 15a stored in the database for each region and each country can be searched, and the user can receive a higher service.

The web robot 61a is a robot-type search engine, is excellent in high speed, and can collect contents periodically. Therefore, the user can collect the latest and large amount of information. This function is realized by cooperation of CPU, ROM, RAM, and the like.
A large number of web servers are connected to the Internet 12, and a user accesses a homepage of a company that provides a search service in order to find out only necessary contents from among the contents held in them. Search the home page where the content is described. In this search engine, when a user inputs a keyword of content to be searched, a list of links on a home page including the keyword is displayed.

  This content (information page) is often written using the HTML format. In this HTML format, the types of tags are relatively limited. Therefore, the user can make the content more sophisticated by increasing the types of the tags. For this reason, the user can also describe using SGML or XML instead of HTML.

  Here, HTML is one type of tag sets defined by SGML, which is a superordinate concept of HTML. SGML also means rules for deciding tag names and document structure, using SGML declarations for specifying DTD information and character code systems used in documents, and the character code system. The document instance is described according to the tag set defined by the DTD information.

  The DTD information is specifically a tag (element) that appears in the homepage file, and the user describes the DTD information in the homepage file and registers the homepage file in the database 15a. Then, the web robot 61a extracts only those describing DTD information from a plurality of homepage files held in the database 15a.

Therefore, according to the DTD information, it is possible to make the web robot 61a recognize the content as bubble data.
Note that XML is a simplified version of SGML rules for describing documents. In other words, XML is for removing unnecessary functions of SGML and improving processing performance.

  In this way, the user describes the homepage file using SGML or XML, and the web robot 61a reads the homepage file, extracts the keywords appearing in the document by using the tags therein, and creates a database. It is. Moreover, since an index file is created based on the character string of the home page, detailed information in the home page can be searched.

  Next, the notification unit 61b shown in FIG. 16 notifies the personal computer 58 of a mapping response having the space occupation information, attribute information, and URL of the specific bubble data. The function of the notification unit 61b is also realized by cooperation of the CPU, ROM, RAM, and the like. Further, the notification unit 61 b is provided in a part of the first transmission unit 17, but may be provided separately from the first transmission unit 17.

  Then, the notification unit 61b notifies the mapping response having the space occupation information including the dynamic bubble diameter having the diameter corresponding to the scale of the map displayed on the personal computer 58 and the URL based on the coordinate information included in the mapping request. It has become. In addition, the database 15a holds bubble data in association with a unique number that can be identified for the content of the service information of the bubble data.

Thereby, the user can display a map on the screen according to the size of the bubble data to be displayed by himself / herself. Therefore, this allows the user to improve the user interface for obtaining service information.
Thus, the system operator can visually map at the time of registration as a premise of service information.

Next, a specific search method using the DTD information will be described with reference to FIGS. 22 and 23A and 23B.
FIG. 22 is a diagram for explaining DTD information according to the second embodiment. An image of the DTD information shown in FIG. 22 (hereinafter sometimes abbreviated as “image”) 63 includes a plurality of tags related to attribute information. <Bubble>, <latitude>, etc. are tags. A tag <bubble> functions as a tag for search. That is, the web robot 61a extracts the title part described at the top of each homepage, extracts about 300 bytes at the top of the information described in <body> to </ body>, and sets <bubble>. It comes to extract. <Body> and </ body> are tags described at the top and the end of the homepage file, respectively.

  In addition, the image 63 shown in FIG. 22 includes a plurality of child elements nested between <bubble> and </ bubble>. Here, <latitude>, <longitude>, <altitude>, <size>, etc. all function as location tags for determining the display position as information bubbles as shown in FIGS. ing. The right side of the image 63 shows the meaning of these tags.

  Thereby, each user describes a personal or corporate homepage by himself or creates a homepage using a commercially available application, and registers the created homepage in the web server 13b. Here, when the user creates a homepage file, a “bubble” tag is attached together with a portion corresponding to the content, and the information shown in FIG. 22 is described and created. In addition, when created using the personal computer 58, the map displayed on the display unit 58g can be right-clicked and transmitted to the provider.

In addition, the system operator sets the web robot 61a in advance to recognize that the “bubble” tag is a search tag.
Then, the web robot 61a reads a number of home pages, searches for a <bubble> tag, registers the home page file with the <bubble> tag in the search index, and displays it as a search result. In other words, among the many homepages, only those with the <bubble> tag are collected and separately databased based on the attribute information therein. Specifically, the web robot 61a searches for a location tag, extracts child element position information (latitude, longitude, altitude), bubble diameter and other parameters, links these with a URL, It is registered in the database 15a.

Furthermore, since the database is executed by the web robot 61a, the amount of information that can be collected becomes large and can be collected frequently, so that the system operator can provide detailed information to the user.
Note that the web robot 61a to be searched and the web information output unit 18b to be searched may be included in the same system operator or may be separate.

In this way, restaurant owners and companies can register their own store or company information as bubble data in advance in the web server 13b of the service center 19a so as to be discovered by the web robot 61a.
FIG. 23A is a diagram for explaining DTD information according to the second embodiment. The image 63 shown in FIG. 23A has seven types of child elements, such as latitude, longitude, altitude and bubble diameter, display animation, attribute information, startup application, status file name, URL, access history, and the like. It has a tag. A method for dynamically updating the bubble diameter will be described in a third embodiment to be described later.

First, the latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter need to be accurate enough to display an image on the display unit 58g of the personal computer 58. Thereby, the user can notify his / her space occupation information to the web robot 61a.
The display animation is a moving animation that appears on the screen of the browser program. For example, in a page on a home page, the file name of a character such as a vehicle or an airplane moving from left to right is shown. . Therefore, the database 15a is configured to hold the animation tag (display animation) displayed by the personal computer 58 in the DTD information. Thereby, the user can obtain bubble data in a more visualized state.

  The attribute information represents attributes (for example, business type) of service information, and represents restaurants, hospitals, hotels, gas stations, schools, and the like. This attribute information is managed by a plurality of layers corresponding to each of these industries. In other words, the database 15a holds the DTD information classified for each of a plurality of tags. That is, when the attribute information transmitted by the user is a restaurant or a hospital, the web robot 61a creates a restaurant layer or a gas station layer from which only the restaurant is extracted, and displays the contents. Further, the web robot 61a can designate a specific bubble number and transmit the result to the user.

  Accordingly, the service center 19a can transmit attribute information corresponding to the attribute information included in the access from the user to the user. As a result, the service center 19a does not need to have a brute force search for all the files held in each directory of the database 15a in order to search for restaurants, and can extract desired information efficiently and at high speed. Can do.

  According to this method, when generating the database 15a, the web robot 61a extracts what is described in the DTD information from what is temporarily held in the web information output unit 18b. On the other hand, when generating the database 15a, the system operator can cause the user to directly describe the homepage file with the DTD information attached and transfer the homepage file.

  That is, as a standard specification, the web robot 61a reads the DTD information when the homepage file with the DTD information is transferred from the user. Thereby, the display content can be changed in the case of access from the portable terminal 11 and the case of access from the personal computer 58, respectively. That is, when the user registers a homepage file from the portable terminal 11, the data amount can be reduced by creating a database by omitting unnecessary display characters and the like. Therefore, a person who accesses using the mobile terminal 11 or the PDA 32 can comfortably change the page of the home page.

  Thereby, the method for constructing the bubble data (see FIGS. 7 and 8) of the database 15a is a method in which the web robot 61a searches the web information output unit 18b and extracts only the homepage file to which the DTD information is attached, There are two methods: a method in which each user directly transfers a description described with DTD information, and the web robot 61a reads the DTD information from the homepage file and generates the database 15a.

In this way, many homepage files are filtered by the DTD information, and bubble data shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 is generated.
Further, the service center 19a holds the bubble data 15a shown in FIG. 7 in association with a unique number (bubble number) that can be identified for the contents of the service information of the bubble data 15a. For example, a consumer electronics store has a plurality of floors.

Thereby, when a user purchases a product on any one of the floors, information on the floor can be transmitted to others. This also allows the user to designate and display a specific bubble number on the personal computer 58.
23A is an application program name for displaying map information on the personal computer 58, and is used when the user displays a map. Therefore, the database 15a is configured to hold data relating to an application program for displaying a map on the personal computer 58 in the state file. The activation application is activated by a JAVA (registered trademark) program received by the mobile terminal 11. That is, it is translated so as to be adapted to the personal computer 58 of the user and executed in conformity with the user terminal, so that the user can obtain visualized data.

  Furthermore, when a user accesses his / her home page, a user often moves a display animation that is visually or acoustically effective on the other person's screen. Therefore, the database 15a is configured to hold an application program tag for displaying a map in the DTD information. Thereby, the user can obtain content using the visualized map.

URL represents the address shown in FIGS. The image 63 can also hold contents related to the signature. In addition, the image 63 includes information on the character size, font, or emphasized character. Therefore, display control information related to the home page is included.
Thus, the homepage information and the control information are stored in the database 15a of the service center 19a in association with each other.

  In addition, the database 15a is provided with a tag indicating a condition that the user desires to communicate. For example, in the DTD information, the user wants to access only a specific person who wants to communicate, so that the user wants to enter a woman, the user's own contact information, and the search time. The interval is input every 10 minutes and transmitted to the service center 19a. Therefore, the database 15a is configured to hold a communication partner information tag related to a specific communication partner in the DTD information. For example, a certain user A registers a desired partner as a woman, and a user B registers a desired partner as a man, and the web server 13b can set a person who matches a profile tag set in advance. Thereby, each user can communicate only with the other party who desires, respectively.

  The DTD information is written by the user and cannot be rewritten. For this reason, a rewritable state file is provided to assist the DTD information. This status file is a file for holding storage parameters and the like, and holds data relating to user access management and access restrictions, for example. This state file may be provided for each registered user, or may be generated for each access. The function of the state file is realized by, for example, one described using a script language. That is, as the status file, a desired one can be selected from DTD information to be managed or tags included in the DTD information.

  FIG. 23B is a diagram for explaining a state file according to the second embodiment. The state file image 64 shown in FIG. 23B is rewritten by, for example, UNIX (registered trademark) (unix: one type of operation system), and includes a counter (life counter) and an accessible period. (Life date), start file name, dynamic bubble diameter, access history, and the like are described.

  This counter is, for example, a subtraction counter. For example, if there is a person who has accessed the DTD information after the program of the service center 19a sets the initial value to 100 times, the counter is subtracted every time the access is made. When the counter value becomes 0, the counter disappears. Therefore, the database 15a is configured to hold data related to a counter whose counter value can be changed in the state file. Accordingly, the database 15a is configured to hold data relating to accessible time in the state file.

  This counter function is realized by the cooperation of a cgi (Common Gateway Interface) program (hereinafter sometimes abbreviated as cgi) and a counter file. The cgi program is a main body for operating a homepage, and is a program (attached) to the homepage file, and is a program possessed by, for example, UNIX (registered trademark). The counter file is a file that counts every time it is accessed, and is provided separately from the status file. The counter file is used in, for example, an access counter indicating how many times a home page has been accessed, a bulletin board to which contents are added by writing from a user, and the like, and is provided in a directory where the top file of the home page is located.

  As a result, when the homepage is accessed from the outside, cgi starts, cgi reads the counter file, and cgi passes an argument indicating the counter value to the counter file, and the counter value is entered from the counter file. Returned arguments. Further, this cgi returns this counter value to the accessing user as a UNIX (registered trademark) response. Therefore, the counter value is changed.

Thus, for example, when a company or the like provides a service “Give a free gift to a customer who has accessed the first 100 homepages”, the company first provides the information content of the new 100 people. In the homepage file, the source file is registered in the web information output unit 18b.
Next, the web robot 61a, the web information output unit 18b or the update unit 61c searches the home page file to extract information of 100 names, and writes this information into the status file. Then, after 100 is written in the state file as an initial value, the counter value is continuously subtracted by the user's access. When the number of accesses exceeds 100, cgi returns an argument 0 from the counter file, returns an inaccessible message to the user, and deletes the counter file to stop the operation and restrict access.

In this way, processing is performed based on data transmitted from the user, and access can be restricted based on the processing result.
This counter can also use other counting methods. For example, the web server 13b sets the number of users that can be accessed simultaneously to 20 and constantly monitors the number of users who have entered and the number of users who have left, and monitors that the current number of users is 20 or less. It is.

  Next, the accessible period is data for limiting the period during which the user can access, for example, 3 to May, 6 to 8 months corresponding to spring, summer, autumn and winter, respectively. , September to November, December to February, etc. are set. Further, this accessible period can be used for distributing paid news only for a predetermined period. In other words, the web server 13b prevents the expired user from accessing by monitoring this accessible period.

  In addition, the activation file name represents a file name corresponding to the activation application of the DTD information. The user writes the activation application included in the DTD information as, for example, a JAVA (registered trademark) program. After that, when the JAVA (registered trademark) program is upgraded and the file name is changed, the written JAVA (registered trademark) program is not displayed on the personal computer 58 or the like of the user.

Therefore, when the JAVA (registered trademark) program is upgraded, it is not necessary for the user to change the upgraded new name one by one, and the startup application is dynamically changed to an accurate startup file. become.
The dynamic bubble diameter is a bubble diameter of an information bubble displayed on the user's personal computer 58. Therefore, the database 15a is configured to record data relating to the dynamic bubble diameter having a diameter corresponding to the scale of the map displayed on the personal computer 58 in the state file. That is, the bubble diameter displayed on the personal computer 58 is managed by the server. Accordingly, the service center 19a can adaptively change the bubble diameter based on the coordinates of the display map information and the space occupation information transmitted from the user. Thereby, the information mapped on the map can be visualized, and the user can obtain an information bubble having a size corresponding to the scale of the map displayed by the user.

  Furthermore, the access history is information for identifying a person who has accessed the home page. Here, the IP address of a specific proxy server (not shown) is described in the URL of the image 63 shown in FIG. 23A, and the person who accessed the home page in the access history shown in FIG. The identifier (ID: Identification, hereinafter, sometimes referred to as ID) is recorded.

  This ID is used to identify each user and is stacked in the state file. The service center 19a can identify each user by both the IP address and the ID. Therefore, the database 15a is configured to hold the history information of the IP address resulting from the access of the personal computer 58 and the ID information that can identify the personal computer 58 in the status file.

  As a result, the system operator creates an information bubble on an intersection in a city or on a road. For example, when a walking user or vehicle passes through the information bubble, a history such as the time it passes is recorded. The This also allows the user to receive accurate route guidance because the passage history is appropriately tracked even for moving objects. Furthermore, the passage history of vehicles and the like can be recorded in the same manner, and this will be described in a third embodiment described later.

It should be noted that the status file (saved parameter) shown in FIG. 23B needs to be changed according to the situation or to have extensibility. Further, the user may describe the animation data holding location and bubble data attribute information for the display animation of the child element. In that case, many services can be realized.
In this way, the image of the bubble data required by the user is transmitted by the DTD information that cannot be changed by the user in advance and the state file whose content can be changed by cgi cooperate with each other. .

In addition, in this way, all tag information is displayed linked to the bubble diameter. Moreover, since it maps on the map in the initial screen displayed on the display part 58g, information is visualized with respect to a user, and visual property improves. In this visualization, the area occupied by the bubble data display unit 58g is determined based on the bubble diameter and the scale of the map.
That is, the user starts up the map display application program of the personal computer 58 itself (hereinafter may be abbreviated as a map application), and displays the position information / URL link database 15a on the map displayed on the personal computer 58. The bubble data held in can be overlaid.

Moreover, the user can use the portable terminal 11 and PDA32 as a user terminal.
FIG. 17 is a schematic block diagram of the PDA 32 according to the second embodiment. In FIG. 17, those having the same reference numerals as those described above have the same or similar functions, and thus further description is omitted.

  The PDA 32 shown in FIG. 17 includes a detection unit 21 that detects position information having the latitude, longitude, altitude, azimuth, and tilt angle of an object in three dimensions. The detection unit 21 includes an azimuth sensor (geomagnetic sensor) 11 b that can measure the azimuth, a satellite information reception unit (GPS module) 11 c that can receive satellite information using a global positioning system, and a horizontal line of the personal computer 58. And an inclination sensor 11a capable of measuring the inclination angle.

  Thereby, the user acquires latitude A, longitude B and altitude 0, the azimuth measured by the geomagnetic sensor 11b, and the inclination angle θ, and transmits the position information to the service center 19a. Based on the position information, the service center 19a extracts a URL corresponding to the specific space occupancy information including the position information from the space occupancy information held by the database 15a, and stores the content corresponding to the URL in the PDA 32. It transmits to it.

Accordingly, the user can obtain bubble data using the PDA 32, and can also map the bubble data to the map using a map application preinstalled in the PDA 32, so that it is possible to obtain visualized information. it can.
In addition, in the PDA 32, the second transmission unit 22a transmits a mapping request using an electronic mail address generated based on the coordinate information. The coordinate information is in a three-dimensional space composed of latitude, longitude, and altitude.

Furthermore, as shown in FIG. 4, the mobile terminal 11 includes a mapping unit 58 f and a map information holding unit 58 c (see FIG. 17).
Thereby, the small amount of data transmission in the wireless line is taken into consideration, and the amount of data transmission is smaller than that of the personal computer 58, and the power consumption can be reduced in total.
In FIG. 23A, when the mobile terminal 11 is used, when the user searches for an Italian restaurant, for example, the user first selects a store within a radius of 10 m. In the child element, a radius of 10 m is input as a bubble diameter, and an Italian restaurant is input as attribute information, which is transmitted to the service center 19a. Then, the mobile terminal 11 continues to periodically transmit its location information to the service center 19a. Here, when the service center 19a finds an Italian restaurant within 10 m of the user, the user is notified by ringing a ringtone or the like.

Also in the second embodiment, each of the functions of the service center 19a has the functions of the service center 19a configured by one server (see FIG. 1) as a plurality of servers as shown in FIG. It can be distributed. That is, each function can be distributed to other places on the Internet 12.
Further, the service information providing system 9a is in the system 9a that provides information to the personal computer 58 that can display a map. The system 9a is described in SGML or XML having DTD information among homepages having attribute information indicating attributes of various information related to the object or service information related to the various information and DTD information including a plurality of tags. A database 15a that holds space occupancy information including the latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter of an object in a three-dimensional space, and URL for obtaining service information as associated bubble data, and a database 15a; A computer 58 connected via the Internet 12 and displaying various information retrieved using bubble data, and coordinates in a three-dimensional space composed of latitude, longitude and altitude of the object displayed on the map transmitted from the personal computer 58 Various information related to information and objects, or various information A web robot 61a that searches for specific bubble data including coordinate information and display target attribute information from bubble data based on a mapping request having display target attribute information representing service information attributes related to A notification unit 61b that notifies the personal computer 58 of a mapping response having space occupation information, attribute information, and URL is provided.

  Then, the personal computer 58 outputs a map information holding unit 58c that outputs map information of the object in the three-dimensional space, and a display unit 58g that displays an image of the object on the screen based on the map information output from the map information holding unit 58c; , Coordinate information including the latitude, longitude, altitude and bubble diameter in the three-dimensional space of the object displayed on the display unit 58g, and attribute information representing attributes of various information related to the object or service information related to the various information. The transmission unit 58d that transmits the mapping request to the server connected to the personal computer 58 via the Internet 12, and the latitude of the object in the three-dimensional space corresponding to the space occupation information notified by the service center 19a about the mapping request , Longitude, altitude and bubble occupancy information, and URL for obtaining service information. A receiving unit 58a that receives the mapping response, a mapping unit 58f that displays the image shape together with the image of the object on the display unit 58g at the position indicated by the space occupation information included in the mapping response, and an image displayed by the mapping unit 58f A mapping data holding unit 58e that holds the shape and the URL included in the mapping response in association with each other is configured.

  Furthermore, also in the second embodiment, similarly to the service of the first embodiment, data between the service center 19a and the portable terminal 11, the PDA 32 or the personal computer 58 can be transmitted and received by mail. That is, the database 15a uses a URL based on the space occupancy information as an e-mail address, and holds the space occupancy information corresponding to the e-mail address. In other words, the link destination indicated by the URL represents the mail data.

  Thereby, for example, a restaurant owner can register service information such as food and drink by linking to bubble data by himself / herself, and the store owner can advertise the store to general users, which is very registered. Simplify and promote the use of services. In addition, since the company indicates its mail address as a destination for opinions or the like to the user, bubble data corresponding to the mail address is used.

  With such a configuration, the service center 19a provides the user with the map application in addition to providing the user with the service 1 and the service 2 in the first embodiment. , Provide services 3-7. First, bubble data mapping will be described with reference to FIG. 24, and services 3 to 7 will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 24 is a diagram for explaining a mapping method according to the second embodiment. The information providing service method is in the system 9a that provides information to the personal computer 58 that can display a map.
The personal computer 58 displays a map on the display unit 58g that displays an image (map display step). That is, when receiving the service 1, the user activates the map application of the personal computer 58 (step T1), and the map is displayed on the screen (step T2). Further, in the map display (map display step), the personal computer 58 displays a map on the screen based on the acquired latitude or longitude. Therefore, the user can obtain an information bubble at any location.

Then, the personal computer 58 selects an object from the map information displayed in the map display step (selection step).
Subsequently, the personal computer 58 provides the service center (server) 19 connected to the personal computer 58 via the Internet 12 with the coordinate information in the three-dimensional space regarding the object selected in the selection step and the attributes of the service information to be provided. A mapping request having display target attribute information to be transmitted is transmitted (transmission step).

  More specifically, the personal computer 58 provides latitude, longitude, altitude and bubble diameter in the three-dimensional space related to the object selected in the selection step to the service center (server) 19 connected to the personal computer 58 via the Internet 12. A mapping request is sent that includes coordinate information consisting of and display target attribute information that represents various information related to the object or attributes of service information related to the various information (transmission step). That is, the personal computer 58 requests the service center 19a to superimpose (superimpose) bubble data, and notifies the space occupancy information and attribute information including latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter (step T3).

  When the service center 19a receives this notification, based on the mapping request of the transmission step, the space occupancy information including the latitude, longitude, altitude and bubble diameter of the object in the three-dimensional space and various information related to the object or the various information thereof The specific bubble data including the coordinate information and the display target attribute information is searched from the bubble data associated with the URL for obtaining the service information related to (search step). That is, in step T4, the coordinates and data of the tag are searched, and the object to be mapped by the user is selected based on the latitude, longitude, altitude and bubble diameter.

In this search (search step), the service center 19a searches using a counter whose count value can be changed by access, and a predetermined file disappears when the count is stopped. ing.
Further, in this search (search step), the service center 19 can search based on the number of accesses that can access the server simultaneously, or search based on communication partner information regarding a specific communication partner.

In addition, in this search (search step), the service center 19 reads communication partner bubble data that matches information related to the communication partner set in advance (read step), and receives the current position information of the personal computer 58. Then, based on the communication partner bubble data and the current position information, the proximity of the personal computer 58 and the communication partner is detected (approach detection step), and the personal computer 58 is notified of the approach. (Approach notification step)
Thus, the service center 19a can easily provide various visual services.

  Then, the service center 19a notifies the personal computer 58 of a mapping response having the space occupation information and URL of the specific bubble data searched in the search step (notification step). That is, the service center 19a performs a narrowing search using the filter information (step T5) and notifies the DTD information (step T6). Further, the service center 19a transmits to the personal computer 58.

  In response to this notification (notification step), the service center 19a has a diameter corresponding to the scale of the map displayed on the display unit 58g of the personal computer 58 based on the coordinate information included in the mapping request transmitted in the transmission step. The dynamic bubble diameter is output (change step), and the dynamic bubble diameter output in the change step is inserted into the mapping response (insert step). Thereby, the user can obtain an information bubble having an accurate size.

  Furthermore, when outputting the diameter according to the scale of the map (change step), the service center 19a changes the dynamic bubble diameter based on the number of accesses, the accessible time, or the accessible season. If the counter is 0 in step T5, the service center 19a deletes the home page of the counter that has reached 0. Accordingly, the service center 19a can restrict access and can provide various services.

  In addition, at the time of the above notification (notification step), the service center 19a notifies information related to the application program for displaying the map (started application name) on the personal computer 58 (see FIG. 23A, etc.). ). Then, based on the specific bubble data notified in the notification step, the personal computer 58 displays the image shape on the display unit 58g together with the object at the position indicated by the space occupancy information of the mapping response (mapping step). That is, the personal computer 58 maps the information bubble to the map based on the notified DTD information, the bubble animation and the moving image are displayed (step T7), and the attribute information such as the Italian food menu is displayed. (Step T8).

Here, when the user clicks the menu portion (step T9), the browser program is started (step T10), and the user jumps to the URL associated with the information bubble or bubble animation icon and is held at the URL. The contents (URL file) of the current home page are obtained (step T11).
Further, the user can receive the mapping service not only on the personal computer 58 but also on a mobile terminal such as the mobile terminal 11 or the PDA 32. That is, in providing the mapping service, first, the service center 19a starts from the mobile terminal 11, information on the position and south direction of the mobile terminal 11 (position information), a range of 50m (search distance range), and a restaurant. (Attribute information) is received. Then, the web robot 61a searches the DTD information having a tag of bubble based on the position information, the search distance range, and the attribute information, extracts the hit, extracts the hit, and the mobile terminal 11 Send to.

Thereby, the service center 19a can provide the service information of the advertiser registered in the range desired by the user, and the use can be promoted.
Next, for the services 3 to 7, the bubble data mapping method according to the second embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS.
FIG. 25 is a diagram for explaining a map display according to the second embodiment. The image 100 shown in FIG. 25 is a displayable range and is based on the start point (displayed as SP). Then, the map application calculates a latitude range and a longitude range based on the scale information and the screen size. Here, the range of longitude is taken in the vertical direction, and the range of latitude is taken in the horizontal direction.

The personal computer 58 notifies the service center 19a of the search range information, and the service center 19a searches for information bubbles within the search range.
FIG. 26 is a diagram for explaining information bubble search according to the second embodiment. In the search range 100Z shown in FIG. 26, five spherical information bubbles (images of space occupation information of bubble data) are hit. The service center 19a transmits the search result to the personal computer 58.

FIG. 27 is a diagram showing an image display at the time of superposition according to the second embodiment. In the image 100, information bubbles are superimposed on a map.
In this way, the user can easily obtain information and can visualize and obtain an information bubble on which an appropriate scale is displayed.
As described above, the service center 19a can dynamically change the bubble diameter according to the degree of access to the bubble data, the time, the season, or the like.

Next, the service 4 will be described with reference to FIG.
FIG. 28 is a diagram for explaining access restriction to a home page according to the second embodiment, and shows a sequence between a user, a cgi (cgi program), and a counter file (life counter file). .
First, when a user accesses a file such as a home page (step B1), cgi reads the counter value by passing an argument to the counter file (step B2). Then, it is determined whether or not the counter value is greater than 0 (step B3), and if it is equal to or less than 0, the N route is passed to the user and the message “Access is complete” is transmitted. A message to that effect is displayed (step B4).

In step B3, if the counter value is greater than 0, it passes through the Y route, and cgi subtracts the counter value (step B5), and passes the subtracted counter value as an argument to the counter file. The counter value is written (step B6). Then, cgi proceeds to the next process (step B7), and the control returns to the server side (step B8).
As described above, when the service 4 is executed and bubble data is accessed 100 times, for example, the bubble data home page disappears or access to the home page is prohibited.

As for the service 5, as described above, an application such as JAVA (registered trademark) is activated instead of the URL. As a result, the service center 19a filters the user location information and the attributes associated therewith and notifies the user of the result.
Further, the service 6 is the same as the service 4 and is realized by a counting function using cgi and a counter file. That is, the service center 19a sets the number of accesses to bubble data of a company or the like and monitors the number of accesses. As a result, the service center 19a can prohibit the user's access if the number of accesses exceeds 100 after the specific homepage is set in advance, for example, to 100 people.

  In addition, the service 7 will be described with reference to FIG. As for the contents of the service 7, when the bubble data matching the mutually set conditions approaches, the service center 19a notifies the owner of the approach of the bubble data matching the conditions. Here, the user owns the portable terminal 11 or the PDA 32 as a user terminal, and the service 7 is performed based on the position information possessed by these terminals.

  FIG. 29 is a diagram for explaining a service when bubble data approaches according to the second embodiment. FIG. 29 shows a sequence between three users, a user 1 (20-year-old male), a service center 19a, and a user 2 (21-year-old female). “User 1” represents “20-year-old male” and “mobile terminal 11 or PDA 32” used by user 1. “User 2” also represents “21-year-old female” and “mobile terminal 11 or PDA 32” used by user 2.

  First, the user 1 transmits a search condition to the service center 19a (step C1). Here, the user 1 transmits a condition indicating a woman up to 25 years old as a search condition. Similarly, the user 2 transmits a condition indicating that the man is up to age 25 to the service center 19a (step C2). Further, the service center 19a sets a condition in advance so that the search condition match is hit when, for example, the distance between the user 1 and the user 2 is within 100 m.

In addition to the user 1 or the user 2, the service center 19a receives search conditions from many users (not shown) and processes them.
Next, the user 1 continues to transmit the self position (information on the self position) to the service center 19a (step C3, step C5, step C7, step C11). When the service center 19a receives the self-location data from the user 1 or the user 2, whether or not there is a user (target) that matches the condition transmitted by the user within 100m around the user who transmitted the self-location. (Step C4, step C6, step C8).

  Then, when the user 1 transmits his / her position (step C7), the service center 19a searches (step C8) and finds a target that satisfies the condition (step C9), the service center 19a A mail is transmitted to both of them (step C10). That is, the service center 19a notifies the user 1 and the user 2 of the latitude, longitude, and altitude.

  The user 1 transmits his / her position again to the service center 19a (step C11). On the other hand, the user 2 moves while searching for the information bubble designated from the service center 19a (step C12), and the user 2 searches the portable terminal 11 (or PDA 32) toward the information bubble (step C15). . Here, the service center 19a grasps the target position even when the target is searching (step C13).

When the user 2 recognizes the target (step C16), the service center 19a is requested to send a proxy mail (step C17), and the service center 19a sends a proxy mail to the user 1 (step C14). ) User 1 and User 2 can recognize each other (step C18).
As described above, when the bubble data matching the mutually set conditions approaches, the service center 19a can notify the owner of the bubble data.

As another method of the service 7, the user inputs desired information as attribute information in advance as a search condition and transmits it to the service center 19a.
For example, the user inputs an Italian restaurant as a search condition, sets the search interval time to 1 minute, and transmits (registers) the service to the service center 19a with a search range of 50 m. And a user continues detecting position information using portable terminal 11, and transmits the position information to service center 19a at any time.

  The service center 19a searches for bubble data in the range of 50m around the bubble data representing this user at intervals of 1 minute, and searches for attribute information that is an Italian restaurant. When the service center 19a finds an Italian restaurant, the service center 19a transmits information such as the store name, location, and menu to the user. Here, the user knows the presence of the Italian restaurant by the beep sound of the portable terminal 11 or the PDA 32.

  Therefore, in the information providing service method, first, the personal computer 58 has a home page (attribute information indicating attributes of facility information related to a building (object) or service information related to the facility information (various information or various information thereof) ( Among the information pages, a homepage (specific information page) in which DTD information including a plurality of tags is described with respect to attribute information is recorded in the database 15a (information page recording step).

  Next, the URL for the service center 19a to obtain space occupation information and service information including the latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter of the object in the three-dimensional space based on the information page recorded in the information page recording step. Are registered (bubble data registration step). Here, in registering bubble data (bubble data registration step), the service center 19a records the content recorded in the information page recording step in another database 15a (recording step), and the server performs the recording step. For the content recorded in (1), the space occupation information including the latitude, longitude, altitude and bubble diameter of the object in the three-dimensional space and the URL for obtaining the service information are registered in the database 15a as the associated bubble data (No. 1). 2 registration step).

Then, the service center 19a provides the personal computer 58 with information resulting from the bubble data registered in the bubble data registration step (providing step).
Here, when the server registers bubble data (bubble data registration step), the service center 19a includes a plurality of pieces of DTD information having a tag “bubble” among the DTD information recorded in the information page recording step ( (Specific DTD information) is extracted (specific DTD information extraction step).

Then, the service center 19a registers a plurality of DTD information (specific DTD information) as bubble data (first registration step).
Thus, when the system 9a provides the information providing service, the user interface for the user to obtain the service information can be improved. That is, the system operator can visualize when mapping for registration of service information.

Further, in this way, the system 9a can display the service information to the user in a form linked to the predetermined map information, and can display the map information on the screen according to the size of the bubble data displayed by the user.
(C) Description of Third Embodiment In the third embodiment, a method of using bubble data in a car navigation system (hereinafter sometimes abbreviated as “car navigation system”) will be described.

  FIG. 30 is a view for explaining the car navigation system according to the third embodiment. A car navigation system 99 shown in FIG. 30 is a system that provides a road guidance service to the driver of the vehicle 52. The car navigation system 99 provides a service for guiding a driver (meaning a user) in order to be able to arrive at a destination in real time. For this reason, in the third embodiment, the service center 19a detects the vehicle 52 by providing a large number of information bubbles for monitoring at intersections of roads and the like.

  The bubble diameter is included in the DTD information shown in FIG. Here, the update unit 61c holds monitoring bubble data for detecting a moving object, updates the bubble diameter of the monitoring bubble data based on the position information of the moving object, and stores the state file held in the database 15a. A moving object tag that can identify a moving object is recorded. The bubble diameter is adjusted with an accuracy sufficient for mapping. Thereby, the service center 19a can track the vehicle 52 with high accuracy, and can provide an accurate route guidance to the driver.

That is, the car navigation system 99 provides information bubbles at the road intersections P _{1 to} P ₁₁ . Then, the vehicle 52, from the intersection P _2, after entering, whether headed in any direction, the service center 19a is made to track. Further, the service center 19a continues to notify the driver of information necessary for the driver to reach the destination. Here, the vehicle 52 receives the notification from the service center 19a using the portable terminal 11 or the PDA 32, and can obtain it using, for example, a hands-free device (not shown).

For this reason, the database 15a in the service center 19a holds the ID in the status file. Therefore, the database 15 a is configured to hold the status file, URL history information resulting from access of the personal computer 58, and identifier information that can identify the personal computer 58.
Specifically, the service center 19a is a vehicle 52 which has passed through the information bubbles provided on the intersection P _1, as a person who has accessed, it is to record the IP address. Further, not only the IP address but also an ID for recording each user is recorded. The vehicle 52 can be specified by both the access history and the ID. Information bubbles provided at these intersections record the access history of the vehicle 52 and the like, and the recorded information is collected in the service center 19a.

This makes it possible to provide road guidance without installing a large number of sensors or the like for detecting the vehicle 52 on a road or a building, and without requiring a large investment. Therefore, the car navigation system 99 can monitor the movement status of each vehicle.
Other than these are the same as those described in the first embodiment and the second embodiment, and further description is omitted.

With such a configuration, the service center 19a manages the movement of the vehicle 52 using the information bubble.
FIG. 31 is a diagram for explaining a car navigation system 99 according to the third embodiment. Each of the seven types of rectangles shown in FIG. 31 represents a city block, and road guidance for the vehicle 52 entering from the left side of FIG. 31 to exit from the right side is shown. Each of the circled circles 1-9 and A-E is an information bubble, and the history of the vehicle 52 that has entered the city area until it gets out of the city area after receiving road guidance. Shown about management.

  First, when the vehicle 52 at the start point requests route guidance to the goal point, the server (service center 19a) places an information bubble to the goal point. Then, the vehicle 52 sequentially transmits its own position to the server, and the server searches the information bubble at the position, and if there is an information bubble that matches the vehicle position, the information is sent to the vehicle 52. Is notified.

  Here, the information bubble 3 notifies “next intersection is on the right”, the information bubble 2 notifies “intersection entry confirmation”, and the information bubble 5 notifies “straight on the road”. To do. The information bubbles 1 and 4 both notify that “the course has changed. Further, the information bubble 6 notifies “intersection entry confirmation”, and the information bubble 9 notifies “next intersection is on the left”. In addition, both information bubbles 7 and 8 notify that “the course has changed. Then, the information bubble B notifies “intersection approach confirmation”, and the information bubbles C, D, and E both notify “straight on the road”. Here, the information bubble A notifies that “the course has changed.

In this way, the user can accurately receive route guidance to the destination. Further, the system operator can grasp the movement of the vehicle 52 without installing an expensive vehicle detector, and can easily track even if each vehicle moves to another place.
(D) Others The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

For example, the system operator can also add questionnaires to the user using SGML or XML, and market surveys can be performed using the questionnaires.
Further, the web robot 61a can extract only useful content according to the use of the user from a huge number of home pages, and obtain a useful tendency for the user's trend. As the index (index information), several types such as <bubble> are shown in the above example, but a customized index tag can also be created. Examples of index tag items include the age, gender, occupation, family structure, etc. of the person who created the document, as well as the type of business, type of work, and work location of the person.

In the second embodiment, the information document includes, in addition to the homepage, a document specialized for a specific purpose or business such as a user manual or an in-house document. That is, tag sets that are easy to search can be defined and used for these specialized documents.
Furthermore, the above space occupancy information can be implemented in the case of two dimensions and one dimension. That is, the database 15a may be configured to hold plane range information in the two-dimensional space and search information for obtaining service information as two-dimensional bubble data associated with each other. Further, the database 15a may be configured to hold the distance information of the line segment and the search information for obtaining service information as one-dimensional bubble data associated with each other. As a result, the database 15a records the data as two-dimensional or one-dimensional information, so that the amount of data to be held is reduced and the search can be further speeded up.

For the above bubble numbers, the service center 19, 19a has selected a specific bubble number, but the user can also send data related to the bubble number to the service center 19, 19a.
Furthermore, in a service such as i-mode (registered trademark), simplified contents are often displayed on a home page in order to reduce the amount of data to be transmitted and received.

In the first embodiment, the system operator has both the web robot 61a and the bubble data. However, the relationship between the system operator of the web robot 61a and the user who registers the bubble data is limited to this. It is not intended that the present invention be implemented in other relationships.
In the second embodiment, the format of the file for displaying the map is not limited to GIF, and files such as BMP, JPG (Exif JPEG 24), and TIF (Tagged Interchange Format) can also be used.

In addition to the above, the status file image 64 shown in FIG. 23B can also store data relating to the signature key.
Any of the personal computer 58, the portable terminal 11 and the PDA 32 in the second embodiment can effectively generate sound as well as image mapping.
The shape of the information bubble displayed on the personal computer 58 can be various shapes other than a spherical shape and an elliptical shape. In addition, an icon created by the user can be displayed instead of the information bubble.

  In 3rd Embodiment, it is not limited to the vehicle 52 on a road, A service can be provided also about moving objects, such as a ship and an airplane. That is, the moving object transmits the position information at that time to the service center 19a every predetermined time or every moving distance. Then, the database 15a sequentially updates the bubble diameter of the space occupation information in the bubble data based on the position information transmitted from the moving object. Thereby, the user can obtain information (for example, advertisement) that the moving object has by directing the mobile terminal 11 or the PDA 32 directly to the moving object. Furthermore, since the content is updated frequently, the user can obtain detailed information.

Moreover, in 3rd Embodiment, it can also apply to management of the user who enters a building (facility) instead of the vehicle 52. FIG. As described above, the facility information refers to store information about a store in a building or a building.
For example, a temple and shrine manages an access history for a user who enters a building where a visit is provided. In addition, when a user obtains information such as a historical commentary, the temple and shrine can charge those users.

  22 and 24, <latitude>, <longitude>, <altitude>, <size>, <animation>, and <lifedate> represent latitude, longitude, altitude, bubble diameter, display animation, and life date, respectively. . For example, latitude is 139 ° 46'1.3 "east longitude, longitude is 35 ° 40'45.7" north latitude, altitude is 50m, bubble diameter is 50m and dynamic. The character (character to be displayed as a display animation) is “honsia.gif”, which indicates that the displayable date is up to 2001/4/27.

In FIG. 24, steps T1 to T3 and steps T7 to T11 are processes of the personal computer 58, and steps T4 to T6 are processes of the service center 19a. The bubble animation at step T7 represents a display animation. The display bubble in step T8 represents an information bubble displayed on the screen.
In FIG. 31, the display of a building does not represent the display of map information, but means a building in an urban area.

(E) Appendix (Appendix 1) In a system for providing information to a user terminal capable of displaying a map,
Among the information documents having attribute information representing the attributes of service information to be provided, for a specific information document having index information consisting of a plurality of elements, spatial range information in three-dimensional space and search information for obtaining the service information A database to be stored as associated bubble data;
Based on the mapping request transmitted from the user terminal and having the coordinate information of the target displayed on the map and the display target attribute information representing the attribute of the service information provided by the target, the coordinates of the bubble data A search unit for searching for specific bubble data including information and the display target attribute information;
A server comprising: a notification unit that notifies the user terminal of a mapping response having the spatial range information, the attribute information, and the search information included in the specific bubble data.

(Supplementary note 2) In a system for providing information to a user terminal capable of displaying a map,
Among information pages having attribute information representing attributes of various information related to an object or service information related to the various information, a specific information page having index information composed of a plurality of elements related to the attribute information in a three-dimensional space A database that holds spatial range information composed of latitude, longitude, altitude and bubble diameter of the object and address information for obtaining the service information as associated bubble data;
Coordinate information in the three-dimensional space consisting of the latitude, longitude, and altitude of the object displayed on the map and the various information related to the object displayed on the map or the service related to the various information transmitted from the user terminal A search unit that searches the bubble data for specific bubble data including the coordinate information and the display target attribute information based on a mapping request having display target attribute information representing an attribute of the information;
A server comprising: a notification unit for notifying the user terminal of a mapping response including the spatial range information, the attribute information, and the address information of the specific bubble data.

(Supplementary note 3) In a system for providing information to a user terminal capable of displaying a map,
Of the homepage having the attribute information indicating the attribute of the facility information related to the building or the service information of the facility information, the building in the three-dimensional space for the specific homepage having the document type definition information composed of a plurality of tags with respect to the attribute information A database that holds the spatial range information including the latitude, longitude, altitude and bubble diameter and the uniform resource locator for obtaining the service information as associated bubble data;
The coordinate information in the three-dimensional space composed of the latitude, longitude, and altitude of the building displayed on the map and the facility information related to the building displayed on the map or the service information of the facility information transmitted from the user terminal A search unit for searching for specific bubble data including the coordinate information and the display target attribute information from the bubble data based on a mapping request including display target attribute information representing an attribute;
A server comprising: a notification unit for notifying the user terminal of a mapping response having the spatial range information of the specific bubble data, the attribute information, and the uniform resource locator.

(Supplementary note 4)
Based on the coordinate information included in the mapping request, the mapping response having spatial range information including a similar bubble diameter having a diameter corresponding to a scale of a map displayed by the user terminal and address information is notified. The server according to any one of Supplementary Note 1 to Supplementary Note 3, wherein

(Supplementary Note 5) The search unit
The server according to appendix 2, wherein the specific bubble data is searched from another database connected to the network based on the mapping request.
(Additional remark 6) The web information output part which hold | maintains user information is provided,
The server according to claim 2, further comprising an address generation unit that generates an address for storing the user information stored in the web information output unit.

(Appendix 7) The database is
The server according to appendix 2, wherein the document type definition information is configured to hold an animation element displayed by the user terminal.
(Appendix 8) The database is
The server according to appendix 2, wherein the document type definition information is configured to hold an application program element for displaying the map.

(Supplementary note 9)
The server according to appendix 2, wherein the document type definition information is configured to hold a communication partner information element relating to a specific communication partner.
(Appendix 10) The database is
The server according to appendix 2, wherein the server is configured to classify and hold the document type definition information for each of the plurality of elements.

(Appendix 11) The database is
11. The server according to any one of appendices 1 to 10, wherein the server is configured to hold the bubble data in association with a unique number that can be identified for the content of the service information of the bubble data.
(Supplementary note 12)
Holding the monitoring bubble data for detecting the moving object and the bubble diameter of the monitoring bubble data based on the position information of the moving object;
12. The server according to appendix 11, wherein a moving object element capable of specifying the moving object is recorded in the file held in the database.

(Supplementary note 13)
The server according to any one of appendix 1 to appendix 4, wherein the file is configured to record data relating to a similar bubble diameter having a diameter corresponding to a scale of a map displayed by the user terminal. .
(Supplementary note 14)
The file is configured to hold at least one of address information history information resulting from access of a user terminal and identifier information that can identify the user terminal. The server according to any one of -Appendix 4.

(Supplementary note 15)
The server according to any one of appendix 1 to appendix 4, wherein the file is configured to hold data relating to a counter whose counter value may change.
(Supplementary Note 16) The database is
The server according to any one of Supplementary Note 1 to Supplementary Note 4, wherein the server is configured to hold data relating to an accessible time.

(Supplementary note 17)
The server according to any one of Supplementary Note 1 to Supplementary Note 4, wherein the file is configured to hold data related to an application program for displaying a map on the user terminal.
(Supplementary note 18)
The address information based on the space range information is set as an e-mail address, and the space range information is held corresponding to the e-mail address. The listed server.

(Supplementary note 19) In a system for providing information to a user terminal capable of displaying a map,
A map information output unit for outputting map information;
A display unit for displaying a target image based on the map information output from the map information output unit;
The mapping request having the coordinate information in the three-dimensional space of the target displayed on the display unit and the display target attribute information indicating the attribute of the service information provided by the target is connected to the user terminal via the network. A transmitter for transmitting to the server;
The range notification in the three-dimensional space corresponding to the coordinate information, the attribute information indicating the attribute information of the service information provided by the object, and the search information for obtaining the service information notified by the server about the mapping request A receiving unit for receiving a mapping response having;
A mapping unit that displays an image shape on the display unit together with the map at a position indicated by the spatial range information included in the mapping response;
A user terminal comprising a mapping data holding unit that holds the image shape displayed by the mapping unit and the search information included in the mapping response in association with each other.

(Supplementary note 20) In a system for providing information to a user terminal capable of displaying a map,
A map information output unit that outputs map information of an object in a three-dimensional space;
A display unit for displaying an image of an object on a screen based on the map information output from the map information output unit;
Coordinate information in a three-dimensional space consisting of the latitude, longitude, and altitude of the object displayed on the display unit, and display target attribute information representing attributes of various information related to the object or service information related to the various information A transmitting unit that transmits a mapping request having a request to a server connected to the user terminal via a network;
Mapping having spatial range information including the latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter of the object in the three-dimensional space corresponding to the coordinate information and address information for obtaining the service information notified by the server about the mapping request A receiver for receiving the response;
A mapping unit that displays an image shape on the display unit together with an image of the object at a position indicated by the spatial range information included in the mapping response;
A user terminal comprising: a mapping data holding unit that holds the image shape displayed by the mapping unit and the address information included in the mapping response in association with each other.

(Supplementary note 21) In a system for providing information to a user terminal capable of displaying a map,
A map information output unit that outputs map information of a building in a three-dimensional space;
A display unit for displaying an image of a building on a screen based on the map information output from the map information output unit;
Coordinate information including latitude, longitude, altitude and bubble diameter in the three-dimensional space of the building displayed on the display unit, and display target attribute information indicating attributes of facility information related to the building or service information of the facility information; A transmission unit that transmits a mapping request having the following information to a server connected to the user terminal via a network;
A uniform resource locator for obtaining the service information and spatial range information including the latitude, longitude, altitude and bubble diameter of the building in the three-dimensional space corresponding to the coordinate information, which is notified by the server about the mapping request; A receiver for receiving a mapping response having:
A mapping unit that displays an image shape on the display unit together with an image of the building at a position indicated by the spatial range information included in the mapping response;
A user terminal comprising: a mapping data holding unit that holds the image shape displayed by the mapping unit and the uniform resource locator included in the mapping response in association with each other.

(Supplementary note 22)
Based on the coordinate information included in the mapping request, the mapping response is received having spatial range information including a similar bubble diameter having a diameter corresponding to a scale of a map displayed by the display unit and address information. The user terminal according to supplementary note 21, characterized by that.
(Supplementary note 23) The user terminal according to supplementary note 21, characterized by comprising a detection unit for detecting positional information having the latitude, longitude, altitude, azimuth, and tilt angle of an object in three dimensions.

(Supplementary Note 24)
At least one of an azimuth sensor capable of measuring an azimuth, a satellite information receiving unit capable of receiving satellite information using a global positioning system, and an inclination sensor capable of measuring an inclination angle of the user terminal from the horizon. 24. The user terminal according to appendix 23, wherein the user terminal is configured with a pair.

(Supplementary note 25)
The user terminal according to appendix 21, wherein the mapping request is transmitted using an electronic mail address generated based on the coordinate information.
(Supplementary note 26) In a system for providing information to a user terminal capable of displaying a map,
About the specific information page having the document type definition information among the information pages having the attribute information representing the attributes of the various information related to the object or the service information related to the various information and the document type definition information including a plurality of elements A server that holds, as bubble data, spatial range information including the latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter of the object in three-dimensional space and address information for obtaining the service information,
A user terminal connected to the server via a network and displaying the various information retrieved using the bubble data;
The server
A database holding the bubble data;
The coordinate information in the three-dimensional space composed of the latitude, longitude, and altitude of the object displayed on the map and the various information related to the object or the attributes of service information related to the various information transmitted from the user terminal. A search unit that searches for specific bubble data including the coordinate information and the display target attribute information from the bubble data, based on a mapping request having display target attribute information to represent,
A notification unit for notifying the user terminal of a mapping response having the spatial range information, the attribute information, and the address information of the specific bubble data;
Furthermore,
The user terminal is
A map information output unit that outputs map information of an object in a three-dimensional space;
A display unit for displaying an image of an object on a screen based on the map information output from the map information output unit;
Represents attributes of spatial range information including latitude, longitude, altitude and bubble diameter in the three-dimensional space of the image of the object displayed on the display unit and various information related to the object or service information related to the various information A transmission unit that transmits a mapping request having attribute information to a server connected to the user terminal via a network;
The server notifies the mapping request of the spatial range information including the latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter of the object in the three-dimensional space corresponding to the spatial range information, and address information for obtaining the service information. A receiver for receiving the mapping response;
A mapping unit that displays an image shape on the display unit together with an image of the object at a position indicated by the spatial range information included in the mapping response;
An information providing service system comprising a mapping data holding unit that holds the image shape displayed by the mapping unit and the address information included in the mapping response in association with each other.

(Supplementary note 27) In a system for providing information to a user terminal capable of displaying a map,
About the specific information page having the document type definition information among the information pages having the attribute information representing the attributes of the various information related to the object or the service information related to the various information and the document type definition information including a plurality of elements A database that holds spatial range information including latitude, longitude, altitude and bubble diameter of the object in a three-dimensional space and address information for obtaining the service information as associated bubble data;
A user terminal connected to the database via a network and displaying the various information retrieved using the bubble data;
The coordinate information in the three-dimensional space composed of the latitude, longitude, and altitude of the object displayed on the map and the various information related to the object or the attributes of service information related to the various information transmitted from the user terminal. A search unit that searches for specific bubble data including the coordinate information and the display target attribute information from the bubble data, based on a mapping request having display target attribute information to represent,
A notification unit for notifying the user terminal of a mapping response having the spatial range information, the attribute information, and the address information of the specific bubble data;
The user terminal is
A map information output unit that outputs map information of an object in a three-dimensional space;
A display unit for displaying an image of an object on a screen based on the map information output from the map information output unit;
Coordinate information including latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter in the three-dimensional space of the object displayed on the display unit, attribute information indicating attributes of various information related to the object or service information related to the various information, and A transmission unit that transmits a mapping request having the following information to a server connected to the user terminal via a network;
The server notifies the mapping request of the spatial range information including the latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter of the object in the three-dimensional space corresponding to the spatial range information, and address information for obtaining the service information. A receiver for receiving the mapping response;
A mapping unit that displays an image shape on the display unit together with an image of the object at a position indicated by the spatial range information included in the mapping response;
An information providing service system comprising a mapping data holding unit that holds the image shape displayed by the mapping unit and the address information included in the mapping response in association with each other.

(Supplementary note 28) In a system for providing information to a user terminal capable of displaying a map,
A selection step in which the user terminal selects an object displayed on the map;
Server in which the user terminal is connected to the user terminal via the network with the coordinate information related to the object selected in the selection step and the display target attribute information representing the attribute of the service information provided by the object, respectively. A user terminal transmission step for transmitting to
Server transmission step in which the server transmits space range information, attribute information, and address information to the user terminal based on the coordinate information and the display target attribute information transmitted in the user terminal transmission step, respectively. When,
The user terminal is configured to include a mapping step for displaying an image shape on the display unit together with the object at a position indicated by the spatial range information transmitted in the server transmission step. Information service method.

(Supplementary note 29) In a system for providing information to a user terminal capable of displaying a map,
A map display step in which the user terminal displays a map on a display unit for displaying an image;
A selection step in which the user terminal selects an object from the map information displayed in the map display step;
Display target attribute information representing attributes of service information to be provided and coordinate information in the three-dimensional space related to the object selected in the selection step to a server connected to the user terminal via the network by the user terminal Transmitting a mapping request comprising:
Based on the mapping request of the transmission step, the server obtains spatial range information including the latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter of the object in three-dimensional space, and address information for obtaining service information provided by the object; A search step for searching for specific bubble data including the coordinate information and the display target attribute information among the bubble data associated with
A notification step in which the server notifies the user terminal of a mapping response having the spatial range information and the address information of the specific bubble data searched in the search step;
A mapping step in which the user terminal displays an image shape together with the object on the display unit at a position indicated by the spatial range information of the mapping response notified in the notification step;
An information providing service method comprising: a providing step of providing the user terminal with the image shape displayed in the mapping step and the map.

(Supplementary Note 30) In a system for providing information to a user terminal capable of displaying a map,
A map display step in which the user terminal displays a map on a display unit for displaying an image;
A selection step in which the user terminal selects an object from the map information displayed in the map display step;
Coordinate information including latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter in the three-dimensional space related to the object selected in the selection step with respect to a server connected to the user terminal via the network by the user terminal and the object A transmission step of transmitting a mapping request having display target attribute information representing various information related to the information or attributes of service information related to the various information;
Based on the mapping request of the transmission step, the server includes spatial range information including the latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter of the object in the three-dimensional space, various information related to the object, and services related to the various information A search step of searching for specific bubble data including the coordinate information and the display target attribute information among bubble data associated with address information for obtaining information;
A notification step in which the server notifies the user terminal of a mapping response having the spatial range information and the address information of the specific bubble data searched in the search step;
A mapping step in which the user terminal displays an image shape on the display unit together with the object at a position indicated by the spatial range information of the mapping response based on the specific bubble data notified in the notification step; An information providing service method, characterized in that it is configured.

(Supplementary Note 31) The map display step includes:
29. The information providing service method according to appendix 29, wherein the user terminal is configured to display the map on a screen based on at least one of acquired latitude and longitude.
(Supplementary Note 32) The notification step includes:
The server outputs a similar bubble diameter having a diameter corresponding to the scale of the map displayed on the display unit of the user terminal based on the coordinate information included in the mapping request transmitted in the transmission step. Change steps to
The information providing service method according to appendix 29, wherein the user terminal is configured to include an insertion step of inserting the similar bubble diameter output in the changing step into the mapping response.

(Supplementary note 33)
33. The information providing service method according to appendix 32, wherein the server is configured to change the similar bubble diameter based on at least one of an access count, an accessible time, or an accessible season. .
(Supplementary Note 34)
The information providing service method according to appendix 29, wherein the server is configured to notify information related to an application program for displaying a map on the user terminal.

(Supplementary Note 35) The search step includes
30. The information providing service method according to appendix 29, wherein the server is configured to search using a counter whose counter value can be changed by access.
(Supplementary Note 36) The search step includes
36. The information providing service method according to appendix 35, wherein the server is configured such that a predetermined file disappears when the count is stopped.

(Supplementary Note 37) The search step includes
30. The information providing service method according to appendix 29, wherein the search is performed based on the number of accesses that can simultaneously access the server.
(Supplementary Note 38) The search step includes
29. The information providing service method according to appendix 29, wherein the search is performed based on communication partner information regarding a specific communication partner.

(Supplementary Note 39) The search step includes
A reading step in which the server reads communication partner bubble data that matches information related to the communication partner set in advance;
A current position information receiving step in which the server receives current position information of the user terminal; and
An approach detection step in which the server detects an approach between the user terminal and the communication partner based on the communication partner bubble data and the current position information;
29. The information providing service method according to appendix 29, wherein the server comprises an approach notification step of notifying the user terminal of the approach.

(Supplementary Note 40) In a system for providing information to a user terminal capable of displaying a map,
The user terminal records, in the database, a specific information page composed of a plurality of elements related to the attribute information among information pages having attribute information representing various information related to the object or attributes of service information related to the various information. An information page recording step;
An address for the server to obtain spatial range information including the latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter of the object in the three-dimensional space and the service information based on the information page recorded in the information page recording step. A bubble data registration step for registering bubble data associated with information;
An information provision service method, comprising: a provision step for providing the user terminal with information resulting from the bubble data registered in the bubble data registration step.

(Supplementary note 41) The bubble data registration step includes:
A specific document type definition information extracting step in which the server extracts a plurality of specific document type definition information having a predetermined element from the document type definition information of the information page recorded in the information page recording step;
41. The information providing service method according to appendix 40, wherein the server comprises a first registration step of registering the plurality of specific document type definition information as the bubble data.

(Supplementary Note 42) The bubble data registration step includes:
A recording step in which the server records the information page recorded in the information page recording step in another database;
The server records the information page recorded in the recording step by associating spatial range information including the latitude, longitude, altitude, and bubble diameter of the object in the three-dimensional space with address information for obtaining the service information. 42. The information providing service method according to appendix 40, further comprising a second registration step of registering the registered bubble data in the database.

9, 9a Information providing system 10 Wireless network 10a Base station 10b Information display tower 11 Mobile terminal 11a, 31c Tilt sensor 11b Geomagnetic sensor 11c GPS module 11d, 11e Antenna 11f Wireless module 11g Control module 11h, 58a Display unit 11i Speaker 11j Microphone 11k Distance measurement sensor 12 Internet 13a Gateway server 13b Web server 13c DNS server 13d Mail server 13e Search server 15, 15a Database 16 First receiving unit 17 First transmitting unit 18 Server 18a Gateway unit 18b Web information output unit 18c DNS unit 18d Mail transmission / reception Department 19, 19a Service center (server)
21, 21a Detection unit 22a Second transmission unit 22b Second reception unit 23 Voice guidance unit 31a, 31b User discrimination sensor 32 PDA
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 40 Extraction part 41 Provision part 50 Object 52 Vehicle 53 Person 54 Painting 55 URL generation part 56 Message storage part 57 Icon group 57a-57c Icon 58 Personal computer 58a Reception part 58b RAM
58c Map information output part (map information holding part)
58d Transmission unit 58e Hard disk 58f Mapping unit 58g Display unit 59 Interface unit 60 Map 61a Search unit 61c Update unit 62 Web robot 63 Image of DTD information 64 Image of state file 99 Car navigation system 70 City block 100Z Search range

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An information providing system usable from a user terminal having an azimuth detecting unit capable of measuring an azimuth and a position detecting unit capable of measuring a position,
A database that holds bubble data in which address information indicating addresses of contents that can be provided to the user terminal and space occupation information having latitude / longitude and dimensions are associated with each other;
A receiving unit that receives position information including the direction detected by the direction detection means of the user terminal and the position of the user terminal detected by the position detection means of the user terminal;
Based on the received position information, the space occupancy information having a relationship intersecting with a search vector that is a vector extended from a position of the user terminal in a direction specified based on an orientation of the user terminal A spatial search unit for searching bubble data from the database;
Based on the space occupancy information of the bubble data searched by the space search unit, the virtual object that occupies a desired space and that accepts an operation for requesting access to the content, A search result notification unit to be displayed on the screen of the user terminal;
An information providing system comprising: An information processing apparatus,
Direction detection means for detecting the direction of the terminal;
Position detecting means for detecting the position of the terminal;
Transmitting means for transmitting position information having the azimuth detected by the azimuth detecting means and the position detected by the position detecting means;
Information having a database that holds bubble data in which address information indicating an address of content that can be provided to the user terminal in response to the transmission of the position information is associated with spatial occupancy information having latitude, longitude, and dimensions From the providing system, the space occupancy information is in a relationship intersecting with a search vector that is a vector extended in a direction specified based on the direction of the transmitted position information from the position of the transmitted position information. Receiving means for receiving the bubble data;
Display means for displaying on a screen a virtual object that occupies a desired space and that receives a request for access to the content based on the space occupancy information of the received bubble data; ,
An information processing apparatus comprising: A program executed in the information processing apparatus,
Direction detection means for detecting the direction of the terminal;
Position detecting means for detecting the position of the terminal;
Transmitting means for transmitting position information having the azimuth detected by the azimuth detecting means and the position detected by the position detecting means;
Information having a database that holds bubble data in which address information indicating an address of content that can be provided to the user terminal in response to the transmission of the position information is associated with spatial occupancy information having latitude, longitude, and dimensions From the providing system, the space occupancy information is in a relationship intersecting with a search vector that is a vector extended in a direction specified based on the direction of the transmitted position information from the position of the transmitted position information. Receiving means for receiving the bubble data;
Display means for displaying, on the screen, a virtual object that occupies a desired space and accepts an operation for requesting access to the content based on the space occupancy information included in the received bubble data;
A program characterized by operating an information processing apparatus.

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