JP2015039512A - Moving body information providing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a moving body information providing system which enables a user to confirm the position of a moving body existing ahead without returning to the user's moving body, and also can dispense with display devices loaded on moving bodies.SOLUTION: When a portable terminal 3 transmits position information indicating a current position of the portable terminal 3, control means 19 and 33 determine position information of a golf cart locating around the portable terminal 3 among pieces of position information of golf carts stored in a storage unit 32, and display the determined position information of the golf cart on a display unit 16 of the portable terminal 3 in a superposed manner on map information read from the storage unit 32. Thus, a user can confirm the position of another golf cart existing ahead without returning to the user's golf cart, and it is possible to dispense with display devices loaded on golf carts.

Description

  The present invention relates to a mobile object information providing system that provides information related to a mobile object such as a golf cart using a mobile terminal.

  Conventionally, as this type of moving body information providing system, for example, in Patent Document 1, a plurality of golf carts traveling in a golf course are each equipped with a position detection device, and each golf cart detected by the position detection device is currently available. The center device acquires the position as position information of the golf carts by using the wireless communication means, and when the positions between the golf carts are too close to each other, a warning is given to the golf carts. ing. In addition, by mounting a display on each golf cart, the current position of the front golf cart can be displayed on the display every time the position information of the front golf cart is acquired from the center device. .

JP 2012-34075 A

  However, the above-described mobile information providing system has the following drawbacks.

  In order to confirm the latest position (current position) of the golf cart in front of the golf cart used by the player, the player must go back to the golf cart and look at the display. In addition, in order to satisfy such functions, all golf carts had to be equipped with a display, which caused an increase in system cost.

  Therefore, in view of the above problems, the present invention provides a mobile body information providing system that can grasp the position of the front mobile body without having to return to the mobile body and can omit the display device mounted on the mobile body. The main purpose is to do.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, a position detection device is mounted on each of a plurality of moving objects to be used by a user, and the current position of the moving object detected by the position detection device is wirelessly used as position information of the moving object. In a mobile body information providing system acquired by communication, a storage unit that stores position information of each mobile body, map information that reproduces a landscape in an area in which the mobile body moves, and a mobile phone that the user holds Each time the current position of the terminal is acquired as the position information of the mobile terminal, the position information of the mobile body located around the mobile terminal from the position information of each mobile body stored in the storage unit And control means for displaying the position information of the identified mobile object on the display of the portable terminal in a manner superimposed on the map information.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the configuration of the first aspect, the storage unit stores map information for each different area, and the control unit acquires the portable information each time the position information of the portable terminal is acquired. The region where the terminal is located is specified, and the map information in the same region as the portable terminal is displayed on the display unit in the map information stored in the storage unit.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, when the position information indicating the current position of the mobile terminal is transmitted from the mobile terminal held by the user, the control means stores the position information of the plurality of mobile objects stored in the storage unit. The position information of the mobile body located in the vicinity of the mobile terminal is specified, and the position information of the specified mobile body is superimposed on the map information read from the storage unit and displayed on the display of the mobile terminal. . Thereby, the user can grasp the position of another moving body existing ahead without having to bother returning to the moving body used by the user. Moreover, since the position of the mobile body located ahead is displayed on the display of a portable terminal, the display mounted in a mobile body can be abbreviate | omitted.

  According to the invention of claim 2, since the control means displays only the moving body existing in the area where the portable terminal is located on the map information of the area on the display of the portable terminal. Even when playing in adjacent holes (areas) at the same time, like a golf cart that moves in, the user can correctly grasp the position of the moving body that exists ahead in the same hole become.

It is explanatory drawing which shows the whole structure of the mobile body information provision system in this invention. It is a block diagram which shows a functional structure same as the above. It is a top view which shows the one display form in a display same as the above. It is a flowchart which shows an operation | movement procedure same as the above.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of a mobile information providing system according to the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram showing a connection image of a mobile information providing system 1 proposed in the present embodiment. The mobile body information providing system 1 here is provided as a golf cart information providing system that provides information on the golf cart 2 that travels in the golf course as a mobile body to the mobile terminal 3 that is held by a player who is a user. Corresponding to GPS (Global Positioning System) receiving unit 4 and transmitting / receiving unit 5, base station 7 capable of communicating with a plurality of golf carts 2, and the center device of system 1 respectively mounted on golf cart 2 And the server 8 to be configured. In addition, the base station 7, the server 8, and the mobile terminal 3 are connected to a communication means 10 such as the Internet, for example, and the base station 7, the server 8, and the mobile terminal 3 are interactively connected via the communication means 10. It is the structure which performs communication.

  The GPS receiver 4 that moves together with the golf cart 2 is provided as a position detection device that acquires the current position of the golf cart 2, and by receiving radio waves from one or more artificial satellites 12 wirelessly, the golf cart 2 The three-dimensional position (longitude, latitude and altitude) is measured, and the positioning data is sent to the transmission / reception unit 5. Note that a position detection device other than the GPS receiver 4 may be used as long as the current position of the golf cart 2 can be detected.

  As is well known, the portable terminal 3 is configured by electrically connecting the GPS receiving unit 14, the operation unit 15, the display 16, the transmission / reception unit 17, the storage unit 18, and the like to the input / output port of the control means 19. Composed. Here, the mobile terminal 3 is a thin plate-like smartphone that operates by directly touching the transparent operation unit 15 provided on the surface of the display 16, but in addition, the mobile terminal 3 includes a push button type key as the operation unit 15. You may implement | achieve using a telephone, a tablet terminal, a wristwatch, a portable information processing terminal, etc.

  The GPS receiver 14 is provided as a position detection device that acquires the current position of the mobile terminal 3, and wirelessly receives radio waves from the artificial satellite 12, so that the mobile terminal 3 and the third party of the player who owns the mobile terminal 3 The original position (longitude, latitude, and altitude) is measured, and the positioning data is sent to the control means 18. Note that a position detection device other than the GPS receiver 14 may be used as long as it can detect the current position of the mobile terminal 3.

  The operation unit 15 receives an operation by the player and sends an electric operation signal to the control unit 15. As a specific configuration thereof, in addition to the transparent touch panel provided on the surface of the display 16, Examples include, but are not limited to, keyboards, pointing devices, buttons, and the like.

  The display 16 receives various display control signals from the control means 19 and performs various displays. As is well known, these liquid crystal modules and liquid crystal panels perform display using a dot matrix in which a large number of sub-pixels are arranged in a lattice pattern.

  The transmission / reception unit 17 mainly enables bidirectional communication between the portable terminal 3 and the server 8 via the wireless or wired communication means 10. Thereby, for example, various information regarding the golf course played by the player is received by the transmission / reception unit 17 of the portable terminal 3 from the server 8 via the communication unit 10, and part or all of the information is displayed on the display 16 through the control unit 18. Can also be displayed.

  The storage unit 18 is configured by using various storage devices such as a magnetic hard disk device and a semiconductor storage device, and in addition to the position information of the portable terminal 3 based on the positioning data from the GPS receiving unit 14, the golf from the server 8 described later. It stores and holds position information of the cart 2 and display information corresponding to the position information of its own mobile terminal 3. Including these pieces of information, the storage unit 18 can read and write various information and programs based on commands from the control means 19.

  The control means 19 includes a CPU (central processing unit), a storage device, and the like, and has a software function for performing various arithmetic processes. Details of the function will be described later.

  The base station 7 is installed in a clubhouse or the like in the same golf course as an operation management device for each golf cart 2 moving in the golf course. The base station 7 includes a first transmitter / receiver 21 that enables two-way wireless communication with the transmitter / receiver 5 of each golf cart 2 and a second that enables two-way communication mainly with the server 8. The transmitter / receiver 22 and the display 23 are electrically connected to the input / output port of the built-in control means 24.

  The control means 24 is configured to include a CPU, a storage device, and the like, and here, for receiving the positioning data from the transmission / reception unit 4 in order for each golf cart 2 every predetermined time (for example, 10 to 30 seconds). The polling control means for sending the inquiry signal from the first transmission / reception unit 21 and the latest transmission data of the golf cart 2 each time the positioning data from each golf cart 2 is received by the first transmission / reception unit 21 based on the inquiry signal. The position information is sent to the server 8 via the communication means 10, and the operation status of the golf cart 2 of all courses is managed, and the position of each golf cart 2 in the golf course is indicated on the display 23. It has a function as a cart operation management means that displays every moment.

  The server 8 is configured by electrically connecting the transmission / reception unit 31, the storage unit 32, and the like to the input / output port of the control means 33. The transmission / reception unit 31 enables bidirectional communication with the mobile terminal 3 and the base station 7 via the wireless or wired communication means 10. The storage unit 32 also stores map information regarding each hole of the golf course where one or more base stations 7 are installed, position information of all golf carts 2 sent from the base station 7 via the communication means 10, and the like. It is something to keep in memory. Including these pieces of information, the storage unit 32 can read and write various information and programs based on commands from the control means 33.

  The control unit 33 includes a CPU, a storage device, and the like, and has a software function for performing various arithmetic processes. Details of the function will be described later.

  In the present embodiment, the base station 7 and the server 8 are installed at different locations, and each other's information is exchanged by the communication means 10, but for example, when there is only one base station 7, The base station 7 may also function as the server 8.

  Next, functional configurations incorporated in the control unit 19 of the mobile terminal 3 and the control unit 33 of the server 8 will be described with reference to FIG. In the figure, the control means 19 of the portable terminal 3 sends the position information as the current position of the portable terminal 3 to the server 8 via the communication means 10 every time the positioning data is acquired from the GPS receiver 14. The location information transmission control unit 41 and the map information of the same hall as the current location of the mobile terminal 3 are fetched from the server 8 and stored in the storage unit 18, and the map information is enlarged or reduced as necessary to display 16. Display control for displaying on the display 16 the current position of the mobile terminal 3 and the position information of the golf cart 2 located in the vicinity of the mobile terminal 3 acquired from the server 8 while being superimposed on the map information. Part 42.

  The control means 33 of the server 8 communicates with the position information update control unit 44 that updates and stores the position information of the golf cart 2 in the storage unit 32 every time the latest position information of the golf cart 2 is received from the base station 7. Every time the position information of the portable terminal 3 is acquired via the means 10, the golf located within the predetermined range from the current position of the portable terminal 3 among the position information of all the golf carts 2 stored in the storage unit 32. Only the position information of the cart 2 is specified, and the position information of the specified golf cart 2 is sent to the mobile terminal 3 via the communication means 10, and the mobile terminal 3 is obtained from the acquired position information of the mobile terminal 3. The map information of the hole where the portable terminal 3 is located is extracted from the map information for each hole stored in the storage unit 32 and is identified via the communication means 10. Carrying It includes an information providing controller 45 to be transmitted to the terminal 3, respectively.

  FIG. 3 shows an example of one display form on the display 16. In the figure, the display 162 is provided with an operation unit 15 as a transparent touch panel on its surface, and by touching a predetermined position on the surface of the display 16, an electric operation corresponding to the position is performed. A signal is taken into the control means 19 from the operation unit 15.

  The display 16 here includes a hall information display unit 51 and a yard display unit 52 on the upper side, and a map information display unit 53, a coordinate position display unit 54, a cart position display unit 55, and the like below. Each is equipped. All displays on the display 16 are performed by display control signals sent from the display control unit 42 to the display 22.

  The hole information display unit 51 shows the name, number, par number, etc. of the holes displayed on the map information display unit 53 as hole information, and the display control unit 42 displays a specific hole on the map information display unit 53. When the map information is displayed, the hole information corresponding to the hole information display unit 51 is displayed.

  The yard display unit 52 indicates the number of remaining yards from the current position of the mobile terminal 3 to the actual green. Here, every time positioning data is sent from the GPS receiving unit 14 to the display control unit 42, the number of remaining yards displayed as the yard display unit 62 is also updated each time.

  The map information display part 53 shows the map information which reproduces the scenery of a hall. The map information includes specific map information corresponding to an actual hole sent by the information provision control unit 45 of the server 8 as an appropriate scale so that one whole hole fits in the display area of the map information display unit 53. It is obtained by converting the direction. As map information displayed on the map information display unit 53, for example, a tee 53A, a fairway 53B, a rough 53C, a green 53D, a bunker 53E, a pond 53F, a forest 53G, a cart road 53H, and the like are displayed.

  The coordinate position display unit 54 displays position information corresponding to the current position of the mobile terminal 3 determined by the position information transmission control unit 41 on the map information display unit 53 as a symbolized coordinate point. Here, every time the positioning data is sent from the GPS receiving unit 14 to the position information transmission control unit 41, the position of the coordinate position display unit 54 displayed on the display 16 is also updated each time. .

  The cart position display unit 55 symbolizes and displays the position information of the golf cart 2 located within a predetermined range from the current position of the mobile terminal 3 acquired from the information provision control unit 45 on the map information display unit 53. is there. Here, a cart position display unit 55a corresponding to the golf cart 2 at the position closest to the current position of the mobile terminal 3 and a cart position display unit 55b corresponding to the other golf carts 2 in the hole that is the same region. The player displays the position of the golf cart 2 on which he / she is riding and the position of another golf cart 2 positioned in front of or behind the golf cart 2 in a different form, and the difference in display form by the cart position display portions 55a and 55b. It can be understood intuitively.

In addition, although not shown in FIG. 3, the display control unit 42 uses the position information of the golf cart 2 located within a predetermined range from the current position of the mobile terminal 3 described above, and the golf cart 2 on which the player is boarded. On the other hand, the distance that the golf cart 2 that is in front or behind is separated is indicated by a number on the display 16 or when the distance approaches a predetermined value or less. If the distance exceeds the value, a warning may be displayed on the display 16.
Next, the operation of the mobile information providing system 1 having the above configuration will be described based on the flowchart of FIG.

  In step S1, map information about each hole of the golf course where the base station 7 is installed in the storage unit 32 of the server 8 in advance, and the positions of all golf carts 2 sent from the base station 7 via the communication means 10 Information is stored. The map information of each hall may be acquired from each base station 7 via the communication means 10 or may be acquired from another server (not shown) connected to the communication means 10. Further, the position information of each golf cart 2 stored in the storage unit 32 is overwritten and updated each time new position information is sent from the base station 7.

  Next, in order for the player who actually owns the mobile terminal 3 to use the mobile body information providing system 1 of the present embodiment while using the specific golf cart 2, the position information transmission control unit on the mobile terminal 3 side is used. 41 and the application that executes the display control unit 42 may be activated. In this case, every time the position information transmission control unit 41 acquires the positioning data from the GPS receiving unit 14, the position information transmission control unit 41 generates position information indicating the current position of the mobile terminal 3, and transmits this to the transmission / reception unit. 17 to the server 8 via the communication means 10.

  On the server 8 side, when the transmitting / receiving unit 31 receives the position information of the portable terminal 3 in step S2, the process proceeds to the next step S3, and from among the position information of all the golf carts 2 stored in the storage unit 32, The position information of the golf cart 2 located within a predetermined range from the current position of the mobile terminal 3 is specified by the information providing control unit 45, and the specified position information of the golf cart 2 is transmitted from the transmission / reception unit 31 of the server 8 to the communication means 10. To the mobile terminal 3 via. In this way, the latest position information of the golf cart 2 located within a predetermined range from the current position of the portable terminal 3 is stored in the storage unit 18 of the portable terminal 3 every moment.

  In addition, the information providing control unit 45 identifies in which hall the mobile terminal 3 is located based on the position information of the mobile terminal 3 received via the communication means 10 in the subsequent step S4 and stores it in the storage unit 32. The map information of the hall where the mobile terminal 3 is located is extracted from the map information for each hole to be transmitted, and this is transmitted from the transmission / reception unit 17 to the server 8 via the communication means 10. Thus, the storage unit 18 of the mobile terminal 3 stores the map information of the hall where the mobile terminal 3 is currently located.

  In response to this, the display control unit 42 of the portable terminal 3 displays the map information of the specific hall stored in the storage unit 18 on the display 16 by enlarging or reducing the map information as necessary. As shown in FIG. 3, the current position of the mobile terminal 3 and the position information of the golf cart 2 positioned around the mobile terminal 3 acquired from the server 8 are displayed on the display 16. And the procedure of the said steps S2-S5 continues until the application which performs the positional information transmission control part 41 and the display control part 42 is complete | finished by the portable terminal 3 side.

  As described above, in this embodiment, each GPS cart 4 serving as a position detection device is individually mounted on each golf cart 2 as a plurality of moving objects to be used by a user who is a user. In the mobile body information providing system 1 in which the server 8 which is the center device acquires the current position of the golf cart 2 detected at 4 as position information of the golf cart 2 by wireless communication, the latest position information of each golf cart 2 Or the area where the golf cart 2 moves, that is, the storage unit 32 that stores map information that reproduces the scenery in each hole of the golf course, and the current position of the mobile terminal 3 owned by the user, the position of the mobile terminal 3 As the information, the current position of the portable terminal 3 is obtained from the position information of each golf cart 2 stored in the storage unit 32 every time it is acquired from the portable terminal 3 via the communication means 10. Control means 19 for specifying the position information of the golf cart 2 located in the periphery within a predetermined range and displaying the specified position information of the golf cart 2 on the display 16 of the portable terminal 3 in superposition with the map information. , 33.

  In this case, when position information representing the current position of the mobile terminal 3 is transmitted from the mobile terminal 3 owned by the user, the control means 19 and 33 store each position of the plurality of golf carts 2 stored in the storage unit 22. The position information of one or more golf carts 2 located around the mobile terminal 3 is specified from the information, and the position information of the specified golf cart 2 is superimposed on the map information read from the storage unit 32. And display on the display 16 of the portable terminal 3. Thereby, the user can grasp | ascertain the position of another golf cart 2 which exists ahead and back, without returning to the golf cart 2 which he uses. Moreover, since the position of the golf cart 2 located forward or backward is displayed on the display 16 of the portable terminal 3, the display mounted on the golf cart 2 can be omitted.

  Further, the storage unit 32 of this embodiment stores map information for each course which is a different area, and each time the control means 19 and 33 acquire the position information of the mobile terminal 3, the mobile terminal 3 3 is specified, and is overlapped with the map information of the same course as the mobile terminal 3 among the plurality of map information stored in the storage unit 32, and within a predetermined range from the current position of the mobile terminal 3 The position information of the golf cart 2 located in the vicinity is displayed on the display 16.

  In this case, since the control means 19 and 33 superimpose only the golf cart 2 existing in the area where the mobile terminal 3 is located on the map information of the area and display it on the display 16 of the mobile terminal 3, for example, golf Even when playing in adjacent holes (areas) at the same time as a golf cart that moves on the ground, the user correctly grasps the position of the golf cart 2 that exists forward or backward in the same hole. It becomes possible to do.

  As mentioned above, although this invention was demonstrated based on the Example, this invention is not limited to the said Example, A various change implementation is possible in the range which does not deviate from the meaning of this invention. For example, although the golf cart 2 has been described as a moving body in the above embodiment, the present invention may be applied to other moving bodies.

2 Golf cart (moving body)
3 Mobile terminal 4 GPS receiver (position detection device)
16 Display 19, 33 Control means 32 Storage section

Claims (2)

Mobile body information in which a position detection device is mounted on each of a plurality of mobile bodies to be used by a user, and the current position of the mobile body detected by the position detection device is acquired by wireless communication as position information of the mobile body In the provision system,
A storage unit that stores position information of each of the moving bodies, and map information that reproduces a landscape in an area in which the moving bodies move;
Each time the current position of the mobile terminal held by the user is acquired as the position information of the mobile terminal, the position of the mobile terminal stored in the storage unit is positioned around the mobile terminal. Control means for specifying position information of the mobile body to be displayed and displaying the specified position information of the mobile body on the display of the mobile terminal in a manner superimposed on the map information. Mobile information provision system. In the storage unit, map information is stored for each different area,
Each time the control means acquires the location information of the mobile terminal, it specifies which area the mobile terminal is in, and in the map information stored in the storage unit, the control means has the same area as the mobile terminal. The mobile information providing system according to claim 1, wherein map information is displayed on the display.

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