JP2015060347A - Information processing apparatus, terminal device, information processing method, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To output appropriate user provision information by use of a user context.SOLUTION: An information processing apparatus includes: a user provision information storage unit which stores two or more pieces of user provision information associated with position related information and one or more pieces of attribute information; a map information storage unit which stores map information; an instruction receiving unit which receives a map output instruction; a user context receiving unit which receives one or more user contexts; a selection unit which selects one or more pieces of user provision information associated with the position related information corresponding to an area of a map output by the map output instruction and one or more pieces of attribute information corresponding to one or more user contexts, from the user provision information storage unit; a map output unit which outputs a map by use of the map information corresponding to the map output instruction; and a user provision information output unit which outputs one or more pieces of user provision information selected by the selection unit. The information processing apparatus uses the user context to output appropriate user provision information.

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus that outputs a map and information posted by a user.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there has been an information processing system that enables a display that reflects a count result on a map using a count result totaled from articles posted to a simple blog server (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

JP2013-130913A (first page, FIG. 1 etc.)

  However, in a conventional information processing system, appropriate user-provided information (including a simple blog) cannot be output together with a map using a user context. The user-provided information is information posted by the user to CGM or the like, for example, a blog, a message posted to SNS, or the like.

  The information processing apparatus according to the first aspect of the present invention is information input by two or more users and transmitted from two or more terminal apparatuses, and is associated with position-related information that is information regarding the position and one or more attribute information. A user-provided information storage unit that can store two or more user-provided information, a map information storage unit that can store map information, an instruction reception unit that receives a map output instruction that is an instruction to output a map, Corresponds to a user context accepting unit that accepts one or more user contexts that are environment-related information, position-related information corresponding to a map area output by a map output instruction, and one or more user contexts accepted by the user context accepting unit A selection unit for selecting one or more user-provided information associated with the one or more attribute information to be selected from the user-provided information storage unit; The map output unit that outputs the map using the map information corresponding to the map output instruction and the one or more user-provided information selected by the selecting unit or the one or more user-selected selected by the selecting unit in response to receiving the instruction The information processing apparatus includes a user-provided information output unit that outputs presence information indicating that information exists.

  With this configuration, it is possible to output appropriate user-provided information together with a map using a user context.

  Further, in the information processing apparatus of the second invention, in contrast to the first invention, the user provided information output unit provides one or more user provided information selected by the selection unit or one or more user provided selected by the selection unit. This is an information processing apparatus that outputs presence information indicating that information exists in association with a position on a map indicated by position-related information associated with each user-provided information.

  With this configuration, appropriate user-provided information can be output in association with a map using a user context.

  In the information processing apparatus according to the third aspect of the present invention, the user-provided information corresponds to the category information indicating the category of the user-provided information, as compared with the first or second invention. The information is also received, and the selection unit includes position related information corresponding to the map area output by the map output instruction, one or more attribute information corresponding to the one or more user contexts received by the user context reception unit, and the instruction The information processing apparatus selects one or more user-provided information associated with the category information received by the receiving unit from the user-provided information storage unit.

  With this configuration, the user-provided information can be classified and output.

  In the information processing apparatus according to the fourth aspect of the present invention, the user-provided information is associated with category information indicating a category of the user-provided information, as compared with any of the first to third inventions, and the user-provided information output The unit is an information processing apparatus that outputs the user-provided information or the presence information of the user-provided information in such a manner that the category information of the user-provided information can be visually recognized.

  With this configuration, the category of user-provided information can be visually shown to the user.

  Further, in the information processing apparatus according to the fifth aspect of the present invention, with respect to any one of the first to fourth aspects, the one or more attribute information indicates time zone information relating to a time zone, weather information relating to weather, indoor or outdoor Information that is one or more of internal / external information or time information related to time, and the one or more user contexts are information that is one or more of time information indicating time, weather information, or date information indicating date. It is a processing device.

  With this configuration, an appropriate user context can be used.

  The information processing apparatus according to the sixth aspect of the present invention is information input by two or more users and transmitted from two or more terminal apparatuses, and includes position-related information that is information related to the position and one or more attribute information. A user provision information storage unit that can store two or more associated user provision information, a region reception unit that receives region information that is information about a region of an output map, and the region information received by the region reception unit A selection unit that selects one or more user-provided information associated with the corresponding position-related information from the user-provided information storage unit; a user-provided information transmission unit that transmits the one or more user-provided information selected by the selection unit; Is an information processing apparatus.

  With this configuration, it is possible to output appropriate user-provided information related to the map to be output to the device that outputs the map with a simple system configuration.

  Further, the information processing apparatus according to the seventh aspect of the invention further includes a user context receiving unit that receives one or more user contexts, which are information related to the user's environment, with respect to the sixth invention, wherein the selection unit is a region User-provided position-related information corresponding to the area information received by the receiving unit and one or more user-provided information associated with one or more attribute information corresponding to one or more user contexts received by the user context receiving unit The information processing apparatus is selected from the information storage unit.

  With this configuration, it is possible to output appropriate user-provided information related to the map to be output to the device that outputs the map with a simple system configuration.

  Further, in the information processing device according to the eighth aspect of the invention, in contrast to the sixth or seventh aspect, the user-provided information transmitting unit is a position associated with the user-provided information and the user-provided information selected by the selecting unit. It is an information processing apparatus that transmits one or more sets with related information.

  With this configuration, it is possible to output appropriate user-provided information in association with a map to a device that outputs a map with a simple system configuration.

  Further, in the information processing device according to the ninth aspect of the present invention, the user-provided information is associated with category information indicating the category of the user-provided information, and receives the category information, as compared with any of the sixth to eighth aspects of the invention. A category information receiving unit, and the selecting unit includes position related information corresponding to the map area output by the map output instruction and one or more user contexts received by the user context receiving unit. The information processing apparatus selects one or more user-provided information associated with attribute information and category information received by the category information receiving unit from the user-provided information storage unit.

  With this configuration, the user-provided information can be classified and output.

  The terminal device according to the tenth aspect of the invention relates to any of the sixth to ninth aspects of the invention, an area information acquisition unit for acquiring area information, which is information relating to the area of the map to be displayed, and information processing of the area information. In response to the transmission of the region information, the terminal transmitting unit that transmits to the device, the terminal receiving unit that receives one or more user-provided information from the information processing device, and the one or more user-provided information received by the terminal receiving unit are output A terminal output unit.

  With this configuration, user-provided information related to the map to be output can be output to the terminal device that outputs the map.

  In addition, the information processing apparatus according to the eleventh aspect of the invention further includes a terminal processing unit that acquires one or more user contexts, according to any of the sixth to ninth aspects of the invention, and the terminal transmission unit includes region information The information processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein one or more user contexts are transmitted to the information processing apparatus.

  With this configuration, appropriate user-provided information related to the map to be output can be output to the terminal device that outputs the map.

  Further, the terminal device of the twelfth aspect of the present invention further comprises a terminal reception unit that receives a map output instruction that is an instruction to output a map, with respect to the tenth or eleventh aspect of the invention. The terminal device also outputs a map in response to a map output instruction.

  With this configuration, appropriate user-provided information related to the map to be output can be output to the terminal device that outputs the map.

  Further, in the terminal device of the thirteenth invention, in contrast to any of the tenth to twelfth inventions, the terminal receiving unit performs the transmission of the area information in accordance with the user-provided information and the position related information. One or more sets are received from the information processing apparatus, and the terminal output unit associates each user-provided information with presence information indicating that one or more user-provided information or one or more user-provided information exists. It is a terminal device that outputs in association with the position on the map indicated by the position related information.

  With this configuration, it is possible to output appropriate user-provided information in association with the map to the device that outputs the map.

  The information processing apparatus according to the present invention can output appropriate user-provided information together with a map.

Conceptual diagram of information system 1 according to Embodiment 1 Block diagram of the information system 1 A flowchart for explaining the operation of the information processing apparatus 11 The figure which shows the same user offer information management table The figure which shows the output example of the map information and user provision information The figure which shows the output example of the map information and user provision information The figure which shows the output example of the map information and user provision information Block diagram showing the configuration of another information system Conceptual diagram of information system 2 in the second embodiment Block diagram of the information system 2 A flowchart for explaining the operation of the terminal device 20 A flowchart for explaining the operation of the information processing apparatus 21 Figure showing an example of the same web page The figure which shows the output example of the web page and user offer information The figure which shows the output example of the web page and user offer information Figure showing the category judgment table Overview of the computer system in the above embodiment Block diagram of the computer system

  Hereinafter, embodiments of an information processing apparatus and the like will be described with reference to the drawings. In addition, since the component which attached | subjected the same code | symbol in embodiment performs the same operation | movement, description may be abbreviate | omitted again.

(Embodiment 1)
In this embodiment, an information system 1 that outputs user-provided information that is information posted by a user to a CGM or the like together with a map will be described. CGM is an abbreviation for Consumer Generated Media, and is a medium in which consumers generate content using the Internet. The CGM is, for example, a review site, a Q & A community, a social networking service (SNS), a blog, a COI (Community Of Interest) site, an image sharing site, a video sharing site, and the like. That is, the user-provided information is a blog article, information posted on an SNS or Twitter (registered trademark), an explanatory text or a comment posted on an image sharing site or a video sharing site.

  FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram of an information system 1 in the present embodiment. The information system 1 includes an information processing device 11 and one or more terminal devices 12. The information processing device 11 is a device that manages user-provided information and transmits the information to the terminal device 12. Further, it is assumed that the information processing apparatus 11 holds map information. The map information may exist in a so-called web page. The terminal device 12 is a terminal device owned by the user. The terminal device 12 is a so-called smartphone, notebook computer, personal computer, mobile phone, or the like.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the information system 1 in the present embodiment. The information processing apparatus 11 includes a user provided information storage unit 111, a map information storage unit 112, an instruction receiving unit 113, a user context receiving unit 114, a selection unit 115, a map output unit 116, and a user provided information output unit 117.

  The terminal device 12 includes a terminal reception unit 121, a terminal processing unit 122, a terminal transmission unit 123, a terminal reception unit 124, and a terminal output unit 125.

  The user-provided information storage unit 111 constituting the information processing apparatus 11 can store one or more user-provided information. The user-provided information is information input from the user and transmitted from the terminal device 12. The user-provided information is information associated with position-related information that is information regarding the position and one or more attribute information. The user-provided information storage unit 111 normally includes one or two or more user comment information including user-provided information, position related information, and one or more attribute information. Further, it is preferable that the user-provided information is also associated with category information indicating the category of user-provided information (which may be referred to as “kind”).

Here, the position-related information is, for example, (latitude, longitude), place name, name of scenic spot, name of store, and the like, and is information that can specify the position or area. The position related information may be information added to the user-provided information when the user creates and transmits the user-provided information.
For example, when a user posts a comment (user-provided information) on a blog or Twitter using the terminal device 12 or posts an image or video on an image sharing site or video sharing site, the terminal device 12 ( In particular, for example, position-related information (for example, (latitude, longitude)) acquired by a GPS receiver included in the terminal device 12 may be added to the user-provided information. Further, the position related information may be information obtained by analyzing user-provided information by an analysis unit (not shown) or an analysis device (not shown). An example of such an analysis method will be described later.

  The attribute information is information indicating the attributes of the user-provided information, and is, for example, time zone information related to time zones, weather information related to weather, inside / outside information indicating indoors or outdoors, or time information related to time. The attribute information is usually acquired by an analysis unit (not shown) or an analysis device (not shown) analyzing the user-provided information. However, when the attribute information is time zone information or date information corresponding to the time (reception time), the time or date / time transmitted together with the user-provided information, or the time / date / time when the user-provided information was received, It may be acquired by an analysis unit (not shown) or an analysis device (not shown). In addition, when the attribute information is weather information, an analysis unit (not shown) or an analysis device (not shown) sends the position information and time or date and time transmitted together with the user-provided information, or the time and date and user-provided time when the user-provided information is received. Weather information acquired from an external device using position information transmitted together with the information may be used. Here, the external device is a server device that holds weather information for a region corresponding to position information and a date, time, and date / time.

  Note that it is preferable that the user-provided information is automatically acquired from a CGM server device, for example. As described above, one or more pieces of position-related information, one or more attribute information, and category information are obtained by analyzing user-provided information by an analysis unit (not shown) or an analysis device (not shown). It is preferable to be. However, position-related information, one or more attribute information, and category information may be acquired manually and stored in association with user-provided information.

  The map information storage unit 112 can store map information. The map information is information related to the map, and usually has two or more pieces of position information that is information indicating the position of the point. The map information may be map image information, for example. This image information may be raster data (bitmap data) or vector data, for example. When the image information is raster data, the map information may include image information corresponding to a plurality of scales. For example, map information may include large-scale image information, medium-scale image information, and small-scale image information for the same region. Here, the “map” may be a topographic map, a topographic map, a geological map, a land use map, a house map, a route map, a road map, a guide map, or the like. The map information may be a road map. For example, this map information may be in the KIWI format used in car navigation. In addition, the “map” may be an aerial photograph or satellite photograph in which the topography, roads, etc. can be grasped, or those in which symbols or characters are entered. In the map information, it is assumed that the correspondence between each point on the map and the coordinates (position) can be known. The coordinates may be coordinates with an origin at a certain reference point (the coordinates may be distances, for example), may be latitude / longitude, or may be information that can identify other positions. . The coordinates themselves may be included in the map information. The map information is known as a two-dimensional online map, an electronic map, etc., and detailed description thereof is omitted. Moreover, as above-mentioned, the format of map information is not ask | required.

  The instruction receiving unit 113 receives a map output instruction that is an instruction to output a map. In addition, it is preferable that the instruction receiving unit 113 also receives category information. Here, reception is usually reception from the terminal device 12. However, reception is a concept including reception of information input from an input device such as a keyboard, mouse, touch panel, reception of information read from a recording medium such as an optical disk, a magnetic disk, or a semiconductor memory.

  The user context accepting unit 114 accepts one or more user contexts that are information related to the user's environment. The user context can be said to be information related to the user's environment when the user outputs a map. The user context is, for example, time information, weather information, date information, and the like. The time information is usually information indicating the time when the map is output. The weather information is usually information on the weather in the area indicated by the map. The date information is usually information indicating a date when a map is output. The one or more user contexts are preferably one or more pieces of time information indicating time, weather information, or date information indicating date. The acceptance here is usually reception from the terminal device 12. However, reception is a concept including reception of information input from an input device such as a keyboard, mouse, touch panel, reception of information read from a recording medium such as an optical disk, a magnetic disk, or a semiconductor memory.

  The selection unit 115 selects one or more user-provided information that matches the condition from the user-provided information storage unit 111. The selection unit 115 selects, for example, one or more user-provided information associated with the position related information corresponding to the map area output by the map output instruction from the user-provided information storage unit 111. The selection unit 115 is, for example, one or more pieces of user-provided information associated with position-related information corresponding to a map area output by a map output instruction, and includes one or more pieces of user context corresponding to one or more user contexts. One or more user-provided information associated with the attribute information may be selected from the user-provided information storage unit 111. The one or more user contexts are one or more user contexts received by the user context receiving unit 114. The selection unit 115 is, for example, one or more pieces of user-provided information associated with position-related information corresponding to a map area output by a map output instruction, and the one or more received by the user context reception unit 114 One or more user-provided information associated with one or more attribute information corresponding to the user context and one or more user-provided information associated with the category information received by the instruction receiving unit 113 is provided by the user. You may select from the information storage part 111. FIG.

  The selection unit 115 may acquire one or more pieces of user-provided information that matches the conditions from an external device (not shown). Note that the external device includes a user-provided information storage unit 111. In such a case, the selection unit 115 acquires, for example, one or more pieces of user-provided information associated with the position related information corresponding to the map area output by the map output instruction from an external device (not shown). The selection unit 115 is, for example, one or more pieces of user-provided information associated with position-related information corresponding to a map area output by a map output instruction, and includes one or more pieces of user context corresponding to one or more user contexts. One or more pieces of user-provided information associated with the attribute information may be acquired from an external device (not shown).

  In response to accepting the map output instruction, the map output unit 116 acquires map information corresponding to the map output instruction from the map information storage unit 112 and outputs the map information. Here, the output is normally transmission to the terminal device 12, but display on a display, projection using a projector, printing with a printer, storage on a recording medium, other processing devices or other programs, etc. This is a concept that includes delivery of processing results to

  The user provided information output unit 117 outputs one or more user provided information selected by the selection unit 115. The user-provided information output unit 117 outputs one or more user-provided information together with the map information when the map information is output.

  The user-provided information output unit 117 outputs one or more pieces of user-provided information selected by the selection unit 115 in association with the position on the map indicated by the position-related information associated with each user-provided information. Is preferred. The user-provided information output unit 117 may output the presence information in association with the position on the map indicated by the position-related information associated with each user-provided information. The presence information is information indicating that there is one or more user-provided information selected by the selection unit 115, and is, for example, a pattern such as a pin on a map, a specific character (#, *, etc.), or the like. The presence information can be clicked, and when clicked, the corresponding user-provided information is preferably output. The symbol is information corresponding to the user-provided information, and may be a bitmap, raster data, or the like, and its data structure is not limited. It is preferable that the user-provided information output unit 117 outputs the user-provided information or the presence information of the user-provided information in such a manner that the category information of the user-provided information can be visually recognized. The category information of the user provided information is category information associated with the user provided information. Here, the output is normally transmission to the terminal device 12, but display on a display, projection using a projector, printing with a printer, storage on a recording medium, other processing devices or other programs, etc. This is a concept that includes delivery of processing results to

  The terminal reception unit 121 that configures the terminal device 12 receives instructions and information from the user. The instruction from the user is, for example, a map output instruction that is an instruction to output a map. The map output instruction includes an instruction to output information including map information and other information. The information including map information and other information is, for example, a web page including map information. The input means such as instructions and information may be anything such as a keyboard, mouse, touch panel or menu screen. The terminal reception unit 121 can be realized by a device driver of an input unit such as a keyboard, menu screen control software, or the like.

  The terminal processing unit 122 performs processing corresponding to the instruction and information received by the terminal receiving unit 121. The content of the process does not matter. The terminal processing unit 122 may acquire a user context including, for example, current weather information and current location information (for example, (latitude, longitude)) of the current time and the local point.

  The terminal transmission unit 123 transmits the instruction received by the terminal reception unit 121 to the information processing apparatus 11. The instruction is, for example, a map output instruction. For example, the terminal transmission unit 123 transmits a map output instruction to the information processing apparatus 11 in association with the user context acquired by the terminal processing unit 122.

  The terminal receiving unit 124 receives map information, user-provided information, and the like from the information processing apparatus 11.

  The terminal output unit 125 outputs map information, user-provided information, and the like received by the terminal receiving unit 124. The output here is usually a display on a display, but projection using a projector, printing with a printer, storage on a recording medium, transmission to another device, other processing device or other program, etc. This is a concept that includes the delivery of the processing results.

  The user-provided information storage unit 111 and the map information storage unit 112 are preferably non-volatile recording media, but can also be realized by volatile recording media. The process in which user provision information etc. are memorize | stored in the user provision information storage part 111 grade is not ask | required. For example, user provision information or the like may be stored in the user provision information storage unit 111 or the like via a recording medium, and user provision information or the like transmitted via a communication line or the like may be stored in the user provision information storage unit 111. Or the user-provided information input via the input device may be stored in the user-provided information storage unit 111 or the like.

  The instruction receiving unit 113, the user context receiving unit 114, and the terminal receiving unit 124 are usually realized by wireless or wired communication means, but may be realized by means for receiving a broadcast.

  The selection unit 115 and the terminal processing unit 122 can be usually realized by an MPU, a memory, or the like. The processing procedure of the selection unit 115 and the like is usually realized by software, and the software is recorded on a recording medium such as a ROM. However, it may be realized by hardware (dedicated circuit).

  The map output unit 116, the user-provided information output unit 117, and the terminal transmission unit 123 are usually realized by wireless or wired communication means, but may be realized by broadcasting means.

  The terminal output unit 125 may be considered as including or not including an output device such as a display or a speaker. The terminal output unit 125 may be implemented by output device driver software, or output device driver software and an output device.

  Next, the operation of the information system 1 will be described. First, the operation of the information processing apparatus 11 will be described using the flowchart of FIG.

  (Step S301) The instruction receiving unit 113 determines whether a map output instruction is received from the terminal device 12. If a map output instruction is received, the process proceeds to step S302. If no map output instruction is received, the process returns to step S301. Note that the instruction receiving unit 113 preferably receives one or more user contexts together with the map output instruction. The received user context includes, for example, location information (for example, latitude and longitude), date (month and date, etc.), time, current weather of the location where the user is, and the like, where the terminal device 12 is present (the user is present). Information.

  (Step S302) The map output unit 116 acquires map information corresponding to the map output instruction received in step S301 from the map information storage unit 112. The map output instruction includes, for example, a point and position information.

  (Step S303) The selection unit 115 acquires position related information corresponding to the map information acquired in step S302. Note that the selection unit 115 may acquire one or more place names included in the map information acquired in step S302, or acquires position-related information that is paired with the map information acquired in step S302. It may be equal.

  (Step S304) The selection unit 115 acquires one or more user contexts. The one or more user contexts may be the user context received in step S301, the time acquired by the selection unit 115 from a clock or server device (such as an NTP server) (not shown), or the selection unit 115 acquired from a server device (not shown). The weather information (information on the current weather in the area corresponding to the map information) or the like may be used.

  (Step S305) The selection unit 115 is one or more pieces of user-provided information associated with the position-related information acquired in Step S303, and includes one or more pieces of attribute information corresponding to the one or more user contexts acquired in Step S304. One or more associated user-provided information is selected from the user-provided information storage unit 111 and acquired. It is preferable that the selection unit 115 acquires attribute information corresponding to each of one or more user contexts acquired in step S304, and selects the user-provided information from the user-provided information storage unit 111 using the attribute information. It is. For example, when the user context is a time (for example, “20:35”), a time zone corresponding to the time (for example, “night”) is acquired using a correspondence table of time and time zone. Also good. Further, for example, when the user context is a date (for example, “August 10”), the date corresponding to the date (or season) (for example, “summer”) is determined using the date-time correspondence table. , You may get. This correspondence table is assumed to be held in advance by the selection unit 115.

  (Step S306) The map output unit 116 transmits the map information acquired in step S302 to the terminal device 12.

  (Step S307) The user-provided information output unit 117 transmits the one or more user-provided information selected in step S305 to the terminal device 12. The process returns to step S301.

  In the flowchart of FIG. 3, when category information is received, it is preferable that the selection unit 115 selects one or more pieces of user-provided information also using the category information.

  Moreover, in step S307 of FIG. 3, it is preferable that the user provided information output unit 117 transmits one or more pieces of user provided information together with the position related information. In addition, it is preferable that the user-provided information output unit 117 associates each piece of user-provided information with one position of the map information using the position related information. In such a case, the user-provided information or presence information is configured in association with the map indicated by the map information, and the configured map information is transmitted together with the user-provided information or presence information.

  Further, in the flowchart of FIG. 3, the process is ended by power-off or a process end interrupt.

  Next, the operation of the terminal device 12 will be described. The terminal reception unit 121 of the terminal device 12 receives a map output instruction. Next, the terminal processing unit 122 acquires one or more user contexts. The user context is, for example, time, position information (longitude, latitude, etc.), and current location weather information. Next, the terminal transmission unit 123 transmits the map output instruction received by the terminal reception unit 121 and one or more user contexts acquired by the terminal processing unit 122 to the information processing apparatus 11. Next, the terminal reception unit 124 receives map information, one or more user-provided information, and the like from the information processing apparatus 11. It is preferable that the terminal receiving unit 124 receives position related information corresponding to the user provided information. In addition, it is preferable that the terminal reception unit 124 receives the map information and the one or more user-provided information in a mode in which the user-provided information is associated with an appropriate position on the map indicated by the map information. . Note that the appropriate position is a position indicated by position-related information corresponding to the user-provided information. Next, the terminal output unit 125 outputs the map information received by the terminal receiving unit 124 and the user-provided information. The terminal output unit 125 corresponds one or more user-provided information or presence information indicating that one or more user-provided information exists to a position on a map indicated by position-related information associated with each user-provided information. It is preferable to add the output.

  Hereinafter, a specific operation of the information system 1 in the present embodiment will be described. A conceptual diagram of the information system 1 is shown in FIG.

  Now, the user provided information storage unit 111 of the information processing apparatus 11 stores the user provided information management table shown in FIG. The user-provided information management table includes “ID”, “user-provided information”, “location related information”, “category information”, and “attribute information”. The “attribute information” includes “time zone”, “time”, “weather”, and “inside / outside information”.

  In this situation, it is assumed that the user has input a map output instruction for map information of Hiroshima Prefecture to the terminal device 12.

Next, the terminal reception unit 121 of the terminal device 12 receives a map output instruction. Then, the terminal processing unit 122 acquires the current time, position information (longitude, latitude, etc.) indicating the position where the terminal device 12 is present, and one or more user contexts that are current weather information of the current location. Next, the terminal transmission unit 123 transmits the map output instruction received by the terminal reception unit 121 and one or more user contexts acquired by the terminal processing unit 122 to the information processing apparatus 11. Note that one or more user context here is "Re: 2013/8/28 11:15, the position information _{(x a, y a),} weather information: Sunny" was, to.

  Next, the instruction receiving unit 113 receives a map output instruction for Hiroshima Prefecture and one or more user contexts from the terminal device 12.

  Next, the map output unit 116 acquires the map information of Hiroshima Prefecture corresponding to the received map output instruction from the map information storage unit 112.

  Next, the selection unit 115 acquires position related information (position information indicating the range of Hiroshima Prefecture) corresponding to the acquired map information.

Next, the selection unit 115 acquires the received user context “date and time: 2013/8/28 12:05, position information (x _a , y _a ), weather information: clear”.

  Next, the selection unit 115 acquires one or more attribute information corresponding to the acquired one or more user contexts. Here, it is assumed that the acquired one or more pieces of attribute information are “time zone: noon, time: summer, weather: fine”. It is assumed that the selection unit 115 acquires “time zone: noon” from “12:05” and “time: summer” from “2013/8/28”. In addition, the selection unit 115 holds a correspondence table of time and time zone (here, morning, noon, evening, night, etc.) and a correspondence table of date and time (spring, summer, autumn, winter, etc.). Suppose that

  Next, the selection unit 115 is one or more user-provided information associated with the acquired position-related information, and stores one or more user-provided information associated with the acquired one or more attribute information. It selects from the part 111 and acquires.

  Next, the map output unit 116 transmits the acquired map information of Hiroshima Prefecture to the terminal device 12. The user-provided information output unit 117 transmits the selected one or more pieces of user-provided information to the terminal device 12 together with corresponding position related information and category information.

  Next, the terminal receiving unit 124 of the terminal device 12 receives map information, one or more user-provided information, and the like from the information processing device 11.

  Next, the terminal output unit 125 outputs the map information received by the terminal receiving unit 124 and the user-provided information. For example, as illustrated in FIG. 5, the terminal output unit 125 is configured to display presence information indicating that there is one or more user-provided information on a map indicated by position-related information associated with each user-provided information. Output in association with. Here, the presence information is a pin symbol on the map. It is assumed that if the user indicates a pin symbol, the user-provided information corresponding to the pin is output. In FIG. 5, the pin pattern varies depending on the category information corresponding to the user-provided information. Needless to say, pins of categories other than the category information described in FIG. 5 may exist.

  Further, as illustrated in FIG. 6, the terminal output unit 125 may output the map information received by the terminal receiving unit 124 and the user-provided information together on the screen without being associated with each other.

  Further, as illustrated in FIG. 7, the terminal output unit 125 may arrange and output the user-provided information received by the terminal reception unit 124 on an output map. In such a case, the terminal output unit 125 outputs one or more pieces of user-provided information in association with the position on the map indicated by the position-related information associated with each piece of user-provided information.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, appropriate user-provided information can be output using the user context. Further, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to output appropriate user-provided information in association with a map using a user context.

  In addition, according to this Embodiment, the output aspect of map information and one or more user provision information is not ask | required. In addition, the information processing apparatus 11 configures an output screen using the map information and the one or more user-provided information, transmits the information on the screen to the terminal device 12, and the terminal device 12 receives the received screen. It is preferable to output this information. However, the terminal device 12 uses the received map information and one or more sets of user-provided information and position-related information to indicate that one or more user-provided information or one or more user-provided information exists. The information may be output in association with the position on the map indicated by the position related information associated with each user-provided information.

  In the present embodiment, the information processing apparatus 11 may acquire user-provided information from the user-provided information storage unit 111 that exists outside. A block diagram showing the configuration of the information system in such a case is shown in FIG. The information system includes two or more information processing devices 21 and one external device 13. The information processing apparatus 21 includes a map information storage unit 112, an instruction reception unit 113, a user context reception unit 114, a selection unit 115, a map output unit 116, and a user provided information output unit 117. Note that the selection unit 115 receives one or more pieces of user-provided information that matches the condition from the external device 13. For example, the selection unit 115 receives one or more pieces of user-provided information associated with the position related information corresponding to the map area output by the map output instruction from the external device 13. The selection unit 115 is, for example, one or more pieces of user-provided information associated with position-related information corresponding to a map area output by a map output instruction, and includes one or more pieces of user context corresponding to one or more user contexts. One or more pieces of user-provided information associated with the attribute information may be received from the external device 13.

  The external device 13 includes a user-provided information storage unit 111, an external reception unit 131, an external processing unit 132, and an external transmission unit 133. The external reception unit 131 receives a transmission instruction for user-provided information from the information processing apparatus 11. The external processing unit 132 acquires one or more user-provided information corresponding to the transmission instruction from the user-provided information storage unit 111. The external transmission unit 133 transmits the user-provided information acquired by the external processing unit 132 to the information processing apparatus 11.

  In the present embodiment, the information processing apparatus 11 may be a stand-alone apparatus. Even in such a case, the information processing apparatus 11 includes the user provided information storage unit 111, the map information storage unit 112, the instruction reception unit 113, the user context reception unit 114, the selection unit 115, the map output unit 116, and the user provided information output unit 117. Prepare. The instruction receiving unit 113 receives a map output instruction from the user. In addition, the user context receiving unit 114 normally acquires one or more user contexts.

  Furthermore, the processing in the present embodiment may be realized by software. Then, this software may be distributed by software download or the like. Further, this software may be recorded and distributed on a recording medium such as a CD-ROM. This also applies to other embodiments in this specification. Note that the software that implements the information processing apparatus according to the present embodiment is the following program. That is, in this program, the recording medium is information input by two or more users and transmitted from two or more terminal devices, and is associated with position-related information that is information regarding the position and one or more attribute information. An instruction reception unit that includes a user provision information storage unit that can store two or more user provision information and a map information storage unit that can store map information, and receives a map output instruction that is an instruction to output a map to the computer. A user context accepting unit that accepts one or more user contexts that are information relating to the user's environment, position related information corresponding to a map area output by the map output instruction, and the user context accepting unit One or more user-provided information associated with one or more attribute information corresponding to one or more user contexts is stored in the user. A selection unit selected from a provision information storage unit, a map output unit that outputs a map using map information corresponding to the map output instruction in response to reception of the map output instruction, and the selection unit 1 It is a program for functioning as a user-provided information output unit that outputs the above-mentioned user-provided information or presence information indicating that there is one or more user-provided information selected by the selection unit.

  In the program, the user-provided information output unit provides each user with presence information indicating that there is one or more user-provided information selected by the selection unit or one or more user-provided information selected by the selection unit. It is preferable to cause the computer to function as output corresponding to the position on the map indicated by the position-related information associated with the information.

  In the program, the user-provided information is also associated with category information indicating a category of the user-provided information, the instruction accepting unit also accepts category information, and the selecting unit is output according to the map output instruction. 1 associated with position-related information corresponding to a map area, one or more attribute information corresponding to one or more user contexts received by the user context receiving unit, and category information received by the instruction receiving unit It is preferable to cause the computer to function as selecting the above user-provided information from the user-provided information storage unit.

  In the above program, the user-provided information is associated with category information indicating a category of the user-provided information, and the user-provided information output unit is capable of visually recognizing the category information of the user-provided information, It is preferable to cause the computer to function as the user-provided information or the presence information of the user-provided information.

  In the above program, the one or more attribute information is one or more information of time zone information about a time zone, weather information about weather, inside / outside information indicating indoor or outdoor, or time information about time, It is preferable that the user context be one or more pieces of information of time information indicating time, weather information, or date information indicating the date, and cause the computer to function.

(Embodiment 2)
In the present embodiment, an information system 2 that outputs user-provided information corresponding to an area of the map when the map is output by another device or program will be described.

  FIG. 9 is a conceptual diagram of the information system 2 in the present embodiment. The information system 2 includes one or more terminal devices 20, an information processing device 21, and one or more server devices 22. The terminal device 20 is a terminal device owned by the user. The terminal device 20 is a so-called smartphone, notebook computer, personal computer, mobile phone, or the like. The information processing device 21 is a device that provides user-provided information corresponding to the map output by the terminal device 20. The server device 22 is a device that provides map information. The server device 22 is, for example, a web server that stores web pages. That is, the map information may be included in the web page.

  FIG. 10 is a block diagram of the information system 2 in the present embodiment. The terminal device 20 includes a terminal reception unit 201, a terminal transmission unit 202, a terminal reception unit 203, a terminal output unit 204, a map recognition unit 205, an area information acquisition unit 206, and a terminal processing unit 207.

  Further, the information processing apparatus 21 includes a user provided information storage unit 111, an area receiving unit 212, a user context receiving unit 213, a category information receiving unit 214, a selection unit 215, and a user provided information transmitting unit 216.

  Furthermore, the server device 22 includes a server storage unit 220, a server reception unit 221, a server processing unit 222, and a server transmission unit 223.

  The terminal reception unit 201 constituting the terminal device 20 receives a map output instruction that is an instruction to output a map. The terminal reception unit 201 may receive category information indicating a category of user-provided information to be acquired. Any input means such as a map output instruction may be used, such as a keyboard, mouse, touch panel, or menu screen. The terminal reception unit 201 can be realized by a device driver of an input unit such as a keyboard, menu screen control software, or the like.

  The terminal transmission unit 202 transmits the area information to the information processing device 21. The area information is area information acquired by an area information acquisition unit 206 described later. It is preferable that the terminal transmission unit 202 transmits one or more user contexts to the information processing apparatus 21. Further, the terminal transmission unit 202 may transmit the category information received by the terminal reception unit 201 to the information processing apparatus 21. Further, the terminal transmission unit 202 transmits a map output instruction to the server device 22.

  The terminal reception unit 203 receives one or more pieces of user-provided information from the information processing apparatus 21 in response to transmission of area information and the like. The terminal reception unit 203 may receive one or more sets of user-provided information and position related information from the information processing apparatus 21 in response to transmission of region information and the like. The terminal reception unit 203 may receive one or more sets of user-provided information, position-related information, and category information from the information processing apparatus 21 in response to transmission of region information and the like. In addition, the terminal reception unit 203 receives map information from the server device 22 in response to transmission of the map output instruction.

  The terminal output unit 204 outputs one or more user-provided information received by the terminal receiving unit 203. The terminal output unit 204 also outputs map information in response to a map output instruction. Note that the output of map information may be considered to be equivalent to the output of a map, or the result of outputting map information may be considered to be a map.

  In addition, it is preferable that the terminal output unit 204 outputs one or more pieces of user-provided information in association with positions on a map indicated by position-related information associated with each user-provided information.

  Furthermore, the terminal output unit 204 outputs presence information indicating that there is one or more user-provided information in association with a position on the map indicated by the position-related information associated with each user-provided information. Is preferred.

  The map recognition unit 205 recognizes map information from the output information or the output information. For example, the map recognition unit 205 recognizes map information from a web page to be output. Note that the recognition of map information may be acquisition of map information, specification of map information, or the like. Moreover, the recognition method of map information is not ask | required. The map recognizing unit 205 may recognize the information of a specific data format (for example, KIWI format) of the map information from the information to be output, and specify the map information. In addition, the map recognition unit 205 recognizes an image from information to be output, recognizes a character string in the image, and recognizes a character string that can be described in a map such as a place name or a scenic spot above a certain level. In addition, the image may be specified as map information.

  The area information acquisition unit 206 acquires area information that is information related to the area of the map to be displayed. It is preferable that the area information acquisition unit 206 acquires area information from the map information recognized by the map recognition unit 205. For example, the region information acquisition unit 206 may recognize map information as characters and acquire information such as place names and scenic spots. The area information acquisition unit 206 may acquire, for example, position information (for example, one or more (latitude, longitude)) added to the map information as area information.

  The terminal processing unit 207 acquires one or more user contexts. The one or more user contexts are, for example, time, date, weather information, position information (for example, (latitude, longitude)), and the like. Since the processing of the terminal processing unit 207 is a known technique, detailed description thereof is omitted.

  The area receiving unit 212 constituting the information processing apparatus 21 receives area information, which is information relating to the area of the output map, from the terminal device 20.

  The user context receiving unit 213 receives one or more user contexts that are information on the user environment from the terminal device 20.

  The category information receiving unit 214 receives category information from the terminal device 20.

  The selection unit 215 selects one or more user-provided information associated with the position related information corresponding to the region information received by the region receiving unit 212 from the user-provided information storage unit 111.

  The selection unit 215 is associated with position-related information corresponding to the region information received by the region receiving unit 212 and one or more attribute information corresponding to one or more user contexts received by the user context receiving unit 213. One or more user-provided information may be selected from the user-provided information storage unit 111.

  Further, the selection unit 215 provides the user with one or more pieces of user-provided information associated with the position-related information corresponding to the map area output by the map output instruction and the category information received by the category information receiving unit 214. You may select from the information storage part 111. FIG.

  Further, the selection unit 215 includes position related information corresponding to the map area output by the map output instruction, one or more attribute information corresponding to the one or more user contexts received by the user context receiving unit 213, and category information. One or more user-provided information associated with the category information received by the receiving unit 214 may be selected from the user-provided information storage unit 111.

  The user provided information transmission unit 216 transmits one or more user provided information selected by the selection unit 215 to the terminal device 20. The user-provided information transmission unit 216 may transmit one or more sets of the user-provided information selected by the selection unit 215 and the position related information associated with the user-provided information. In addition, the user-provided information transmission unit 216 may transmit one or more sets of user-provided information selected by the selection unit 215 and position-related information associated with the user-provided information and category information.

  The server storage unit 220 constituting the server device 22 can store map information. The server storage unit 220 may store one or more pieces of information including map information (for example, web pages).

  The server reception unit 221 receives a map information output instruction from the terminal device 20. The map information output instruction may be an instruction to output a web page including map information (for example, an instruction to access an empty web page with a URL).

  The server processing unit 222 acquires map information corresponding to the map information output instruction from the server storage unit 220. The server processing unit 222 may acquire information including map information (for example, a web page) from the server storage unit 220.

  The server transmission unit 223 transmits the map information acquired by the server processing unit 222 to the terminal device 20.

  The terminal transmission unit 202, the user-provided information transmission unit 216, and the server transmission unit 223 are usually realized by wireless or wired communication means, but may be realized by broadcasting means.

  The terminal receiving unit 203, the region receiving unit 212, the user context receiving unit 213, the category information receiving unit 214, and the server receiving unit 221 are usually realized by wireless or wired communication means, but are realized by means for receiving broadcasts. May be.

  The terminal output unit 204 may or may not include an output device such as a display or a speaker. The terminal output unit 204 can be implemented by output device driver software, or output device driver software and an output device.

  The map recognition unit 205, the region information acquisition unit 206, the terminal processing unit 207, the selection unit 215, and the server processing unit 222 can be usually realized by an MPU, a memory, or the like. The processing procedure of the map recognition unit 205 or the like is usually realized by software, and the software is recorded on a recording medium such as a ROM. However, it may be realized by hardware (dedicated circuit).

  The server storage unit 220 is preferably a non-volatile recording medium, but can also be realized by a volatile recording medium. The process in which map information etc. are memorize | stored in the server storage part 220 is not ask | required. For example, map information or the like may be stored in the server storage unit 220 via a recording medium, and map information or the like transmitted via a communication line or the like is stored in the server storage unit 220. Alternatively, map information or the like input via the input device may be stored in the server storage unit 220.

  Next, the operation of the information system 2 will be described. First, operation | movement of the terminal device 20 is demonstrated using the flowchart of FIG.

  (Step S1101) The terminal receiving unit 201 determines whether a map output instruction has been received. If a map output instruction is accepted, the process goes to step S1102, and if a map output instruction is not accepted, the process returns to step S1101. The map output instruction usually includes information indicating a map area or the like.

  (Step S1102) The terminal transmission unit 202 transmits the map output instruction received in Step S1101 to the server device 22.

  (Step S1103) The terminal reception unit 203 determines whether or not map information has been received from the server device 22 in response to the transmission of the map output instruction in Step S1102. If the map information is received, the process goes to step S1104. If the map information is not received, the process returns to step S1103. The information to be received may be information such as a web page having map information.

  (Step S1104) The map recognizing unit 205 recognizes map information in the information received in step S1103. If the terminal receiving unit 203 receives only map information, this step may be omitted.

  (Step S1105) The area information acquisition unit 206 acquires area information corresponding to the map information received in step S1103 or the map information recognized in step S1104.

  (Step S1106) The terminal processing unit 207 acquires one or more user contexts.

  (Step S1107) The terminal transmission unit 202 transmits region information and the like to the information processing apparatus 21. The area information or the like may be area information alone, area information and one or more user contexts, area information and category information, area information, one or more user contexts and category information, and the like. The category information may be stored in advance in the terminal device 20 or may be input by the user.

  (Step S1108) The terminal receiving unit 203 determines whether or not one or more pieces of user-provided information have been received from the information processing apparatus 21 in response to transmission of the region information or the like. If one or more user-provided information is received, the process proceeds to step S1109. If one or more user-provided information is not received, the process returns to step S1108. Note that the terminal reception unit 203 may receive one or more sets of user-provided information and position-related information paired with the user-provided information. Further, the terminal reception unit 203 may receive one or more sets of user-provided information and category information paired with the user-provided information. Furthermore, the terminal receiving unit 203 may receive one or more sets of user-provided information, position-related information and category information that are paired with the user-provided information.

  (Step S1109) The terminal output unit 204 configures information to be output using the received map information and one or more user-provided information. The terminal output unit 204 may configure the information so that the map information and the one or more user-provided information are output separately, or the information is output so that the one or more user-provided information is output on the map information. It may be configured.

  (Step S1110) The terminal output unit 204 outputs the information configured in step S1109. The process returns to step S1101.

  Note that the processing is ended by powering off or interruption for aborting the processing in the flowchart in FIG.

  Next, the operation of the information processing apparatus 21 will be described using the flowchart of FIG.

  (Step S1201) The region receiving unit 212 determines whether region information or the like has been received. The area information or the like is, for example, an instruction to send user-provided information including area information. The area information or the like is, for example, an instruction to transmit user-provided information including area information and one or more user contexts. Further, the transmission instruction may have category information. The user context is received by the user context receiving unit 213 here. The category information is received by the category information receiving unit 214 here.

  (Step S1202) The selection unit 215 acquires position related information from the region information received in step S1201. When the area information is a name such as a prefecture or a municipality, the selection unit 215 may acquire, for example, a place name corresponding to the prefecture or a municipality, or specify a range such as a prefecture or a municipality. Two or more pieces of position information (latitude, longitude) may be acquired.

  (Step S1203) The selection unit 215 acquires one or more user contexts received in step S1201. Here, one or more user contexts may not be acquired.

  (Step S1204) The selection unit 215 selects and acquires one or more user-provided information from the user-provided information storage unit 111 using the acquired position-related information or the acquired position-related information and one or more user contexts. To do.

  (Step S1205) The user provided information transmission unit 216 transmits the one or more user provided information acquired in step S1204 to the terminal device 20. The process returns to step S1201.

  In the flowchart of FIG. 12, the process is terminated by powering off or a process termination interrupt.

  Next, the operation of the server device 22 will be described. The server reception unit 221 of the server device 22 receives a map information output instruction from the terminal device 20. Next, the server processing unit 222 acquires map information and the like corresponding to the map information output instruction from the server storage unit 220. Next, the server transmission unit 223 transmits the map information acquired by the server processing unit 222 to the terminal device 20. The map information or the like may be a web page having map information.

  Hereinafter, a specific operation of the information system 2 in the present embodiment will be described. A conceptual diagram of the information system 2 is shown in FIG.

  Now, the user provided information storage unit 111 of the information processing apparatus 21 holds the user provided information management table shown in FIG.

  Further, it is assumed that the server storage unit 220 of one server device 22 stores, for example, the web page shown in FIG.

  In this situation, it is assumed that the user has input a web page access command including the URL of the web page shown in FIG. Note that the web page shown in FIG. 13 includes map information. The web page access command including the URL of the web page is a kind of map output command.

  Next, the terminal reception unit 201 of the terminal device 20 receives the web page access command. Then, the terminal transmission unit 202 transmits the accepted web page access command (map output instruction) to the server device 22.

  Next, the server reception unit 221 of the server device 22 receives a web page access command from the terminal device 20.

  Next, the server processing unit 222 acquires a web page corresponding to the web page access command from the server storage unit 220. This web page includes map information.

  Next, the server transmission unit 223 transmits the web page acquired by the server processing unit 222 to the terminal device 20.

  Next, the terminal reception unit 203 of the terminal device 20 receives the web page including the map information from the server device 22 in response to the transmission of the web page access command.

  Next, the map recognition unit 205 recognizes the map information (1301 in FIG. 13) in the received web page.

  Next, the area information acquisition unit 206 acquires area information corresponding to the recognized map information. Here, the area information acquisition unit 206 acquires, for example, character strings “Hiroshima Prefecture”, “Higashihiroshima”, “Takehara”, “Saijo”, “Sera”, “Mihara”, and the like included in the recognized map information. For example, the area information acquisition unit 206 may acquire a prefecture name or a city name from the recognized map information, and may acquire position related information corresponding to the acquired prefecture name or city name. good. In such a case, it is assumed that the area information acquisition unit 206 holds a correspondence table that associates a prefecture name or a city name with location-related information, for example.

  Next, the terminal processing unit 207 acquires one or more user contexts. Here, for example, it is assumed that the terminal processing unit 207 has acquired date and time (date and time) and weather information.

  Next, the terminal transmission unit 202 transmits the area information and one or more user contexts to the information processing apparatus 21.

  Next, the region receiving unit 212 of the information processing device 21 receives region information from the terminal device 20. Further, the user context receiving unit 213 receives one or more user contexts from the terminal device 20.

  Next, the selection unit 215 acquires position related information from the received region information. For example, when the area information is a prefecture name or a municipality name, or a set of position information (latitude, longitude) indicating the area, the selection unit 215, for example, a place name, a scenic spot, or a store name corresponding to the prefecture or the municipality Or a place name, a scenic spot, a store name, etc. may be acquired from a set of position information (latitude, longitude). In such a case, the selection unit 215 holds, for example, a correspondence table that associates prefecture names or city names with location-related information (for example, place names, scenic spots, store names, etc.). In addition, the selection unit 215 holds a correspondence table of position information (latitude, longitude) and place names, scenic spots, store names, and the like.

  Next, the selection unit 215 acquires one or more received user contexts (here, date and time (date and time), weather information).

  Next, the selection unit 215 selects and acquires one or more user-provided information from the user-provided information management table using the acquired position-related information or the acquired position-related information and one or more user contexts.

  Next, the user-provided information transmission unit 216 transmits the acquired one or more pieces of user-provided information to the terminal device 20.

  Next, the terminal reception unit 203 of the terminal device 20 receives one or more pieces of user-provided information from the information processing device 21 in response to transmission of area information and the like.

  Next, the terminal output unit 204 configures information to be output using the received map information and one or more user-provided information. Then, the terminal output unit 204 outputs the configured information. As illustrated in FIG. 14, the terminal output unit 204 may output one or more pieces of user-provided information and map information separately without using position-related information corresponding to the user-provided information. good. In FIG. 14, the user-provided information is output to a window (see 1401 in FIG. 14) different from the map information.

  Further, as illustrated in FIG. 15, the terminal output unit 204 may output the user-provided information on the map information using position related information corresponding to the user-provided information. Note that 1501 and 1502 in FIG. 15 are examples of the user-provided information that is output, and the user-provided information is output so that the position indicated by the position-related information corresponding to each user-provided information can be visually grasped. Has been.

  Furthermore, the terminal output unit 204 may output presence information (for example, a pin symbol) corresponding to the user-provided information, for example, in a manner as shown in FIG. The terminal output unit 204 may output the user-provided information or the presence information in such a manner that the category information corresponding to the user-provided information can be visually recognized.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to output appropriate user-provided information related to a map to be output to a device that outputs a map with a simple system configuration. That is, according to the present embodiment, for example, when outputting a web page or map information having map information, the map that the web page has without changing the device or program that outputs the web page or map information. Appropriate user-provided information related to information and map information can be output.

  Further, according to the present embodiment, with a simple system configuration, it is possible to select and output appropriate user-provided information related to the map to be output to the device that outputs the map using the user context.

  Note that the software that implements the information processing apparatus according to the present embodiment is the following program. That is, in this program, the storage medium is information input by two or more users and transmitted from two or more terminal devices, and is associated with position-related information that is information about the position and one or more attribute information. A user-provided information storage unit capable of storing two or more user-provided information, and an area receiving unit that receives area information, which is information relating to an output map area, and the area receiving unit A selection unit that selects, from the user-provided information storage unit, one or more user-provided information associated with position-related information corresponding to the region information, and a user that transmits the one or more user-provided information selected by the selection unit It is a program for functioning as a provision information transmission part.

  The program further includes a user context receiving unit that receives one or more user contexts that are information related to a user's environment, and the selection unit includes position related information corresponding to the region information received by the region receiving unit, and Causing the computer to function as selecting one or more user-provided information associated with one or more attribute information corresponding to one or more user contexts received by the user context receiving unit from the user-provided information storage unit That is preferred.

  In the above program, the user-provided information transmitting unit transmits one or more sets of the user-provided information selected by the selecting unit and the position-related information associated with the user-provided information. It is preferable to function.

  In the above program, the user-provided information is also associated with category information indicating a category of the user-provided information, and further includes a category information receiving unit that receives category information, and the selection unit is responsive to the map output instruction. Corresponding to position-related information corresponding to an output map area, one or more attribute information corresponding to one or more user contexts received by the user context receiving unit, and category information received by the category information receiving unit It is preferable to make the computer function as selecting one or more pieces of user provided information from the user provided information storage unit.

  Moreover, the software which implement | achieves the terminal device in this Embodiment is the following programs. In other words, the program causes the computer to receive a region information acquisition unit that acquires region information that is information about a region of the displayed map, a terminal transmission unit that transmits the region information to the information processing device, and transmission of the region information. Corresponding to the terminal, a program for functioning as a terminal receiving unit that receives one or more user-provided information from the information processing apparatus and a terminal output unit that outputs the one or more user-provided information received by the terminal receiving unit It is.

  The program further includes a terminal processing unit that acquires one or more user contexts, and the terminal transmission unit includes the region information and the one or more user contexts according to any one of claims 6 to 9. It is preferable to make a computer function as what is transmitted to the described information processing apparatus.

  The program further includes a terminal receiving unit that receives a map output instruction that is an instruction to output a map, and the terminal output unit causes the computer to function as a unit that outputs a map in response to the map output instruction. That is preferred.

  In the above program, the terminal reception unit receives one or more sets of user-provided information and position-related information from the information processing apparatus in response to the transmission of the area information, and the terminal output unit includes: The one or more user-provided information or the presence information indicating that the one or more user-provided information exists is output in association with the position on the map indicated by the position-related information associated with each user-provided information. As such, it is preferable to have a computer function.

  In the above embodiment, an example of a method for acquiring a user provision information management table (for example, see FIG. 4) from one or more pieces of user provision information will be described.

  First, a method in which an analysis unit (not shown) or an analysis device (not shown) determines category information corresponding to user-provided information will be described. The analysis unit or the analysis device holds, for example, a category determination table shown in FIG. The category judgment table has “category” and “clue word”. The analysis unit or the analysis device determines a category to which the user-provided information belongs by using clue words (for example, “world heritage”, “scenery”, “museum”, etc.) as features of machine learning. For example, the analysis unit or the analysis device sets the element corresponding to the clue word included in each user-provided information as “1” and the element “0” corresponding to the clue word included in each user-provided information. Create a vector for. Next, a large number of user-provided information (vectors thereof) whose categories are determined manually are learned, and the category to which the user-provided information belongs is determined using machine learning (for example, SVM). Since machine learning is a known technique, a detailed description thereof is omitted. Also, a machine learning algorithm (for example, a decision tree) other than SVM may be used.

  Further, the analysis unit or the analysis device may extract the place name, the scenic spot, the prefecture name, the municipality name, or the like from the user-provided information, and use it as position related information. In addition, the analysis unit or the analysis device may acquire position information (latitude, longitude) added to the user-provided information as position related information.

  Further, the analysis unit or the analysis device may acquire the time zone from the time added to the user-provided information using the correspondence table between the time and the time zone or the correspondence table between the term and the time zone. The correspondence table of time and time zone is, for example, “5am to 11:29 (morning), 11:30 to 16:49 (daytime), 17:00 to 18:59 (evening), 19:00 23:59 (night), 24:00 to 4:49 (midnight) ". The correspondence table between terms and time zones includes information such as “lunch (noon), tavern (night), liquor (night), morning coffee (morning)” and the like.

  In addition, the analysis unit or the analysis device acquires the time from the date added to the user-provided information using the correspondence table between the date and time (season) or the correspondence table between the term and time (season). Also good. The correspondence table between date and time is, for example, “December to February (winter), March to May (spring), June to August (summer), September to November (autumn)”, etc. Have information. The correspondence table between terms and time (season) includes information such as “ski (winter), sea opening (summer), cherry blossom (spring)” and the like.

  In addition, the analysis unit or the analysis device may acquire the internal / external information (indoor / outdoor) from the terms included in the user-provided information using a correspondence table between the terms and the internal / external information. The correspondence table between the term and the inside / outside information includes information such as “boring (indoor), table tennis (indoor), soccer (outdoor)” and the like.

  Moreover, it can be said that the technique in the said embodiment is the search technique of the user provided information using a map, and an output technique. That is, it can be said that this technique is a technique for acquiring area information from map information and searching for one or more user-provided information corresponding to the area information.

  FIG. 17 shows the external appearance of a computer that executes the program described in this specification to realize the information processing apparatus, the terminal apparatus, or the server apparatus according to the various embodiments described above. The above-described embodiments can be realized by computer hardware and a computer program executed thereon. FIG. 17 is an overview diagram of the computer system 300, and FIG. 18 is a block diagram of the system 300.

  In FIG. 17, a computer system 300 includes a computer 301 including a CD-ROM drive, a keyboard 302, a mouse 303, and a monitor 304.

  In FIG. 18, a computer 301 includes an MPU 3013, a bus 3014, a ROM 3015, a RAM 3016, and a hard disk 3017 in addition to a CD-ROM drive 3012. The bus 3014 is connected to the MPU 3013 and the CD-ROM drive 3012. The ROM 3015 stores a program such as a bootup program. The RAM 3016 is connected to the MPU 3013 and temporarily stores application program instructions and provides a temporary storage space. The hard disk 3017 is for storing application programs, system programs, and data. Although not shown here, the computer 301 may further include a network card that provides connection to a LAN.

  A program that causes the computer system 300 to execute the functions of the information processing apparatus according to the above-described embodiment may be stored in the CD-ROM 3101, inserted into the CD-ROM drive 3012, and further transferred to the hard disk 3017. Alternatively, the program may be transmitted to the computer 301 via a network (not shown) and stored in the hard disk 3017. The program is loaded into the RAM 3016 at the time of execution. The program may be loaded directly from the CD-ROM 3101 or the network.

  The program does not necessarily include an operating system or a third-party program that causes the computer 301 to execute the functions of the information processing apparatus according to the above-described embodiment. The program only needs to include an instruction portion that calls an appropriate function (module) in a controlled manner and obtains a desired result. How the computer system 300 operates is well known and will not be described in detail.

  In the above program, in the step of transmitting information, the step of receiving information, etc., processing performed by hardware, for example, processing performed by a modem or an interface card in the transmitting step (only performed by hardware). Not included).

  Further, the computer that executes the program may be singular or plural. That is, centralized processing may be performed, or distributed processing may be performed.

  Further, in each of the above embodiments, it goes without saying that two or more communication units existing in one apparatus may be physically realized by one medium.

  In each of the above embodiments, each process (each function) may be realized by centralized processing by a single device (system), or by distributed processing by a plurality of devices. May be.

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications are possible, and it goes without saying that these are also included in the scope of the present invention.

  As described above, the information processing apparatus according to the present invention has an effect of outputting appropriate user-provided information, and is useful as a web system including a map.

1, 2 Information system 11, 21 Information processing device 12, 20 Terminal device 13 External device 22 Server device 111 User-provided information storage unit 112 Map information storage unit 113 Instruction reception unit 114 User context reception unit 115, 215 Selection unit 116 Map output Unit 117 User-provided information output unit 121, 201 Terminal reception unit 122, 207 Terminal processing unit 123, 202 Terminal transmission unit 124, 203 Terminal reception unit 125, 204 Terminal output unit 131 External reception unit 132 External processing unit 133 External transmission unit 205 Map recognition unit 206 Region information acquisition unit 212 Region reception unit 213 User context reception unit 214 Category information reception unit 216 User provided information transmission unit 220 Server storage unit 221 Server reception unit 222 Server processing unit 223 Server transmission unit

Claims (19)

Stores two or more user-provided information that is input by two or more users and transmitted from two or more terminal devices, and is associated with position-related information that is information about the position and one or more attribute information A user-provided information storage unit to obtain;
A map information storage unit capable of storing map information;
An instruction receiving unit that receives a map output instruction that is an instruction to output a map;
A user context accepting unit that accepts one or more user contexts that are information about the user's environment;
One or more user provisions associated with one or more attribute information corresponding to one or more user contexts received by the user context receiving unit and position-related information corresponding to a map area output by the map output instruction A selection unit for selecting information from the user-provided information storage unit;
In response to receiving the map output instruction, a map output unit that outputs a map using map information corresponding to the map output instruction;
An information processing apparatus comprising: one or more user-provided information selected by the selection unit or a user-provided information output unit that outputs presence information indicating that there is one or more user-provided information selected by the selection unit. The user provided information output unit includes:
Position related information associated with each user-provided information indicates presence information indicating that there is one or more user-provided information selected by the selection unit or one or more user-provided information selected by the selection unit. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information processing apparatus outputs the information in association with a position on the map. The user-provided information is
It is also associated with category information indicating the category of the user-provided information,
The instruction receiving unit
Accept category information,
The selection unit includes:
Position-related information corresponding to a map area output by the map output instruction, one or more attribute information corresponding to one or more user contexts received by the user context receiving unit, and a category received by the instruction receiving unit The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein one or more user-provided information associated with information is selected from the user-provided information storage unit. The user-provided information is
It is also associated with category information indicating the category of the user-provided information,
The user provided information output unit includes:
The information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the user-provided information or the presence information of the user-provided information is output in a form in which the category information of the user-provided information is visually recognizable. The one or more attribute information is:
One or more of time zone information about time zone, weather information about weather, inside / outside information indicating indoor or outdoor, or time information about time,
The one or more user contexts are:
The information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the information processing apparatus is one or more pieces of information including time information indicating time, weather information, or date information indicating a day. Stores two or more user-provided information that is input by two or more users and transmitted from two or more terminal devices, and is associated with position-related information that is information about the position and one or more attribute information A user-provided information storage unit to obtain;
An area receiving unit that receives area information that is information about the area of the map to be output;
A selection unit that selects one or more user-provided information associated with position-related information corresponding to the region information received by the region receiving unit from the user-provided information storage unit;
An information processing apparatus comprising: a user provision information transmission unit that transmits one or more pieces of user provision information selected by the selection unit. A user context receiver that receives one or more user contexts that are information about the user's environment;
The selection unit includes:
Position related information corresponding to the area information received by the area receiving unit, and one or more user-provided information associated with one or more attribute information corresponding to one or more user contexts received by the user context receiving unit The information processing apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the information is selected from the user-provided information storage unit. The user-provided information transmitting unit
The information processing apparatus according to claim 6 or 7, wherein one or more sets of user-provided information selected by the selection unit and position-related information associated with the user-provided information are transmitted. The user-provided information is
It is also associated with category information indicating the category of the user-provided information,
A category information receiving unit for receiving category information;
The selection unit includes:
Position related information corresponding to a map area output by the map output instruction, one or more attribute information corresponding to one or more user contexts received by the user context receiving unit, and the category information receiving unit The information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 6 to 8, wherein one or more pieces of user-provided information associated with category information are selected from the user-provided information storage unit. An area information acquisition unit that acquires area information that is information related to the area of the map to be displayed;
A terminal transmitter that transmits the region information to the information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 6 to 9;
In response to the transmission of the area information, a terminal receiving unit that receives one or more user-provided information from the information processing apparatus;
A terminal device comprising: a terminal output unit that outputs one or more pieces of user-provided information received by the terminal reception unit. A terminal processing unit for acquiring one or more user contexts;
The terminal transmitter is
The information processing apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the area information and the one or more user contexts are transmitted to the information processing apparatus according to claim 6. A terminal reception unit that receives a map output instruction that is an instruction to output a map;
The terminal output unit
The terminal device according to claim 10 or 11, which also outputs a map in response to the map output instruction. The terminal receiver is
In response to the transmission of the area information, one or more sets of user-provided information and position-related information are received from the information processing device,
The terminal output unit
The one or more user-provided information or the presence information indicating that the one or more user-provided information exists is output in association with the position on the map indicated by the position-related information associated with each user-provided information. The terminal device according to any one of claims 10 to 12. The recording medium is
Stores two or more user-provided information that is input by two or more users and transmitted from two or more terminal devices, and is associated with position-related information that is information about the position and one or more attribute information A user-provided information storage unit to obtain;
A map information storage unit capable of storing map information;
An information processing method realized by an instruction reception unit, a user context reception unit, a selection unit, a map output unit, and a user-provided information output unit,
An instruction receiving step in which the instruction receiving unit receives a map output instruction which is an instruction to output a map;
A user context accepting step in which the user context accepting unit accepts one or more user contexts which are information on the user's environment;
The selection unit is associated with position-related information corresponding to a map area output by the map output instruction and one or more attribute information corresponding to one or more user contexts received in the user context receiving step. Selecting one or more user-provided information from the user-provided information storage unit;
The map output unit outputs a map using map information corresponding to the map output instruction in response to receiving the map output instruction;
The user provision information output unit outputs the presence information indicating that there is one or more user provision information selected in the selection step or one or more user provision information selected in the selection step. An information processing method comprising steps. The recording medium is
Stores two or more user-provided information that is input by two or more users and transmitted from two or more terminal devices, and is associated with position-related information that is information about the position and one or more attribute information A user-provided information storage unit,
An information processing method realized by an area reception unit, a selection unit, and a user-provided information transmission unit,
An area receiving step in which the area receiving unit receives area information which is information relating to an area of the output map;
A selection step in which the selection unit selects, from the user provision information storage unit, one or more pieces of user provision information associated with position related information corresponding to the region information received in the region reception step;
An information processing method comprising: a user-provided information transmitting step in which the user-provided information transmitting unit transmits one or more pieces of user-provided information selected in the selecting step. An information processing method realized by an area information acquisition unit, a terminal transmission unit, a terminal reception unit, and a terminal output unit,
An area information acquisition step in which the area information acquisition unit acquires area information that is information relating to an area of a map to be displayed;
A terminal transmission step in which the terminal transmission unit transmits the region information to an information processing device;
A terminal receiving step in which the terminal receiving unit receives one or more pieces of user-provided information from the information processing apparatus in response to the transmission of the area information;
An information processing method comprising: a terminal output step in which the terminal output unit outputs one or more pieces of user-provided information received in the terminal reception step. The recording medium is
Stores two or more user-provided information that is input by two or more users and transmitted from two or more terminal devices, and is associated with position-related information that is information about the position and one or more attribute information A user-provided information storage unit to obtain;
A map information storage unit capable of storing map information;
Computer
An instruction receiving unit that receives a map output instruction that is an instruction to output a map;
A user context accepting unit that accepts one or more user contexts that are information about the user's environment;
One or more user provisions associated with one or more attribute information corresponding to one or more user contexts received by the user context receiving unit and position-related information corresponding to a map area output by the map output instruction A selection unit for selecting information from the user-provided information storage unit;
In response to receiving the map output instruction, a map output unit that outputs a map using map information corresponding to the map output instruction;
A program for functioning as a user provided information output unit that outputs one or more user provided information selected by the selection unit or presence information indicating that there is one or more user provided information selected by the selection unit. The storage medium is
Stores two or more user-provided information that is input by two or more users and transmitted from two or more terminal devices, and is associated with position-related information that is information about the position and one or more attribute information A user-provided information storage unit,
Computer
An area receiving unit that receives area information that is information about the area of the map to be output;
A selection unit that selects one or more user-provided information associated with position-related information corresponding to the region information received by the region receiving unit from the user-provided information storage unit;
The program for functioning as a user provision information transmission part which transmits the 1 or more user provision information which the said selection part selected. Computer
An area information acquisition unit that acquires area information that is information about the area of the map to be displayed;
A terminal transmitter that transmits the region information to the information processing device;
In response to the transmission of the area information, a terminal receiving unit that receives one or more user-provided information from the information processing apparatus;
The program for functioning as a terminal output part which outputs the 1 or more user provision information which the said terminal receiving part received.