JP2017174227A - Information providing device, user terminal and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique that allows a user to accurately acquire necessary information at a location where the user is present.SOLUTION: An information providing device providing user terminals with information via a network comprises: means that receives location information on the user terminal from the user terminal, determines whether the user terminal exists within a range of a first distance from an information providing location on the basis of the location information, and when determining that the user terminal exists within the range of the first distance, transmits location information on the information providing location to the user terminal; and means that, when it is determined in the user terminal that the user terminal exists within a range of a second distance from the information providing location, receives an information request from the user terminal, and transmits information to the user terminal on the basis of the information request.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

Description

  The present invention relates to a technique for providing information from an information providing apparatus to a user terminal.

  With the spread of the Internet, users can obtain a variety of information. However, in the daily actions of the user, the desired information is not always obtained when it is desired.

  For example, when a user goes on a trip, he does n’t know what the object is in front of him, does n’t know that he ’s using a lot of time, and that he really has useful information. It often passes by.

  As a prior art related to the above, there is a method in which an information provider provides information to a user at a short distance, as described in Patent Document 1, for example.

  However, when the information provider provides information to users at a short distance, the user who receives the information cannot receive information that is not desired in the place where he / she is, or cannot receive useful information immediately for the current interest. There are many cases.

JP 2015-033111

  The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to provide a technique that enables a user to accurately acquire information required in a place where the user is present.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, an information providing apparatus that provides information to a user terminal via a network,
The position information of the user terminal is received from the user terminal, and based on the position information, it is determined whether or not the user terminal exists within a first distance range from the information providing location, and the first distance Means for transmitting the location information of the information providing location to the user terminal when it is determined that it is within the range of:
In the user terminal, when it is determined that the user terminal is within the second distance from the information providing location, the user terminal receives an information request from the user terminal, and based on the information request, the user terminal And an information providing apparatus characterized by comprising: means for transmitting information.

  According to the embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to provide a technique that allows a user to accurately acquire information required in a place where the user is present.

It is a figure for demonstrating an information provision permissible area and an information acquisition permissible area. It is a figure for demonstrating the pattern of the relationship between an information provision permissible area and an information acquisition permissible area. It is a system configuration figure in an embodiment of the invention. FIG. 3 is a sequence diagram of the first embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of the information stored in server DB23 and terminal DB15 in Example 1. FIG. FIG. 10 is a sequence diagram of the second embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of the information stored in server DB23 in Example 2. FIG. FIG. 10 is a sequence diagram of the third embodiment. FIG. 10 is a sequence diagram of the fourth embodiment.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. The embodiment described below is only an example, and the embodiment to which the present invention is applied is not limited to the following embodiment.

(Overview of information provision operation)
In the present embodiment, basically, when a user holding a user terminal approaches a predetermined information providing place, information related to the information providing place is provided to the user terminal and displayed.

  The information providing place is not limited to a specific place, but is, for example, a store, a park, a predetermined geographical spot, or the like. The information provided to the user terminal is not limited to specific information. For example, if the information providing place is a store, the information is a coupon, and if the information providing place is a park, the information is a description.

  By providing the information as described above, the information provider side can limit the range in which the information is provided. For example, the information provider can call the user into an information provision place (eg, a store). Furthermore, in this Embodiment, it is supposed that the range which can acquire information on the user side (information acquirer side) is limited. By limiting the range in which information can be acquired, for example, the user can obtain information that is immediately useful for the current interest, can act quickly, and can solve the question.

  In order to realize the above information provision / information acquisition, the present embodiment uses the concept of the information provision allowable area and the information acquisition allowable area shown in FIG. In the present embodiment, the information provision allowable area and the information acquisition allowable area are each circular, but this is an example, and the shape of the area may not be circular. Below, it demonstrates as circular. As will be described later, each of the information provision allowable area and the information acquisition allowable area may be a three-dimensional area. In this case, for example, each area has a spherical shape.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the information provision allowable area is an area having a radius D centered on the position Ps of the information provision place (referred to as information provision position Ps), and the information acquisition allowable area is the user terminal 10 (user This is an area having a radius S centering on a position Pu (called a user terminal position Pu) of the possessing communication device). Further, in FIG. 1, the distance between the information providing position Ps and the user terminal position Pu is indicated as M.

  In the present embodiment, when the user terminal 10 exists in the information provision allowable area and the information provision position Ps exists in the information acquisition allowable area, the user terminal 10 acquires and displays information. . In the example of FIG. 1, since the user terminal 10 is located outside the information provision allowable area, information cannot be acquired.

  FIG. 2 shows patterns (1) to (4) of the relationship between the information provision allowable area and the information acquisition allowable area.

  The case of (1) is the same as the case of FIG. 1, and the user terminal 10 cannot acquire information. In the case of (2), the user terminal 10 (user terminal position Pu) exists in the information provision allowable area, but the user terminal 10 cannot acquire information because the information provision position Ps is outside the information acquisition allowable area.

  In the case of (3), since the user terminal 10 exists in the information provision allowable area and the information provision position Ps is in the information acquisition allowable area, the user terminal 10 can acquire information. In the case of (4), although the information provision position Ps is within the information acquisition allowable area, the user terminal 10 cannot acquire information because the user terminal 10 exists outside the information provision allowable area.

  In this embodiment, as an example, the information provider allowable area is set by the information provider, and the information acquisition allowable area is set by the user. Examples of setting policies for each area will be described below.

<Setting example of information provision allowable area>
(1) When the information provider wants to provide information to as many users as possible, the allowable area is set large (eg, global).

  (2) When an information provider wants to call into a store for a user near the information provision place, information provision is permitted for information important to the user nearby (eg, route guidance at a branch point). Set the area to about 10m and set the distance to the line of sight.

  (3) In order to provide plant information to the user while the user is walking in a large park, the information provision allowable area is set to several meters so that the user does not lose sight of the object. The narrower the range, the easier it will be to accurately grasp the target object.

<Setting example of information acquisition allowable area>
(1) A user who wants to acquire information sets the size of the information acquisition allowable area according to the target information and the range in which the user can act.

  (2) For example, when walking in the above park and expecting information on what is seen near a rose or the like, the information acquisition allowable area is set narrow. Thereby, the information on the rose of interest in front of the eyes can be obtained accurately.

  (3) For example, when you are walking in a large park and feel that you want to eat or drink, restaurant information within 500 m can be acquired by setting the information acquisition allowable area to about 500 m.

  1 and 2 are expressed in two dimensions (planar) for convenience, but Ps and Pu are set to three-dimensional positions (eg, latitude, longitude, altitude), and D, S, and M are three-dimensional. It is good also as long distance (distance which considered not only the horizontal direction but the vertical direction). Thus, even in the case of three dimensions, the pattern of the relationship between the information provision allowable area (three-dimensional area) and the information acquisition allowable area (three-dimensional area) is as described in FIG.

  Hereinafter, a specific system configuration for realizing the above-described information provision / acquisition control and an example of the operation of the system will be described.

(System configuration)
FIG. 3 shows a configuration example of the system in the present embodiment. As shown in FIG. 3, the system has a configuration in which the user terminal 10 and the information providing apparatus 20 are connected via a network 30.

  The user terminal 10 is a mobile terminal having a communication function such as a smartphone or a tablet, for example. Further, the user terminal 10 may be a glasses-type AR terminal. The network 30 is a network including a mobile network having a wireless LAN-AP, a cellular base station, and the like, for example. The information providing apparatus 20 is a Web server or an application server, for example, and includes a function for providing information to the user terminal 10. In the example of FIG. 3, it is assumed that the information providing apparatus 20 provides information of various information providers, but the information providing apparatus 20 may be provided for each information provider.

  As illustrated in FIG. 3, the user terminal 10 includes a communication unit 11, a display operation unit 12, a position information acquisition unit 13, a processing control unit 14, and a database 15. The communication unit 11 transmits / receives data to / from other devices via the network 30. The display operation unit 12 is a functional unit having a touch panel, for example, and displays information and accepts an operation from the user. The display operation unit 12 may be a function unit in which a display function and an operation function are separated, such as a display and a keyboard / mouse.

  The position information acquisition unit 13 acquires the position information (for example, latitude and longitude) of the user terminal 10 itself using, for example, GPS. In addition, the acquisition method of position information is not restricted to GPS. For example, the position information may be acquired from the ID of the wireless LAN-AP to be connected, or the position information may be acquired from the ID of the base station to be connected. Further, as described later in the third embodiment, by installing a transmitting device that transmits an ID at the information providing position Ps, the position information acquisition unit 13 is based on the received radio wave intensity when receiving the ID from the transmitting device. Thus, the distance from the information providing position Ps may be grasped. This distance is a three-dimensional distance.

  The position information acquisition unit 13 can also acquire the three-dimensional position (eg, latitude, longitude, altitude) of the user terminal 10. The method for acquiring the three-dimensional position is not limited to a specific method. For example, there is a method for specifying latitude / longitude by GPS and acquiring altitude corresponding to the latitude / longitude from a predetermined map information database. In addition, the position information acquisition unit 13 includes a camera, and captures a surrounding object, thereby transmitting an image of the object to a predetermined server, and the server transmits a three-dimensional position as additional information associated with the object. Even if the three-dimensional position of the user terminal (camera) is calculated from the information and the image of the object, and the three-dimensional position is acquired using a mechanism that returns the information of the three-dimensional position to the position information acquisition unit 13. Good. Such a mechanism can be realized by using, for example, an angle-free object search technique that is a known technique.

  In the first, second, and fourth embodiments, the user terminal 10 can set a three-dimensional distance between itself and the information providing position Ps by installing a transmitting device that transmits an ID at the information providing position Ps. Can be grasped.

  The process control unit 14 controls processes related to information acquisition. The database 15 is a storage unit that stores various data such as a table that is referred to when information is acquired. Since the contents of control by the processing control unit 14 and the contents of the database 15 are different for each embodiment, details will be described in each embodiment. Hereinafter, the database 15 is referred to as “terminal DB 15”.

  The user terminal 10 according to the present embodiment can be realized, for example, by causing a computer (including a mobile phone, a smartphone, or the like) to execute a program that describes the processing content described in the present embodiment. In other words, the functions of the user terminal 10 can be realized by executing a program corresponding to processing executed on the user terminal 10 using hardware resources such as a CPU and a memory built in the computer. It is. Further, the program can be recorded on a computer-readable recording medium (portable memory or the like), stored, or distributed. It is also possible to provide the program through a network such as the Internet or electronic mail.

  As illustrated in FIG. 3, the information providing apparatus 20 includes a communication unit 21, a processing control unit 22, and a database 23. The communication unit 21 transmits / receives data to / from other devices via the network 30. The process control unit 22 controls processes related to information provision. The database 23 is a storage unit that stores various data such as a table to be referred to when providing information. Since the contents of control by the processing control unit 22 and the contents of the database 23 are different for each embodiment, details will be described in each embodiment. Hereinafter, the database 23 is referred to as a “server DB 23”.

  The information providing apparatus 20 according to the present embodiment can be realized, for example, by causing one or a plurality of computers to execute a program describing the processing contents described in the present embodiment. In other words, the function of the information providing apparatus 20 is realized by executing a program corresponding to processing executed in the information providing apparatus 20 using hardware resources such as a CPU and a memory built in the computer. Is possible. Further, the program can be recorded on a computer-readable recording medium (portable memory or the like), stored, or distributed. It is also possible to provide the program through a network such as the Internet or electronic mail.

  Hereinafter, Examples 1 to 4 will be described as specific operation examples of each device in the system. The information providing apparatus 20 and the user terminal 10 may each include all the functions of the first to fourth embodiments, or may include the functions of any one or a plurality of embodiments. In the following embodiments, the positions of Ps, Pu, etc. may be two-dimensional positions or three-dimensional positions.

Example 1
First, Example 1 is demonstrated along the procedure shown in the sequence diagram of FIG. Here, for example, a situation is assumed in which a user having the user terminal 10 is moving in an outdoor area.

  The position information acquisition unit 13 of the user terminal 10 acquires the position information of the user terminal 10 and transmits the position information from the communication unit 11 to the information providing apparatus 20 (step S101). This position information transmission process is automatically performed, for example, at regular time intervals. However, the location information transmission process is performed only when the user who recognizes that the service of the present embodiment is used performs a location information transmission permission operation on the display operation unit 12. Also good.

  In the information providing apparatus 20 that has received the position information from the user terminal 10, the processing control unit 22 refers to the table stored in the server DB 23, so that the user terminal 10 is within the information provision allowable area of any information provider. It is determined whether or not it exists.

  FIG. 5A is a diagram illustrating an example of a table stored in the server DB 23 in the first embodiment. In the example shown in FIG. 5A, the table shows, for each information provider (company, individual, etc.), the type of information, the distance D from the information provision position Ps indicating the information provision allowable area, and the information provision position Ps. Including. The entity of information may be stored in a table, or may be obtained from another server and provided. As other information, you may have information provision possible time (example: 10: 00-17: 00, etc.). In addition, a plurality of entries in which a part of the information provision allowable area overlaps may have a priority order. The priority order can be specified from the user terminal 10, for example. Note that only a plurality of entries having a relationship in which a part of the information provision allowable area overlaps may be included in the priority order, and a plurality of priorities may be set regardless of whether or not a part of the information provision allowable area overlaps. It is good also as having priority between entries. A specific processing example is as follows.

  For example, when a predetermined operation is performed by the user on the display operation unit 12 of the user terminal 10, a priority setting request is transmitted from the user terminal 10 to the information providing apparatus 20. The process control unit 22 of the information providing apparatus 20 that has received the priority setting request identifies a plurality of entries for which priority setting is to be made from the server DB 23 (eg, FIG. 5A), and displays “information provision” of the plurality of entries. The user and the information ”are returned to the user terminal 10. The plurality of entries that are targets of priority setting are, for example, a plurality of entries that have a relationship in which a part of the information provision allowable area overlaps. Further, the plurality of entries for which priority order is set may be a plurality of entries having a position Ps within a predetermined distance from the current position of the user terminal 10.

  On the display operation unit 12 of the user terminal 10 that has received multiple entries of “information provider and information”, a list of “information provider and information” and a priority entry field (may be a selection field) are displayed. . When the priority order for each “information provider and information” is input (selected) by the user, the priority order information is transmitted from the user terminal 10 to the information providing apparatus 20. Since the priority information is individual user information, it is stored in an area corresponding to the user terminal 10 in the database 23 of the information providing apparatus 20. Regarding the designation of the priority order, the same priority order can be designated among a plurality of “information providers and information”. This means that any of a plurality of “information providers and information” may be specified.

  As a situation in which priority is designated from the user terminal 10, for example, when a user wants to eat in the evening, he / she wants to acquire meal information, but the company at that time designates one or a plurality of restaurant names as high priority. , You may specify that you can go anywhere in the restaurant. Information that matches the conditions is sent from the information providing apparatus 20 to the user terminal 10.

  The processing control unit 22 of the information providing apparatus 20 determines the distance between the user terminal 10 and the information providing position Ps for each entry of the table based on the position information of the user terminal 10 and the information providing position Ps of the table. By calculating and determining whether or not the distance is smaller than the distance D, it is determined whether or not the user terminal 10 exists in the information provision allowable area with respect to the information provision of the entry.

  In step S102 of FIG. 4, the process control unit 22 of the information providing apparatus 20 determines that the user terminal 10 exists in the information provision allowable area in one entry of the table. If there are a plurality of entries in which it is determined that the user terminal 10 exists in the information provision allowable area, for example, the one with the higher priority is selected. Or it is good also as selecting the thing with the minimum distance between the user terminal 10 and the information provision position Ps. Further, when there are a plurality of entries determined that the user terminal 10 exists in the information provision allowable area, the plurality of entries may be selected. In this case, for each of the plurality of entries, position information notification of the information provision position Ps described below and determination within the information acquisition allowable area at the user terminal 10 are performed.

  In step S103, the process control unit 22 of the information providing apparatus 20 acquires the position information of the information providing position Ps from the corresponding entry, and the position information of the information providing position Ps and the ID of the information provider (which information provider is the information provider). Information) and / or an ID indicating the type of information is transmitted to the user terminal 10.

  Note that the position information transmission from the user terminal 10 and the determination by the information providing apparatus 20 are continuously performed. For example, when the user terminal 10 exits from the information provision allowable area after entering the information provision permissible area, information indicating that the user terminal 10 has exited the information provision permissible area from the information provision apparatus 20 to the user terminal 10. Sent. As a result, the user terminal 10 can determine that it is not necessary to determine whether or not the information provision position Ps exists in the information acquisition allowable area for the information provision allowable area.

  In the user terminal 10 that has received the position information of the information provision position Ps in step S103 of FIG. 4, the processing control unit 14 refers to the table stored in the terminal DB 15, so that the information provision position Ps is the information acquisition allowable area. It is determined whether or not it exists inside.

  FIG. 5B shows an example of a table stored in the terminal DB 15 in the first embodiment. In the example shown in FIG. 5B, the table includes, for each information provider (company, individual, etc.), the type of information and the distance S from the position Pu of the user terminal 10 representing the information acquisition allowable area. Other information may include information acquisition time (eg, 10:00 to 17:00).

  In the example of FIG. 5B, the distance S is recorded in the table for each information provider / information, but the distance S is set uniformly regardless of the type of information provider / information. Also good. Further, the distance S may be set for each type of information provider (store, public place, individual, etc.).

  The process control unit 14 of the user terminal 10 identifies an entry in the table based on the ID of the information provider received in step S103 and the ID indicating the type of provided information, and acquires the distance S from the entry. Then, the processing control unit 14 calculates the distance between the current position of the user terminal 10 and the information providing position Ps, and determines whether the distance is smaller than the distance S, thereby providing the information providing position Ps. It is determined whether or not has entered the information acquisition allowable area.

  If it is determined in step S104 that the information providing position Ps has entered the information acquisition allowable area, the processing control unit 14 transmits an information request to the information providing apparatus 20 via the communication unit 11 in step S105. The information request includes, for example, an information provider ID and an ID indicating the type of provided information. However, this may not be included. If not included, the information providing apparatus 20 determines which information is provided based on the current position of the user terminal 10.

  In the information providing apparatus 20 that has received the information request in step S105, the processing control unit 22 acquires information to be provided to the user terminal 10 from the table based on the information provider ID and the like included in the information request. Information is transmitted to the user terminal 10 (step S106). Then, information is displayed on the user terminal 10.

  In the above procedure, the user terminal 10 that has received the information provider and information type information in step S103 may display the information provider and information type. Then, the user confirms the information provider and the information type, and if the information is not desired, the user may select not to receive the information substantially, for example, by making the distance S very small. Good. In addition, if the information is desired, the distance S may be set larger to make it easier to receive the information.

  When using a three-dimensional position, information corresponding to various heights of the user terminal 10 is stored for each entry of the table stored in the server DB 23 (FIG. 5A). The process control unit 22 may acquire information corresponding to the height of the current position of the user terminal 10 and transmit the information to the user terminal 10. Thereby, for example, it is possible to obtain different information (for example, an image for adults, an image for children) that is different between adults and children at the same information providing position Ps.

<Registering information in the table>
The information in the table of the server DB 23 shown in FIG. 5A is input by an information provider by connecting to the information providing apparatus 20 from a management terminal or the like. Further, for example, a photograph taken by a personal user may be transmitted from the smartphone to the information providing apparatus 20 and registered together with the position information (corresponding to Ps) and the distance D of the smartphone.

  As for the information in the terminal DB 15 shown in FIG. 5B, for example, the user of the user terminal 10 first uses the user terminal 10 to obtain table information in which the distance S is blank in a predetermined server (the information providing apparatus 20). Good) and register it in the terminal DB 15. Then, an interface screen on which the distance S can be input for each information provider / information is displayed on the display operation unit 12, and the user inputs the distance S.

(Example 2)
Next, the processing operation of the second embodiment will be described along the procedure shown in the sequence diagram of FIG. In the following, differences from the first embodiment will be mainly described.

  In step S <b> 201, the user terminal 10 transmits position information to the information providing apparatus 20 as in step S <b> 101 of the first embodiment.

  In the information providing apparatus 20 that has received the position information from the user terminal 10, the processing control unit 22 refers to the table stored in the server DB 23, so that the user terminal 10 is within the information provision allowable area of any information provider. And the information providing position Ps is determined in the information acquisition allowable area.

  FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a table stored in the server DB 23 in the second embodiment. As shown in FIG. 7, in the second embodiment, a common table similar to the table stored in the server DB 23 of the first embodiment and a personal table similar to the table stored in the terminal DB 15 of the first embodiment are used as the server. Stored in the DB 23. A personal table is provided for each user. The contents of each table are as described in the first embodiment. As for table settings, the common table is the same as the table of the server DB 23 of the first embodiment. As for the personal table, each user accesses the information providing apparatus 20 from the user terminal and sets the distance S and the like.

  The process control unit 22 of the information providing apparatus 20 that has received the position information in step S201 first refers to the common table to determine whether or not the user terminal 10 exists in any information provision allowable area. If it is determined that the user terminal 10 exists, the personal table corresponding to the user terminal 10 is specified, and the personal table is referred to, and the information provision position Ps in the corresponding information provision allowable area and the user terminal 10 are identified. Is determined to be smaller than the distance S.

  As a result of the determination, if the information provision position Ps of the corresponding information provision allowable area is smaller than the distance S, the user terminal 10 exists in the information provision allowable area, and the information provision position Ps is the information acquisition allowable area. The processing control unit 22 of the information providing apparatus 20 transmits corresponding information from the communication unit 21 to the user terminal 10 (step S203). The user terminal 10 displays the information.

  Similarly to the case of the first embodiment, when a three-dimensional position is used, each entry of the common table (FIG. 7A) of the server DB 23 corresponds to various heights of the user terminal 10. Information may be stored, and the process control unit 22 may acquire information corresponding to the height of the current position of the user terminal 10 and transmit the information to the user terminal 10.

(Example 3)
Next, the processing operation of the third embodiment will be described along the procedure shown in the sequence diagram of FIG. In the following, differences from the first embodiment will be mainly described. In the third embodiment, since the user terminal 10 does not need to acquire position information as in the first and second embodiments, the user may be in a moving vehicle such as a train.

  In the third embodiment, a transmitting device 40 that transmits an ID is installed at the information providing position Ps. The transmission device 40 is, for example, a small device using a short-range wireless technology with low power consumption. The radio field intensity when the transmission device 40 transmits the ID is known in the user terminal 10, or the radio field intensity is notified to the user terminal 10 together with the ID. That is, it is assumed that the user terminal 10 knows the transmission radio wave intensity of the transmission device 40. The ID is assumed to be an ID that can identify a specific entry in each table shown in FIGS. 5A and 5B (for example, an ID representing a service of a certain company). Moreover, the transmission device 40 continuously transmits IDs at predetermined time intervals.

  The table provided in each device in the third embodiment may be the same as that in the first embodiment. That is, for example, the server DB 23 holds a table as shown in FIG. 5A, and the terminal DB 15 holds a table as shown in FIG. 5B. However, in the third embodiment, when the user terminal 10 is able to receive the ID from the transmission device 40 (ID can be identified), the user terminal 10 is present in the information provision allowable area. The distance D in the table of DB23 may not be present. That is, the information provider who wants to widen the information provision allowable area sets the radio wave intensity of the transmission device 40 to a large value, and the information provider who wants to narrow the information provision allowable area sets the radio wave intensity of the transmission device 40 to a small value.

  In the third embodiment, the user terminal 10 may not include the position information acquisition unit 13. Further, the communication unit 11 includes a function of receiving and identifying an ID from the transmission device 40.

  In step S <b> 301 of FIG. 8, the ID is transmitted from the transmission device 40. When the communication unit 11 of the user terminal 10 receives (identifies) the ID, the processing control unit 14 of the user terminal 10 determines that the information provision allowable area has been entered. Next, the process control unit 14 of the user terminal 10 refers to the table of the terminal DB 15 to identify an entry corresponding to the received ID, and acquires the distance S from the entry.

  Then, the processing control unit 14 of the user terminal 10 determines the user terminal 10 and the information providing position Ps from the received radio wave intensity from the transmission device 40 measured by the communication unit 11 and the known transmission radio wave intensity of the transmission device 40. The distance between is estimated (calculated). Then, by determining whether or not the distance is smaller than the distance S, it is determined whether or not the user terminal 10 exists within the information acquisition allowable area.

  If it is determined in step S302 that the user terminal 10 is present in the information acquisition allowable area, the processing control unit 14 transmits an information request to the information providing apparatus 20 via the communication unit 11 in step S303. The information request includes the ID received from the transmission device 40.

  In the information providing apparatus 20 that has received the information request in step S303, the process control unit 22 identifies an entry in the table based on the ID included in the information request, and acquires information to be provided to the user terminal 10 from the entry. The information is transmitted to the user terminal 10 (step S304). Then, information is displayed on the user terminal 10 (step S305).

  In the third embodiment, the user terminal 10 may acquire the height of the user terminal 10 and transmit the height information to the information providing apparatus 20 together with the information request. Thereby, as in the first embodiment, the process control unit 22 of the information providing apparatus 20 can acquire information corresponding to the height of the current position of the user terminal 10 and transmit the information to the user terminal 10.

  In addition, although the example mentioned above of Example 3 is an example in which the user terminal 10 does not need to acquire position information, as described below, the user terminal 10 acquires position information and the like to provide information. It is good also as performing in-allowance area presence determination and information acquisition permissible area determination at once.

  In this case, the transmitting device 40 periodically transmits the information providing position Ps and the distance D together with the ID. The communication unit 11 of the user terminal 10 receives these pieces of information. These pieces of information are stored in storage means such as a memory. Then, the process control unit 14 includes the information provision position Ps, the distance D, the position information of the user terminal 10 acquired by the position information acquisition unit 13, and the distance S (S corresponding to the ID) held in the terminal DB 15. Based on the above, it is determined whether or not the condition “the user terminal 10 exists within the distance D from the information providing position Ps and the user terminal 10 exists within the distance S from the information providing position Ps” is satisfied. .

  If it is determined that the condition is satisfied, the process control unit 14 transmits an information request including an ID to the information providing apparatus 20 via the communication unit 11 and receives information corresponding to the ID from the information providing apparatus 20. To do. Then, information is displayed on the user terminal 10.

  Moreover, it is also possible to execute the above processing without using the transmission device 40.

  In this case, the information providing apparatus 20 periodically transmits information corresponding to the ID, the information providing position Ps, and the distance D together with the ID. The communication unit 11 of the user terminal 10 receives these pieces of information. These pieces of information are stored in storage means such as a memory. Then, the process control unit 14 includes the information provision position Ps, the distance D, the position information of the user terminal 10 acquired by the position information acquisition unit 13, and the distance S (S corresponding to the ID) held in the terminal DB 15. Based on the above, it is determined whether or not the condition “the user terminal 10 exists within the distance D from the information providing position Ps and the user terminal 10 exists within the distance S from the information providing position Ps” is satisfied.

  If it is determined that the condition is satisfied, the process control unit 14 causes the display operation unit 12 to display information corresponding to the ID held in the memory or the like. Thereby, the user can grasp the information. If the above condition is not satisfied, for example, information corresponding to the ID is deleted from the memory. In addition, when the condition is satisfied, instead of displaying information, the display operation unit 12 notifies the user that there is information corresponding to the ID by sound or an image (flashing icon, etc.). It is good. Thereafter, the user can display information by a predetermined operation.

Example 4
In the first and second embodiments, it is assumed that the information providing place (information providing position Ps) is fixed, but the information providing place may be moved. In the mechanism of the first embodiment (information provision allowable area determination on the server side and information acquisition allowable area determination on the terminal side), an embodiment where the information provision location moves will be described as a fourth embodiment. In the fourth embodiment, for example, a situation is assumed in which the information providing place is a moving advertisement car (place). The processing operation of the fourth embodiment will be described along the procedure shown in the sequence diagram of FIG. In the following, differences from the first embodiment will be mainly described. Further, as will be described below, when the information providing location moves, the mechanism for sequentially updating the information providing location (position Ps) can be similarly applied to the second embodiment.

  In the fourth embodiment, the location registration device 40 is provided in the information providing place. The position registration device 40 includes, for example, a position information acquisition unit similar to the position information acquisition unit 13 in the user terminal 10. The location registration device 40 provides information on its own location (that is, the information provision location Ps) acquired by the location information acquisition unit at a predetermined time interval together with the ID of the information provider and the ID indicating the type of provision information. It transmits to the apparatus 20 (step S401).

  Based on the location information received from the location registration device 40, the processing control unit 22 of the information providing device 20 updates the location Ps of the corresponding entry in the server DB 23 of FIG. This update is performed every time position information is received from the position registration device 40.

  Processing other than that the position Ps in the server DB 23 is updated at predetermined time intervals is the same as the processing already described in the first embodiment.

  That is, the user terminal 10 transmits its own location information to the information providing apparatus 20 (step S101), and when the information providing apparatus 20 determines that the user terminal 10 is within the information provision allowable area (step S102). The current location information (location Ps) of the information providing location is notified to the user terminal 10 (step S103). In the fourth embodiment, the notification in step S103 is performed every time the position Ps is updated.

  When the user terminal 10 determines that the position Ps is within the information acquisition allowable area (step S104), the information is acquired and displayed (steps S105 to S107).

  The update of the position Ps is not limited to the method using the position registration device 40 as described above. For example, an information provider who grasps the current position of an information providing place (for example, an advertisement car) by some method, the management terminal or the like from the information providing apparatus 20 determines the current position of the information providing place at a predetermined time interval. Information may be transmitted.

(Other examples)
For example, an individual or a company takes a 360 ° photograph (panoramic photograph) at the top of a mountain, and registers it as a position Ps in the table of the server DB 23 (FIG. 5A). Thereby, for example, even when the user is climbing in the rain, a panoramic image can be seen at the top.

  Also, by registering the branch point on the mountain road as the position Ps in the information providing apparatus 20 together with the information on the sign image, when the user walking on the mountain road approaches the point, the sign image is displayed on the user terminal. Can do. In addition, when information is registered everywhere, it becomes an environment where information relating to flowers, trees, buildings, parks, and various things that are inexperienced can be obtained. When such an environment is prepared, for example, by using the glasses side AR terminal as the user terminal, the user can see the thing and the information linked to each other.

(Summary of the embodiment, effects, etc.)
As described above, according to the present embodiment, an information providing apparatus that provides information to a user terminal via a network, receives position information of the user terminal from the user terminal, and receives the position information. And determining whether the user terminal is within the first distance range from the information providing location, and determining that the user terminal is within the first distance range, In the means for transmitting the location information of the information providing location and the user terminal, when it is determined that the user terminal is within the second distance from the information providing location, an information request is sent from the user terminal. An information providing apparatus is provided that includes means for receiving and transmitting information to the user terminal based on the information request.

  Further, according to the present embodiment, an information providing apparatus that provides information to a user terminal via a network, receives position information of the user terminal from the user terminal, and based on the position information, A determination unit that determines whether or not the user terminal is within a first distance from the information providing location, and the determination unit determines that the user terminal is within the first distance from the information providing location. If it is determined that the user terminal is within the second distance range from the information providing location, and if it is determined that the user terminal is within the second distance range, the user terminal An information providing apparatus is provided that includes transmission means for transmitting information to a terminal.

  In addition, according to the present embodiment, a user terminal that acquires information from an information providing device via a network, receives an ID from a transmitting device installed at an information providing location, and receives the ID. An estimation unit that estimates a distance between the user terminal and the information providing location based on a received radio wave intensity, and determines whether the distance is smaller than a predetermined distance and is smaller than a predetermined distance When it is determined, a user terminal is provided that includes a transmission unit that transmits the ID to the information providing device and a reception unit that receives information corresponding to the ID from the information providing device.

  Further, according to the present embodiment, the user terminal that acquires information from the information providing apparatus via the network, and the ID, the position information of the information providing place, and the transmission apparatus installed in the information providing place, and Means for receiving a value of the first distance; position information of the information providing place; value of the first distance; position information of the user terminal; and a value of the second distance held by the user terminal. Based on whether or not the condition that the user terminal exists within the first distance from the information providing location and the user terminal exists within the second distance from the information providing location is satisfied. And a means for transmitting the ID to the information providing apparatus and receiving information corresponding to the ID from the information providing apparatus when it is determined that the condition is satisfied. Characterize Over The terminal is provided.

  In addition, according to the present embodiment, a user terminal that acquires information from an information providing device via a network, the ID, information corresponding to the ID, location information of an information providing location, and , Means for receiving a value of the first distance, position information of the information providing place, value of the first distance, position information of the user terminal, and value of the second distance held by the user terminal Whether the user terminal exists within a first distance from the information providing location and the user terminal exists within a second distance from the information providing location. A means for determining whether or not, and a means for displaying information corresponding to the ID or notifying that there is information corresponding to the ID when it is determined that the condition is satisfied. You Terminal is provided.

  According to the present embodiment, by limiting the range in which information is provided, the information provider side can realize that, for example, a coupon is given when coming to a store and an impulsive purchase is promoted. In addition, the information acquirer can limit the range in which information is desired to be acquired, so that it can be immediately useful for the current interest, and can quickly take action or obtain information that solves the question.

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various modifications and applications are possible within the scope of the claims.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 User terminal 11 Communication part 12 Display operation part 13 Position information acquisition part 14 Processing control part 15 Database (terminal DB)
20 Information Providing Device 21 Communication Unit 23 Database (Server DB)
22 processing control unit 30 network 40 transmission device

Claims (7)

An information providing apparatus that provides information to a user terminal via a network,
The position information of the user terminal is received from the user terminal, and based on the position information, it is determined whether or not the user terminal exists within a first distance range from the information providing location, and the first distance Means for transmitting the location information of the information providing location to the user terminal when it is determined that it is within the range of:
In the user terminal, when it is determined that the user terminal is within the second distance from the information providing location, the user terminal receives an information request from the user terminal, and based on the information request, the user terminal An information providing apparatus comprising: means for transmitting information to the device. An information providing apparatus that provides information to a user terminal via a network,
Determining means for receiving position information of the user terminal from the user terminal, and determining whether the user terminal is within a first distance from the information providing location based on the position information;
If the determination means determines that the user terminal is within a first distance from the information provision location, is the user terminal within a second distance from the information provision location? An information providing apparatus comprising: a transmission unit configured to determine whether or not to determine that the user terminal is within the range of the second distance.   The program for functioning a computer as each means in the information provision apparatus of Claim 1 or 2. A user terminal that acquires information from an information providing apparatus via a network,
An estimation unit that receives an ID from a transmitting device installed in an information providing location, and estimates a distance between the user terminal and the information providing location based on a received radio wave intensity when the ID is received;
A transmission means for determining whether the distance is smaller than a predetermined distance and transmitting the ID to the information providing apparatus when it is determined that the distance is smaller than the predetermined distance;
A user terminal comprising: receiving means for receiving information corresponding to the ID from the information providing apparatus. A user terminal that acquires information from an information providing apparatus via a network,
Means for receiving an ID, location information of the information providing location, and a value of the first distance from a transmitting device installed in the information providing location;
Based on the position information of the information providing place, the value of the first distance, the position information of the user terminal, and the value of the second distance held by the user terminal, the user terminal is moved from the information providing place. Means for determining whether or not the condition that the user terminal exists within the first distance and the user terminal exists within the second distance from the information providing location;
And a means for transmitting the ID to the information providing apparatus and receiving information corresponding to the ID from the information providing apparatus when it is determined that the condition is satisfied. A user terminal that acquires information from an information providing apparatus via a network,
Means for receiving an ID, information corresponding to the ID, position information of the information providing place, and a first distance value from the information providing device;
Based on the position information of the information providing place, the value of the first distance, the position information of the user terminal, and the value of the second distance held by the user terminal, the user terminal is moved from the information providing place. Means for determining whether or not the condition that the user terminal exists within the first distance and the user terminal exists within the second distance from the information providing location;
And a means for displaying information corresponding to the ID or notifying that there is information corresponding to the ID when it is determined that the condition is satisfied.   The program for functioning a computer as each means in the user terminal of any one of Claims 4 thru | or 6.

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