JP4636033B2 - Information retrieval system / apparatus / method / program, user terminal, registrant terminal, database construction method - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a system for acquiring the current position of a user of a terminal and providing information corresponding to the current position to the terminal, and in particular, lists action options that the user can perform at the current location and uses the options from the options The present invention relates to an information search system that provides information on facilities and the like that allow a person to perform a selected action.

Various systems have been proposed in which the current position of a user is acquired from a mobile terminal and information corresponding to the position is provided to the mobile terminal.
The information guidance client described in Patent Literature 1 transmits the position information acquired by the position detection unit to the information guidance server, and receives guidance information from the information guidance server. Examples of the guide information include a route from the current position to a desired location, tourist guidance for the desired location, and information on nearby shops.

JP 2001-31437 A

  In the function or service that provides information on stores and facilities around the current location so far, the user achieves the purpose after clarifying in advance what he / she wants to do (eg, want to ride a train). There was a need to look for stores and facilities. Conversely, if the purpose is ambiguous or there are multiple means to achieve the purpose, the necessary information could not be obtained, or it took time and effort (eg, taking a train or taking a bus) Recall that there is a way to get on, and then look for both the train station and the bus stop).

  The present invention provides a simple information retrieval method in which options of actions that a user can perform at the current location are listed, and if a desired action (what he wants to do) is selected from the options, stores and facilities that can perform the action are presented. The purpose is to provide etc.

The information search system of the present invention includes a user terminal carried by a user and an information search apparatus capable of communicating with the user terminal.
The user terminal is a list of actions that a user can take with basic objects that constitute a nearby object located in the vicinity of the current position by transmitting user position information indicating the current position of the user to the information search device. A behavior list receiving unit that receives a certain behavior list from the information search device and displays the behavior list on the display device of the user terminal, and transmits the behavior selected by the user from the behavior list to the information retrieval device, and the behavior is associated with the behavior list. An object information receiving unit that receives the name and object position information of a selected object, which is a nearby object including a basic object as a constituent element, from an information search device and displays the information on a display device of a user terminal;
The information search apparatus receives user position information from a user terminal, and includes basic objects that constitute a neighboring object, object names, object position information that indicates the positions of the objects, and a list of basic objects that constitute the objects. Is extracted from an object database that stores and associates, and an action list corresponding to the extracted basic object is extracted from a basic object database that stores the basic object and the action list in association with each other, and is transmitted to the user terminal. And an object information transmission unit that receives an action selected by the user from the action list from the user terminal, extracts the name and object position information of the selected object from the object database, and transmits the object information to the user terminal. .

  The information search apparatus includes a registrant terminal that can communicate with the information search apparatus. The registrant terminal requests the information search apparatus to transmit a list of basic objects, and is transmitted from the information search apparatus in response to the request. A list receiving unit for displaying a list of basic objects on the display device of the registrant terminal, and for one or more basic objects included in the list of basic objects, the name of the object including the basic object as a component and object position information are included. A registration information transmission unit that transmits registration information to the information retrieval device, and the information retrieval device transmits a list of basic objects to the registrant terminal in response to a request from the registrant terminal and receives the registration information from the registrant terminal. A registration unit for registering the registration information in the object database may be provided.

  In the information search device, the object information transmission unit may transmit map data displaying a name of the selected object and an action list associated with the selected object to the user terminal.

  In the information search apparatus, the object information transmission unit may transmit information indicating a route from the position indicated by the user position information to the position of the neighboring object to the user terminal.

  The above-described problem can be similarly solved by the information search apparatus, user terminal, registrant terminal, information search program, information search method, and database construction method of the present invention.

According to the present invention, a user can acquire information on a store or facility that can achieve a purpose (action that can be performed) and a purpose simply by presenting current location information.
In addition, a registrant who registers information on a store or facility may specify the equipment (basic object) possessed by the store or facility without thinking about what kind of action a person can perform at the store or facility. Therefore, registration of information is easy.

The configuration and operation of the information search system 1 according to one embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of the information search system 1.
The information search system 1 includes a user terminal 10, a registrant terminal 20, and a server 30, and the user terminal 10 and the registrant terminal 20 are configured to be able to communicate with the server 30 via communication paths 41 and 42, respectively. Has been.

The user terminal 10 is a terminal device such as a mobile phone, a smartphone, or a portable personal computer that is carried by the user, and includes a user terminal program 11, an input unit 12, a display unit 13, and a position information acquisition unit 14. .
The user terminal program 11 is executed by the CPU of the user terminal 10 and controls the hardware provided in the user terminal 10 to realize the following functions.
(1) The action list received from the position information acquisition unit 14 as information indicating the current position of the user (hereinafter referred to as “user position information”), transmitted to the server 30 and received as a response Is displayed on the display unit 13.
(2) The action selected by the user from the action list and the user position information are transmitted to the server 30 and the received object name and object position are displayed on the display unit 12 as a response.

  The input unit 12 includes, for example, a plurality of buttons, and the user operates the input unit 12 to select a user terminal program activation instruction and an action from the action list displayed on the display unit 12.

  The display unit 13 is composed of, for example, a liquid crystal display device, and displays the action list, object name, and object position received by the user terminal program 11 from the server 30.

The position information acquisition unit 14 is configured by a GPS (Global Positioning System) module, for example, and calculates user position information using the GPS. In this embodiment, the latitude and longitude of the current position of the user are calculated.
The position information may be any information that can specify the current position of the user with an accuracy that requires the user's current position, such as coordinates in an appropriately set coordinate system, a character string indicating an address, in addition to latitude and longitude.

The registrant terminal 20 is a terminal device such as a personal computer used by a registrant who registers information about an object, and includes a registrant terminal program 21, an input unit 22, and a display unit 23.
The registrant terminal program 21 is executed by the CPU of the registrant terminal 20 and controls the hardware provided in the registrant terminal 20 to realize the following functions.
(1) The server 30 is requested to send a list of basic objects, and the received basic object list is displayed on the display unit 23 as a response.
(2) Information related to an object including the basic object selected by the user as a component is transmitted to the server 30.

  The input unit 22 includes, for example, a keyboard and a mouse, and the user operates the input unit 12 to input an activation instruction for the registrant terminal program 21 and information related to the object.

  The display unit 23 is composed of, for example, a liquid crystal display device, and displays a list of objects received by the registrant terminal program 21 from the server 30.

  The server 30 is, for example, a server computer on which an RDBMS operates, and includes a search program 31, a registration program 32, an object database (hereinafter referred to as “object DB”) 33, and a basic object database (hereinafter referred to as “basic object DB”) 34. ing.

The search program 31 is executed by the CPU of the server 30 and controls the hardware provided in the server 30 to realize the following functions.
(1) In response to a request from the user terminal 10, an action corresponding to a basic object included in an object located in the vicinity of the position indicated by the user position information is acquired from the object DB 33 and the basic object DB 34, and this is acquired by the user. Transmit to the terminal 10.
(2) The action selected by the user is received from the user terminal 10, the name and position of the object corresponding to the action are acquired from the object DB 33 and the basic object DB 34, and transmitted to the user terminal 10.

The registration program 32 controls the hardware provided in the server 30 to realize the following functions.
(1) A list of basic objects is transmitted to the registrant terminal 20 in response to a request from the registrant terminal 20.
(2) The object name, object position, and constituent basic object received from the registrant terminal 20 are registered in the object DB 33.

The object DB 33 is a database that stores the name of an object in association with the position of the object and the basic object that constitutes the object.
FIG. 3A shows a data configuration example of the object DB 33.
The object DB 33 has data items of an object name 331, an object position 332, and a configuration basic object 333.
The object name 331 is a character string indicating the name of the object. Here, an object refers to a specific facility or building and individual components constituting the facility.
The object position 332 is information indicating the position of the object indicated by the object name 331. In this example, the position of the object is indicated by latitude and longitude. For example, the object position information corresponding to the object name “XX station” indicates that XX station is located at 35 degrees 50 minutes 10.10 seconds north latitude and 135 degrees 50 minutes 10.10 seconds east longitude.
The configuration basic object name 333 is a list of names of basic objects included in the object indicated by the object name 331. The basic object is a general name of a component included in the object, for example, a structure (such as an elevator) or a facility (such as a convenience store in a station). For example, the constituent basic object corresponding to the object name “XX station” indicates that “XX station” includes basic objects such as “station”, “convenience store”, “elevator”, and “staircase”. Note that “station” as a basic object means a facility having an essential function as a station, that is, a function for a person to get on and off the train or load and unload luggage.

The basic object DB 34 is a database that stores a name of a basic object and an action that a user can take with the basic object in association with each other.
FIG. 3B shows a data configuration example of the basic object DB 34.
The basic object DB 34 has data items of a basic object name 341 and an action list 342.
The basic object name 341 is a character string indicating the name of the basic object.
The action list 342 is a list of actions that the user can take with the basic object indicated by the basic object name 341. For example, the action list corresponding to the basic object name “station” indicates that the user can take an action such as getting on a train, buying a ticket, taking a picture, etc. at the station.

  Although FIG. 1 shows an example in which the server 30 is configured by one server computer, the server 30 may be configured by a plurality of computers. For example, the object DB 33 and the basic object DB 34 may be stored in a storage device connected to the server 30, or the information search program 31 and the information registration program 32 may be distributed and implemented on two server computers. May be.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an outline of the operation of the information search system 1.
The object registrant uses the registrant terminal 20 to store the name, location (hereinafter referred to as “location information”), basic objects that constitute the object, such as an elevator in the facility, etc. Is stored on the database of the server 30. Further, with respect to the basic objects constituting the object, the names and actions that humans can perform using the objects (hereinafter referred to as “behavior information”) are stored on the server as a database.

A user acquires action information and position information by the following procedure.
(1) When the user wants to perform some action at the current location, the user operates the user terminal 10 and transmits user position information to the server 30.
(2) The server that has received the user position information transmits all the behavior information belonging to the object having the position information near the user position information from the database to the user terminal.
(3) The user terminal 10 that has received the behavior information displays the behavior information on the display device, and the user selects the behavior that the user wants to perform from the presented behavior.
(4) The user terminal 10 transmits the action selected by the user to the server 30.
(5) The server 30 that has received the action receives information such as the name (hereinafter referred to as “object name”) and position (hereinafter referred to as “object position”) of the object that is the target of the action from the database. 10 to send.
Thereby, the user can acquire information on a store or facility that can achieve the purpose (behavior that can be performed) and the purpose only by presenting the current location information to the server 30.

FIG. 4 is a sequence diagram showing an operation for registering information related to objects in the information search system 1.
In the present invention, in the basic object database 34, a name of a basic object that is an element constituting a store or a facility and a list of actions that a person can perform using the basic object are registered in advance. Thereafter, the registrant of the store or facility registers information about the object in the object DB 33 and the basic object DB 34 held by the server 30 in the following procedure.

The registrant operates the input unit 22 of the registrant terminal 20 to start the registrant terminal program 21 (S101). The registrant terminal program 21 requests a list of basic objects from the registration program 32 of the server 30 (S102).
The registration program 32 accesses the basic object DB 34, extracts all registered basic objects (S103), and transmits a list of basic objects to the registrant terminal program 21 of the registrant terminal 20 (S104).
The registrant operates the input unit 22 of the registrant terminal 20 and inputs the object name, object position, and constituent basic object of the object to be registered to the registrant terminal program 21 (S105). When the registrant inputs the constituent basic object, the registrant terminal program 21 can select from the list of basic objects received from the registration program 32 of the server 30.
The registrant terminal program 21 transmits the object name, object position, and configuration basic object input to the registration program 32 of the server 30 (S106).
The registration program 32 registers the received object name, object position, and configuration basic object in the object DB 33 as an object name 331, an object position 332, and a configuration basic object 333, respectively.
The above procedure is performed by a plurality of registrants, and a plurality of objects are registered in the object DB 33.

FIG. 5 is a sequence diagram showing an information providing operation of the information search system 1.
The user operates the input unit 12 of the user terminal 10 to activate the user terminal program 11 (S201). The user terminal program 11 requests the position information acquisition unit 14 to acquire user position information (S202).
Upon receiving the request, the position information acquisition unit 14 acquires the user position information and presents the acquired user position information to the user terminal program 11 (S203).
The user terminal program 11 transmits the acquired user location information to the search program 31 of the server 30 (S204).

The search program 31 refers to the object DB 33 and acquires the constituent basic object 333 of the object corresponding to the object position 332 located in the vicinity of the received user position information. Further, the search program 31 refers to the basic object DB 34 and acquires a corresponding action list 342 for each basic object included in the acquired configuration basic object 333. If there are a plurality of objects located in the vicinity of the position information, the set sum of all action lists is acquired (S205). Here, the neighborhood is based on a physical positional relationship based on positional information, and can be calculated by calculating coordinates, for example, or can be determined from an address or the like.
The search program 31 transmits the acquired action list 342 (or its set sum) to the user terminal program 11 (S206).

The user terminal program 11 lists and displays the elements (actions) included in the acquired action list 342 (or the set sum thereof) on the display unit 13 of the user terminal 10 (S207).
The user operates the input unit 12 to select a desired one from a plurality of actions displayed on the display unit 13 and instructs the user terminal program 11 (S208).
The user terminal program 11 transmits the instructed action and the user location information acquired in S203 to the search program 31 (S209).

The search program 31 refers to the basic object DB 34, acquires the basic object name 341 including the received action in the action list 342, further refers to the object DB 33, and stores the basic object name 341 in the constituent basic object 333. Among these, the object name 331 and the object position 323 of the object corresponding to the object position 332 located in the vicinity of the received position information are acquired. If there are a plurality of objects that match the condition, all object names 331 and object positions 332 are acquired (S210).
The search program 31 transmits the object name 331 and the object position 332 to the user terminal program 11 (S211).

The user terminal program 11 displays the object name 331 and the object position 332 on the display unit 13 (S212).
As described above, the user can acquire information on the action that can be performed around the current location and the target store or facility.

The above embodiment can also be performed as follows.
(1) Information about objects may be described hierarchically. For example, a department store basic object is defined as a superset that includes basic objects such as elevators, escalators, and staircases. Describe the XX department store as a superset that includes basic ground objects.
(2) The search program 30 transmits map data in the vicinity of the object to the user terminal together with the position information of the object, and the user terminal program 11 displays a map including the position of the object and information related to the object. Also good.
(3) The user terminal program 10 displays the route from the current position to the location of the object on the map based on the position information of the object acquired from the server 30 and the current position of the user, or transits the transportation Or a navigation function for guiding the user.
(4) The user terminal 10 does not necessarily include the position information acquisition unit 14, and the user terminal program 11 uses, for example, a character string indicating an address input by the user by operating the input unit 12. You may make it acquire as positional information.
(5) The user terminal program 11 and the registrant terminal program 21 are components of the server 30, and the user and the registrant are registered through the web browser of the user terminal 10 and the registrant terminal 20, respectively. The person terminal program 21 may be operated.

Next, the effect of the information search system 1 will be described.
First, the user terminal 10 transmits user position information to the server 30 and acquires a list of actions that can be performed in the vicinity of the position from the server 30. Next, information about an object including a basic object that can perform the action selected by the user from the action list is acquired.
Therefore, the user can acquire information on an object (for example, a store or a facility) that can achieve the purpose (behavior that can be performed) and the purpose simply by presenting the current location information.

The registrant terminal 20 acquires a list of basic objects from the server 30 and transmits information about the objects including the basic objects to the server 30. The basic object and the actions that the user can perform with the basic object are stored in the basic object DB 34 in association with each other.
Therefore, a registrant who registers information related to an object can easily register information related to the object without considering what action the user can perform on the object.

It is a figure which shows the structure of the information search system which is one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the outline | summary of operation | movement of an information search system. FIG. 3A is a diagram illustrating an example of the object DB. FIG. 3B is a diagram illustrating an example of the basic object DB. It is a sequence diagram which shows registration operation | movement of an information search system. It is a sequence diagram which shows the information search operation | movement of an information search system.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Information retrieval system 10 User terminal 11 User terminal program 12 Input part 13 Display part 14 Location information acquisition part 20 Registrant terminal 21 Registrant terminal program 22 Input part 23 Display part 30 Server 31 Search program 32 Registration program 33 Object DB
34 Basic Object DB

Claims (13)

In an information search system including a user terminal carried by a user and an information search device capable of communicating with the user terminal,
The user terminal is
It is a list of actions that the user can take with a basic object that constitutes a nearby object located in the vicinity of the current position by transmitting user position information indicating the current position of the user to the information search device. An action list receiving unit that receives an action list from the information search device and displays the action list on a display device of the user terminal;
The action selected by the user from the action list is transmitted to the information search device, and the name and object position information of the selected object which is a neighboring object including the basic object with which the action is associated as a constituent element An object information receiving unit that receives from the search device and displays on the display device of the user terminal,
The information search device includes:
The user position information is received from the user terminal, and the basic objects constituting the neighboring objects are associated with the object name, the object position information indicating the position of the object, and the list of the basic objects constituting the object. Extracted from the object database to be stored, and extracted the behavior list corresponding to the extracted basic object from the basic object database that stores the basic object and the list of actions that the user can take with the object in association with each other An action list transmitter for transmitting to the user terminal;
An object information transmitting unit that receives an action selected by the user from the action list from the user terminal, extracts the name and object position information of the selected object from the object database, and transmits the selected object to the user terminal; Information retrieval system with A registrant terminal that can communicate with the information search device,
The registrant terminal is
A list receiving unit that requests the information search device to transmit a list of basic objects, and displays the list of basic objects transmitted from the information search device in response to the request on a display device of the registrant terminal;
A registration information transmission unit that transmits, to one or more basic objects included in the basic object list, registration information including the name of the object including the basic object as a constituent element and registration information including the object position information;
The information search device includes:
A list of the basic objects is transmitted to the registrant terminal in response to a request from the registrant terminal;
The information search system according to claim 1, further comprising a registration unit that receives the registration information from the registrant terminal and registers the registration information in the object database.   The said object information transmission part transmits the map data which displayed the action list matched with the name of the said selection object, and the said selection object to the said user terminal, The Claim 1 or Claim 2 characterized by the above-mentioned. Information retrieval system.   4. The object information transmitting unit transmits information indicating a route from a position indicated by the user position information to a position of the neighboring object to the user terminal. The information retrieval system described in one. User position information indicating the current position of the user is received from the user terminal, and a basic object constituting a neighboring object located in the vicinity of the current position is defined as an object name and object position information indicating the position of the object. The basic object and the object are extracted from an object database that stores the basic objects that constitute the object in association with each other, and an action list that is a list of actions that the user can take with the extracted basic object is represented by the basic object and the object. An action list transmitting unit that extracts from a basic object database that stores a list of actions that the user can take in association with each other, and transmits the list to the user terminal;
The action selected by the user from the action list is received from the user terminal, and the name and object position information of the selected object that is a neighboring object including the basic object with which the action is associated as a constituent element An object information transmitting unit that extracts from a database and transmits the object information to the user terminal. In response to a request from the registrant terminal, a list of basic objects is sent to the registrant terminal,
For one or more basic objects included in the list of basic objects, registration information including the name of an object including the basic object as a constituent element and object position information is received from the registrant terminal, and the registration information is stored in the object database. The information search apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising a registration unit that registers the information in the information retrieval apparatus.   The said object information transmission part transmits the map data which displayed the action list matched with the name of the said selection object, and the said selection object to the said user terminal, The Claim 5 or Claim 6 characterized by the above-mentioned. Information retrieval device.   8. The object information transmitting unit transmits information indicating a route from a position indicated by the user position information to a position of the selected object to the user terminal. The information search device described in one. Computer
User position information indicating the current position of the user is received from the user terminal, and a basic object constituting a neighboring object located in the vicinity of the current position is defined as an object name and object position information indicating the position of the object. The basic object and the object are extracted from an object database that stores the basic objects that constitute the object in association with each other, and an action list that is a list of actions that the user can take with the extracted basic object is represented by the basic object and the object. An action list transmitting unit that extracts from a basic object database that stores a list of actions that the user can take in association with each other, and transmits the list to the user terminal;
The action selected by the user from the action list is received from the user terminal, and the name and object position information of the selected object that is a neighboring object including the basic object with which the action is associated as a constituent element An information retrieval program that functions as an object information transmission unit that is extracted from a database and transmitted to the user terminal. The computer,
In response to a request from the registrant terminal, a list of basic objects is sent to the registrant terminal,
For one or more basic objects included in the list of basic objects, registration information including the name of an object including the basic object as a constituent element and object position information is received from the registrant terminal, and the registration information is stored in the object database. The information search program according to claim 9, wherein the information search program is made to function as a registration unit that registers the information.   The said object information transmission part transmits the map data which displayed the action list matched with the name of the said selection object, and the said selection object to the said user terminal, The Claim 10 or Claim 10 characterized by the above-mentioned. Information retrieval program.   The said object information transmission part transmits the information which shows the route from the position which the said user position information shows to the position of the said selection object to the said user terminal, The any one of Claim 9 thru | or 11 characterized by the above-mentioned. The information retrieval program described in one. A user position information transmitting step for transmitting user position information indicating the current position of the user to the information search device;
The information search device associates a basic object constituting a neighboring object located in the vicinity of the current position with an object name, object position information indicating the position of the object, and a list of basic objects constituting the object. The action list, which is a list of actions that the user can take with the extracted basic object, corresponds to the action list that the user can take with the basic object and the object. An action list transmission step of extracting from the basic object database to be stored and transmitting to the user terminal;
An action list receiving step in which the user terminal displays the action list received from the information search device on a display device of the user terminal;
An action transmitting step in which the user terminal transmits the action selected by the user from the action list to the information search device;
The information search device extracts the name and object position information of the selected object, which is a nearby object including the basic object associated with the action received from the user terminal, as a constituent element from the object database, and extracts the user. An object information transmission step to be transmitted to the terminal;
An information search method comprising: an object information receiving step in which the user terminal displays the name of the selected object and the object position information received from the information search device on a display device of the user terminal.

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