JP5445475B2 - Information providing apparatus, information providing method, and information providing program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an information providing apparatus, an information providing method, and an information providing program.

  Conventionally, in a system such as SNS (Social Networking Service), when posting information from a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone to the SNS server, the location information of the mobile terminal is also transmitted to the SNS server. The position of the mobile terminal that posted the information can be specified. For example, a position related information providing apparatus that provides post information transmitted from a plurality of terminal devices and link information transmitted from a plurality of Web servers in association with position information has been proposed. Position information specifying the position of the terminal device measured using GPS or the like is transmitted from the terminal device to the position related information providing device. The position related information providing device provides the user with post information related to the position of the terminal device specified by the position information received from the terminal device and link information to the Web page (for example, refer to Patent Document 1).

JP 2006-65535 A

  However, in the conventional apparatus as described above, regardless of the contents of the provision information to be provided to the server, the position information specifying the current position of the terminal apparatus is added to the provision information and transmitted from the terminal apparatus to the server. It was only. Accordingly, when the current position of the terminal device that provides the provided information is different from the position related to the content of the provided information (for example, the provided information that includes the event that the user has experienced while going out is sent from the terminal device to the server after returning home) Since the relevance between the current position of the terminal device and the content of the provided information is low, there is a possibility that the position information given to the provided information cannot be used effectively.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above, and an information providing apparatus, an information providing method, and an information providing method capable of giving position information indicating a position related to the content of provided information to the provided information, and The purpose is to provide an information provision program.

  In order to solve the above-described problems and achieve the object, the information providing apparatus according to claim 1 is an information providing apparatus that provides provided information to a server, and obtains provided information to be provided to the server Information related to the position is extracted from the content of the provided information acquired by the provided information acquiring means, the current position specifying means for specifying the current position of the information providing device, and the provided information acquiring means, and the extracted Providing the provision information to the server with content position specifying means for specifying the position based on information and current position information indicating the current position specified by the current position specifying means, If the current position is different from the position specified by the content position specifying means, the provided information with the content position information indicating the position specified by the content position specifying means is Serial and a information providing means for providing to the server.

  The information providing apparatus according to claim 2 is the information providing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the provision information acquisition unit acquires the provision information including non-character information other than character information and / or character information. The content position specifying unit extracts information related to the position from the content of the character information and / or the non-character information acquired by the provision information acquisition unit, and the position based on the extracted information. Is identified.

  Also, the information providing apparatus according to claim 3 is the information providing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the content position specifying unit is configured to determine the content position specifying unit from the content of the character information included in the provided information. Only when the information related to the position is not extracted, the information related to the position is extracted from the contents of the non-character information included in the provided information, and the position is specified based on the extracted information.

  An information providing method according to claim 4 is an information providing method for providing provided information from an information providing apparatus to a server, and a providing information obtaining step for obtaining provided information to be provided to the server; Information relating to the position is extracted from the contents of the provision information acquired in the provision information acquisition step and the current position specification step for specifying the current position of the information providing device, and the position is specified based on the extracted information And providing the server with the provision information provided with current position information indicating the current position specified in the current position specifying step, and the current position and the content position specifying. When the position specified in the step is different from the position specified in the content position specifying step, the provided information to which the content position information indicating the position specified in the content position specifying step is added. Including an information providing step of providing the server, the.

  An information providing program according to claim 5 causes a computer to execute the method according to claim 4.

  According to the information providing apparatus according to claim 1, the information providing method according to claim 4, and the information providing program according to claim 5, the content position specifying unit is provided information acquired by the provided information acquiring unit. Information related to the position is extracted from the contents of the information, the position is specified based on the extracted information, and the information providing means, when the current position and the position specified by the content position specifying means are different, Since the provision information to which the content position information indicating the position specified by the content position specifying means is provided is provided to the server, the position information indicating the position related to the content of the provision information may be added to the provision information. It is possible to effectively use the location information given to the provided information.

  Further, according to the information providing apparatus according to claim 2, the content position specifying means extracts information related to the position from the contents of the character information and / or non-character information acquired by the provided information acquiring means, Since the position is specified based on the extracted information, position information indicating a position highly relevant to the contents of the character information and / or the non-character information included in the provided information can be given to the provided information.

  According to the information providing apparatus of the third aspect, the content position specifying unit is configured such that when the content position specifying unit does not extract information related to the position from the content of the character information included in the provided information. Only because the information related to the position is extracted from the content of the non-character information included in the provided information, and the position is specified based on the extracted information, so that the position indicating the position highly relevant to the content of the character information Information can be preferentially given to provided information.

It is a block diagram which illustrates the information service device concerning an embodiment. It is a flowchart of an information provision process.

  DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, embodiments of an information providing apparatus, an information providing method, and an information providing program according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. However, the present invention is not limited by this embodiment.

(Constitution)
First, the configuration of the information providing apparatus according to the embodiment will be described. FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an information providing apparatus according to this embodiment. As shown in FIG. 1, the information providing apparatus 1 is connected to a provided information server 3 via a network 2 so as to be communicable.

  The provided information server 3 is a server that stores provided information provided from the information providing apparatus 1. For example, the provision information is uploaded from the information provision apparatus 1 to the provision information server 3, and the provision information is stored in the provision information server 3 so as to be readable. Specific contents of the provided information server 3 are arbitrary. For example, an SNS (Social Networking Service) server that publishes provided provided information online, or a server such as various blog sites can be used.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the information providing apparatus 1 includes an input unit 10, a communication unit 11, a display 12, a control unit 13, and a data recording unit 14. The information providing device 1 can be installed in any manner, for example, as a part of a car navigation device, mounted on a vehicle, or mounted on a portable information terminal such as a smartphone.

(Configuration-input part)
The input unit 10 is an input unit that receives input of information necessary for various processes executed by the information providing apparatus 1. For example, a known input unit such as a button or a touch panel can be used.

(Configuration-Communication Department)
The communication unit 11 is a communication unit that communicates with the provided information server 3 via the network 2, and a known communication device can be used.

(Configuration-Display)
The display 12 is a display unit that displays various information based on the control of the control unit 13. The specific configuration of the display 12 is arbitrary, and a known flat panel display such as a liquid crystal display or an organic EL display can be used.

(Configuration-control unit)
The control unit 13 is a control unit that controls the information providing apparatus 1. Specifically, the control unit 13 is a CPU, various programs that are interpreted and executed on the CPU (a basic control program such as an OS, and an OS that is activated and specified on the OS. And an internal memory such as a RAM for storing the program and various data. In particular, the information providing program according to the present embodiment is installed in the information providing apparatus 1 via an arbitrary recording medium or the network 2 to substantially configure each unit of the control unit 13.

  The control unit 13 includes a provision information acquisition unit 13a, a current position specifying unit 13b, a content position specifying unit 13c, and an information providing unit 13d in terms of functional concept. The provision information acquisition unit 13 a is provision information acquisition means for acquiring provision information for provision to the provision information server 3. The current position specifying unit 13 b is a current position specifying unit that specifies the current position of the information providing apparatus 1. The content position specifying unit 13c is a content position specifying unit that extracts information related to the position from the content of the provided information acquired by the provided information acquiring unit 13a, and specifies the position based on the extracted information. The information providing unit 13 d is an information providing unit that provides the provided information to the provided information server 3. Details of processing executed by each unit of the control unit 13 will be described later.

(Configuration-Data recording part)
The data recording unit 14 is a recording unit that records a program and various data necessary for the operation of the information providing apparatus 1 and is configured using a magnetic recording medium such as a hard disk (not shown) as an external storage device, for example. Has been. However, any other recording medium including a semiconductor storage medium such as a flash memory or an optical recording medium such as a DVD or a Blu-ray disk can be used instead of or together with the hard disk.

  The data recording unit 14 includes a map information database 14a (hereinafter, the database is abbreviated as DB). The map information DB 14a is map information storage means for storing map information. “Map information” includes, for example, link data (link number, connection node number, road coordinates, road type, number of lanes, travel restrictions, etc.), node data (node number, coordinates), feature data (signals, road signs, guardrails) , Buildings, etc.), facility data (position of each facility, type of each facility, etc.), topographic data, map display data for displaying a map on the display 12, and the like.

(processing)
Next, an information providing process executed by the information providing apparatus 1 configured as described above will be described. FIG. 2 is a flowchart of the information providing process (in the following description of each process, step is abbreviated as “S”). This information providing process is started, for example, when an instruction input for executing the information providing process is performed via the input unit 10 after the information providing apparatus 1 is powered on.

  As shown in FIG. 2, when the information provision process is started, the provision information acquisition unit 13a acquires provision information to be provided to the provision information server 3 (SA1). For example, the provision information acquisition unit 13a causes the display 12 to output information indicating that input of provision information to be provided to the provision information server 3 is received, and acquires information input via the input unit 10 as provision information.

  Here, the provision information acquired by the provision information acquisition unit 13a includes character information and / or non-character information other than character information. Of these, the character information is text format information. Non-character information is various information other than character information, and includes, for example, image information, link information to other Web pages, and the like.

  Next, the current position specifying unit 13b specifies the current position of the information providing apparatus 1 (SA2). For example, the current position specifying unit 13b specifies the current position of the information providing apparatus 1 using known current position detecting means such as GPS (not shown).

  Subsequently, the content position specifying unit 13c analyzes the content of the provision information acquired by the provision information acquisition unit 13a in SA1 (SA3). For example, when the provided information includes character information, the content position specifying unit 13c analyzes the content of the character information using a known language processing technique such as morphological analysis. When the provided information includes image information as non-character information, the content position specifying unit 13c analyzes the content of the image information using a known image analysis technique.

  Next, the content position specifying unit 13c determines whether information related to the position can be extracted from the content of the character information included in the provided information based on the analysis result of the content of the provided information in SA3 (SA4). For example, if the provided information includes character information, and the character information includes information related to the position, the content position specifying unit 13c determines the position from the content of the character information included in the provided information. It is determined that related information can be extracted. On the other hand, when the provided information does not include character information, or when the provided information includes character information but the character information does not include information related to the position, the content position specifying unit 13c provides the provided information. It is determined that information related to the position cannot be extracted from the contents of the character information included in the information.

  Here, the “information related to the position” that can be included in the character information is information that can uniquely identify the position based on the information. For example, a point on the road such as a point name (for example, “A junction”) Name, address such as “B town 1-1-1”), facility name (for example, “C station”, “D amusement park”, etc.), and product name for which sales place is limited (for example, product F is a store) “Product F” when it is sold exclusively in G, etc., the name of the sports team that can specify the venue (for example, the names of the teams “J” and “K” of the baseball game held at the H Dome) Etc.).

  For example, the content position specifying unit 13c refers to the map information DB based on the analysis result of the content of the provided information in SA3, and the name of the spot or the name of the facility that matches the phrase included in the character information is stored in the map information DB. In this case, it is assumed that the information related to the position is included in the character information, and it is determined that the information related to the position can be extracted from the content of the character information. For example, in the case where the provided information includes the text information “I'm going home. Is it still crowded around A junction?” And the location name “A junction” is stored in the map information DB, the content position is specified. The unit 13c determines that information related to the position can be extracted from the content of the character information. In addition, if the provided information includes the text information “I went to D amusement park today. It was a weekday and I could ride a lot ...”, the facility name “D amusement park” is displayed in the map information DB. If it is stored, the content position specifying unit 13c determines that information related to the position can be extracted from the content of the character information.

  In addition, the content position specifying unit 13c refers to a database (not shown) of various information via the network 2 based on the analysis result of the content of the provided information in SA3, and the limited product name that matches the phrase included in the character information When the battle team name of a sport match or the like is stored in the database of the various information, it is assumed that information related to the position is included in the character information. For example, when the provided information includes the character information “product F Nau”, information (for example, “product F”) that associates the product name “product F” with the store G that sells the product in a limited manner. When the store G (information such as Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, XX ward, △ town ×-□-○) December 24-product F limited sale) is stored in a database of various information, the content position specifying unit 13c Then, it is determined that information related to the position can be extracted from the contents of the character information. In addition, when the provided information includes the character information “Team J Lead at the end of 3rd Table 2-0”, the opponent team name “J” is associated with the H Dome that is the venue of the sporting game. When information (for example, information such as “J vs. K 18: 00 to H Dome (Nagoya City Aichi Prefecture ○ Town □-×-△)” etc.) is stored in a database of various information, the content position specifying unit 13c determines that information related to the position can be extracted from the contents of the character information.

  As a result of the determination of SA4, when the information related to the position can be extracted from the content of the character information included in the provided information (SA4, Yes), the content position specifying unit 13c displays the information related to the position of the character information. The content is extracted and the position is specified based on the extracted information (SA5). For example, when the provided information includes the text information “Return home from now. Is it still crowded near the A junction?”, The content position specifying unit 13c extracts the location name “A junction” as information related to the position. Then, the position of the point “A junction” is specified with reference to the map information DB. In addition, when the provided information includes the text information “I went to D amusement park today. It was a weekday, so I could get on a lot ...”, the content position specifying unit 13c provides information related to the position. The facility name “D amusement park” is extracted, and the location of the facility “D amusement park” is specified with reference to the map information DB. When the provided information includes the character information “product F”, the content position specifying unit 13c extracts the product name “product F” as information related to the position, and the product “product F”. The location of the store G that sells the product in a limited manner is specified with reference to a database of various information. In addition, when the provided information includes the text information “Team J Lead at 3rd Table End 2-0”, the content position specifying unit 13c extracts the battle team name “J” as information related to the position. The position of the H dome where the sports game of the battle team “J” is held is specified with reference to various information databases.

  On the other hand, as a result of the determination of SA4, when the information related to the position cannot be extracted from the content of the character information included in the provided information (SA4, No), for example, when the provided information does not include character information, or If the provided information includes character information but the character information does not include information related to the position, the content position specifying unit 13c includes the provided information based on the analysis result of the provided information content in SA3. It is determined whether or not information related to the position can be extracted from the content of the non-character information (SA6). For example, when the provided information includes non-character information, and the non-character information includes information related to the position, the content position specifying unit 13c determines the content of the non-character information included in the provided information. It is determined that information related to the position can be extracted from On the other hand, if the provided information includes non-character information but the non-character information does not include information related to the position, the content position specifying unit 13c determines the position from the content of the non-character information included in the provided information. It is determined that the information related to can not be extracted.

  Here, “information related to position” that can be included in the non-character information is information that can uniquely identify the position based on the information. For example, when the non-character information is image information, Characters (such as “L intersection”) representing the name of a spot or facility included in the information, and information for identifying the shooting location of the image included in the header information of the image information (eg, coordinates of the shooting location) Etc.). In addition, when the non-character information is link information to another Web page, for example, position information included in the link information itself (for example, a link to a Web page displaying a map centered on a specific point) Included in the information, such as latitude and longitude indicating the specific point) and location information included in the Web page specified based on the link information (for example, included in the Web page specified based on the link information) Address, etc.) are included in the “position-related information”.

  For example, the content position specifying unit 13c refers to the map information DB based on the analysis result of the content of the provided information in SA3, and a spot name or facility name that matches the character string extracted from the content of the non-character information included in the provided information. Are stored in the map information DB, it is determined that the information related to the position is included in the non-character information, and the information related to the position can be extracted from the contents of the non-character information. For example, when the provided information includes image information obtained by photographing a road as non-character information, and a character string “L intersection” is extracted from the image information in SA3, the spot name “L intersection” "Is stored in the map information DB, the content position specifying unit 13c determines that information related to the position can be extracted from the content of the image information.

  As a result of the determination of SA6, when the information related to the position can be extracted from the content of the non-character information included in the provided information (SA6, Yes), the content position specifying unit 13c converts the information related to the position into the non-character The information is extracted from the contents of the information, and the position is specified based on the extracted information (SA7). For example, when the character information “L intersection” is included in the image information included in the provided information as non-character information, the content position specifying unit 13 c uses the point name “L intersection” as information related to the position. And the position of the point “L intersection” is specified with reference to the map information DB.

  After the process of SA5 or SA7, the information providing unit 13d determines the current position of the information providing device 1 specified by the current position specifying unit 13b in SA2 and the position specified by the content position specifying unit 13c in SA5 or SA7. It is determined whether or not they are different (SA8). For example, the information providing unit 13d determines that the distance between the current position of the information providing apparatus 1 specified by the current position specifying unit 13b in SA2 and the position specified by the content position specifying unit 13c in SA5 or SA7 is a predetermined distance. When it is (for example, 30 m) or more, it is determined that the current position of the information providing apparatus 1 is different from the position specified by the content position specifying unit 13c.

  As a result of the determination in SA8, when the current position of the information providing device 1 specified by the current position specifying unit 13b in SA2 is different from the position specified by the content position specifying unit 13c in SA5 or SA7 (SA8, Yes) It is assumed that there is a possibility that the relevance between the current position of the information providing device 1 and the content of the provided information is low, and the information providing unit 13d is a content position indicating the position specified by the content position specifying unit 13c in SA5 or SA7. Information is added to the provided information (SA9). In addition, the aspect of giving the content position information to the provided information is arbitrary. For example, the information providing unit 13d provides the provided information with a geotag indicating the latitude and longitude of the position specified by the content position specifying unit 13c in SA5 or SA7. To do. Or you may make it provide link information to the web page for displaying the map which shows the position pinpointed by the content position specific | specification part 13c by SA5 or SA7 to provision information. After the process of SA9, the information providing unit 13d provides the provided information with the content position information to the provided information server 3 from the communication unit 11 via the network 2 (SA10). Thereafter, the control unit 13 ends the information providing process.

  For example, the location of the user of the information providing device 1 is specified as the current location of the information providing device 1 at SA2, and the character information included in the provided information “SAY home from now. Is it still crowded near the A junction?” The position of the point “A junction” is specified based on the point name “A junction” extracted from the content of “?”, And the location of the user of the information providing apparatus 1 and the point “A junction” are identified in SA8. When the information providing unit 13d determines that the position of the location “A” is different, the information providing unit 13d assigns the content position information indicating the position of the point “A junction” to the provided information, and the communication unit 11 To the provision information server 3 via the network 2.

  On the other hand, as a result of the determination of SA6, when information related to the position cannot be extracted from the content of the non-character information included in the provided information (SA6, No), that is, the provided information includes non-character information. When the information related to the position is not included in the non-character information, the information providing unit 13d adds the current position information indicating the current position of the information providing apparatus 1 specified by the current position specifying unit 13b in SA2 to the provided information. (SA11). As a result of the determination in SA8, when the current position of the information providing device 1 specified by the current position specifying unit 13b in SA2 and the position specified by the content position specifying unit 13c in SA5 or SA7 are not different (currently If the position and the position specified by the content position specifying unit 13c are the same) (SA8, No), it is assumed that the current position of the information providing device 1 and the content of the provided information are highly relevant, and the information providing unit 13d Adds current position information indicating the current position specified by the current position specifying unit 13b to the provided information (SA11). Thereafter, the information providing unit 13d provides the provided information with the current position information to the provided information server 3 from the communication unit 11 via the network 2 (SA10). Thereafter, the control unit 13 ends the information providing process.

(effect)
As described above, according to the present embodiment, the content position specifying unit 13c extracts the information related to the position from the content of the provided information acquired by the provided information acquiring unit 13a, and based on the extracted information, The position is specified, and the information providing unit 13d provides content position information indicating the position specified by the content position specifying unit 13c when the current position is different from the position specified by the content position specifying unit 13c. Since the information is provided to the provision information server 3, position information indicating a position related to the contents of the provision information can be given to the provision information, and effective use of the position information given to the provision information can be performed. Can be planned.

  Further, the content position specifying unit 13c extracts information related to the position from the contents of the character information or the non-character information acquired by the provided information acquiring unit 13a, and specifies the position based on the extracted information. Position information indicating a position highly relevant to the contents of character information or non-character information included in the provision information can be given to the provision information.

  In particular, the content position specifying unit 13c includes the non-character information included in the provided information only when the content position specifying unit 13c does not extract information related to the position from the content of the character information included in the provided information. Information related to the position is extracted from the contents of the content, and the position is specified based on the extracted information, so that position information indicating a position highly relevant to the contents of the character information is preferentially given to the provided information Can do.

[Modifications to Embodiment]
Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the specific configuration and means of the present invention can be arbitrarily modified and improved within the scope of the technical idea of each invention described in the claims. Can do. Hereinafter, such a modification will be described.

(About problems to be solved and effects of the invention)
First, the problems to be solved by the invention and the effects of the invention are not limited to the above contents, and may vary depending on the implementation environment and details of the configuration of the invention. May be solved, or only some of the effects described above may be achieved.

(About information provision processing)
In the above-described embodiment, the content position specifying unit 13c determines from the content of the non-character information included in the provided information only when information related to the position is not extracted from the content of the character information included in the provided information. Although it has been described that information related to a position is extracted and a position is specified based on the extracted information, information related to the position is extracted from the contents of the character information, and the position is specified based on the information. Information related to the position may be extracted from the content of the information, and the position may be specified based on the information. In this case, the information providing unit 13d provides both the content position information indicating the position specified based on the character information and the content position information indicating the position specified based on the non-character information by providing the provided information. You may make it provide to the information server 3. FIG.

  In the above-described embodiment, the information providing unit 13d has been described as an example in which either the content position information or the current position information is added to the provided information. However, both the content position information and the current position information are provided. You may make it provide to the provision information server 3 by giving to information.

  Further, the information providing apparatus 1 always provides the provision information provided with the current position information to the provision information server 3 without performing the processes SA3 to SA9 in FIG. 2, and the provision is based on the provided provision information. The information server 3 may execute processing corresponding to SA3 to SA9 in FIG. In this case, the provision information server 3 stores the provision information to which the content position information and / or the current position information is added in the provision information server 3 so as to be readable from the terminal device or the like via the network 2.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Information provision apparatus 2 Network 3 Provision information server 10 Input part 11 Communication part 12 Display 13 Control part 13a Provision information acquisition part 13b Current position specific | specification part 13c Content position specific | specification part 13d Information provision part

Claims (5)

An information providing device for providing provided information to a server,
Providing information acquisition means for acquiring providing information for providing to the server;
Current position specifying means for specifying the current position of the information providing device;
Content position specifying means for extracting information related to the position from the content of the provided information acquired by the provided information acquiring means, and specifying the position based on the extracted information;
The provision information provided with current position information indicating the current position specified by the current position specifying means is provided to the server, and the current position is different from the position specified by the content position specifying means. In this case, information providing means for providing the server with provided information to which content position information indicating the position specified by the content position specifying means is provided;
An information providing apparatus comprising: The provision information acquisition means acquires the provision information including non-character information other than character information and / or character information,
The content position specifying unit extracts information related to the position from the contents of the character information and / or the non-character information acquired by the provided information acquisition unit, and specifies the position based on the extracted information. To
The information providing apparatus according to claim 1. The non-character information included in the provided information only when the content position specifying unit does not extract information related to the position from the content of the character information included in the provided information. Information related to the position is extracted from the contents of the information, and the position is specified based on the extracted information.
The position specifying device according to claim 2. An information providing method for providing provided information from an information providing apparatus to a server,
Providing information obtaining step for obtaining providing information for providing to the server;
A current position specifying step for specifying a current position of the information providing device;
A content position specifying step for extracting information related to a position from the contents of the providing information acquired in the providing information acquiring step, and specifying the position based on the extracted information;
Providing the server with the provision information provided with current position information indicating the current position specified in the current position specifying step, wherein the current position and the position specified in the content position specifying step are: If different, an information providing step of providing the server with provision information to which the content position information indicating the position specified in the content position specifying step is provided;
Information providing method including   An information providing program for causing a computer to execute the method according to claim 4.

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