JPH01220069A - Geographic guidance device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To constantly and adequately show a way by constituting by a geographic guidance terminal equipment to which a user directly accesses and a central retrieval device to be connected to this geographic guidance terminal device through a communication line and to be established in a center. CONSTITUTION:A geographic guidance terminal equipment 1 to which a user accesses and inputs the information of a retrieval place and a central retrieval device 51 to be connected to this geographic guidance terminal equipment 1 and to return map information corresponding to the information of the retrieval place from the geographic guidance terminal terminal 1 to the geographic guidance terminal device 1 are owned. The map information for the retrieval place which the user accesses to the geographic guidance terminal equipment 1 and inputs is retrieved from the map storage means 91 of the central retrieval device 51, the map position information of the retrieval place is detected, this map position information is returned to the geographic guidance terminal equipment 1, a map to correspond to this map position information is read out from a map storage means 92 for terminal in the geographic guidance terminal equipment 1 and displayed on a displaying means 96. Thus, showing the way can be constantly and adequately executed.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Objective of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention has a terminal device installed in front of a station, a police box, etc., and a user seeking geographical guidance accesses the terminal device. The present invention relates to a geographical guidance device that displays a map and guides the user to the location he or she is looking for.

(Conventional technology) Transportation such as trains nI! Even if you use the ``L'' to get to a station near the place you want to go to, in an unfamiliar place, you often don't know the location or directions to the place you want to go to.

Maps of the area near the station are posted in front of the station, and police boxes are set up to provide directions.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) With the above-mentioned route guidance using posted maps, it is often difficult to accurately search for a desired place, and the maps may not always be accurate.

Furthermore, when requesting directions from a police box, police officers are not always present at the police box; they may patrol the surrounding area to warn the surrounding area, or go out in response to an emergency call from a resident, etc., and provide M guidance. In the past, there was no way to provide accurate directions at all times.

The present invention has been made in view of the above, and an object thereof is to provide a geographical guidance device that can always provide accurate route guidance.

[Structure of the invention]

(Means for Solving the Problems) In order to solve the above problems, the geographical guidance device of the present invention, as shown in FIG. Geographic information terminal i! Communication line l! to the location 1 and the geographical guidance terminal device! 99, and sends map information corresponding to search location information from the geographic guidance terminal device back to the geographic guidance terminal device via a communication line, and the central search device 51 includes: The central map storage means 91 stores a map, and the central map storage means 91 is searched to send map information corresponding to the information of the search place back to the geographical guidance terminal device via the communication line, and the central map storage means 91 stores the map. The geographical guide device δ1 has a search means 93 for detecting map position information as map information; The gist of the present invention is to include a reading means 94 for reading out a map corresponding to the map from the terminal map storage means, and a display means 96 for displaying the map read out by the reading means.

(Function) In the automatic police box system of the present invention, the map information for the search location input by accessing the geographical guidance terminal device before use is searched from the map storage means of the central search device to detect the map position information of the search location. This map position information is sent back to the geographical guidance terminal device, and the geographical guidance terminal device reads out a map corresponding to the map position information from the terminal map storage means and displays it on the display means.

(Example) Hereinafter, the present invention will be explained in detail using the drawings.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a geographical guidance device according to an embodiment of the present invention. The geographical guidance device shown in the figure is a device that provides directions to users, for example, in front of a station, at a police box, at a department store, or the like.

As mentioned above, this geographical guidance device includes a geographical guidance terminal device 1 which is installed in front of a station, a police box, a department store, etc., and which is directly accessed by a user seeking directions;
A central search device 51 is connected to the Internet via a communication line 99 such as a telephone line, and is provided at a central management headquarters.

The geographical guidance terminal device 1 has a vertically long box-shaped appearance, for example as shown in FIG. It is now possible to display.

Returning to FIG. 2, the geographical guidance terminal device 1 has a still image transmission device 3 with NCtJ, and the central search device 51 also has an NCU.
N of the geographical guidance terminal device 1.
The still image transmission unit 3 with CU is connected to the still image transmission device 53 with NCLI of the central search device 51 via a communication line 1199.

The geographical guidance terminal device 1 is connected to a handset, that is, a telephone receiver 5, a speaker 7, a sound collection microphone 9, a modem device 27, and a modem device 27, which is connected to the still image transmission device 3 with NCU. Your computer 25 is used as a user terminal for requesting directions.
and a road guidance display CR connected to the computer 25.
T-display 11, a hard copy device 13 for taking a hard copy of the route guidance map etc. displayed on the guidance display CR display 11, an I-11 control device 15 for controlling each device, an emergency call button 17, and a an access detection sensor 19 that detects access by a person; a first terminal map storage device 20 comprising a magnetic disk that stores a map of the area where the geographic guidance terminal device 1 is installed as a graphical database; A second terminal map storage device 22 consisting of a magnetic disk that stores a corresponding residential map etc. as an attribute database, and an ITV camera 21
, a monitor 23, and still image transmission devices 29 and 3 connected to the ITV camera 21 and monitor 23, respectively.
1, and an access detection sensor 1 via the computer 25.
9, and is also directly connected to the still image transmission device 29, and records video of the user and the surrounding situation. 37.

The central search device a51 also includes a handset, that is, a telephone receiver 55 connected to the still image transmission device with NCU 53.
, a speaker 57, a recording unit 59, a modem device 77, a control computer 75 connected to the modem device 77, and a map display C connected to the computer 75.
An RT display 61, a mouse 63, an operating keyboard 65, a display 67 that displays the status of the central search device 51, and a control device 69 that controls the central search device 51.
and a first map storage device 20 of the geographic guidance terminal device 1.
and, like the second map storage device 22, a first central map storage device 70 consisting of a magnetic disk that stores a map including at least the area where the geographic guidance terminal device 1 is installed as a graphic database; a second central map storage device 72 consisting of a magnetic disk that stores residential maps etc. corresponding to the map as an attribute database;
The NCUH devices 8 and 85 are connected to the NCU devices 35 and 37 of the geographical guidance terminal device 1 via the communication line 99, and the still image transmission @ devices 79 and 81 are connected to the NCLI devices 83 and 85, respectively. , a monitor 71 connected to the still image transmission device 79, and an ITV camera 73 connected to the still image transmission device vI81.

In the geographic guidance terminal device 1, the handset 5 includes:
This is for communicating with the person in charge of the central search device 51 via the communication line 99. For example, when a user comes to the geographic guidance terminal device 1 for geographic guidance, etc., the user can use the handset 5 to This is a telephone receiver for communicating with the central search device 51 in the center and requesting directions. In this case, in the central search device 51, the handset 55 or speaker 57 of the central search device 51 is used for communication with the handset 5.

The speaker 7 is used to transmit the voice of the central search device 51 having a conversation with the person in charge of the medium search device 51 via the sound collection microphone 9, the guidance information of the voice guidance device, and the like.

The sound collection microphone 9 is used to collect the voice of the user of the geographic guidance terminal device 1 , and the collected acoustic information is transmitted to the central search device 51 via the communication line 99 . will be communicated to the corresponding person.

The access detection sensor 19 detects when a user comes to the geographical guidance terminal device 1, and thereby automatically activates the geographical guidance terminal device 1 and sends a message to the user, for example. [If you are in need, please pick up the receiver. It is used to generate voice guidance such as "The central geographic information staff is unable to respond."

In the central search device 51, the computer 75, display CRT display 61, mouse 63, and keyboard 65 are a computer system that performs map searches from the first central map storage device 70 and the second central map storage device 72. It consists of

The handset 55 of the central search device 51 has a telephone receiver function similar to the handset 5 of the geographic guidance terminal device 1, and a person corresponding to the central search device 51 can use this handset 55 to connect the geographic guidance terminal device. 1 handset 5
or to talk to someone using the geographical information terminal device 1.
A speaker 7 and a sound collection microphone 9 are used to talk to a person on the geographical guidance terminal device 1 side.

The speaker 57 of the central search device 51 is a geographical information terminal bag @
It is used to transmit the voice etc. from the geographical guidance terminal device 1 using the handset 5 or the sound collection microphone 9 of 1.

The geographical guidance terminal device 1 has a box-shaped appearance as shown in FIG.
A guide display CRT display 11 and a monitor 23 are installed below the ITV camera 21 in parallel. Further, a handset 5 is provided below the monitor 23, an emergency call button 176 and an operating switch 39 are provided below the handset 5, and a speaker 7 is provided below the operating switch 39. Furthermore, a hard copy device 13 is provided below the CRT display 11 for guidance display.

The first terminal map storage device 20 and the second terminal map storage device 22 of the geographic guidance terminal device 1 store at least map data within the jurisdictional area surrounding the geographic guidance terminal device 1. , the first central map storage device 70 and the second central map storage device 72 of the central search device 51 are the first central map storage device 20 and the second central map storage device 72 of the geographic guidance terminal device 1. The map storage device 22 stores map data of a jurisdiction including at least the map data. The map database stored in the first terminal map storage device 20 and the first central map storage device 70 is an index that is a mesh map of a residential map with roads and blocks simplified to 1/2500, for example. It consists of a map and a 1/1500 scale residential map, and the figures of the index map and residential map are stored as vector information.

Further, the attribute database stored in the second terminal map storage device 22 and the second central map storage device 72 includes the lot number, house name, building name, etc. of the residential map. By specifying the attribute data name, the corresponding map can be searched.

Next, the operation will be explained with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. 4(a) and 4(b) and FIG. 5.

A geographical guidance terminal device 1 constituting the present geographical guidance device is installed, for example, in front of a station, a police box, a department store, etc., so that users seeking directions can easily access it, and it also communicates with the geographical guidance terminal device 1. A central search device 51 connected via a line is installed in a central management department such as a police station, and a person in charge at the headquarters can check the geographic location of the user from the geographic information terminal device 1. It is designed to respond. Then, based on the response result, a route guidance map is displayed on the guidance display CRT display 11 of the geographic guidance terminal device 1, and a hard copy of the map can be obtained from the hard copy device 13 if necessary. It has become.

In addition, the situation of responders at the headquarters can be viewed using the geographical information terminal device 1.
The image is displayed on the monitor 23 of the computer.

First, a user seeking directions must use the Geographical Guide Reception System V:
11, use the headquarters' central search system F1 for directions.
51, as shown in FIG. 5(a), "
``Geographic Guidance Reception'' is displayed, and the person in charge at the headquarters is displayed on the monitor 23, allowing the user to interact with the person in charge at the headquarters. Therefore, the user explains the search information related to the desired location to the person in charge at the headquarters, such as address J3 and name, and the person in charge at Kibe memorizes this information (step 110). In this case, the user may input search information such as the address and name of the place he/she wants to search from the key input device of the geographical guidance terminal device 1.

Once search information such as the address and name of the desired location is known, the person in charge at the headquarters inputs this information into the central search device 51 and searches for the corresponding map (step 120). In this state, the guidance display CR1' display 11 of the geographic guidance terminal device 1 displays the message "Currently searching for map." as shown in FIG. 5(b). ``Please hold it for a while'' appears, and the monitor 23 shows a person at the headquarters inputting information.

In addition, this map search is performed by inputting search information such as the address and name that the user wants to search into the central search device 51.
According to this search information, the computer 75 of the central search Pi station 51 accesses the second central map storage device 72 having an attribute database, and detects the corresponding map position information. Then, the first central map 1 which has a graphical database based on this map position information! ! The user accesses the device 70 and detects a map with the address and name he or she is looking for.

When a map corresponding to the search information is detected and this map is displayed on the display CRT display 61 of the central search device 51, the index of this map, ie, map position information, is sent to the central search device via a communication line. 51 to the geographic guidance terminal device 1 (step 130).

When the geographical guidance terminal device 1 receives this map position information,
According to the map location information, the first terminal map storage device 20
and reads out the map corresponding to the map location information.
The information is displayed on the guidance display CRT display 11 as shown in FIG. 5(0) (step 140). Note that the first terminal map storage device 20 and the second terminal map storage device 20 of the geographic guidance terminal device 1
The terminal map storage devices 22 are each central search device 51.
The first central map storage device 70 and the second central map storage device 72 store the same map information, or the first terminal map storage device 20 and the second terminal map storage device 22 Since the map information is included in at least the first central map storage device 70 and the second central map storage device 72, the geographic guidance terminal device 1 transmits all the map information itself from the central search device 51. There is no need to receive the information, and it is sufficient to simply have the map location information necessary to search or read the corresponding map, that is, the index, transmitted. Therefore, the transmission time is short and the communication cost is low. .

When the map of the place being searched for is displayed on the guidance display CRT display 11 of the geographic guidance terminal device 1, the user looks at this map and checks whether it is correct or not, and if it is not correct, returns to step 110. Then, the same map search operation is repeated again (step 150).

If the map is correct, it is checked whether a hard copy of the map is required (step 160). If a hard copy is required, a hard copy command is transmitted to the geographical guidance terminal 1, and a hard copy of the map is sent from the hard copy device 13 of the geographical guidance terminal 1 to the map shown in FIG.
) (step 170).

In addition, in the map search and display operations described above, if directions from the location of the user's geographic guidance terminal device 1 to the search location are required, the person in charge at the headquarters will By moving the mouse 63 over the map displayed on the CRT display 61, the route can be displayed directly on the map on the display CRT display 61 and the guidance display CRT display 11 of the geographic guidance terminal device 1. can.

Further, when the process proceeds to step 180, it is checked whether a detailed view is required. If a detailed map is required, the index of the detailed map, that is, detailed map position information, is searched for in the central linking device 51 at the headquarters (step 190), and the index of the detailed map is sent to the geographic guidance terminal device 1 via the communication line. (step 200). The geographic information terminal device 1 reads out the corresponding detailed map based on the detailed map index transmitted from the central search device 51 and displays it as shown in FIG. 5(e) (step 210).

It is checked whether this detailed map is correct (step 220), and if it is not correct, the process returns to step 110 or 180, but if it is correct, it is checked whether a hard copy is required (step 230). If a hard copy is required, a hard copy command is transmitted to the geographic guidance terminal device 1, and the hard copy device 13 displays the CRT display 6 as shown in FIG. 5(f).
Along with the directions displayed in 1, a hard copy (
q (step 240), and the process proceeds to step 250.

Further, if a detailed view is not required in step 180, the process also proceeds to step 250. In step 250, the necessity of another map search is checked, and if necessary, the process returns to step 110 and the same operation is repeated, but if it is not necessary, the process is terminated.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, the map information for the search place input by accessing the geographical guidance terminal device is searched from the map storage means of the central search device, and the map position information of the search place is detected. Then, this map position information is sent back to the geographical guidance terminal device, and the geographical guidance terminal device reads out the map corresponding to the map position information from the terminal map storage means and displays it on the display means. ,
Geographical guidance terminal equipment is installed in department stores, etc., and even if a guide is not present at the equipment, accurate route guidance is always provided and map position information, that is, route guidance information, is transmitted via communication lines. , can provide helpful directions.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a diagram corresponding to the claims of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a geographical guidance device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG.
), (b), and (c) are a front view, a side view, and a plan view showing the appearance of the geographical guidance terminal device used in the geographical guidance device shown in Figure 2, respectively, and Figure 4 is the geographical guidance device shown in Figure 2. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the operation of FIG. 2, but does not show an example of the display screen displayed on the guidance display CRT display and monitor used in the geographical guidance device of FIG. 1...Geographical guidance terminal device, 11...CR for guidance display
T display, 13...Hard copy device, 23.
...Monitor, 51... Central search device, 61... CRT display for display, 91... Central map storage means, 92... Terminal map storage means, 93... Search means, 94. ...Reading means, 96...Display means, 99...
・Communication line.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A geographical guidance terminal device to which a user seeking geographical guidance accesses and inputs information on a search location, and a geographical guidance terminal device connected to the geographic guidance terminal device via a communication line, and a search location from the geographical guidance terminal device. has a central search device that returns map information corresponding to the information of the search location to the geographic guidance terminal device via a communication line; a search means for searching the central map storage means and detecting map position information of the search location as the map information in order to send map information corresponding to the information back to the geographical guidance terminal device via a communication line; The terminal device includes a terminal map storage means for storing a map, a reading means for reading a map corresponding to the map position information returned from the central search device from the terminal map storage means, and a reading means for reading a map corresponding to the map position information returned from the central search device. 1. A geographical guidance device, comprising: display means for displaying a map read out by the user.