WO2014162612A1

WO2014162612A1 - Information provision system, terminal, information provision method, and information provision program

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Publication number: WO2014162612A1
Application number: PCT/JP2013/060553
Authority: WO
Inventors: 博之関谷
Original assignee: パイオニア株式会社
Priority date: 2013-04-05
Filing date: 2013-04-05
Publication date: 2014-10-09
Also published as: JPWO2014162612A1

Abstract

An information provision device (100) comprises: a first acquisition unit (101) which acquires home position information that is information relating to a user's home position, and a point information indicating a point which the user has visited; a second acquisition unit (102) which acquires position information relating to a predetermined position from another user that requests the point information; and an information provision unit (103) which provides, to the other user, the point information relating to the point which the user whose home position is near the predetermined position of the other user acquired by the second acquisition unit (102) has visited.

Description

Information providing system, terminal, information providing method, and information providing program

The present invention relates to an information providing system, a terminal, an information providing method, and an information providing program for providing information on points visited by other users. However, utilization of this invention is not restricted to an information provision system, a terminal, an information provision method, and an information provision program.

Conventionally, a navigation system has been proposed in which facilities that are frequently set as destinations are provided to users as popular facilities (see, for example, Patent Document 1 below).

JP 2008-14669 A

In the above-described conventional technology, a popular facility is extracted and provided based on the frequency set as the destination, so that a user living in a place away from the facility has few opportunities to visit the provided facility. It is not valid information. Moreover, since a popular facility is simply extracted, for example, a popular facility near the place where the user lives cannot be extracted.

In order to solve the above-described problems and achieve the object, an information providing system according to the invention of claim 1 includes home position information that is information related to a user's home position and point information that indicates a point visited by the user. A first acquisition unit to acquire, a second acquisition unit to acquire position information on a predetermined position from another user who requests the point information, and the predetermined position of the other user acquired by the second acquisition unit And an information providing unit that provides the other user with point information of a point visited by the user who has a home position in the vicinity.

A terminal according to a ninth aspect of the present invention is a terminal connected to a server that provides point information of a point visited by a user whose home is located around a predetermined position, and the terminal is connected to the server. It has a transmission part which transmits the acquisition request | requirement of the said point information and the information of the said predetermined position, and an acquisition part which acquires the point information of the point which the user visited from the said server.

According to a tenth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a recording unit that stores information in which home position information, which is information related to a user's home position, and point information indicating a point visited by the user is stored; A reception unit that receives position information related to a position; and an information providing unit that provides point information of a point visited by a user who has a home position in the vicinity of the predetermined position received by the reception unit. To do.

An information providing system according to the invention of claim 11 is a server that provides point information of a point visited by a user whose home is located around a predetermined position, and a terminal of the user connected to the server, An information providing system including a terminal of another user connected to the server and receiving information from the server, the terminal of the user includes home position information that is information related to the home position of the user, and the user The location information indicating the visited location is transmitted to the server, and the server acquires home location information that is information relating to the home location of the user and location information indicating the location visited by the user. A second acquisition unit that acquires position information related to a predetermined position from another user who requests the point information, and the other acquired by the second acquisition unit An information providing unit that provides the other user with point information of a point visited by the user who has a home position in the vicinity of the predetermined position of the user, and the terminal of the other user has a predetermined position The location information regarding is sent to the server, and the server receives the location information of the location visited by the user who has a home location in the vicinity of the predetermined location.

The information providing method according to the invention of claim 12 is the information providing method implemented by the information providing apparatus, comprising: home position information that is information relating to a user's home position; and point information indicating a point visited by the user. A first acquisition step of acquiring, a second acquisition step of acquiring position information relating to a predetermined position from another user requesting point information, and the predetermined position of the other user acquired by the second acquisition step An information providing step of providing the other user with point information of a point visited by the user who has a home position in the vicinity of the user.

An information providing program according to the invention of claim 13 causes a computer to execute the information providing method of claim 12.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a functional configuration of the information providing apparatus according to the embodiment. FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a processing procedure of the information providing apparatus according to the embodiment. FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a hardware configuration of the navigation device. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating the overall configuration of the information providing system. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the processing contents related to the information provision processing in the server. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the processing contents related to the information providing processing in the server.

(Embodiment)
Exemplary embodiments of an information providing system, a terminal, an information providing method, and an information providing program according to the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a functional configuration of the information providing apparatus according to the embodiment. In the embodiment, a single server (information providing apparatus) 100 collectively performs information providing processing. The information providing apparatus 100 includes a first acquisition unit 101 and a second acquisition unit 102. As will be described later, a plurality of servers distributed by function in FIG. 1 may be used, or a single client (terminal) may have the function shown in FIG. 1 without using a server.

The first acquisition unit 101 acquires home position information, which is information related to the user's home position, and point information indicating a point visited by the user. The home position includes the position of a building at home, the position of a parking lot in the home, the position of a parking lot away from the home, and the like, and an arbitrary position can be set by the user. The home position is not limited to one point on the coordinates (latitude and longitude), and may be set using a circle with a predetermined radius centered on a predetermined range, for example, the home coordinate position. The second acquisition unit 102 acquires a request from another user (requesting user) who requests the point information. The requesting user requests acquisition of point information of a point visited by a user in the vicinity of the position information regarding the predetermined position.

The second acquisition unit 102 acquires position information related to a predetermined position when requested by the requesting user. For example, the position information of the requesting user's home position is acquired as the predetermined position.

The information providing unit 103 provides the requesting user with point information (for example, a facility) of a point visited by a user whose home position is in the vicinity of the position of the other user (requesting user) acquired by the second acquiring unit.

The information providing unit 103 assigns a user ID to each user, acquired by the first acquisition unit 101, home position information that is information regarding the home position for each user, and point information indicating a point visited by the user, Are recorded in the recording unit (database). And this information provision part 103 provides a request | requirement user with the point information which the user visited.

Also, the first acquisition unit 101 has a function of acquiring route information from the home to the point visited by the user. Thereby, the information provision part 103 can provide the request | requirement user with the route information to the point where many users visited with the point information.

And the information provision part 103 acquires the log | history of the traveled route information about several users, and calculates the home and the point visited for every user. At this time, if the information on the point visited by the user can be acquired from the user, the information on the point (for example, the facility) is acquired. When information about a point cannot be acquired from the user, it is determined that the user is staying at a predetermined point (facility) if the user is located within a predetermined range including this point for a certain period of time. And at the time of this stay determination, the information provision part 103 can provide the detailed information (facility information) regarding the point which the user visited by searching the facility information in a predetermined range.

Furthermore, the information providing unit 103 can output the ranking for each point (facility) visited by the user by collecting information on the point visited by a user. Further, by collecting information on the points visited by a plurality of users, it is possible to output a ranking for each point (facility) visited by the plurality of users.

The first acquisition unit 101 acquires information (home position information, point information indicating a visited point) from the user without specifying the user name in order to protect personal information. Similarly, also in the information providing unit 103, the information from the user acquired via the first acquisition unit 101 is in a state where the user cannot be specified (for example, the user name is changed to an unspecified user ID), And information specifying the user is not output to the outside (other users).

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an example of a processing procedure of the information providing apparatus according to the embodiment. An information providing process executed by the information providing apparatus 100 will be described. First, the information providing apparatus uses the first acquisition unit 101 to acquire the user's home position information and point information indicating a point visited by the user (step S201).

Next, the second acquisition unit 102 acquires a request from the requesting user. At this time, the requesting user requests acquisition of point information of a point visited by a user in the vicinity of the position information regarding the predetermined position. The second acquisition unit 102 acquires position information regarding a predetermined position (for example, the requesting user's home position) from the requesting user (step S202).

Then, the information providing unit 103 provides the requesting user with the point information of the point visited by the user whose home position is in the vicinity of the predetermined position of the requesting user acquired by the second acquiring unit (step S203). Thereby, the requesting user can receive provision of point information of a point visited by a user who lives near the home position of the requesting user. At this time, the information providing unit 103 can provide a point (facility) visit ranking for each user. Further, by collecting information on points visited by a plurality of users, it is possible to output a ranking for each point (facility) visited by a plurality of users. By classifying this ranking by time, it becomes possible to estimate the degree of congestion for each facility.

According to the above-described embodiment, the requesting user can know the information of the point visited by the user living in the neighborhood. As a result, it is possible to obtain information on points and facilities (supermarkets, gas stations, etc.) visited by users living in the neighborhood. In addition, by knowing the ranking of the visited facilities, you can easily know what kind of facilities are visited frequently, for example, the facilities with many visitors because the price is low and the service is good To be able to know.

Further, the predetermined location of the requesting user is not limited to the home but may be a travel destination, and in this case, information on facilities such as supermarkets frequently visited by local residents can be easily obtained at the travel destination. become.

Hereinafter, examples of the present invention will be described. In the present embodiment, an example will be described in which the navigation device 300 is mounted on a user's vehicle, and another user (requesting user) operates a terminal such as a PC at home. The navigation device and the terminal are communicatively connected to a server. And an example in case a server performs the function of said information provision apparatus 100 is demonstrated.

(Hardware configuration of navigation device 300)
Next, the hardware configuration of the navigation device 300 will be described. FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a hardware configuration of the navigation device. In FIG. 3, a navigation device 300 includes a CPU 301, ROM 302, RAM 303, magnetic disk drive 304, magnetic disk 305, optical disk drive 306, optical disk 307, audio I / F (interface) 308, microphone 309, speaker 310, input device 311, A video I / F 312, a display 313, a communication I / F 314, a GPS unit 315, various sensors 316, and a camera 317 are provided. Each component 301 to 317 is connected by a bus 320.

CPU 301 governs overall control of navigation device 300. The ROM 302 records a boot program and an information providing program. The RAM 303 is used as a work area for the CPU 301. That is, the CPU 301 controls the entire navigation device 300 by executing various programs recorded in the ROM 302 while using the RAM 303 as a work area.

The magnetic disk drive 304 controls the reading / writing of the data with respect to the magnetic disk 305 according to control of CPU301. The magnetic disk 305 records data written under the control of the magnetic disk drive 304. As the magnetic disk 305, for example, an HD (hard disk) or an FD (flexible disk) can be used.

The optical disk drive 306 controls reading / writing of data with respect to the optical disk 307 according to the control of the CPU 301. The optical disk 307 is a detachable recording medium from which data is read according to the control of the optical disk drive 306. As the optical disc 307, a writable recording medium can be used. In addition to the optical disk 307, an MO, a memory card, or the like can be used as a removable recording medium.

Examples of information recorded on the magnetic disk 305 and the optical disk 307 include map data, vehicle information, road information, travel history, and the like. Map data is used when searching for routes in car navigation systems. Background data that represents features (features) such as buildings, rivers, ground surfaces, and energy supply facilities, and road shapes that represent road shapes with links and nodes. It is vector data including data.

The voice I / F 308 is connected to a microphone 309 for voice input and a speaker 310 for voice output. The sound received by the microphone 309 is A / D converted in the sound I / F 308. For example, the microphone 309 is installed in a dashboard portion of a vehicle, and the number thereof may be one or more. From the speaker 310, a sound obtained by D / A converting a predetermined sound signal in the sound I / F 308 is output.

The input device 311 includes a remote controller, a keyboard, a touch panel, and the like provided with a plurality of keys for inputting characters, numerical values, various instructions, and the like. The input device 311 may be realized by any one form of a remote control, a keyboard, and a touch panel, but can also be realized by a plurality of forms.

The video I / F 312 is connected to the display 313. Specifically, the video I / F 312 is output from, for example, a graphic controller that controls the entire display 313, a buffer memory such as a VRAM (Video RAM) that temporarily records image information that can be displayed immediately, and a graphic controller. And a control IC for controlling the display 313 based on the image data to be processed.

The display 313 displays icons, cursors, menus, windows, or various data such as characters and images. As the display 313, for example, a TFT liquid crystal display, an organic EL display, or the like can be used.

The camera 317 captures images inside or outside the vehicle. The image may be either a still image or a moving image. For example, the outside of the vehicle is photographed by the camera 317, and the photographed image is analyzed by the CPU 301, or a recording medium such as the magnetic disk 305 or the optical disk 307 via the video I / F 312. Or output to

The communication I / F 314 is connected to the network via wireless and functions as an interface between the navigation device 300 and the CPU 301. Communication networks that function as networks include in-vehicle communication networks such as CAN and LIN (Local Interconnect Network), public line networks and mobile phone networks, DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communication), LAN, and WAN. The communication I / F 314 is, for example, a public line connection module, an ETC (non-stop automatic fee payment system) unit, an FM tuner, a VICS (Vehicle Information and Communication System) / beacon receiver, or the like.

The GPS unit 315 receives radio waves from GPS satellites and outputs information indicating the current position of the vehicle. The output information of the GPS unit 315 is used when the CPU 301 calculates the current position of the vehicle together with output values of various sensors 316 described later. The information indicating the current position is information for specifying one point on the map data such as latitude / longitude and altitude.

Various sensors 316 output information for determining the position and behavior of the vehicle, such as a vehicle speed sensor, an acceleration sensor, an angular velocity sensor, and a tilt sensor. The output values of the various sensors 316 are used for the calculation of the current position of the vehicle by the CPU 301 and the amount of change in speed and direction.

(Server configuration example)
The server and the terminal included in the information providing system also have the same configuration as that in FIG. In these servers and terminals, the GPS unit 315, the various sensors 316, the camera 317, etc. shown in FIG. 3 are unnecessary.

The information providing apparatus 100 shown in FIG. 1 provides information when the CPU 301 executes a predetermined program using programs and data recorded in a ROM 302, a RAM 303, a magnetic disk 305, an optical disk 307, and the like provided in the server. Realize the function.

Further, the navigation apparatus 300 may have the function of the information providing apparatus 100 shown in FIG. In this case, since the navigation apparatus 300 mounted on the vehicle of the above-described user or another user (requesting user) realizes the function of the information providing apparatus 100, a server can be omitted. Also, the terminal used by the other user (requesting user) described above may use the navigation device 300 mounted on the vehicle of the other user (requesting user), and this configuration example also eliminates the need for a server. be able to.

Further, in the case of a configuration using a terminal such as the navigation device 300, the configuration of the first acquisition unit 101 shown in FIG. 1 is omitted, and information acquired by the first acquisition unit 101 instead, that is, information on the user's home position Information obtained by associating home location information and point information indicating a point visited by the user with a medium such as a CD-ROM or by communication from a server or the like and storing it in a recording unit, and using the information as a database You can also

(Example system configuration)
FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating the overall configuration of the information providing system. In the example of FIG. 4, the user mounts the navigation device 300 on a movable vehicle. Another user (requesting user) has a client machine (terminal) 450 at home. Then, the user navigation device 300 and the terminal 450 of another user (requesting user) are connected to the server 400 by communication. The navigation device 300 sequentially transmits position information to the server 400 in real time (in real time), is assigned a user-specific ID, and transmits the ID to the server 400.

Hereinafter, an internal configuration of the server 400 functioning as the information providing apparatus 100 will be described. The server 400 includes a home determination unit 401, an arrival determination unit 402, an arrival spot determination unit 403, a user information unit 404, a user information management unit 405, and a user introduction unit 406. The functions of the first acquisition unit 101 illustrated in FIG. 1 are included in the home determination unit 401 and the arrival determination unit 402 in FIG. The functions of the information providing unit 103 shown in FIG. 1 are included in the user information unit 404 to the user introduction unit 406 in FIG. The functions of the first acquisition unit 101, the second acquisition unit 102, and the information providing unit 103 may be configured using different servers 400.

The home determination unit 401 determines home position information based on the position transmitted from the user's navigation device 300, and registers the home position in the record of the ID corresponding to the user in the user information unit 404. This embodiment is an example in which no information regarding the home position is input from the user. Based on the position information sequentially transmitted from the navigation device 300, the same position is determined based on a predetermined period (for example, position information for one month). A location where the number of times of location information is large is determined as the home location. In addition, the user's home position may be the corresponding position information (for example, latitude / longitude or a wider area mesh area) by inputting the user's address, postal code, telephone number, or the like.

The arrival determination unit 402 generates point information (arrival position, time, route (route), arrival spot (facility, etc.)) of the point visited by the user based on the position information sent in real time from the navigation device 300 of the user. . For example, the route after the user's vehicle has started moving from home or the like is determined, and when a stop at a point other than the home (destination or the like) has elapsed for a predetermined time or longer, this point is determined as the visited point. The position at this point is taken as the arrival position. The arrival determination unit 402 outputs the generated point information to the user information unit 404, and the user information unit 404 newly registers one record for the corresponding user ID each time new point information is generated. The information received from the arrival spot determination unit 403 is used as the arrival spot.

Upon receiving the arrival position of the user output from the arrival determination unit 402, the arrival spot determination unit 403 returns an arrival spot corresponding to the arrival position to the arrival determination unit 402. The arrival spot determination unit 403 extracts a facility or the like near the arrival position (latitude / longitude) on the map information (latitude / longitude) as an arrival spot.

The user information management unit 405 manages database of user information. Information on a plurality of users is stored in a database as user information 410. The user information 410 includes, for each user ID, the user's home position determined by the home determination unit 401 and point information (arrival position, time, route, arrival point) of the point visited by the user determined by the arrival determination unit 402. The user information 410 is stored in the user information management unit 405 (storage unit) for each user.

The user introduction unit 406 is based on a request from the terminal 450 of another user (requesting user),
The user information 410 stored in the user information management unit 405 is referred to. The requesting user sends position information of a predetermined position (for example, the requesting user's home position). The user introduction unit 406 transmits the point information (for example, arrival position, route, arrival spot (facility)) of the point visited by the user at the home position corresponding to the predetermined position specified by the requesting user to other users ( A response (delivery) is made to the terminal 450 of the requesting user).

(Example of information provision processing in the embodiment)
Next, an example of information provision processing according to the embodiment will be described. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the processing contents related to the information provision processing in the server. FIG. 5 shows a registration process of home position regarding the user and point information of the point visited by the user.

The user's navigation device 300 sequentially transmits the position information (Step S501, Step S502). In the following description, it is assumed that these pieces of position information do not include information indicating the user's home position. However, it is possible to cope with the case where the position information to be transmitted is the home position (step S503). .

The home determination unit 401 of the server 400 accumulates position information transmitted from the user's navigation device 300 for a predetermined period (for example, position information for one month), and sets a place where the number of position information at the same position is large as the home position. Judgment is made and home information is generated (step S504). When position information directly indicating the home position is sent from the user's navigation device 300 (step S503), the home information is generated based on this position.

The home information generated by the home determination unit 401 is transmitted to the user information unit 404 (step S505), and the user information unit 404 registers the home position in the corresponding user ID.

Further, the arrival determination unit 402 performs processing for generating point information of a point visited by the user every time there is a movement to a position other than the home, based on the position information transmitted from the user's navigation device 300. For example, the route after the user's vehicle has started moving from home or the like is determined, and when a stop at a point other than the home (destination or the like) has elapsed for a predetermined time or longer, this point is determined as the visited point. The position at this point is taken as the arrival position. The arrival determination unit 402 transmits this arrival position as arrival information to the arrival spot determination unit 403 (step S506).

The arrival spot determination unit 403 determines the arrival spot of the user (step S507). At this time, the arrival spot determination unit 403 extracts facilities near the arrival position (latitude and longitude) on the map information (latitude and longitude) as arrival spots, and notifies the arrival determination unit 402 (step S508).

The arrival determination unit 402 transmits the arrival position, time, route (route), arrival spot (facility, etc.) to the user information unit 404 as the point information of the point visited by the user (step S509). The user information unit 404 adds the received point information (arrival position, time, route (route), arrival spot (facility, etc.)) of the point visited by the user as a record of the corresponding user ID. Accordingly, the user information unit 404, for each user ID, the user's home position determined by the home determination unit 401 and the point information (arrival position, time of the place visited by the user determined by the arrival determination unit 402). , A route, an arrival spot) is generated (associated), and user information 410 is generated (step S510).

The user information unit 404 stores the generated user information 410 in the user information management unit 405 (storage unit) (step S511). In the user information management unit 405, user information 410 of a plurality of users is recorded for each ID. Each user information 410 has point information (arrival position, time, route (route), arrival spot (facility, etc.)) of a point visited by each user.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the processing contents related to the information provision processing in the server. FIG. 6 shows a process of presenting point information of a point visited by the user to the requesting user in response to a request from another user (requesting user).

First, another user (requesting user) operates the terminal 450 to set position information regarding a predetermined position (step S601). This predetermined position corresponds to the home position of the user who requests acquisition. For example, the home position of the requesting user is set as a predetermined position. Then, the terminal 450 transmits this position information to the server 400 (step S602). Also, the terminal 450 requests and transmits user information acquisition to the server 400 (step S603).

The user introduction unit 406 of the server 400 is based on the request from the user's terminal 450, and the user of the corresponding user recorded in the user information management unit 405 based on the position information regarding the predetermined position transmitted from the user. The information 410 is referred to (step S604). At this time, the user introduction unit 406 searches the user information 410 for users in the vicinity of the requesting user's home position, and spot information (arrival position, time, route (route), arrival spot) of the point visited by the corresponding user. (Facility etc.) is returned to the user introduction unit 406.

Then, the user introduction unit 406 transmits the location information (arrival position, time, route (route), arrival spot (facility, etc.)) of the location visited by the user to the terminal 450 and presents it to the requesting user (step S605). .

As a result, the requesting user can know information such as arrival position, time, route (route), arrival spot (facility, etc.) as point information of a point visited by a user in the vicinity of his / her home. You will be able to get information about the places you visit. For example, the requesting user can easily know the facilities that the locals often visit at the new destination.

Further, in the process of step S604, it is also possible to search for information on the visiting places related to a plurality of users living in the neighborhood of the requesting user. In this case, the requesting user obtains more information (information of a plurality of users). Can be used to determine where to go. At this time, it is possible to provide a route through which many users have visited the facility, and to provide an efficient route to the facility visit.

Further, in step S601, the position set by the requesting user may be, for example, a travel destination other than the home position. The requesting user can easily obtain information on facilities such as supermarkets frequently visited by local residents at the travel destination. For example, the requesting user can acquire information at a travel destination during travel using not only the terminal 450 but also the vehicle navigation device 300.

Moreover, the server 400 can present the requesting user in various forms with respect to the point information of the point visited by the user. For example, the user introduction unit 406 of the server 400 has a function of statistically processing the spot information of the visited spot. Then, the ranking of the number of visits related to the arrival spot (facility) at the point visited by a certain user, the classification of the arrival spot (facility) for each genre, and the ranking of the number of visits for each genre are generated.

Similarly, it is possible to generate a ranking for each point (facility) visited by a plurality of users. Also, a ranking is generated by sorting distances and routes to points visited by a plurality of users in order of distance (ascending order or descending order). By providing these generated results to the requesting user together, more information can be presented in response to the requesting user's request.

In addition, since the user provides the point information of the visited point to the system such as the server 400, the system (server 400 side) may calculate the information fee based on a predetermined contract and return it to the user. On the other hand, the requesting user may be configured to pay a predetermined information fee for each request.

In the above embodiment, the server 400 is provided, and the user's navigation device 300 and the terminal 450 of another user (requesting user) connect to the server 400 to transmit and receive information. However, the configuration is not limited to this, and a configuration in which the independent server 400 is not provided may be employed. In this case, the user navigation device 300 only needs to have the function of the server 400 (management of the user information 410). The requesting user can use the terminal 450 or the navigation device 300 to access the navigation device 300 having this server function and acquire information.

Further, if the navigation device 300 of the user and the requesting user has a server function, respectively, the specific navigation device 300 is not limited to have the server function, and the own vehicle can store the user information 410 of the user of the other vehicle. It is possible to generate and obtain point information of a point visited by a user of another vehicle in the own vehicle.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to acquire point information of a point visited by a nearby user. This makes it possible to effectively use the information on the facility visited by the user in the neighborhood where he / she lives to determine his / her destination. For example, it becomes possible to obtain information on popular facilities near the home.

In the embodiment, the configuration has been described in which the user transmits the point information using the navigation device, but the information may be provided using an information terminal such as another smartphone. Similarly, other users (requesting users) can also be provided with information using an information terminal such as a smartphone.

The information providing method described in this embodiment can be realized by executing a program prepared in advance on a computer such as a personal computer or a workstation. This program is recorded on a computer-readable recording medium such as a hard disk, a flexible disk, a CD-ROM, an MO, and a DVD, and is executed by being read from the recording medium by the computer. The program may be a transmission medium that can be distributed via a network such as the Internet.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Information provision apparatus 101 1st acquisition part 102 2nd acquisition part 103 Information provision part 300 Navigation apparatus 400 Server 401 Home judgment part 402 Arrival judgment part 403 Arrival spot judgment part 404 User information part 405 User information management part 406 User introduction part 410 User information 450 terminal

Claims

A first acquisition unit that acquires home position information, which is information related to the user's home position, and point information indicating a point visited by the user;
A second acquisition unit that acquires position information related to a predetermined position from another user who requests the point information;
An information providing unit for providing the other user with point information of a point visited by the user who has a home position in the vicinity of the predetermined position of the other user acquired by the second acquisition unit;
An information providing system characterized by comprising:
The information providing unit records, for each of a plurality of users acquired by the first acquisition unit, associating home position information, which is information related to the user's home position, with point information indicating a point visited by the user. The information providing system according to claim 1, wherein the information providing system records the information.
The information providing system according to claim 1, wherein the information providing unit statistically processes the point information of the points visited by the user and generates ranking information of the points visited.
The information providing system according to claim 1, wherein the information providing unit statistically processes point information of points visited by the plurality of users, and generates ranking information of points visited by the plurality of users. .
The first acquisition unit further acquires route information from the home to a point visited by the user,
The information providing system according to claim 1, wherein the information providing unit provides the other user with route information to a point visited by the user.
The said information provision part judges the said position as the said user's home position, when the said 1st acquisition part acquires the positional information in a predetermined range from the said user for a predetermined period. 1. The information providing system according to 1.
The information providing unit, when the user acquires position information within a predetermined range continuously for a predetermined period other than the home position by the first acquisition unit, the point where the user visited the position The information providing system according to claim 1, wherein a determination is made.
2. The information providing unit according to claim 1, wherein the information providing unit searches for a facility around the point based on point information indicating a point visited by the user, and provides the other user with the searched facility information. Information providing system described.
A terminal connected to a server that provides point information of a point visited by a user whose home is located around a predetermined position,
The terminal transmits a request for acquiring the point information to the server and information on the predetermined position;
An acquisition unit for acquiring point information of a point visited by the user from the server;
A terminal characterized by comprising:
A recording unit that stores information in which home position information, which is information related to a user's home position, and point information indicating a point visited by the user are associated;
A reception unit that receives position information regarding a predetermined position;
An information providing unit for providing point information of a point visited by a user having a home position in the vicinity of the predetermined position received by the receiving unit;
A terminal characterized by comprising:
A server that provides point information of a point visited by a user whose home is located in the vicinity of a predetermined position, the terminal of the user connected to the server, and the provision of information from the server connected to the server An information providing system including a user terminal of
The user terminal is
Transmitting home position information, which is information related to the user's home position, and point information indicating a point visited by the user to the server;
The server
A first acquisition unit that acquires home position information, which is information related to the user's home position, and point information indicating a point visited by the user;
A second acquisition unit that acquires position information related to a predetermined position from another user who requests the point information;
An information providing unit for providing the other user with point information of a point visited by the user who has a home position in the vicinity of the predetermined position of the other user acquired by the second acquisition unit;
Have
The terminal of the other user sends position information regarding a predetermined position to the server,
Receiving point information of a point visited by the user who has a home position in the vicinity of the predetermined position from the server;
An information providing system characterized by that.
In the information providing method performed by the information providing apparatus,
A first acquisition step of acquiring home position information, which is information relating to a user's home position, and point information indicating a point visited by the user;
A second acquisition step of acquiring position information about a predetermined position from another user who requests the point information;
An information providing step of providing the other user with point information of a point visited by the user who has a home position in the vicinity of the predetermined position of the other user acquired by the second acquisition step;
An information providing method comprising:
An information providing program that causes a computer to execute the information providing method according to claim 12.