Digital signage control device, digital signage control method, and recording medium

• US 10,417,666 B2
• Filed: 08/06/2018
• Issued: 09/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2017
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Nomura, Masakazu, Endo, Masato, Yamamuro, Naoki
• Primary Examiner(s): Previl, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US16/055,748
• Publication Number:
  US 20190050907A1
• Time in Patent Office: 407 Days
• Field of Search: 340905, 340907, 340995, 340928, 340901, 340903, 340904, 340933, 340988, 340991, 340994
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0266 based on the position of the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/54 of traffic, e.g. cars on the road, trains or boats
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/56 exterior to a vehicle by using sensors mounted on the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/593 Recognising seat occupancy
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/103 Static body considered as a whole, e.g. static pedestrian or occupant recognition

Abstract

A digital signage control device includes: a traffic condition related information acquiring unit configured to acquire the traffic condition related information on traffic conditions near each of a plurality of digital signages; and a display control unit configured to: cause the plurality of digital signages to display advertisement information, and switch a digital signage on which the advertisement information is displayed among the plurality of digital signages based on traffic condition related information.

Claims

1. A digital signage control device comprising:

a traffic condition related information acquiring unit configured to acquire a traffic condition related information on traffic conditions near each of a plurality of digital signages; and

a display control unit configured to;

cause the plurality of digital signages to display advertisement information, and

switch a digital signage on which the advertisement information is displayed among the plurality of digital signages based on the traffic condition related information.

2. The digital signage control device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a first effect predicting unit configured to calculate a first effect index value indicating an impression of advertisement information displayed on each of the plurality of digital signages over a predetermined display period based on the traffic condition related information, wherein

the display control unit is configured to switch, when the first effect index value of first advertisement information displayed on a first digital signage is less than a predetermined first standard, a digital signage on which the first advertisement information is displayed from the first digital signage to a second digital signage, the first digital signage and the second digital signage being included in the plurality of digital signages, the first effect index value of the first advertisement information displayed on the second digital signage being greater than the first effect index value of the first advertisement information displayed on the first digital signage.

3. The digital signage control device according to claim 2, wherein

the traffic condition related information acquiring unit is configured to acquire the traffic condition related information including traffic volume information of a nearby road which is a road near each of the plurality of digital signages and vehicle speed information of vehicles passing along the nearby road, and

the first effect predicting unit is configured to calculate the first effect index value based on the traffic volume information and the vehicle speed information.

4. The digital signage control device according to claim 3, further comprising:

an occupant number information acquiring unit configured to acquire occupant number information on the number of occupants of a vehicle passing along the nearby road, wherein

the first effect predicting unit is configured to calculate the first effect index value based on the occupant number information.

5. The digital signage control device according to claim 4, further comprising:

a vehicle movement history collecting unit configured to collect a vehicle movement history including position information from each of a plurality of probe vehicles;

a terminal movement history collecting unit configured to collect a terminal movement history including position information from a mobile terminal carried by each of a plurality of users of the plurality of probe vehicles;

a passing vehicle identifying unit configured to identify a probe vehicle passing along the nearby road among the plurality of probe vehicles based on the vehicle movement history; and

an occupant identifying unit configured to identify an occupant of the probe vehicle passing along the nearby road based on the vehicle movement history of the probe vehicle and the terminal movement history of the mobile terminal of the user of the probe vehicle, wherein

the traffic condition related information acquiring unit is configured to acquire the traffic volume information including the number of probe vehicles passing along the nearby road based on an identification result from the passing vehicle identifying unit, and

the occupant number information acquiring unit is configured to acquire the occupant number information including the number of occupants of the probe vehicle passing along the nearby road based on an identification result from the occupant identifying unit.

6. The digital signage control device according to claim 3, further comprising:

a conspicuousness information acquiring unit configured to acquire conspicuousness information on conspicuousness when each of the plurality of digital signages is seen from the vehicle on the nearby road corresponding to the each of the plurality of digital signages, wherein

the first effect predicting unit is configured to calculate the first effect index value based on the conspicuousness information.

7. The digital signage control device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a vehicle movement history collecting unit configured to collect a vehicle movement history including position information from each of a plurality of probe vehicles;

a terminal movement history collecting unit configured to collect a terminal movement history including position information from a plurality of mobile terminals carried by each of a plurality of users of the plurality of probe vehicles;

an attribute information storing unit configured to store predetermined attribute information of each of the plurality of users;

a passing vehicle identifying unit configured to identify a probe vehicle passing along a nearby road which is a road near each of the plurality of digital signages among the plurality of probe vehicles based on the vehicle movement history;

an occupant identifying unit configured to identify an occupant of the probe vehicle passing along the nearby road based on the vehicle movement history of the probe vehicle and the terminal movement history of the mobile terminal of the user of the probe vehicle;

an attribute information acquiring unit configured to acquire the attribute information of the user identified by the occupant identifying unit from the attribute information storing unit; and

a second effect predicting unit configured to calculate, based on the attribute information acquired by the attribute information acquiring unit, a second effect index value indicating appropriateness of audience attributes for advertisement information displayed on each of the plurality of digital signages over a predetermined display period, wherein

the display control unit is configured to switch, when the second effect index value of third advertisement information displayed on a third digital signage is less than a predetermined second standard, digital signage on which the third advertisement information is displayed from the third digital signage to a forth digital signage, the third digital signage and the forth digital signage being included in the plurality of digital signages, the second effect index value of the third advertisement information displayed on the forth digital signage being greater than the second effect index value of the third advertisement information displayed on the third digital signage.

8. A digital signage control method comprising:

causing a digital signage control device to cause a plurality of digital signages to display advertisement information;

causing the digital signage control device to acquire a traffic condition related information on traffic conditions near each of the plurality of digital signages; and

causing the digital signage control device to switch a digital signage on which the advertisement information is displayed among the plurality of digital signages based on the traffic condition related information.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program, the program causing a computer to perform:

displaying advertisement information on a plurality of digital signages;

acquiring a traffic condition related information on traffic conditions near each of the plurality of digital signages; and

switching a digital signage on which the advertisement information is displayed among the plurality of digital signages based on the traffic condition related information.