Route search system, route search device, route search method, program, and information storage medium

• US 10,451,431 B2
• Filed: 02/27/2015
• Issued: 10/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rakuten Group, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Rakuten, Inc. (Rakuten Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Masuko, Soh
• Primary Examiner(s): Kumar, Anil N
• Application Number:
  US15/321,193
• Publication Number:
  US 20170199050A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,698 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/343 Calculating itineraries, i.e. routes leading from a starting point to a series of categorical destinations using a global route restraint, round trips, touristic trips travelling salesman problem G06Q10/04; optimisation of routes G06Q10/047
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3617 using user history, behaviour, conditions or preferences, e.g. predicted or inferred from previous use or current movement
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3676 Overview of the route on the road map
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/007 using computer methods
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports

Abstract

A user is induced to have the same experience as displayed in an image. Means that obtains content stored in a route search system obtains content stored in storing means for storing a plurality of items of image data, location information, and time information in association with one another. Display controlling means displays some of the items of image data on display means. Receiving means receives a selection of a location to visit from the displayed items of image data. Searching means determines a visiting location based on location information of the image data of the selected location, determines a visiting time based on time information of the image data, and searches a route for visiting the visiting location on the visiting time.

Claims

1. A route search system comprising:

a storage that stores images respectively in association with location information and time information; and

at least one processor configured to;

search first images from among the images based on a location and time which are designated by a user;

cause a display to display the searched first images, wherein each of the searched first images has already been associated with the location information and the time information before displaying;

receive a selection of any one of the displayed first images, wherein the selected first image has already been associated with the location information and the time information before displaying;

determine a first visiting location based on location information of the selected first image;

determine a first visiting time based on time information of the selected first image;

search a route for visiting the first visiting location on the first visiting time;

search second images from among the images based on the first visiting location and the first visiting time, the second images being different from the first images;

cause the display to newly display the searched second images, wherein each of the searched second images has already been associated with the location information and the time information before displaying;

receive a selection of any one of the displayed second images, wherein the selected second image has already been associated with the location information and the time information before displaying;

determine a second visiting location based on location information of the selected second image;

determine a second visiting time based on time information of the selected second image; and

search the route again so that the second visiting location is visited at the second visiting time.

2. The route search system according to claim 1,

wherein the at least one processor causes the display to display a plurality of items of image data associated with the time information that is later than the first visiting time by the second display process,

wherein the second location is a next location of the first location,

wherein the second visiting location is a next visiting location of the first visiting location, and

wherein the second visiting time is a next visiting time of the first visiting time.

3. The route search system according to claim 2, wherein the at least one processor:

obtains a staying time in the first visiting location; and

causes the display to display a plurality of items of image data, associated with the time information after a period of the staying time has passed since the first visiting time by the second display process.

4. The route search system according to claim 2,

wherein the at least one processor causes the display to display a plurality of items of image data of a visitable location indicated by the location information on a time indicated by the time information after the first visiting location is visited on the first visiting time.

5. The route search system according to claim 1,

wherein the second images respectively indicate a visitable place before the first visiting time,

wherein the second visiting location is a stop-by location before the first visiting location, and

wherein the second visiting time is a stop-by time before the first visiting time.

6. The route search system according to claim 5,

wherein the at least one processor causes the display to display a plurality of items of the image data of a visitable location indicated by the location information and on a time indicated by the time information so that the first visiting location is visited on the first visiting time by the second display process.

7. The route search system according to claim 1,

wherein the storage further stores location attribute information in association with each item of the image data, and

wherein the at least one processor prevents a display of an item of the image data associated with the location attribute information of the first image data that is already selected.

8. The route search system according to claim 1,

wherein the at least one processor prevents a display of image data associated with location information that is less than a predetermined distance from the location information of the first image data that is already selected.

9. The route search system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor:

obtains departure point information, departure time information, final visiting location information, and final visiting time information;

causes the display to display a plurality of items of image data associated with location information according to a route between a departure point indicated by the departure point information and a final visiting location indicated by the final visiting, location information, and time information between a departure time indicated by the departure time information and a final visiting time indicated by the final visiting time information by the first display process and the second display process; and

searches a route for leaving the departure point on the departure time, visiting the first visiting location and the second visiting location respectively on the first visiting time and second visiting time, and visiting the final visiting location on the final visiting time.

10. The route search system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor:

determines whether a person is captured in each item of the image data; and

prevents an item of the image data, in which a person is captured, from being displayed.

11. The route search system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor:

obtains popularity information of each item of the image data; and

displays image data based on the popularity information of each item of the image data by the first display process and the second display process.

12. The route search system according to claim 1, wherein the at least one processor:

determines whether the items of image data are similar to one another; and

prevents the similar items of image data from being displayed.

13. A route search device comprising:

storage that stores images respectively in association With location and time information; and

at least one processor configured to;

search first images from among the images based on a location and time which are designated by a user;

cause a display to display the searched first images, wherein each of the searched first images has already been associated with the location information and the time information before displaying;

receive a selection of any one of the displayed first images, wherein the selected first image has already been associated with the location information and the time information before displaying;

determine a first visiting location based on location information of the selected first image;

determine a first visiting time based on time information of the selected first image;

search a route for visiting the first visiting location on the first visiting time;

search second images from among the images based on the first visiting location and the first visiting time, the second images being different from the first images;

cause the display to newly display of the searched second images, wherein each of the searched second images has already been associated with the location information and the time information before displaying;

receive a selection of any one of the displayed second images, wherein the selected second image has already been associated with the location information and the time information before displaying;

determine a second visiting location based on location information of the selected second image;

determine a second visiting time based on time information of the selected second image;

search the route again so that the second visiting location is visited at the second visiting time.

14. A route search method comprising:

obtaining content stored storage that stores images respectively in association with location information and time information;

searching first images from among the images based on a location and time which are designated by a user;

causing a display to display the searched first images, wherein each of the searched first images has already been associated with the location information and the time information before displaying;

receiving a selection of any one of the displayed first images, wherein the selected first image has already been associated with the location information and the time information before displaying;

determining a first visiting location based on location information of the selected first image;

determining a first visiting time based on time information of the selected first image;

searching a route for visiting the first visiting location on the first visiting time;

searching second images from among the images based on the first visiting location and the first visiting time, the second images being different from the first images;

causing the display to newly display the searched second images, wherein each of the searched second images has already been associated with the location information and the time information before displaying;

receiving a selection of any one of the displayed second images, wherein the selected second image has already been associated with the location information and the time information before displaying;

determining a second visiting location based on location information of the selected second image;

determining a second visiting time based on time information of the selected second image data; and

searching the route again so that the second visiting location is visited at the second visiting time.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable information storage medium for storing a program for causing a computer to:

obtain content stored in a storage that stores images respectively in association with location information and time information;

search first images from among the images based on a location and time which are designated by a user;

cause a display to display the searched first images, wherein each of the searched first images has already been associated with the location information and the time information before displaying;

receive a selection of any one of the displayed first images, wherein the selected first image has already been associated with the location information and the time information before displaying;

determine a first visiting location based on location information of the selected first image;

determine a first visiting time based on time information of the selected first image;

search a route for visiting the visiting first location on the first visiting time;

search second images from among the images based on the first visiting location and the first visiting time, the second images being different from the first images;

cause the display to newly display the searched second images, wherein each of the searched second images has already been associated with the location information and the time information before displaying;

receive a selection of any one of the displayed second images, wherein the selected first image has already been associated with the location information and the time information before displaying;

determine a second visiting location based on location information of the selected second image;

determine a second visiting time based on time information of the selected second image;

search the route again so that the second visiting location is visited at the second visiting time.