Generating itinerary destinations and recommendations from scanned content

• US 10,551,202 B2
• Filed: 09/11/2017
• Issued: 02/04/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Carter, Scott, Cooper, Matthew L., Marlow, Jennifer, Chen, Francine
• Primary Examiner(s): Zanelli, Michael J
• Application Number:
  US15/701,186
• Publication Number:
  US 20190078900A1
• Time in Patent Office: 876 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 21/362 received from an external device or application, e.g. PDA, mobile phone or calendar application
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3623 using a camera or code reader, e.g. for optical or magnetic codes
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3664 Details of the user input interface, e.g. buttons, knobs or sliders, including those provided on a touch screen; remote controllers; input using gestures

Abstract

For tourists, interactions with digital public displays often depend on specific technologies that users may not be familiar with (Quick Response codes, near field communication, and so on) may not have access to because of networking issues, may lack a required application or device technology, may not want to use because of time constraints, or may not want to use because they are worried about sharing their data with a third-party service. Example implementations described herein are directed to a system that allows users to seamlessly share content with a public travel kiosk system.

Claims

1. A kiosk system configured to process information from a physical object without requiring any special application or connection from the physical object, the kiosk system comprising:

a display;

a camera; and

a processor, configured to;

utilize the camera to detect, from a physical object, content associated with one or more destinations of an itinerary;

construct the itinerary, wherein the itinerary comprises an ordered list of the one or more destinations, and routing information from an apparatus to the one or more destinations based on the ordered list of the one or more destinations; and

display the itinerary on the display,

wherein the processor is configured to display the itinerary by a display of a code configured to provide the ordered list and the routing information.

2. The kiosk system of claim 1, wherein the physical object is one of a screen of a mobile device and a physical document.

3. The kiosk system of claim 1, wherein the code is a Quick Response (QR) code.

4. The kiosk system of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to display the itinerary through a display of the ordered list and a display of a map comprising a route from the apparatus to the one or more destinations based on the routing information,

wherein the display is a touch screen interface,

wherein the processor is configured to, in response to input on the ordered list displayed on the touch screen interface that changes the ordered list, reconstruct the itinerary and modify the display of the map based on the input;

wherein the display is configured to display the ordered list and the map such that the ordered list and the map can be received by a user device without any special application installed on the user device.

5. A kiosk system configured to process information from a physical object without requiring any special application or connection from the physical object, the kiosk system comprising:

a display;

a camera; and

a processor, configured to;

utilize the camera to detect, from a physical object content associated with one or more destinations of an itinerary;

construct the itinerary, wherein the itinerary comprises an ordered list of the one or more destinations, and routing information from an apparatus to the one or more destinations based on the ordered list of the one or more destinations; and

display the itinerary on the display,

wherein the processor is configured to utilize the camera to detect, from the physical object, one or more destinations for the itinerary through;

detecting, from the physical object, one or more text regions;

determining, from the one or more text regions, at least one of a title, a keyword, and an address; and

determining the one or more destinations for the itinerary through conducting a search of the at least one of the title, the keyword, and the address.

6. The kiosk system of claim 5, wherein the processor is configured to determine, from the one or more text regions, at least one of the title, the keyword and the address through:

providing the detected one or more detected text on the display based on one or more parameters;

processing a user selection of the provided one or more detected text as the at least one of the title and the address.

7. A method for operating a kiosk system to process information from a physical object without requiring any special application or connection from the physical object, comprising:

utilizing a camera to detect, from a physical object, content associated with one or more destinations of an itinerary;

constructing the itinerary, wherein the itinerary comprises an ordered list of the one or more destinations, and routing information from an apparatus to the one or more destinations based on the ordered list of the one or more destinations; and

display the itinerary,

wherein the itinerary is displayed by a display of a code configured to provide the ordered list and the routing information.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the physical object is one of a screen of a mobile device and a physical document.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the code is a Quick Response (QR) code.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the displaying the itinerary comprises displaying of the ordered list and displaying of a map comprising a route from the kiosk system to the one or more destinations based on the routing information,

wherein the display is a touch screen interface,

in response to input on the ordered list displayed on the touch screen interface that changes the ordered list, reconstructing the itinerary and modifying the display of the map based on the input;

wherein the display is configured to display the ordered list and the map such that the ordered list and the map can be received by a user device without any special application installed on the user device.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the utilizing the camera to detect, from the physical object, one or more destinations for the itinerary comprises:

detecting, from the physical object, one or more text regions;

determining, from the one or more text regions, at least one of a title and an address; and

determining the one or more destinations for the itinerary through conducting a search of the at least one of the title and the address.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the determining, from the one or more text regions, at least one of the title and the address comprises:

providing the detected one or more detected text on the display based on one or more parameters;

processing a user selection of the provided one or more detected text as the at least one of the title and the address.

13. A non-transitory computer readable medium, storing instructions for a kiosk system to process information from a physical object without requiring any special application or connection from the physical object, the instructions comprising:

utilizing a camera to detect, from a physical object, content associated with one or more destinations of an itinerary;

constructing the itinerary, wherein the itinerary comprises an ordered list of the one or more destinations, and routing information from an apparatus to the one or more destinations based on the ordered list of the one or more destinations; and

displaying the itinerary, wherein the itinerary is displayed by a display of a code configured to provide the ordered list and the routing information.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 13, wherein the physical object is one of a screen of a mobile device and a physical document.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 13, wherein the code comprises displaying a Quick Response (QR) code.

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 13, wherein the displaying the itinerary comprises displaying of the ordered list and displaying of a map comprising a route from the kiosk system to the one or more destinations based on the routing information,

wherein the display is a touch screen interface,

in response to input on the ordered list displayed on the touch screen interface that changes the ordered list, reconstructing the itinerary and modifying the display of the map based on the input;

wherein the display is configured to display the ordered list and the map such that the ordered list and the map can be received by a user device without any special application installed on the user device.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 13, wherein the utilizing the camera to detect, from the physical object, one or more destinations for the itinerary comprises:

detecting, from the physical object, one or more text regions;

determining, from the one or more text regions, at least one of a title and an address; and

determining the one or more destinations for the itinerary through conducting a search of the at least one of the title and the address.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 17, wherein the determining, from the one or more text regions, at least one of the title and the address comprises:

providing the detected one or more detected text on the display based on one or more parameters;

processing a user selection of the provided one or more detected text as the at least one of the title and the address.