Self-sustained moving support system, method of the same and recording medium

• US 20050256885A1
• Filed: 06/30/2003
• Published: 11/17/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
• Original Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
• Inventors: Yoshioka, Hiroshi, Kuwahara, Osamu, Yairi, Ikuko
• Application Number:
  US10/519,859
• Publication Number:
  US 20050256885A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/005 including pedestrian guidance indicator

Abstract

The self-sustained moving support system 1 computes the optimum guide route depending on the physical information from the sidewalk data based on the physical information inputted from the mobile computer 8, combines the guide route with a map data to create an electronic map and sends the electronic map to the mobile computer 8 to display the guide route. Both sides of the guide route displayed on the map are controlled along the blocks in order to provide more detailed information for handicapped persons and either side to be passed is indicated. Thereby the optimum guide route depending on the disability condition of each user can be certainly set in the shortest time.

Claims

1. A self-sustained moving support system comprising:

a database for storing of a sidewalk data and a map data; and

information processing means connected to a communication network for searching the database based on moving support information received through the communication network, computing a guide route of a sidewalk to a destination depending on each disability condition from the sidewalk data and outputting an electronic map in which the guide route is combined with the map data.

2. The self-sustained moving support system according to claim 1, wherein the self-sustained moving support system further comprises a communication terminal connected to the communication network to display the electronic map received from the information processing means.

3. A self-sustained moving support system comprising:

a database for storing of a sidewalk data and a map data;

information processing means connected to a communication network for searching the database based on moving support information received through the communication network, computing a guide route of a sidewalk to a destination depending on each disability condition from the sidewalk data and outputting an electronic map in which the guide route is combined with the map data; and

moving means including a communication terminal connected to the communication network to display the electronic map received from the information processing means.

4. The self-sustained moving support system according to claim 3, wherein the moving means comprises an information measuring unit for collecting attribute information of a moving route.

5. A method of supporting a self-sustained moving comprising the steps of:

inputting physical information and a destination from a communication terminal;

computing a guide route of a sidewalk according to the physical information based on the physical information inputted from the communication terminal and sidewalk data stored in a database;

combining the computed guide route with a map data stored in the database to output it as an electronic map; and

displaying the electronic map showing the guide route on the communication terminal.

6. The method of supporting a self-sustained moving according to claim 5, wherein the guide route of the electronic map displayed on the communication terminal is displayed to designate the sidewalk to be passed.

7. The method of supporting a self-sustained moving according to claim 5 or claim 6, wherein the step of computing the guide route includes preferentially computing the sidewalk that has been passed by a plurality of users having similar physical information.

8. A method of supporting a self-sustained moving comprising the steps of:

automatically collecting attribute information of the route along which moving means is moved by an information measuring unit;

sending the collected attribute information to information processing means; and

updating the sidewalk data stored in a database based on the received attribute information.

9. The method of supporting a self-sustained moving according to claim 8, wherein the step of updating the sidewalk data further comprises the steps of:

determining whether the attribute information is an investigated area or not;

assigning the collected attribute information to the sidewalk data of an existing area and updating the sidewalk data stored in the database if the information is the investigated area; and

creating a new sidewalk data by a block on the map data, positional information or so on the sidewalk map and storing it to the database if the information is uninvestigated area.

10. A recording medium with record of a computer system-implemented program to perform the steps of:

computing a guide route of a sidewalk according to physical information and a destination inputted from a communication terminal based on a sidewalk data stored in a database; and

combining the computed guide route with a map data stored in the database and outputting it as an electronic map.