INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM

• US 20080162031A1
• Filed: 09/27/2007
• Published: 07/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: FUKUOKA, Toshiyuki, IKEDA, Takuro, KITAGAWA, Eiji, OKUYAMA, Kyouko
• Application Number:
  US11/862,692
• Publication Number:
  US 20080162031A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/200
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/367 Details, e.g. road map scale, orientation, zooming, illumination, level of detail, scrolling of road map or positioning of current position marker
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3673 Labelling using text of road map data items, e.g. road names, POI names
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3682 output of POI information on a road map G01C21/3614, G01C21/3685 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/007 using computer methods
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/10 Map spot or coordinate position indicators; Map reading aids optical projection apparatus per se G03B

Abstract

An information processing apparatus that is connected to a map recording part, a display and an input apparatus includes: a display controlling part that allows the display to display a map and a point mark; an information detailing part that generates a displaying form data of a plurality of point marks that are integrated by an integrated point mark, and calculating a scale and a displaying range, in the case where an operation by a user for demanding information detailing is detected; an information integrating part that generates displaying form data of the integrated point mark that integrates to represent point information of a plurality of points, and calculating a scale and a displaying range, in the case where an operation by the user for demanding information integration is detected. Thereby, the information processing apparatus can secure the visibility of the map, and can enhance the easiness of the operations of obtaining the point information such as facility information, traffic information and reputational information on the map.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus that is connected to a map recording part in which map information and point information on a predetermined point shown by the map information is recorded, a display and an input apparatus,

the information processing apparatus comprising:

a display controlling part that allows the display to display;

a map; and

a point mark including at least one of an integrated point mark that integrates point information of a plurality of points and is represented by one mark and a single point mark that represents point information of one point, based on the map information and the point information that are recorded in the map recording part;

an information detailing part that, in a case where an operation by a user for demanding information detailing of the integrated point mark that is displayed on the display is detected via the input apparatus, generates displaying form data of a plurality of the point marks that represent point information of the plurality of the points integrated by the integrated point mark, calculates a scale and a displaying range that enable to display the plurality of the point marks, and allows the display to display the plurality of the point marks represented by the displaying form data and the map with the scale and the displaying range; and

an information integrating part that, in a case where an operation by the user for demanding information integration of the point marks that are displayed on the display is detected via the input apparatus, generates displaying form data of the integrated point mark that represents by integrating point information of a plurality of points including points of the point marks, calculates a scale and a displaying range that enable to display the integrated point mark in a wider range than a range at the time of the operation by the user, and allows the display to display the integrated point mark represented by the displaying form data and the map with the scale and the displaying range.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information detailing part calculates the scale and the displaying range that enables to display, in one screen, all of the plurality of the point marks that represent a plurality of sets of the point information integrated by the integrated point mark.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information integrating part calculates the scale and the displaying range such that the integrated point mark represented by the displaying form data is displayed at the same position as a position where the point mark that is demanded for the integration by the user is displayed at the time of the operation by the user.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the information detailing part calculates the scale and the displaying range to an extent that the plurality of the point marks representing the plurality of the sets of the point information that are integrated by the integrated point mark can be displayed without being overlapped with one another, and

the information integrating part calculates the scale and the displaying range to an extent that the point marks which respectively represent the point information of the plurality of the points in a predetermined range from a point corresponding to the point mark are displayed being overlapped with each other.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising:

a partition setting part that generates partition information on each partition in a case of dividing the map that is displayed with the scale and the displaying range into a plurality of partitions, based on the scale and the displaying range of the map recorded in a map attribution recording part; and

a mark calculating part that obtains the point information in the partition, each of which is represented by the partition information generated by the partition setting part, from the map recording part, and generates the displaying form data of the point mark displayed in the partition based on the position information, wherein

the information detailing part calculates the scale and the displaying range based on the point information included in the partition, in which the integrated point mark is present, among the partitions of the map that are displayed at the time of the operation by the user, allows the partition setting part to generate partition information related to each partition that is obtained by dividing the map displayed with the calculated scale and displaying range, and allows the mark calculating part to generate displaying form data of the point mark that is displayed in each partition represented by the partition information, and

the information integrating part calculates a scale and a displaying range of a map after the integration such that the displaying range displayed at the time of the operation by the user corresponds to at least one partition in the map after the integration, allows the partition setting part to generate partition information on each partition that is obtained by dividing the map which is displayed with the calculated scale and displaying range, and allows the mark calculating part to generate displaying form data of the point mark that is displayed in each partition represented by the partition information.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information integrating part determines a size of an integrated point mark that representatively shows point information of a plurality of points that are present in a predetermined range from a point corresponding to the designated point mark, according to the number of the plurality of the points that are present in the predetermined range, and allows the displaying form data to include the size of the integrated point mark as a part.

7. A recording medium storing an information processing program that allows a computer to execute processing, the computer being connected to a map recording part in which map information and point information on a predetermined point shown by the map information are recorded, a display and an input apparatus,

the recording medium storing the information processing program that allows the computer to execute:

display controlling processing of allowing the display to display;

a map; and

a point mark including at least one of an integrated point mark that integrates point information of a plurality of points and is represented by one mark, and a single point mark that represents point information of one point, based on the map information and the point information that are recorded in the map recording part;

information detailing processing comprising, in a case where an operation by a user for demanding information detailing of the integrated point mark that is displayed on the display is detected via the input apparatus, generating displaying form data of a plurality of the point marks that represent point information of a plurality of points integrated by the integrated point mark, calculating a scale and a displaying range that enable to display the plurality of the point marks, and allowing the display to display the plurality of the point marks represented by the displaying form data and the map with the scale and the displaying range; and

information integrating processing comprising, in a case where an operation by the user for demanding information integration of the point marks that are displayed on the display is detected via the input apparatus, generating displaying form data of the integrated point mark that represents by integrating point information of a plurality of points that are present in a predetermined range from the point that corresponds to the point mark, calculating a scale and a displaying range that enable to display the integrated point mark in a wider range than a range at the time of the operation by the user, and allowing the display to display the integrated point mark represented by the displaying form data and the map with the scale and the displaying range.

8. An information processing method executed by a computer that is connected to a map recording part in which map information and point information on a predetermined point shown by the map information are recorded, a display and an input apparatus,

the information processing method comprising:

a display controlling step allowing the display to display;

a map; and

a point mark including at least one of an integrated point mark that integrates point information of a plurality of points and is represented by one mark, and a single point mark that represents point information of one point, based on the map information and the point information that are recorded in the map recording part;

an information detailing step comprising, in a case where an operation by a user for demanding information detailing of the integrated point mark that is displayed on the display is detected via the input apparatus, generating displaying form data of a plurality of the point marks that represent point information of a plurality of points integrated by the integrated point mark, calculating a scale and a displaying range that enable to display the plurality of the point marks, and allowing the display to display the plurality of the point marks represented by the displaying form data and the map with the scale and the displaying range; and

an information integrating step comprising, in a case where an operation by the user for demanding information integration of the point marks that are displayed on the display is detected via the input apparatus, generating displaying form data of the integrated point mark that represents by integrating point information of a plurality of points that are present in a predetermined range from the point that corresponds to the point mark, calculating a scale and a displaying range that enable to display the integrated point mark in a wider range than a range at the time of the operation by the user, and allowing the display to display the integrated point mark represented by the displaying form data and the map with the scale and the displaying range.