COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR STORING INFORMATION DISPLAY PROGRAM, INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS AND INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD

• US 20100168999A1
• Filed: 12/15/2009
• Published: 07/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Hirano, Takashi, Horie, Takefumi, Yamaji, Takayuki, Sakaguchi, Kazutoshi, Teranishi, Kotaro, Morioka, Makoto
• Application Number:
  US12/638,403
• Publication Number:
  US 20100168999A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/201
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/02 taking into account a variable factor such as distance or time, e.g. for passenger transport, parking systems or car rental systems G07B15/06 takes precedence; taximeters G07B13/00; parking meters per se G07F17/24; car rental systems per se G07B15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/123 indicating the position of vehicles, e.g. scheduled vehicles; Managing passenger vehicles circulating according to a fixed timetable, e.g. buses, trains, tramstransmission of navigation instructions to vehicles G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/137 the indicator being in the form of a map

Abstract

A computer readable medium for storing information display programs causing a computer communicating with a communication apparatus provided at the entry or exit at an entrance/exit point where a user gets on or off a transportation system to perform a display method, the display method include: detecting that the user has left the exit of the current entrance/exit point through the communication between a communication apparatus; identifying the next entrance/exit point to the current entrance/exit point among the entrance/exit points within the route; acquiring map showing the route from the current entrance/exit point to the next entrance/exit point identified by the identifying the next entrance/exit point to the current entrance/exit point; and controlling a display screen of the computer so as to display the map showing the route from the current entrance/exit point to the next entrance/exit point acquired by the acquiring map.

Claims

1. A computer readable medium for storing information display programs causing a computer communicating with a communication apparatus provided at the entry or exit at an entrance/exit point where a user gets on or off a transportation system to perform a display method, the display method comprising:

detecting that the user has left the exit of the current entrance/exit point through the communication between a communication apparatus provided at the exit of the current entrance/exit point where the computer is within the communication area and the computer, among the communication apparatuses provided at the exits of the entrance/exit points within a route through the entrance/exit points;

identifying the next entrance/exit point to the current entrance/exit point among the entrance/exit points within the route, if the detecting that the user has left the current entrance/exit point is performed by the computer;

acquiring map showing the route from the current entrance/exit point to the next entrance/exit point identified by the identifying the next entrance/exit point to the current entrance/exit point among the entrance/exit points within the route through the communication between the communication apparatus provided at the exit of the current entrance/exit point and the computer; and

controlling a display screen of the computer so as to display the map showing the route from the current entrance/exit point to the next entrance/exit point acquired by the acquiring map showing the route from the current entrance/exit point to the next entrance/exit.

2. The computer readable medium for storing information display programs according to claim 1, wherein the acquiring map showing the route from the current entrance/exit point to the next entrance/exit point is performed to acquire information on the direction of travel of the user at the position of a specific communication-apparatus-between-the-points through the communication between the specific communication-apparatus-between-the-points having the computer within the communication area and the computer, among the communication-apparatuses-between-the-points present between the current entrance/exit point and the next entrance/exit point;

and

controlling the display screen of the computer so as to display the map showing the route from the current entrance/exit point to the next entrance/exit point acquired by displaying the information on the direction of travel.

3. The computer readable medium for storing information display programs according to claim 1, the display method comprising:

deleting the information from a memory within the computer, the information acquired by the acquiring map showing the route from the current entrance/exit point to the next entrance/exit point identified, wherein;

the acquiring map showing the route from the current entrance/exit point to the next entrance/exit point identified is performed by acquiring map showing the route from the last entrance/exit point before the current entrance/exit point to the current entrance/exit point prior to the map showing the route from the current entrance/exit point to the next entrance/exit point; and

the deleting the information from a memory within the computer is performed by deleting the map showing the route from the last entrance/exit point to the current entrance/exit point from the memory before the map showing the route from the current entrance/exit point to the next entrance/exit point is displayed on the display screen.

4. The computer readable medium for storing information display programs according to claim 2, the display method comprising:

deleting the information from a memory within the computer, the information acquired by the acquiring map showing the route from the current entrance/exit point to the next entrance/exit point identified, wherein;

the acquiring map showing the route from the current entrance/exit point to the next entrance/exit point identified is performed by acquiring map showing the route from the last entrance/exit point before the current entrance/exit point to the current entrance/exit point prior to the map showing the route from the current entrance/exit point to the next entrance/exit point; and

the deleting the information from a memory within the computer is performed by deleting the map showing the route from the last entrance/exit point to the current entrance/exit point from the memory before the map showing the route from the current entrance/exit point to the next entrance/exit point is displayed on the display screen.

5. An information display apparatus communicating with a communication apparatus provided at the entry or exit at an entrance/exit point where a user gets on or off a transportation system, the information display apparatus comprising:

detector for detecting that the user has left the exit of the current entrance/exit point through the communication between a communication apparatus provided at the exit of the current entrance/exit point where the computer is within the communication area and the computer, among the communication apparatuses provided at the exits of the entrance/exit points within a route through the entrance/exit points;

identifier, if the detector detects that the user has left the current entrance/exit point, for identifying the next entrance/exit point to the current entrance/exit point among the entrance/exit points within the route;

acquirer for acquiring map showing the route from the current entrance/exit point to the next entrance/exit point identified by the identifying means through the communication between the communication apparatus provided at the exit of the current entrance/exit point and the computer; and

display controller for controlling a display screen of the computer so as to display the map showing the route from the current entrance/exit point to the next entrance/exit point acquired by the acquirer.

6. The information display apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the information display apparatus is a card-shaped mobile terminal without a backlight for the display screen.

7. The information display apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the information display apparatus is a card-shaped mobile terminal at least partially having a touch panel on the display screen.

8. The information display apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the information display apparatus is a card-shaped mobile terminal at least partially having a touch panel on the display screen.

9. An information display method which is performed by a computer communicating with a communication apparatus provided at the entry or exit at an entrance/exit point where a user gets on or off a transportation system, the information display method comprising:

detecting that the user has left the exit of the current entrance/exit point through the communication between a communication apparatus provided at the exit of the current entrance/exit point where the computer is within the communication area and the computer, among the communication apparatuses provided at the exits of the entrance/exit points within a route through the entrance/exit points;

identifying the next entrance/exit point to the current entrance/exit point among the entrance/exit points within the route, if the detecting that the user has left the current entrance/exit point is performed by the computer communicating;

acquiring map showing the route from the current entrance/exit point to the next entrance/exit point identified by the identifying the next entrance/exit point to the current entrance/exit point among the entrance/exit points within the route through the communication between the communication apparatus provided at the exit of the current entrance/exit point and the computer; and

controlling a display screen of the computer so as to display the map showing the route from the current entrance/exit point to the next entrance/exit point acquired by the acquiring map showing the route from the current entrance/exit point to the next entrance/exit.