DATA GENERATING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA GENERATING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, DATA GENERATING PROGRAM INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20110167065A1
• Filed: 06/17/2008
• Published: 07/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Increment P Corporation (Pioneer Corporation), Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Increment P Corporation (Pioneer Corporation), Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Hashimoto, Takashi, Adachi, Hajime, Toyoda, Shunsaku, Nambata, Ippei, Hanyuda, Takashi
• Application Number:
  US12/997,672
• Publication Number:
  US 20110167065A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/737
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3874 Structures specially adapted for data searching and retrieval
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases

Abstract

A data generating apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires text data (name data) related to a name associated with position information; a classifying unit that using the acquired position data, classifies the name data according to given regions; an integrating unit that integrates neighboring regions such that the total data size of the name data included in regions to be integrated does not exceed a predetermined given data size; a storage unit that groups the name data according to integrated regions and stores the grouped name data as a name dictionary to be used in both a facility search process and a map display process; and an extracting unit that from the classified name data, extracts the name data common to regions of a given number or more, where the storage unit groups and stores the common name data as a common name dictionary different from the name dictionary.

Claims

1-12. -12. (canceled)

13. A data generating apparatus comprising:

an acquiring unit that acquires text data (name data) related to a name associated with position information;

a classifying unit that using the position data associated with the name data acquired by the acquiring unit, classifies the name data according to given regions;

an integrating unit that integrates neighboring regions such that the total data size of the name data included in regions to be integrated (integrated regions) does not exceed a given data size that is preliminarily set;

a storage unit that groups the name data according to integrated regions and stores the grouped name data as a name dictionary to be used in both a facility search process and a map display process; and

an extracting unit that from the name data classified according to the given regions, extracts the name data (common name data) that is common to regions of a given number or more, wherein

the storage unit groups and stores the common name data as a common name dictionary different from the name dictionary.

14. The data generating apparatus according to claim 13, wherein

the integrating unit does not integrate a region (special region) for which the name data is equal to or exceeds the given data size or for which the total data size when integrated with a neighboring region equals or exceeds the given data size,

the storage unit groups and stores the name data for a special region as a name dictionary to be used in both the facility search process and the map display process.

15. The data generating apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the integrating unit to integrate regions, changes the given data size according to a storage capacity of the storage unit.

16. The data generating apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the name data is text data related to a road name.

17. An information processing apparatus executing the map display process and the facility search process and comprising:

a storage unit storing therein the name dictionary generated by the data generating apparatus according to claim 13;

a transferring unit that when the map display process or the facility search process is executed, reads from the storage unit and transfers to memory, the name dictionary for the integrated regions including a target region of the process executed; and

a display control unit that uses the name dictionary stored to the memory and displays names in the map display process or the facility search process.

18. The information processing apparatus according to claim 17, wherein

the storage unit stores therein the name dictionary and the common name dictionary generated by the data generating apparatus,

the transferring unit reads from the storage unit and preliminarily transfers to the memory, the common name dictionary and when the map display process or the facility search process is executed, reads from the storage unit and transfers to the memory, the name dictionary for the integrated regions including the target region of the process executed, and

the display control unit uses the name dictionary and the common name dictionary stored to the memory and displays names in the map display process or the facility search process.

19. A data generating method of generating data used in both a map display process and a facility search process, the data generating method comprising:

acquiring acquires text data (name data) related to a name associated with position information;

classifying, using the position data associated with the name data acquired at the acquiring, the name data according to given regions;

integrating neighboring regions such that the total data size of the name data included in regions to be integrated (integrated regions) does not exceed a given data size that is preliminarily set;

grouping the name data according to integrated regions and storing the grouped name data as a name dictionary to be used in both the facility search process and the map display process; and

extracting from the name data classified according to the given regions, the name data (common name data) that is common to regions of a given number or more, wherein

the grouping includes grouping the common name data and the storing includes storing the grouped common name data as a common name dictionary different from the name dictionary.

20. An information processing method of an information processing apparatus that executes the map display process and the facility search process and includes a storage unit storing therein the name dictionary generated by the data generating method according to claim 19, the information processing method comprising:

reading from the storage unit and transferring to memory when the map display process or the facility search process is executed, the name dictionary for the integrated regions including the target region of the process executed; and

controlling display of names in the map display process or the facility search process, by using the name dictionary stored to the memory.

21. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing therein a data generating program causing a computer to execute the data generating method according to claim 19.

22. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing therein an information processing program causing a computer to execute the data generating method according to claim 20.