PORTABLE INFORMATION TERMINAL APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT

• US 20120130635A1
• Filed: 11/16/2011
• Published: 05/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Nakamura, Mahina, Sato, Maki, Okuma, Yumiko, Motegi, Tsunehiro
• Application Number:
  US13/297,418
• Publication Number:
  US 20120130635A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/465
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/206 specially adapted for indoor navigation

Abstract

A portable information terminal apparatus according to an embodiment acquires route point information corresponding to advertisement information displayed on a digital signage terminal apparatus and searches for a guidance route including a route point equivalent to the acquired route point information. Therefore, in a building such as a shopping mall, it is possible to easily guide, without increases labor of a customer as a user, the customer to a store or the like in which the customer takes an interest according to the advertisement information.

Claims

1. A portable information terminal apparatus comprising:

an information acquiring unit configured to acquire route point information corresponding to advertisement information displayed on an advertisement information delivery terminal apparatus;

a route search unit configured to search for a guidance route including a set route point and a route point equivalent to the route point information acquired by the information acquiring unit; and

a route guidance unit configured to perform route guidance on the basis of the guidance route.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, if a new route point information is acquired by the information acquiring unit after the search for a guidance route, the route search unit adds a route point equivalent to the route point information and performs re-search for a guidance route.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a display unit configured to display a present location of the apparatus and the guidance route, wherein

the route guidance unit displays a guidance route including the set route point and the route point equivalent to the route point information on the display unit and performs the route guidance.

4. A portable information terminal apparatus comprising:

an information acquiring unit configured to acquire route point information corresponding to advertisement information displayed on an advertisement information delivery terminal apparatus and including location information of a route point and information concerning an arrival recommended hour when arrival at the route point is recommended;

a route search unit configured to search for a guidance route including a set route point and a route point equivalent to the route point information acquired by the information acquiring unit such that a user arrives at, at the arrival recommended hour, a route point corresponding to the information concerning the arrival recommended hour; and

a route guidance unit configured to perform route guidance on the basis of the guidance route.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

the route point information includes information concerning a stay time slot at the route point, and

the route search unit performs re-search for the guidance route such that the user can stay at the route point in the stay time slot.

6. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein, if a route point for which an arrival time is set is present and the route search unit determines that the user cannot arrive at the route point at the set arrival hour when the route guide unit performs the route guidance according to a guidance route already found, the route search unit performs re-search for the guidance route such that the user can arrive at the route point at the set arrival hour.

7. The apparatus according to claim 4, further comprising a display unit configured to display a present location of the apparatus and the guidance route, wherein

the route guidance unit displays a guidance route including the set route point and the route point equivalent to the route point information on the display unit and performs the route guidance.

8. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein, if a new route point information is acquired by the information acquiring unit after the search for a guidance route, the route search unit adds a route point equivalent to the route point information and performs re-search for a guidance route.

9. A computer program product including a computer-readable recording medium including plural commands for performing a route guidance operation that can be executed by a computer, the plural commands causing the computer to execute:

an information acquiring operation for acquiring route point information corresponding to advertisement information displayed on an advertisement information delivery terminal apparatus; and

a route searching operation for searching for a guidance route including a route point equivalent to the acquired route point information.