MANAGEMENT SERVER, POPULATION INFORMATION CALCULATION MANAGEMENT SERVER, NON-POPULATED AREA MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND POPULATION INFORMATION CALCULATION METHOD

• US 20120218150A1
• Filed: 10/21/2010
• Published: 08/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Okajima, Ichiro, Nagata, Tomohiro, Oyabu, Yuki
• Application Number:
  US13/505,144
• Publication Number:
  US 20120218150A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 342/451
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/007 using computer methods

Abstract

To provide a management server, population information calculation management server, non-populated area management method, and population information calculation method capable of easily specifying a depopulated area and calculating accurate population information, a GPS information collection unit (519) collects location information of mobile equipments (100) and stores them into a GPS information accumulation unit (514). Then, a depopulated area specifying unit (516) specifies a non-populated area in a given area (for example, an area (sector influence diagram) designated by an operator) using the location information accumulated in the GPS information accumulation unit (514). The population distribution can be thereby accurately calculated using the non-populated area. For example, there can be a case where the population distribution in a given area is not uniform within the area. In such a case, it is possible to know in which part the population is unevenly distributed using the mobile equipment non-populated area.

Claims

1-8. -8. (canceled)

9. A population information calculation management server configured to communicate with a management server including a collection unit for collecting location information of mobile equipments;

and a non-populated area specifying unit for specifying a non-populated area in a given area according to the location information collected by the collection unit,

the population information calculation management server comprising;

an area storage unit for storing area information indicating areas formed by predetermined boundaries and locations of the areas;

a population information storage unit for storing population information indicating a population located in an area for each of the areas;

a populated area specifying unit for removing the non-populated area specified in the management server from the area stored in the area storage unit and specifying a populated area where a population exists; and

a population information calculation unit for calculating a population of the populated area or a partial area in the populated area based on the populated area specified by the populated area specifying unit and the population information for each of the areas stored in the population information storage unit.

10. The population information calculation management server according to claim 9, wherein the management server further comprising:

an area storage unit for storing area information indicating areas formed by predetermined boundaries and locations of the areas, wherein

the non-populated area specifying unit specifies the non-populated area by forming a populated area with a given radius around the location information collected by the collection unit and removing the populated area from the area indicated by the area information stored in the area storage unit.

11. The population information calculation management server according to claim 9, wherein the management server further comprising:

an attribute information storage unit for storing attribute information of each of mobile equipments, wherein

the collection unit collects the location information of mobile equipments and further collects the attribute information of the mobile equipments, and

the non-populated area specifying unit sorts out mobile equipments having given attribute information based on the attribute information collected by the collection unit and the attribute information stored in the attribute information storage unit and specifies the non-populated area in the given area according to the location information of the sorted-out mobile equipments.

12. The population information calculation management server according to claim 9, wherein the management server further comprising:

a travel mode determination unit for determining travel mode of mobile equipments based on the location information of the mobile equipments collected by the collection unit, wherein

the non-populated area specifying unit specifies the non-populated area in the given area according to the travel mode determined by the travel mode determination unit and the location information of each of the mobile equipments collected by the collection unit.

13. The population information calculation management server according to claim 9, wherein

the population information storage unit stores the population information collected for each of sectors defined as the areas with respect to each of the sectors.

14. A population information calculation management method in a population information calculation management server configured to communicate with a management server including a collection unit for collecting location information of mobile equipments;

and a non-populated area specifying unit for specifying a non-populated area in a given area according to the location information collected by the collection unit,

the method comprising;

an area storage step of storing area information indicating areas formed by predetermined boundaries and locations of the areas in an area storage unit;

a population information storage step of storing population information indicating a population located in an area for each of the areas in a population information storage unit;

a populated area specifying step of removing the non-populated area specified in the management server from the area stored in the area storage unit and specifying a populated area where a population exists; and

a population information calculation step of calculating a population of the populated area or a partial area in the populated area based on the populated area specified by the populated area specifying step and the population information for each of the areas stored in the population information storage unit.