INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS AND SYSTEM

• US 20130282717A1
• Filed: 06/20/2013
• Published: 10/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation
• Inventors: Kameyama, Shogo
• Application Number:
  US13/922,369
• Publication Number:
  US 20130282717A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/736
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3608 using speech input, e.g. using speech recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3679 Retrieval, searching and output of POI information, e.g. hotels, restaurants, shops, filling stations, parking facilities G01C21/3611 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/335 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles filtering in web context G06F16/9535, G06F16/9536
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 7/24 Sorting, i.e. extracting data from one or more carriers, rearranging the data in numerical or other ordered sequence, and rerecording the sorted data on the original carrier or on a different carrier or set of carriers sorting methods in generalG06F7/36 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0282 Rating or review of business operators or products
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence

Abstract

An information providing system is disclosed. The system includes a management apparatus having a database storing facility-event information of facilities or events, and a portable apparatus communicatable with the management apparatus. The portable apparatus sets each place, at which a movement stop time exceeds a prescribed staying time, as a stay place. The management apparatus estimates that a living area of a user of the portable apparatus is a collective area covering all of the stay places of the user. The management apparatus sets the collective area as the search scope, extracts the facility-event information matching the search scope from the database, and transmits the extracted facility-event information to the portable apparatus.

Claims

1. An apparatus mounted to a vehicle for providing information about a facility or an event as facility-event information, the apparatus comprising:

an information storage that includes a database, wherein the database stores facility-event informations for a plurality of facilities or a plurality of events by associating the facility-event informations with respective location data of the facilities or the events; and

a present position acquisition unit that acquires present position information indicating present position of the vehicle,

a search scope setting unit that sets a search scope parameterized by the location data, based on the present position information acquired by the present position acquisition unit;

an information extraction unit that extracts, from the information storage, the facility-event informations that match the search scope set by the search scope setting unit;

an information indicating unit that provides a user, who drives the vehicle, with at least one of the facility-event informations extracted by the information extraction unit; and

a stay place setting unit that

measures, based on the present position information acquired by the present position acquisition unit, a movement stop time defined as a period of time from when movement of the apparatus stops to when the movement of the apparatus restarts, and

sets a stay place of the user based on the present position information and the movement stop time of the vehicle, wherein the stay place is a place at which the movement stop time exceeds a prescribed stop time,

sets a daily-visiting place of the user based on an acquisition date and time of the present position information, wherein the daily-visiting place is the stay place at which the vehicle is periodically parked,

wherein;

based on respective location data corresponding to the stay places and the daily-visiting places set by the stay place setting unit, the search scope setting unit

estimates that a living area of the user is a collective area covering all of the stay places of the user,

estimates that a daily-living area of the user is a collective area covering all of the daily-visiting places of the user,

estimates that a non-daily-living area is the living area of the user except the daily-living area, and

sets the search scope based on the present position information acquired by the present position acquisition unit, by

setting the daily-living area as the search scope when the present position of the vehicle is within the daily-living area of the user, and

setting the non-daily-living area as the search scope when the present position of the vehicle is within the non-daily-living area of the user.