CRISIS INFORMATION DELIVERY DEVICE, CRISIS INFORMATION DELIVERY SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20150113426A1
• Filed: 06/17/2013
• Published: 04/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Okubo, Ryosuke
• Application Number:
  US14/402,771
• Publication Number:
  US 20150113426A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/744
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/10 responsive to calamitous events, e.g. tornados or earthquakes
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 27/00 Alarm systems in which the alarm condition is signalled from a central station to a plurality of substations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]

Abstract

To cause a person involved to intuitively understand how much a crisis influences himself/herself when the crisis beaks out, and to promote to take proper actions. A crisis information delivery device includes a diagram generation means for generating a diagram in which a crisis, a user, and relevant objects for the user are arranged in a predetermined drawing region while the directions from the user at actual positions are kept when the crisis breaks out, and crisis impacts as the degrees of hazard at the actual positions of the user and the relevant objects for the user are indicated in the distances from the crisis in the drawing region.

Claims

1. A crisis information delivery device comprising:

a diagram generation unit for generating a diagram in which a crisis, a user, and relevant objects for the user are arranged in a predetermined drawing region while the directions from the user at actual positions are kept when the crisis breaks out, and crisis impacts as the degrees of hazard at the actual positions of the user and the relevant objects for the user are indicated in the distances from the crisis in the drawing region.

2. The crisis information delivery device according to claim 1, comprising:

a positional relationship calculation unit for acquiring a position of the source of a crisis, a position of a user, and the positions of relevant objects for the user when the crisis breaks out, and calculating a direction from the position of the user toward the position of the source of the crisis, and the directions from the position of the user toward the positions of the relevant objects;

a crisis impact acquisition unit for acquiring crisis impacts at the position of the user and the positions of the relevant objects; and

an output unit for outputting a diagram generated by the diagram generation unit,

wherein the diagram generation unit generates a diagram based on the direction from the position of the user toward the position of the source of the crisis and the directions from the position of the user toward the positions of the relevant objects acquired by the positional relationship calculation unit, and the crisis impact at the position of the user and the crisis impacts at the positions of the relevant objects acquired by the crisis impact acquisition unit.

3. The crisis information delivery device according to claim 1, comprising:

a relevant object position acquisition unit for acquiring at least the position of an evacuation spot as information on a relevant object for the user.

4. The crisis information delivery device according to claim 1,

wherein the diagram generation unit generates a diagram subjected to visualizing expression indicating a degree of crisis impact within a predetermined range with reference to the source of the crisis.

5. The crisis information delivery device according to claim 1,

wherein the diagram generation unit generates a diagram including character information indicating the outline of the crisis, character information indicating the contents of a crisis impact at the position of the user, and character information indicating the contents of crisis impacts at the positions of the relevant objects for the user.

6. The crisis information delivery device according to claim 1, comprising:

a map display generation unit for generating map display in which a crisis, a user, and relevant objects for the user are arranged on a map according to their actual positions,

wherein the output unit outputs the diagram generated by the diagram generation unit and the map display generated by the map display generation unit while switching them in response to a user operation.

7. The crisis information delivery device according to claim 1, comprising:

a display time designation unit for designating a time to display a diagram,

wherein the diagram generation unit generates a diagram subjected to visualizing expression indicating the presence of a crisis impact at a time designated by the display time designation unit.

8. A crisis information delivery system comprising a user terminal, and a crisis information delivery server connected to the user terminal via a network,

wherein the crisis information delivery server includes:

a diagram generation unit for generating a diagram in which a crisis, a user, and relevant objects for the user are arranged in a predetermined drawing region while the directions from the user at actual positions are kept when the crisis breaks out, and crisis impacts as the degrees of hazard at the actual positions of the user and the relevant objects for the user are indicated in the distances from the crisis in the drawing region; and

a diagram transmission unit for transmitting a diagram generated by the diagram generation unit to the user terminal, and

the user terminal includes;

a diagram reception unit for receiving the diagram from the diagram transmission unit; and

a diagram display unit for displaying the diagram received by the diagram reception unit.

9. A user terminal comprising:

a diagram display unit for displaying a diagram in which a crisis, a user, and relevant objects for the user are arranged in a predetermined drawing region while the directions from the user at actual positions are kept when the crisis breaks out, and crisis impacts as the degrees of hazard at the actual positions of the user and the relevant objects for the user are indicated in the distances from the crisis in the drawing region.

10. A crisis information delivery method comprising the steps of:

generating a diagram in which a crisis, a user, and relevant objects for the user are arranged in a predetermined drawing region while the directions from the user at actual positions are kept when the crisis breaks out, and crisis impacts as the degrees of hazard at the actual positions of the user and the relevant objects for the user are indicated in the distances from the crisis in the drawing region; and

displaying the generated diagram on a user terminal.

11. The crisis information delivery method according to claim 10, comprising the steps of:

acquiring a position of the source of a crisis, a position of a user, and the positions of relevant objects for the user when the crisis breaks out, and calculating a direction from the position of the user toward the position of the source of the crisis, and the directions from the position of the user toward the positions of the relevant objects;

acquiring a crisis impact at the position of the user and crisis impacts at the positions of the relevant objects; and

generating a diagram based on the resultant direction from the position of the user toward the position of the source of the crisis and the resultant directions from the position of the user toward the positions of the relevant objects, and the crisis impact at the position of the user and the crisis impacts at the positions of the relevant objects.

12. The crisis information delivery method according to claim 10, comprising the steps of:

acquiring at least the position of a neighboring evacuation spot as information on a relevant object for the user; and

generating a diagram in which a crisis, a user, and relevant objects for the user including the neighboring evacuation spot are arranged while the directions from the user at actual positions are kept, and crisis impacts as the degrees of hazard at the actual positions of the user and the relevant objects for the user are indicated in the distances from the crisis in the drawing region.

13. The crisis information delivery method according to claim 10, comprising the step of:

generating a diagram subjected to visualizing expression indicating a degree of crisis impact within a predetermined range with reference to the source of the crisis.

14. The crisis information delivery method according to claim 10, comprising the step of:

generating a diagram including character information indicating the outline of the crisis, character information indicating the contents of a crisis impact at the position of the user, and character information indicating the contents of crisis impacts at the positions of the relevant objects for the user.

15. The crisis information delivery method according to claim 10, comprising the steps of:

generating map display in which a crisis, a user, and relevant objects for the user are arranged on a map according to their actual positions; and

displaying the diagram in which the crisis impacts are indicated in the distances from the crisis in the drawing region and the map display while switching them in response to a user operation.

16. The crisis information delivery method according to claim 10, comprising the steps of:

designating a time to display a diagram; and

generating a diagram subjected to visualizing expression indicating the presence of a crisis impact at a designated time.

17. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium in which a crisis information delivery program is recorded, the crisis information delivery program causing a computer to perform:

a processing of generating a diagram in which a crisis, a user, and relevant objects for the user are arranged in a predetermined drawing region while the directions from the user at actual positions are kept, and crisis impacts as the degrees of hazard at the actual positions of the user and the relevant objects for the user are indicated in the distances from the crisis in the drawing region; and

a processing of outputting the generated diagram.

18. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium in which a crisis information delivery program is recorded, the crisis information delivery program causing a computer to perform:

a processing of displaying a diagram in which a crisis, a user, and relevant objects for the user are arranged in a predetermined drawing region while the directions from the user at actual positions are kept, and crisis impacts as the degrees of hazard at the actual positions of the user and the relevant objects for the user are indicated in the distances from the crisis in the drawing region.