SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING CREATION OF ROUTE

• US 20160216126A1
• Filed: 12/11/2015
• Published: 07/28/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: T Map Mobility Company Limited (SK Telecom Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: SK Planet Co., Ltd. (SK Telecom Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: PARK, Jin Young, LEE, Dong Seok, KIM, Min Jung
• Granted Patent: US 9,958,281 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3423 Multimodal routing, i.e. combining two or more modes of transportation, where the modes can be any of, e.g. driving, walking, cycling, public transport
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3484 Personalized, e.g. from learned user behaviour or user-defined profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3626 Details of the output of route guidance instructions traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968
• 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: G01C 21/3691 Retrieval, searching and output of information related to real-time traffic, weather, or environmental conditions arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions G08G1/09
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3697 Output of additional, non-guidance related information, e.g. low fuel level G01C21/3679 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/40 Business processes related to the transportation industry shipping G06Q10/083
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/005 including pedestrian guidance indicator
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/123 indicating the position of vehicles, e.g. scheduled vehicles; Managing passenger vehicles circulating according to a fixed timetable, e.g. buses, trains, tramstransmission of navigation instructions to vehicles G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information

Abstract

Provided are service providing apparatus and method for supporting creation of a route, and more particularly, to service providing apparatus and method for supporting creation of a route which supports creation of a personal route for only a user by selecting a transportation up to a destination and positions for getting on and off. According to the present invention, it is possible to ensure expandability of route provision by supporting an optimal route which is known by a user to be directly created by the user when there is no user'"'"'s desired route among recommended routes, providing the created personalized route together with the recommended route to support the personalized route to be guided as the optimal route, and simultaneously, providing various routes using the public transportation.

Claims

1. A service providing apparatus for supporting creation of a route, the service providing apparatus comprising:

a public transportation information providing unit configured to provide line number information for one or more public transportation means which stop at respective adjacent stations in a predetermined range based on the departure point input through a user interface by referring to map information and public transportation information which are prestored; and

a route creating unit configured to sequentially create one or more unit route information by matching selected line number information until a distance or a time measured based on walking from a get-off station to a destination is less than a predetermined reference value after creating get-on station information and get-off station information based on line information included in the selected line number information selected in the line number information, the adjacent station, and the destination and create personalized route information on a route between the departure point and the destination by using unit route information and walking route information after generating the remaining unit route except for the unit route information as the walking route information.

2. The service providing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the route creating unit receives edition information created in order to delete at least one of unit route information included in the personalized route information or change at least one of the selected line number information, the get-on station information, and the get-off station information based on the user input through the user interface and changes the personalized route information based on the edition information.

3. The service providing apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a route recommending unit configured to match and store the personalized route information with personal information of the user apparatus provided by the user interface when creating the personalized route information and provide the personalized route information to the user apparatus and a plurality of different user apparatuses which select the departure point and the destination.

4. The service providing apparatus of claim 3, wherein the route recommending unit measures a use frequency by receiving information on whether to use the personalized route information from the user apparatus and the plurality of different user apparatuses and provides the personalized route information as recommended route information prior to other routes to the user apparatus selecting the departure point and the destination when the use frequency is more than a predetermined value.

5. A service providing apparatus for supporting creation of a route, the service providing apparatus comprising:

a position information providing unit configured to provide position information by determining a current position of a user;

a public transportation information providing unit configured to provide line number information for one or more public transportation means corresponding to respective stations through a user interface by referring to map information; and

a route creating unit configured to create walking route information by determine as walking a case where a speed is less than a predetermined speed based on a change in the position information, create unit route information matched with selected line number information by determining a get-on station and a get-off station through line information included in the selected line number information selected in the line number information corresponding to each adjacent station in the predetermined range and the position information based on a current position through the public transportation information providing unit at the time when there is no change in position for a predetermined time or more or a change in speed for a predetermined time is more than a predetermined reference value, and automatically create the personalized route information by connecting the different walking route information and the unit route information according to the creation order.

6. The service providing apparatus of claim 5, wherein the route creating unit creates get-on station information on a station included in the line information among the most adjacent stations to the current position measured at the time and creates the most adjacent station to the position provided through the position information providing unit among the stations included in the line information as get-off station information at the time when a difference between a route according to the line information and a movement route according to the position information is generated.

7. The service providing apparatus of claim 5, wherein the route creating unit creates any one of the get-on station information and the get-off station information through an AP installed in the station.

8. The service providing apparatus of claim 5, wherein the public transportation information providing unit provides driving information for each public transportation means, and the route creating unit creates the get-on station information and the get-off station information based on the position information and the driving information for each public transportation means.

9. The service providing apparatus of claim 5, wherein the route creating unit automatically selects line number information corresponding to line information coinciding with movement route information calculated based on the position information provided through the position information providing unit in the line information of the line number information provided through the public transportation information providing unit at the time.

10. A service providing method for supporting creation of a route, the service providing method comprising:

providing a user interface for creating a route between a departure point and a destination to a user apparatus by means of a service providing apparatus for supporting creation of the route;

providing line number information for one or more public transportation means passing through respective adjacent stations in a predetermined range based on the departure point input through the user interface by referring to map information by means of the service providing apparatus for supporting creation of the route;

sequentially creating one or more unit route information by matching selected line number information until a distance or a time measured based on walking from a get-off station to a destination is less than a predetermined reference value after creating get-on station information and get-off station information based on line information included in the selected line number information selected in the line number information, the adjacent station, and the destination; and

creating personalized route information on a route between the departure point and the destination by using unit route information and walking route information after generating the remaining unit route except for the unit route information as the walking route information by means of the service providing apparatus for supporting creation of the route.