INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20180084381A1
• Filed: 11/15/2017
• Published: 03/22/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Ohbitsu, Toshiro
• Application Number:
  US15/813,348
• Publication Number:
  US 20180084381A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/068 using credential vaults, e.g. password manager applications or one time password [OTP] applications
• 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 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to calculate based on a first position, a traveling speed, and a traveling direction of the information processing apparatus at a current time point, a second position of the information processing apparatus at a time point subsequent to the current time point; set a region for the second position calculated for the time point, the region being enlarged according to a temporal difference of the current time point and the time point; and output information related to a facility present within the set region.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a memory; and

a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to;

calculate based on a first position, a traveling speed, and a traveling direction of the information processing apparatus at a current time point, a second position of the information processing apparatus at a time point subsequent to the current time point;

set a region for the second position calculated for the time point, the region being enlarged according to a temporal difference of the current time point and the time point; and

output information related to a facility present within the set region.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the processor calculates the second position for the time point of each elapse of a predetermined period from the current time point, and

the processor sets for the second position calculated for the time point of each elapse of the predetermined period, a region that is enlarged according to the temporal difference of the current time point and the time point.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the processor creates an integrated region by integrating a reference region set for the first position and the region set for the second position calculated for the time point of each elapse of the predetermined period, and

the processor outputs information related to the facility present within the created integrated region.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the processor transmits to a server, a delivery request for the information related to the facility and thereby, receives the information related to the facility from the server when the facility is present within the integrated region, and

the processor outputs the received information related to the facility.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the processor sets for the second position calculated for the time point of each elapse of the predetermined period, a region that is enlarged according to the traveling speed at the current time point, and the temporal difference of the current time point and the time point.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the processor creates as the integrated region, a region formed by tangents connecting points on the reference region and the region set for the second position calculated for the time point of each elapse of the predetermined period.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

the region set for the second position calculated for the time point of each elapse of the predetermined period is a region having a circular shape and centered about the time point.

8. A non-transitory, computer-readable recording medium storing therein a facility information providing program causing a computer to execute a process comprising:

calculating based on a first position, a traveling speed, and a traveling direction of an apparatus of the facility information providing program at a current time point, a second position of the apparatus at a time point subsequent to the current time point;

setting a region for the second position calculated for the time point, the region being enlarged according to a temporal difference of the current time point and the time point; and

outputting information related to a facility present within the set region.

9. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a memory; and

a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to;

obtain acceleration information that may identify acceleration of a mobile terminal apparatus in a direction toward a specific facility;

set based on the acceleration information and for a position of the specific facility, a first region that is enlarged or reduced according a magnitude of the acceleration in the direction toward the specific facility; and

transmit facility information related to the specific facility to the mobile terminal apparatus, when the set first region and a second region set for a position of the mobile terminal apparatus intersect.

10. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein

the processor calculates a ratio of an intersecting range of the first region and the second region to the first region, when the first region and the second region intersect, and

the processor transmits to the mobile terminal apparatus, the facility information corresponding to the calculated ratio, among facility information related to the specific facility.

11. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein

the second region is a region that is enlarged or reduced according to a magnitude of the acceleration in the direction toward the specific facility.

12. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein

the first region is a region having a circular shape and centered about the position of the specific facility, and

the second region is a region having a circular shape and centered about the position of the mobile terminal apparatus.

13. The information processing apparatus according to claim 9, wherein

the processor transmits to the mobile terminal apparatus, region information indicating the set first region, and

the processor transmits to the mobile terminal apparatus, the facility information related to the specific facility, when notification information indicating that the first region and the second region intersect is received from the mobile terminal apparatus.

14. A non-transitory, computer-readable recording medium storing therein a facility information providing program causing a computer to execute a process comprising:

obtaining acceleration information that may identify acceleration of a mobile terminal apparatus in a direction toward a specific facility;

setting based on the acceleration information and for a position of the specific facility, a first region that is enlarged or reduced according a magnitude of the acceleration in the direction toward the specific facility; and

transmitting facility information related to the specific facility to the mobile terminal apparatus, when the set first region and a second region set for a position of the mobile terminal apparatus intersect.