INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE CONTROL METHOD, AND CONTROL PROGRAM

• US 20190313210A1
• Filed: 08/24/2017
• Published: 10/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: OHKAWA, TAKAHIRO, IWAKURA, HIROAKI, TAKIZUKA, KIYOTAKA
• Application Number:
  US16/339,175
• Publication Number:
  US 20190313210A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• 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 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

The present invention performs visit determination with higher accuracy than in the cases of the conventional techniques. A visit determining section is configured so that in a case where a location of a user (C) indicated by location information has changed from a first location to a second location, the visit determining section determines that the user (C) has made a visit to a facility (P), the first location being included in a visit starting area (D1) which is preset, the second location being excluded from a visit ending area (D2) which is preset. The visit starting area (D1) and the visit ending area (D2) are different.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a location information obtaining section configured to obtain location information which indicates a location of a user; and

a visit determining section configured to determine whether or not the user has made a visit to a facility,

the visit determining section being configured so that in a case where the location of the user indicated by the location information has changed from a first location to a second location, the visit determining section determines that the user has made the visit to the facility,

the first location being included in a visit starting zone which is preset,

the second location being excluded from a visit ending zone which is preset, and

the visit starting zone and the visit ending zone being different.

2. The information processing device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

in a case where a stay period is shorter than a stay period threshold which is preset, the visit determining section determines that the user has not made the visit to the facility, where

the stay period is a difference between visit start time and visit end time,

the visit start time is time at which the location of the user indicated by the location information moves to the first location included in the visit starting zone, and

the visit end time is time at which the location of the user indicated by the location information moves to the second location excluded from the visit ending zone.

3. The information processing device as set forth in claim 2, further comprising:

a determination condition setting section configured to set at least one of the visit starting zone, the visit ending zone, and the stay period threshold for each of facilities.

4. The information processing device as set forth in claim 1, wherein

the visit starting zone is larger in size than the visit ending zone.

5. The information processing device as set forth in claim 1, wherein

the visit starting zone is smaller in size than the visit ending zone.

6. The information processing device as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

a record control section configured to update a visiting history in a case where the visit determining section has determined that the user has made the visit to the facility,

the visiting history being a record of the user visiting the facility.

7. The information processing device as set forth in claim 6, further comprising:

a display control section configured to control a display section to display an image of at least part of the visiting history.

9. A control program for causing a computer to serve as an information processing device recited in claim 1, the control program causing the computer to serve as the location information obtaining section and the visit determining section.

8. A method of controlling an information processing device, comprising the steps of:

(a) obtaining location information which indicates a location of a user; and

(b) determining whether or not the user has made a visit to a facility,

the step (b) further including the step of

determining, in a case where the location of the user indicated by the location information has changed from a first location to a second location, that the user has made the visit to the facility,

the first location being included in a visit starting zone which is preset,

the second location being excluded from a visit ending zone which is preset, and

the visit starting zone and the visit ending zone being different.