INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20200132499A1
• Filed: 10/22/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2018
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: MAJIMA, Hiroshi, AMANO, Nariaki, YAMANE, Yukiya, KATO, Kazuki
• Application Number:
  US16/659,622
• Publication Number:
  US 20200132499A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 21/3476 using point of interest [POI] information, e.g. a route passing visible POIs
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3605 Destination input or retrieval
• 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 21/3667 Display of a road map G01C21/3614 takes precedence; guidance using 3D or perspective road maps G01C21/3635
• 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 21/3697 Output of additional, non-guidance related information, e.g. low fuel level G01C21/3679 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases

Abstract

An information providing apparatus is configured to perform communication with a user terminal or installed in the user terminal and includes one or more processors configured to perform a route search for a route from a departure point to a destination using one or more types of transportation from among a plurality of types of transportation; display on a display unit of the user terminal one or more route candidates obtained from the route search; and, in a manner of associating with a route candidate obtained from the route search and displayed on the display unit using two or more types of transportation from among the plurality of types of transpiration, display on the display unit a name of a type of transportation from among the two or more types of transportation.

Claims

1. An information providing apparatus configured to perform communication with a user terminal or installed in the user terminal, the information providing apparatus comprising:

one or more processors configured to

perform a route search for a route from a departure point to a destination using one or more types of transportation from among a plurality of types of transportation;

display, on a display unit of the user terminal, one or more route candidates obtained from the route search; and

in a manner of associating with a route candidate obtained from the route search and displayed on the display unit using two or more types of transportation from among the plurality of types of transportation, display on the display unit a name of a type of transportation from among the two or more types of transportation.

2. The information providing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the one or more processors are further configured to

in a manner of associating with the route candidate displayed on the display unit using the two or more types of transportation, display on the display unit a name of a type of transportation having a highest predetermined priority from among the two or more types of transportation.

3. The information providing apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein

the two or more types of transportation include public transportation and at least one of a rental car, car sharing, and bicycle sharing;

and

predetermined priorities of a rental car, car sharing, and bicycle sharing are set higher than a predetermined priority of public transportation.

4. The information providing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the one or more processors are further configured to

in a manner of associating with the route candidate displayed on the display unit using the two or more types of transportation, display on the display unit a name of a type of transportation used for a longest distance or a longest period in the route candidate.

5. The information providing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the one or more processors are further configured to

in a manner of associating with the route candidate displayed on the display unit using the two or more types of transportation, display on the display unit a name of a type of transportation other than walking and to be used first in the route candidate.

6. The information providing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the one or more processors are further configured to

in a case where the two or more types of transportation include public transportation, display on the display unit, in a manner of associating with the route candidate obtained from the route search and displayed on the display unit using the two or more types of transportation, a name of a place to get on public transportation to be used first in the route candidate and a corresponding departure time.

7. The information providing apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein

the one or more processors are further configured to

in a case where the two or more types of transportation include public transportation, display on the display unit, in a manner of associating with the route candidate obtained from the route search and displayed on the display unit using the two or more types of transportation, a name of a place to get on public transportation to be used first in the route candidate and a corresponding departure time.

8. The information providing apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein

the one or more processors are further configured to

in a case where the two or more types of transportation include public transportation, display on the display unit, in a manner of associating with the route candidate obtained from the route search and displayed on the display unit using the two or more types of transportation, a name of a place to get on public transportation to be used first in the route candidate and a corresponding departure time.

9. The information providing apparatus as claimed in claim 4, wherein

the one or more processors are further configured to

in a case where the two or more types of transportation include public transportation, display on the display unit, in a manner of associating with the route candidate obtained from the route search and displayed on the display unit using the two or more types of transportation, a name of a place to get on public transportation to be used first in the route candidate and a corresponding departure time.

10. The information providing apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein

the one or more processors are further configured to

in a case where the two or more types of transportation include public transportation, display on the display unit, in a manner of associating with the route candidate obtained from the route search and displayed on the display unit using the two or more types of transportation, a name of a place to get on public transportation to be used first in the route candidate and a corresponding departure time.

11. An information providing system comprising:

a user terminal;

an information processing apparatus configured to perform communication with the user terminal,

wherein

the information providing system includes;

one or more processors configured to

perform a route search for a route from a departure point to a destination using one or more types of transportation from among a plurality of types of transportation;

display, on a display unit of the user terminal, one or more route candidates obtained from the route search; and

in a manner of associating with a route candidate obtained from the route search and displayed on the display unit using two or more types of transportation from among the plurality of types of transportation, display on the display unit a name of a type of transportation from among the two or more types of transportation.

12. An information providing method implemented by an information providing apparatus configured to perform communication with a user terminal or installed in the user terminal, the information providing method comprising:

performing by one or more processors a route search for a route from a departure point to a destination using one or more types of transportation from among a plurality of types of transportation;

displaying by one or more processors on a display unit of the user terminal one or more route candidates obtained from the route search; and

in a manner of associating with a route candidate obtained from the route search and displayed on the display unit using two or more types of transportation from among the plurality of types of transportation, displaying by one or more processors on the display unit a name of a type of transportation from among the two or more types of transportation.

13. A non-transitory recording medium storing therein an information providing program, the information providing program being configured to, when executed by one or more processors, implement the information providing method claimed in claim 12.