Information providing apparatus and system
First Claim
1. An information providing system for providing information about a facility or an event as facility-event information, the information providing system comprising:
- a management apparatus that includes a database, wherein the database stores facility-event information for a plurality of facilities or a plurality of events by associating the facility-event information for the facilities or the events with respective location data of the facilities or the events; and
an in-vehicle apparatus that is mounted to a vehicle and communicable with the management apparatus,wherein;
the in-vehicle apparatusacquires present position information indicating present position of the vehicle,transmits vehicle source information, which is based on the present position information, to the management apparatus, andprovides a user, who drives the vehicle, with at least a piece of the facility-event information transmitted from the management apparatus;
the management apparatussets, based on the vehicle source information transmitted from the in-vehicle apparatus, a search scope parameterized by the location data,extracts the facility-event information matching the search scope from the database, andtransmits the extracted facility-event information to the in-vehicle apparatus;
the in-vehicle apparatusmeasures a parking time of the vehicle,sets a stay place of the user based on the present position information and the parking time of the vehicle, wherein the stay place is a place at which the parking time exceeds a threshold,sets a daily-visiting place of the user based on an acquisition date and time of the present position information, wherein the daily-visiting place is the stay place at which the vehicle is periodically parked,transmits place information indicating the stay place or the daily-visiting place to the management apparatus;
based on respective location data corresponding to the place information transmitted from the in-vehicle apparatus, the management apparatusestimates that a living area of the user is a collective area covering all of the stay places of the user,estimates that a daily-living area of the user is a collective area covering all of the daily-visiting places of the user,estimates that a non-daily-living area is the living area of the user except the daily-living area; and
the management apparatusacquires the present position information from the in-vehicle apparatus, andsets the search scope based on the present position information, bysetting the daily-living area as the search scope when the present position of the vehicle is within the daily-living area of the user, andsetting the non-daily-living area as the search scope when the present position of the vehicle is within the non-daily-living area of the user.
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Abstract
An information providing system is disclosed. The system includes a management apparatus having a database storing facility-event information of facilities or events, and a portable apparatus communicatable with the management apparatus. The portable apparatus sets each place, at which a movement stop time exceeds a prescribed staying time, as a stay place. The management apparatus estimates that a living area of a user of the portable apparatus is a collective area covering all of the stay places of the user. The management apparatus sets the collective area as the search scope, extracts the facility-event information matching the search scope from the database, and transmits the extracted facility-event information to the portable apparatus.
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26 Claims
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1. An information providing system for providing information about a facility or an event as facility-event information, the information providing system comprising:
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a management apparatus that includes a database, wherein the database stores facility-event information for a plurality of facilities or a plurality of events by associating the facility-event information for the facilities or the events with respective location data of the facilities or the events; and an in-vehicle apparatus that is mounted to a vehicle and communicable with the management apparatus, wherein; the in-vehicle apparatus acquires present position information indicating present position of the vehicle, transmits vehicle source information, which is based on the present position information, to the management apparatus, and provides a user, who drives the vehicle, with at least a piece of the facility-event information transmitted from the management apparatus; the management apparatus sets, based on the vehicle source information transmitted from the in-vehicle apparatus, a search scope parameterized by the location data, extracts the facility-event information matching the search scope from the database, and transmits the extracted facility-event information to the in-vehicle apparatus; the in-vehicle apparatus measures a parking time of the vehicle, sets a stay place of the user based on the present position information and the parking time of the vehicle, wherein the stay place is a place at which the parking time exceeds a threshold, sets a daily-visiting place of the user based on an acquisition date and time of the present position information, wherein the daily-visiting place is the stay place at which the vehicle is periodically parked, transmits place information indicating the stay place or the daily-visiting place to the management apparatus; based on respective location data corresponding to the place information transmitted from the in-vehicle apparatus, the management apparatus estimates that a living area of the user is a collective area covering all of the stay places of the user, estimates that a daily-living area of the user is a collective area covering all of the daily-visiting places of the user, estimates that a non-daily-living area is the living area of the user except the daily-living area; and the management apparatus acquires the present position information from the in-vehicle apparatus, and sets the search scope based on the present position information, by setting the daily-living area as the search scope when the present position of the vehicle is within the daily-living area of the user, and setting the non-daily-living area as the search scope when the present position of the vehicle is within the non-daily-living area of the user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. An information providing system for providing information about a facility or an event as facility-event information, the information providing system comprising:
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a management apparatus that includes a database, wherein the database stores facility-event information for a plurality of facilities or a plurality of events by associating the facility-event information with respective location data of the facilities or the events; and an in-vehicle apparatus that is mounted to a vehicle and communicable with the management apparatus, wherein; the in-vehicle apparatus acquires present position information indicating present position of the vehicle, transmits vehicle source information, which is based on the present position information, to the management apparatus, and provides a user, who drives the vehicle, with at least one of the facility-event information transmitted from the management apparatus; the management apparatus sets, based on the vehicle source information transmitted from the in-vehicle apparatus, a search scope parameterized by the location data, extracts the facility-event information matching the search scope from the database, and transmits the extracted facility-event information to the in-vehicle apparatus; the in-vehicle apparatus measures a parking time of the vehicle, sets a stay place of the user based on the present position information and the parking time of the vehicle, wherein the stay place is a place at which the parking time exceeds a prescribed staying time, and sets a daily-visiting place of the user based on an acquisition date and time of the present position information, wherein the daily-visiting place is the stay place at which the vehicle is periodically parked; based on respective location data corresponding to the stay places and the daily-visiting places, the in-vehicle apparatus estimates that a living area of the user is a collective area covering all of the stay places of the user is estimates that a daily-living area of the user is a collective area covering all of the daily-visiting places of the user, estimates that a non-daily-living area is the living area of the user except the daily-living area, transmit place information indicative of the daily-living area and the non-daily-living area to the management apparatus; and the management apparatus acquires the present position information from the in-vehicle apparatus, and sets the search scope based on the present position information and the place information received from the in-vehicle apparatus, by setting the daily-living area as the search scope when the present position of the vehicle is within the daily-living area of the user, and setting the non-daily-living area as the search scope when the present position of the vehicle is within the non-daily-living area of the user.
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26. An apparatus mounted to a vehicle for providing information about a facility or an event as facility-event information, the apparatus comprising:
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an information storage that includes a database, wherein the database stores facility-event information for a plurality of facilities or a plurality of events by associating the facility-event information with respective location data of the facilities or the events; and a present position acquisition unit that acquires present position information indicating present position of the vehicle, a search scope setting unit that sets a search scope parameterized by the location data, based on the present position information acquired by the present position acquisition unit; an information extraction unit that extracts, from the information storage, the facility-event information that match the search scope set by the search scope setting unit; an information indicating unit that provides a user, who drives the vehicle, with at least one of the facility-event information extracted by the information extraction unit; and a stay place setting unit that measures, based on the present position information acquired by the present position acquisition unit, a movement stop time defined as a period of time from when movement of the apparatus stops to when the movement of the apparatus restarts, and sets a stay place of the user based on the present position information and the movement stop time of the vehicle, wherein the stay place is a place at which the movement stop time exceeds a prescribed stop time, sets a daily-visiting place of the user based on an acquisition date and time of the present position information, wherein the daily-visiting place is the stay place at which the vehicle is periodically parked, wherein; based on respective location data corresponding to the stay places and the daily-visiting places set by the stay place setting unit, the search scope setting unit estimates that a living area of the user is a collective area covering all of the stay places of the user, estimates that a daily-living area of the user is a collective area covering all of the daily-visiting places of the user, estimates that a non-daily-living area is the living area of the user except the daily-living area, and sets the search scope based on the present position information acquired by the present position acquisition unit, by setting the daily-living area as the search scope when the present position of the vehicle is within the daily-living area of the user, and setting the non-daily-living area as the search scope when the present position of the vehicle is within the non-daily-living area of the user.
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