Information output device

• US 9,465,868 B2
• Filed: 04/25/2012
• Issued: 10/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Uotani, Kazushi, Matsumoto, Masahito, Oi, Makoto, Shimotani, Mitsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Figueroa, Jaime
• Application Number:
  US14/384,607
• Publication Number:
  US 20150066354A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,630 Days
• Field of Search: 701/400, 701/408, 701/409, 701/410, 701/418, 701/425
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/387 Organisation of map data, e.g. version management or database structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/686 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title or artist information, time, location or usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/907 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/46 for recognising users' preferences

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a technique that can facilitate setting of an object, such as a favorite team. An information output device includes a database that associates and stores a region on a map and a sport team related to the region, a position acquisition unit that acquires a position of a self-vehicle, and a favorite team setting processing unit that sets a favorite team from among sport teams. Moreover, the information output device includes a determination processing unit that specifies the region corresponding to the self-vehicle position acquired by the position acquisition unit and determines the sport team associated with the specified region in the database as an object to be set by the favorite team setting processing unit or a candidate for the object.

Claims

1. An information output device movable with a vehicle, comprising:

a database that associates a region on a map with an object related to said region and to store the region and the object;

an address acquisition unit that acquires an address data from a smart plate of said vehicle;

a setting processing unit that sets a desired object from among said object; and

a determination processing unit that specifies said region corresponding to the position indicated by said address data acquired from said smart plate of said vehicle and determines said object associated with the specified region in said database as one of said object to be set by said setting processing unit and a candidate for the object.

2. The information output device according to claim 1, wherein

said database establishes ranking of said object and stores the object for each of said region, and

the information output device further comprises:

an information display that displays in a line said object determined by said determination processing unit according to said ranking.

3. The information output device according to claim 2, wherein

said object is one of an artist and music, and

said ranking is order of popularity of one of said artist and music.

4. The information output device according to claim 2, wherein

said setting processing unit sets an object selected by operation from among said object displayed in said information display as said desired object.

5. The information output device according to claim 1, wherein

said object is one of a sport team and a sport player,

the information output device further comprises:

a receiver that receives information from outside; and

an information display that displays the information received by said receiver; and

when said receiver receives information indicating game progress of one of the sport team and sport player set by said setting processing unit, said information display changes a display mode of the information depending on the game progress.

6. The information output device according to claim 1, wherein

said determination processing unit specifies said region and determines said object to be set by said setting processing unit or said candidate for the object every time said vehicle moves a predetermined distance.