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Information presenting method, server, and information presenting system

  • US 9,960,847 B2
  • Filed: 09/08/2016
  • Issued: 05/01/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An information presenting method for presenting information to a passenger on a passenger carrier which stops at predetermined boarding-and-alighting points, the information presenting method comprising:

  • (a) emitting, by a lighting apparatus provided in the passenger carrier, light to a passenger space of the passenger carrier, the light including, in form of a visible light communication signal, unique information which is unique to the passenger carrier and specific to a location of the passenger carrier;

    (b) receiving in the passenger space, by a terminal carried by the passenger, the light emitted in (a) and obtaining the unique information included in the received light;

    (c) obtaining, among the predetermined boarding-and-alighting points, one or more stop points at which the passenger carrier is currently stopped or is to subsequently stop, the one or more boarding-and-alighting points being derived from the obtained unique information;

    (d) receiving an alighting point at which the passenger is to alight from the passenger carrier;

    (e) determining whether the alighting point is included in the one or more stop points; and

    (f) presenting, to the passenger via the terminal, alighting information notifying the passenger to alight from the passenger carrier, when the alighting point is determined to be included in the one or more stop points in (e).

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