POI information providing server, POI information providing device, POI information providing system and program

A POI information providing device that provides information relating to a point of interest, which is a facility on a map, to a user, the POI information providing device comprising:

• a memory which stores a genre of the POI, indicating a type of business located at the POI, specified by a past user utterance as user utterance history information;
• and
• a CPU programmed to generate a POI search request signal to request search of a POI of a genre to be specified by the user utterance history information in a case of acquiring voice information of the user utterance or in a case of a predetermined POI search condition being satisfied being determined at a predetermined timing and the predetermined POI search condition being satisfied,
• wherein the CPU is programmed to specify, according to predetermined rules, a POI which is closest to a current vehicle position and which has not been notified to the user as a POI that has a highest priority among searched POI candidates other than a POI previously included in notification POI information, and generate notification POI information that includes voice information relating to the specified POI, and
• wherein a POI information providing server determines whether to execute the search based on whether a new POI search area overlaps an old POI search area even when the search is regularly requested from the POI information providing device.

A POI information providing system comprising:

• a POI information providing server that provides information relating to a point of interest (POI) which is a facility on a map;
• and
• a POI information providing device that provides the information relating to the POI acquired from the POI information providing server to a user, wherein
• the POI information providing device comprises a first CPU programmed to generate a POI search request signal to request search of a POI including voice information of user utterance that specifies a genre of the POI, indicating a type of business located at the POI, or the POI search request signal which does not include the voice information,
• the POI information providing server comprises:
• a communication device which acquires the POI search request signal from the POI information providing device;
• a memory which stores user utterance information storing a genre in a case that the voice information of the user utterance specifying the genre of the POI is included in the POI search request signal;
• and
• a second CPU programmed to search a POI of the genre specified by the voice information in the case that the voice information of the user utterance specifying the genre of the POI is included in the POI search request signal, determine whether a predetermined POI search condition is satisfied in a case that the voice information is not included in the POI search request signal, search a POI of the genre specified by the user utterance information in a case that the predetermined POI search condition is satisfied, and generate notification POI information including voice information relating to the searched POI,
• wherein the second CPU is programmed to specify, according to predetermined rules, a POI which is closest to a current vehicle position and which has not been notified to the user as a POI that has a highest priority among searched POI candidates other than a POI previously included in the notification POI information, and generate notification POI information that includes voice information relating to the specified POI, and
• wherein the POI information providing server determines whether to execute the search based on whether a new POI search area overlaps an old POI search area even when the search is regularly requested from the POI information providing device.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program that causes a computer to function as a POI information providing server providing information relating to a point of interest (POI), which is a facility on a map, the program causing the computer to function as:

• a communication device which acquires a POI search request signal to request search of the POI from a POI information providing device;
• a memory which stores user utterance information storing a genre of the POI, indicating a type of business located at the POI, in a case that voice information of user utterance specifying the genre of the POI is included in the POI search request signal;
• and
• a CPU programmed to search a POI of a genre specified by voice information in the case that the voice information of user utterance specifying the genre of the POI is included in the POI search request signal, determine whether a predetermined POI search condition has been satisfied in a case that the voice information is not included in the POI search request signal, search a POI of a genre specified by the user utterance information in a case that the predetermined POI search condition has been satisfied, and generate notification POI information including voice information relating to the searched POI,
• wherein the CPU is programmed to specify, according to predetermined rules, a POI which is closest to a current vehicle position and which has not been notified to the user as a POI that has a highest priority among searched POI candidates other than a POI previously included in the notification POI information, and generate notification POI information that includes voice information relating to the specified POI, and
• wherein the POI information providing server determines whether to execute the search based on whether a new POI search area overlaps an old POI search area even when the search is regularly requested from the POI information providing device.