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US 11,307,046 B2Granted
Guidance system
AssigneeNEC Corporation
InventorHirohisa Onuki
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Abstract
This guidance system is provided with: an accepting unit which acquires a guidance request including at least a destination and image data from a user terminal; a guidance unit which, on the basis of vehicle information of a vehicle recognized from the image data by image recognition, acquires vehicle related information relating to said vehicle, and with reference to the vehicle related information and the destination, derives a ride suitability indicating whether the vehicle is suitable for traveling to the destination; and a response unit which reports a response including at least the ride suitability derived by the guiding unit to the user terminal.
Claims9
A server system to operate a guidance system, the server system comprising a processor configured to:
- acquire from a user terminal via a communication network a guidance request including at least an intended destination and image data of at least some photographed vehicle;
- recognize vehicle information on the vehicle from the image data by image recognition with template matching;
- collect from information databases vehicle-related information on the vehicle based on the vehicle information;
- derive a ride suitability indicating whether or not the vehicle is suitable for reaching the intended destination by referring to the vehicle-related information and the intended destination;
- and
- notify via the communication network the user terminal of a response including at least the ride suitability derived,
- wherein when the vehicle is not uniquely discriminated by the image recognition performed on the image data by template matching, the processor acquires, as a result of the image recognition, at least two of a vehicle type as different modes of transportation, a service line, an operating company, a vehicle position, and a vehicle-specific number, collects from the information databases the vehicle-related information on the vehicle based on the result of the image recognition including the at least two of the vehicle type as the different modes of transportation, the service line, the operating company, the vehicle position, and the vehicle-specific number in combination as a key information, recognizes uniquely the vehicle by the collected information, and derives the ride suitability indicating whether or not the vehicle is suitable for reaching the intended destination by referring to the vehicle-related information and the intended destination.
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A guidance method to be performed by an information processing system including a processor, the guidance method comprising:
- receiving, from a user terminal, via a communication network, a guidance request including at least an intended destination and image data of at least some photographed vehicle;
- performing image recognition on vehicle information on the vehicle appearing in the image data, and collecting from information databases vehicle-related information on the vehicle based on the vehicle information recognized by the image recognition with template matching;
- deriving a ride suitability indicating whether or not the vehicle is suitable for reaching the intended destination by referring to the vehicle-related information and the intended destination;
- and
- notifying via the communication network the user terminal of a response including at least the derived ride suitability,
- wherein when the vehicle is not uniquely discriminated by the image recognition performed on the image data by template matching, the processor acquires, as a result of the image recognition, at least two of a vehicle type as different modes of transportation, a service line, an operating company, a vehicle position, and a vehicle-specific number, collects the vehicle-related information on the vehicle from the information databases based on the result of the image recognition including the at least two of the vehicle type as the different modes of transportation, the service line, the operating company, the vehicle position, and the vehicle-specific number in combination as a key information, recognizes uniquely the vehicle by the collected information, and derives the ride suitability indicating whether or not the vehicle is suitable for reaching the intended destination by referring to the vehicle-related information and the intended destination.
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A computer-readable non-transitory recording medium having recorded thereon a program for causing a processor of a server system to:
- acquire from a user terminal via a communication network a guidance request including at least an intended destination and image data of at least some photographed vehicle;
- recognize vehicle information on the vehicle from the image data by image recognition with template matching;
- collect vehicle-related information on the vehicle from information databases based on the vehicle information;
- derive a ride suitability indicating whether or not the vehicle is suitable for reaching the intended destination by referring to the vehicle-related information and the intended destination;
- and
- notify via the communication network the user terminal of a response including at least the ride suitability derived,
- wherein when the vehicle is not uniquely discriminated by the image recognition performed on the image data by template matching, the processor acquires, as a result of the image recognition, at least two of a vehicle type as different modes of transportation, a service line, an operating company, a vehicle position, and a vehicle-specific number, collects the vehicle-related information on the vehicle from the information databases based on the result of the image recognition including the at least two of the vehicle type as the different modes of transportation, the service line, the operating company, the vehicle position, and the vehicle-specific number in combination as a key information, recognizes uniquely the vehicle by the collected information, and derives the ride suitability indicating whether or not the vehicle is suitable for reaching the intended destination by referring to the vehicle-related information and the intended destination.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.