Information providing device
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorsSatoshi Matsuura, Takahiro Kudo, Jun Ozawa, Mototaka Yoshioka
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Abstract
An information providing system is disclosed to provide information to a traveling user, the information providing system including: a visit history record unit (306) which detects that the user visits a place which is away from a user's living area in order to generate a travel history, and records, as a visit history, the travel history together with a visit area which represents the visited place; a visit history database (303); a facility information database (304) which provides the user with the information regarding the visit area recorded in the visit history database (303); a facility information search unit (308); and the like.
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An information providing apparatus which provides information to a traveling user, said information providing apparatus comprising:
- a travel history record unit operable to record a travel history of the user;
- a reference area extraction unit operable to extract a reference area from the recorded travel history, the reference area being a place where the user has stayed more than certain times;
- a visit area extraction unit operable to extract a visit area from the recorded travel history, the visit area being a place where the user has stayed and which is far from the extracted reference area with a certain distance;
- a visit history record unit operable to record a visit history, the visit history being the travel history including the extracted visit area;
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- an information providing unit operable to provide to the user with information regarding the visit area recorded by said visit history record unit.
A method for providing information to a traveling user, said method comprising:
- recording a travel history of the user;
- extracting a reference area from the recorded travel history, the reference area being a place where the user has stayed more than certain times;
- extracting a visit area from the recorded travel history, the visit area being a place where the user has stayed and which is far from the extracted reference area with a certain distance;
- recording a visit history, the visit history being the travel history including the extracted visit area;
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- providing the user with information regarding the visit area recorded in said recording.
A program for use in an information providing apparatus for providing information to a traveling user, said program causing a computer to execute:
- recording a travel history of the user;
- extracting a reference area from the recorded travel history, the reference area being a place where the user has stayed more than certain times;
- extracting a visit area from the recorded travel history, the visit area being a place where the user has stayed and which is far from the extracted reference area with a certain distance;
- recording a visit history, the visit history being the travel history which includes the extracted visit area;
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- providing the user with information regarding the visit area recorded in said recording.
An information providing system comprising a mobile terminal and a server apparatus, in order to provide information to the user via said mobile terminal,
- wherein said mobile terminal includes:
- a travel history send unit operable to send a travel history of the user to said sever apparatus;
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- a presentation unit operable to present, to the user, information sent from said server apparatus, and
- said server apparatus includes:
- a travel history record unit operable to record the travel history sent from said mobile terminal;
- a reference area extraction unit operable to extract a reference area from the recorded travel history, the reference area being a place where the user has stayed more than certain times;
- a visit area extraction unit operable to extract a visit area from the recorded travel history, the visit area being a place where the user has stayed and which is far from the extracted reference area with a certain distance;
- a visit history record unit operable to record a visit history, the visit history being the travel history including the extracted visit area;
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- an information providing unit operable to send, to said mobile terminal, information regarding the visit area recorded by said visit history record unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.