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.
Claims20
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 information as a key information is not recognized from the image data by the image recognition, the processor selects, based on the vehicle information that is not recognized, one or more images as a sample image indicating a sample(s) of an image suitable for obtaining the vehicle information, and notifies the one or more images to the user terminal via the communication network.
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 information as a key information is not recognized from the image data by the image recognition, the processor selects, based on the vehicle information that is not recognized, one or more images as a sample image indicating a sample(s) of an image suitable for obtaining the vehicle information, and notifies the one or more images to the user terminal via the communication network.
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 information as a key information is not recognized from the image data by the image recognition, the processor selects, based on the vehicle information that is not recognized, one or more images as a sample image indicating a sample(s) of an image suitable for obtaining the vehicle information, and notifies the one or more images to the user terminal via the communication network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.