Place guidance system
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsKazushi Kawase, Noriyuki Yoshida, Kazuaki Yamaguchi
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Abstract
There are provided a positioning section for locating a current position, a travel history database for storing a history of a current position located by the positioning section and a history of a travel to an institution or the like actually visited by walking or so from at least one geographic point in the history, and a destination predicting section for predicting a destination on the basis of a history of using an institution actually visited by walking or so stored in the travel history database. This makes it possible to practically predict as a destination an institution actually visited by walking or so.
Claims15
A place guidance system for providing information regarding a destination collected using at least two different forms of transportation, comprising:
- positioning means for locating a current position of first mobile means;
- travel history storing means for storing first history information about a travel of the first mobile means collected using a first form of transportation and located by the positioning means and second history information about a place visited by second mobile means collected using a second form of transportation, different from the first form of transportation, the second history information sharing at least one common geographic point with the first history information;
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- destination predicting means for predicting athe destination based on the second history information stored in the travel history storing means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.