Inter-facility movement estimation apparatus, method and program

An inter-facility movement estimation method, the method comprising:

• creating a movement map which stores
• location information about facilities and
• movement times required to move between the facilities;
• obtaining location information on a user when the user starts a movement;
• creating a movement candidate list which stores
• given movement path candidates from one of the facilities being nearest to the obtained location information to other facilities and
• likelihoods of the movement path candidates;
• estimating a movement situation of the user;
• selecting, whenever the movement situation is changed, estimated movement path candidates from the given movement path candidates based on the nearest facility and the movement situation of the user;
• changing the likelihoods of the estimated movement path candidates when the user moves from a starting point of the movement path list by a predetermined distance or longer and a movement path candidate having a highest likelihood does not exist in the movement candidate list;
• and
• specifying, among the estimated movement path candidates, one of the estimated movement path candidates having a highest likelihood of the changed likelihoods as an actual movement path of the user.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing an inter-facility movement estimation program form enabling a computer to perform predetermined operations, the operations comprising:

• creating a movement map which stores
• location information about facilities and
• movement times required to move between the facilities;
• obtaining location information on a user when the user starts a movement;
• creating a movement candidate list which stores
• given movement path candidates from one of the facilities being nearest to the obtained location information to other facilities and
• likelihoods of the movement path candidates;
• estimating a movement situation of the user;
• selecting, whenever the movement situation is changed, estimated movement path candidates from the given movement path candidates based on the nearest facility and the movement situation of the user;
• changing the likelihoods of the estimated movement path candidates when the user moves from a starting point of the movement path list by a predetermined distance or longer and a movement path candidate having a highest likelihood does not exist in the movement candidate list;
• and
• specifying, among the estimated movement path candidates, one of the estimated movement path candidates having a highest likelihood of the changed likelihoods as an actual movement path of the user.