KR101713291B1 - Method, system, terminal device and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for providing information on trip route - Google Patents

Abstract

According to one aspect of the present invention there is provided a method for providing information about a travel route, the method comprising: receiving at least one picture information from a terminal device of a first user, the picture information comprising picture data, The method comprising the steps of: identifying at least one of the photographed locations, identifying the past travel route of the first user with reference to the received at least one photo information, Searching for a travel route of at least one other user to be matched and determining a recommended travel route to be provided to the first user with reference to the travel route of the at least one other user searched, / RTI >

Description

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The present invention relates to a method, system and non-transitory computer readable recording medium for providing information on a travel route.

In recent years, e-books and other applications have been provided for travelers with a variety of information. These e-books and applications often provide recommendations for travel destinations, attractions, shops, other businesses, institutions, etc., and these recommendations are often provided in a tidy and uniform manner.

The present inventor proposes a technique for recommending a travel route suitable for a user by using a photograph or moving picture taken while the user travels.

The present invention is characterized by receiving picture data including picture data from the terminal device of the first user, time at which the picture was photographed, or information about the position where the picture was photographed, and referring to the received picture information, Searches for a travel route of at least one other user that matches the past travel route of the first user specified above, searches for a travel route of at least one other user, 1 It is aimed that the information about the travel route can be shared among the users who have passed the similar travel route by determining the recommended travel route to be provided to the user.

In order to accomplish the above object, a representative structure of the present invention is as follows.

According to one aspect of the present invention there is provided a method for providing information about a travel route, the method comprising: receiving at least one picture information from a terminal device of a first user, the picture information comprising picture data, The method comprising the steps of: identifying at least one of the photographed locations, identifying the past travel route of the first user with reference to the received at least one photo information, Searching for a travel route of at least one other user to be matched and determining a recommended travel route to be provided to the first user with reference to the travel route of the at least one other user searched, / RTI >

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system for providing information on a travel route, the system comprising: a user information collection unit for receiving at least one picture information from a terminal device of a first user, The photographing time and the photographed position; and specifying the past travel route of the first user with reference to the received at least one photograph information, A travel route recommendation step of searching for a travel route of at least one other user matching the past travel route of the at least one other user and determining a recommended travel route to be provided to the first user with reference to the travel route of the at least one other user, A system is provided that includes a portion.

In addition, there is further provided another method for implementing the invention, another system, and a computer readable recording medium for recording non-transitory computer programs for carrying out the method.

According to the present invention, since information about a travel route can be shared among users who have crossed a similar travel route, it is possible to provide substantially useful information to a user in planning a travel.

In addition, according to the present invention, since the past travel route of the user can be automatically specified in real time with reference to the photographing time or the photographing position of a photograph or a moving picture taken by the user, It is possible to provide the recommended travel route without incurring the inconvenience of recording one by one.

1 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of an overall system for providing information on a travel route according to an embodiment of the present invention through a communication network.
2 is a detailed diagram illustrating an internal configuration of a service providing system 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a diagram exemplarily showing a configuration for specifying a past travel route with reference to photograph information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The following detailed description of the invention refers to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate, by way of illustration, specific embodiments in which the invention may be practiced. These embodiments are described in sufficient detail to enable those skilled in the art to practice the invention. It should be understood that the various embodiments of the present invention are different, but need not be mutually exclusive. For example, the specific shapes, structures, and characteristics described herein may be implemented by changing from one embodiment to another without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. It should also be understood that the location or arrangement of individual components within each embodiment may be varied without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Therefore, the following detailed description is not to be taken in a limiting sense, and the scope of the present invention should be construed as encompassing the scope of the appended claims and all equivalents thereof. In the drawings, like reference numbers designate the same or similar components throughout the several views.

Hereinafter, various embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily carry out the present invention.

Configuration of the entire system

1 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of an overall system for providing information on a travel route according to an embodiment of the present invention through a communication network.

1, an overall system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include a communication network 100, a service providing system 200, and a user terminal apparatus 300.

First, the communication network 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention can be configured without regard to communication modes such as wired communication and wireless communication. The communication network 100 can be a local area network (LAN), a metropolitan area network ), A wide area network (WAN), and the like. Preferably, the communication network 100 referred to herein may be the well-known Internet or World Wide Web (WWW). However, the communication network 100 may include, at least in part, a known wire / wireless data communication network, a known telephone network, or a known wire / wireless television communication network, without being limited thereto.

Next, the service providing system 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention receives the photo data, the time at which the photo was taken, or the photo information including the information about the position where the photo was taken from the terminal device 300 of the first user Identifies a past travel route of the first user with reference to the received photo information, searches for a travel route of at least one other user that matches the past travel route of the first user specified above, , A recommendation travel route to be provided to the first user is determined with reference to the travel route of the at least one other user searched above so that information about the travel route can be shared among users who have passed the similar travel route Function can be performed.

The configuration and function of the service providing system 200 according to the present invention will be described in detail through the following detailed description.

Next, a user terminal 300 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is a digital device including a function for allowing a user to access the service providing system 200 and then communicate with the user terminal 300. The user terminal 300 includes a smart phone, a tablet, , A notebook computer, a workstation, a PDA, a web pad, a mobile phone, and the like, and can be adopted as a user terminal device 300 according to the present invention, .

Particularly, the user terminal device 300 causes the service providing system 200 to transmit information (e.g., photographing time, photographing position, etc.) about the photograph or moving image photographed by the corresponding user terminal device 300 (Not shown) that can receive and provide a recommended travel route or travel album provided from the service providing system 200 to the user. Such an application may be downloaded from the service providing system 200 or a known web server (not shown).

Configuration of service delivery system

Hereinafter, the internal configuration of the service providing system 200 according to the present invention and the functions of the respective components will be described.

2 is a detailed diagram illustrating an internal configuration of a service providing system 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2, a service providing system 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a user information collecting unit 210, a travel route recommending unit 220, a travel album managing unit 230, a communication unit 240, And a controller 250. According to an embodiment of the present invention, at least a part of the user information collection unit 210, the travel path recommendation unit 220, the travel album management unit 230, the communication unit 240, Lt; RTI ID = 0.0 > 300 < / RTI > Such a program module may be included in the service providing system 200 in the form of an operating system, an application program module or other program module, and may be physically stored in various well-known storage devices. Such a program module may also be stored in a remote storage device capable of communicating with the service providing system 200. [ Such program modules, on the other hand, encompass but are not limited to routines, subroutines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types as described below in accordance with the present invention.

First, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the user information collecting unit 210 may collect at least one piece of photograph information from the user terminal 300. Here, the photo information indicates information about the photo generated by the user terminal 300, and may include photo data, a time at which the photo was taken, a location where the photo was taken, and the like. In the meantime, the picture referred to in the present invention may be a concept including a moving picture. In this case, the picture information may include moving picture data, a time at which the moving picture was shot, and a position at which the moving picture was shot.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the user information collection unit 210 may further collect user schedule information or preference information from the user terminal device 300. Here, the schedule information includes all types of information included in the schedules scheduled for travel by the user, and may include information on, for example, travel dates, destinations, transportation means, accommodation locations, and the like. In addition, the preference information indicates information about a user's preference with regard to travel, and may include, for example, information about a type of a preferred accommodation, a tourist spot to visit, and the like.

Next, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the travel route recommending unit 220 refers to the at least one photograph information collected from the terminal device 300 of the first user to specify the past travel route of the first user Can be performed.

More specifically, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the travel path recommendation unit 220 refers to the photograph data included in at least one piece of photograph information collected from the terminal device 300 of the first user, It is possible to specify the past travel route that the first user has traveled with reference to the photographed place or the like.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the travel route recommending unit 220 can update the past travel route of the first user in real time whenever new photo information is collected from the terminal apparatus 300 of the first user have.

On the other hand, it can be assumed that a first user photographs a photograph or a moving picture using a plurality of different terminal apparatuses 300 of various kinds such as a smart phone, a tablet, and a PC during traveling. The travel route recommending unit 220 may collect the photo information from the plurality of terminal devices 300 used by the first user with reference to the account of the first user.

FIG. 3 is a diagram exemplarily showing a configuration for specifying a past travel route with reference to photograph information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the travel route recommending unit 220 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a travel route recommendation unit 220, which travels through New York in the United States, The path that the brooklyn bridge 310, the ground zero 320, the Apple Store sofas 330, and the New York University 340 are sequentially visited with reference to the information about the photographing time and the photographing position of the moving picture It can be specified as a past travel route.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the travel path recommendation unit 220 searches for a travel route of at least one other user matching the past travel route of the first user specified as described above, The user can perform the function of determining the recommended travel route to be provided to the first user with reference to the travel route of the other user.

Specifically, according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the travel path recommendation unit 220 may compare the past travel route of the first user with the past travel route of the first user determined to match the past travel route of the first user A travel route other than the first travel route, i.e., a travel route of the second user, which the first user has not yet experienced, can be determined as a recommended travel route.

On the other hand, determining whether the past travel route of the first user and the travel route of the other user match (i.e., similar) can be performed by a known similarity determination algorithm, .

According to an embodiment of the present invention, in determining whether the past travel route of the first user matches the travel route of another user, the past travel route of the first user or the travel route of the other user is generated in real time And can be updated.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, in determining whether the past travel route of the first user matches the travel route of another user, the past travel route of the first user or the travel route of the other user may be variously set Lt; / RTI > can be dynamically specified according to the time interval that can be obtained. For example, the past travel route of the first user or the travel route of the other user can be specified to include all the travel routes traveled by the first user or another user from the start of the travel to the present without any time limitation. For example, the past travel route of the first user or the travel route of the other user may be determined by a first user or another user, respectively, in a predetermined time interval (for example, the day on which the travel route is recommended, May be specified to include only the travel route that has passed through.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the travel route recommending unit 220 may further refer to the preference information of the first user collected in the determination of the recommended travel route to be provided to the first user. For example, if a first user has designated a preferred destination, such as a New York restaurant (e.g., a Shakespeare burger), a tourist spot (e.g., Central Park), a museum (e.g. Metropolitan Museum of Art) The travel route recommending unit 220 according to the embodiment of the present invention uses the above-mentioned preference destination as a kind of search condition, so that the preference destination (i.e., Shakespeareburg, Central Park, Metropolitan Museum of Art, etc.) as a recommended travel route to be provided to the first user.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the travel route recommending unit 220 may further refer to the schedule information of the first user collected in the determination of the recommended travel route to be provided to the first user. For example, if a first user is scheduled to visit New York for a period from July 1, 2014 to July 10, 2014, and has set schedule information that he intends to stay at a hotel located in Long Island City, The travel route recommending unit 220 according to an embodiment of the present invention can tour during the visit period from July 1, 2014 to July 10, 2014 among the travel routes of at least one other user matched previously, It is possible to determine a travel route including a destination located within a predetermined distance from the long island city as a recommended travel route to be provided to the first user.

Next, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, the travel album managing unit 230 collects various contents such as photographs, moving pictures, memos, and the like generated by the user terminal 300 during a travel period, As shown in FIG. The travel album of the electronic form referred to in the present invention may include contents such as a traveler, a travel photograph, and a travel video. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the travel album may be created in real time according to the travel path of the user (i.e., as the user moves) rather than being randomly generated by the user at a specific point in time, The travel album can be shared with other users with the user's travel path along with the user's travel route. In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, the content included in the travel album may be related to the travel route of the user based on the time or position at which the content is created, The contents can be updated in real time as the contents are further collected, and thus the travel album updated in real time can be shared among the allowed users.

Next, the communication unit 240 according to an embodiment of the present invention can perform a function of enabling data transmission / reception from / to the service providing system 200. [

The control unit 250 controls the flow of data between the user information collection unit 210, the travel path recommendation unit 220, the travel album management unit 230, and the communication unit 240 Function can be performed. That is, the control unit 250 according to the present invention controls the data flow from / to the outside of the service providing system 200 or the data flow between the respective components of the service providing system 200, The travel path recommendation unit 220, the travel album management unit 230, and the communication unit 240, respectively.

The embodiments of the present invention described above can be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed through various computer components and recorded in a computer-readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium may include program commands, data files, data structures, and the like, alone or in combination. The program instructions recorded on the computer-readable recording medium may be those specifically designed and configured for the present invention or may be those known and used by those skilled in the computer software arts. Examples of computer-readable media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tape, optical recording media such as CD-ROM and DVD, magneto-optical media such as floptical disks, medium, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include machine language code, such as those generated by a compiler, as well as high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware device may be modified into one or more software modules for performing the processing according to the present invention, and vice versa.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but, on the contrary, Those skilled in the art will appreciate that various modifications and changes may be made thereto without departing from the scope of the present invention.

Accordingly, the spirit of the present invention should not be construed as being limited to the above-described embodiments, and all ranges that are equivalent to or equivalent to the claims of the present invention as well as the claims .

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Claims (9)

A method implemented in a service providing system for providing information on a travel route, the service providing system including a user information collecting unit and a travel route recommending unit,
Wherein the user information collection unit receives at least one piece of picture information from a terminal device of a first user, the picture information including at least one of picture data, a time at which the picture was taken,
Wherein the travel route recommending unit specifies the past travel route of the first user with reference to the received at least one photograph information,
Wherein the travel path recommendation section searches for a travel path of at least one other user that matches the past travel path of the specified first user,
Wherein the travel route recommending unit determines a recommended travel route to be provided to the first user with reference to the travel route of the at least one other user searched for
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In the recommended travel route determination step,
The travel path recommendation unit may provide a partial path other than the partial path common to the past travel path of the first user among the travel paths of the second user matching the past travel path of the first user to the first user How to include it in the recommended travel route. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the photo information further includes at least one of moving image data, a time at which the moving image is captured, and a position at which the moving image is captured. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the recommendation travel path is determined with reference to the preference information of the first user. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the recommended travel route is determined with reference to the schedule information of the first user. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the travel album management unit included in the service providing system generates an electronic travel album including the at least one photograph information, the at least one photograph information includes at least one of a time and a location, Included in the electronic travel album in a state associated with the past travel route or the recommended travel route -
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Wherein the electronic travel album is created in real time as at least one of the past travel route, the recommended travel route, and the at least one photo information is updated. 6. The method of claim 5,
Wherein the electronic travel album is shared with at least one other user that the first user is permitted to do. A computer-readable recording medium recording a computer program for executing the method according to any one of claims 1 to 7. A system for providing information about a travel route,
A user information collection unit for receiving at least one piece of picture information from a terminal device of a first user, the picture information including at least one of picture data, a time at which the picture was taken and a position at which the picture was taken; and
Searching for a travel route of at least one other user that matches the past travel route of the specified first user by referring to the received at least one photo information, A travel route recommendation section for determining a recommended travel route to be provided to the first user with reference to the travel route of the at least one other user searched for,
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The travel path recommendation unit may provide a partial path other than the partial path common to the past travel path of the first user among the travel paths of the second user matching the past travel path of the first user to the first user Include in recommended travel route system.

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