Content providing device, content providing method, and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11049318-B2
Application number	US-201916693408-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 25, 2019
Priority date	Nov 29, 2018
Publication date	Jun 29, 2021
Grant date	Jun 29, 2021

Abstract

A content providing device, a content providing method, and a storage medium which allows a user to ascertain a state of a tourist spot on the day of travel are provided. A content providing device includes a first acquirer configured to acquire a travel plan that includes at least a scheduled visit date and a scheduled location to be visited of a user, a second acquirer configured to acquire content that indicates a state of a scheduled location to be visited scheduled or estimated on the scheduled visit date of the user according to an image on the basis of the travel plan, and a reproduction controller configured to cause a reproduction device to reproduce the content.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A content providing device comprising:
a processor implementing a software, a hardware comprising circuitries, or a cooperation of the software and the hardware configured to acquire a travel plan that includes at least a scheduled visit date and a scheduled location to be visited of a user;
the processor implementing the software, the hardware comprising the circuitries, or the cooperation of the software and the hardware configured to acquire content that indicates a state of a scheduled location to be visited scheduled or estimated on the scheduled visit date of the user according to an image on the basis of the travel plan; and
the processor implementing the software, the hardware comprising the circuitries, or the cooperation of the software and the hardware configured to cause a reproduction device to reproduce the content, wherein
the content comprises an image of a person scheduled to come into contact with the user, and
the person scheduled to come into contact with the user includes a staff member scheduled to work at a facility scheduled to be used by the user on the scheduled visit date.

2. The content providing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the image is a virtual reality image that can be reproduced as an image viewed from a viewpoint when the user who is a viewer of the reproduction device visits the scheduled location to be visited.

3. The content providing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the processor comprising the software, the hardware including the circuitries, or the cooperation of the software and the hardware acquires, with respect to a basic image based on the travel plan, the content generated by changing, composing, superimposing, or replacing a variable element included in the basic image or an object included in the basic image to an image in a state of being scheduled or estimated on the scheduled visit date.

4. The content providing device according to claim 3 ,
wherein the variable element of the basic image based on the travel plan includes weather of the scheduled location to be visited predicted on the scheduled visit date.

5. The content providing device according to claim 3 ,
wherein the variable element of the basic image based on the travel plan includes a congestion state of the scheduled location to be visited predicted on the scheduled visit date.

6. The content providing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the content further includes an image of an object scheduled to be used on the scheduled visit date as an object.

7. The content providing device according to claim 6 ,
wherein the person scheduled to come into contact with the user or the object scheduled to be used is at least one of a guider who guides the user at the scheduled location to be visited on the scheduled visit date, a self-propelled guidance device which guides the user to the scheduled location to be visited on the scheduled visit date, a pick-up vehicle used by the user on the scheduled visit date, and a service operator who performs a service operation on the scheduled visit date.

8. A content providing method comprising:
by computer,
acquiring a travel plan which includes at least a scheduled visit date and a scheduled location to be visited of a user;
acquiring content which indicates a state of a scheduled location to be visited scheduled or estimated on the scheduled visit date of the user according to an image on the basis of the travel plan; and
causing a reproduction device to reproduce the content, wherein
the content comprises an image of a person scheduled to come into contact with the user, and
the person scheduled to come into contact with the user includes a staff member scheduled to work at a facility scheduled to be used by the user on the scheduled visit date.

9. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium that causes a computer to
acquire a travel plan including at least a scheduled visit date and a scheduled location to be visited of a user;
acquire content which indicates a state of a scheduled location to be visited scheduled or estimated on the scheduled visit date of the user according to an image on the basis of the travel plan; and
cause a reproduction device to reproduce the content, wherein
the content comprises an image of a person scheduled to come into contact with the user, and
the person scheduled to come into contact with the user includes a staff member scheduled to work at a facility scheduled to be used by the user on the scheduled visit date.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ikeuchi Yasushi
• Suzuki Takeyuki
• Imai Naoko

Classifications

• G06Q10/10

  Office automation; Time management · CPC title

• G06Q50/14

  Travel agencies · CPC title

• G06F16/9538

  Presentation of query results · CPC title

• G06F16/9537 Primary

  Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries · CPC title

• G06T19/006

  Mixed reality (object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00) · CPC title