Farming guidance assistance device, farming guidance assistance method, and computer-readable recording medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017098384-A1
Application number	US-201515311619-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 12, 2015
Priority date	May 27, 2014
Publication date	Apr 6, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

In order to assist an instructor in providing farming guidance to a producer, a farming guidance assistance apparatus ( 100 ) includes: a data management unit ( 11 ) that manages attributes of an agricultural product on agricultural lands on a per-land basis; and a notification statement generation unit ( 12 ) that determines whether applicable conditions that have been preset in one-to-one correspondence with notification statements of which the producer is to be notified are satisfied on a per-statement basis, and when there is a notification statement whose applicable condition is satisfied, outputs the notification statement together with information for specifying the producer to be notified of the notification statement.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A farming guidance assistance apparatus for assisting an instructor in providing farming guidance to a producer, the apparatus comprising:
a data management unit that manages attributes of an agricultural product on agricultural lands on a per-land basis; and a notification statement generation unit that determines whether applicable conditions that have been preset in one-to-one correspondence with notification statements of which the producer is to be notified are satisfied on a per-statement basis, and when there is a notification statement whose applicable condition is satisfied, outputs the notification statement whose applicable condition is satisfied, together with information for specifying the producer to be notified of the notification statement.

2 . The farming guidance assistance apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein when the agricultural product is a fruit, the data management unit manages sugar content, acidity, a size, and a leaf shape as the attributes of the agricultural product.

3 . The farming guidance assistance apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the applicable conditions are set using at least one of a timing and the attributes of the agricultural product.

4 . The farming guidance assistance apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a performance report generation unit that generates a performance report indicating ranking of the agricultural lands and outputs the generated performance report, the performance report being generated based on a generation criterion that uses the attributes managed by the data management unit.

5 . The farming guidance assistance apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a recommendation generation unit that selects a recommendation whose preset selection condition is satisfied from among a plurality of recommendations that have been generated in advance to be presented to the producer and outputs the selected recommendation, on a per-land basis, the preset selection condition being for an attribute managed by the data management unit.

6 . A farming guidance assistance method for assisting an instructor in providing farming guidance to a producer, the farming guidance assistance method comprising:
(a) a step of managing attributes of an agricultural product on agricultural lands on a per-land basis; and (b) a step of determining whether applicable conditions that have been preset in one-to-one correspondence with notification statements of which the producer is to be notified are satisfied on a per-statement basis, and when there is a notification statement whose applicable condition is satisfied, outputting the notification statement whose applicable condition is satisfied, together with information for specifying the producer to be notified of the notification statement.

7 . The farming guidance assistance method according to claim 6 , wherein when the agricultural product is a fruit, in step (a), sugar content, acidity, a size, and a leaf shape are managed as the attributes of the agricultural product.

8 . The farming guidance assistance method according to claim 6 , wherein the applicable conditions are set using at least one of a timing and the attributes of the agricultural product.

9 . The farming guidance assistance method according to claim 6 , further comprising
(c) a step of generating a performance report indicating ranking of the agricultural lands and outputting the generated performance report, the performance report being generated based on a generation criterion that uses the attributes managed by step (a).

10 . The farming guidance assistance method according to claim 6 , further comprising
(d) a step of selecting a recommendation whose preset selection condition is satisfied from among a plurality of recommendations that have been generated in advance to be presented to the producer and outputting the selected recommendation, on a per-land basis, the preset selection condition being for an attribute managed by step (a).

11 . A non transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded therein a program for assisting an instructor in providing farming guidance to a producer using a computer, the program comprising an instruction for causing the computer to execute:
(a) a step of managing attributes of an agricultural product on agricultural lands on a per-land basis; and (b) a step of determining whether applicable conditions that have been preset in one-to-one correspondence with notification statements of which the producer is to be notified are satisfied on a per-statement basis, and when there is a notification statement whose applicable condition is satisfied, outputting the notification statement whose applicable condition is satisfied, together with information for specifying the producer to be notified of the notification statement.

12 . The non transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 11 , wherein when the agricultural product is a fruit, in step (a), sugar content, acidity, a size, and a leaf shape are managed as the attributes of the agricultural product.

13 . The non transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 11 , wherein the applicable conditions are set using at least one of a timing and the attributes of the agricultural product.

14 . The non transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 11 , wherein the program further includes an instruction for causing the computer to execute
(c) a step of generating a performance report indicating ranking of the agricultural lands and outputting the generated performance report, the performance report being generated based on a generation criterion that uses the attributes managed by step (a).

15 . The non transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 11 , wherein the program further includes an instruction for causing the computer to execute
(d) a step of selecting a recommendation whose preset selection condition is satisfied from among a plurality of recommendations that have been generated in advance to be presented to the producer and outputting the selected recommendation, on a per-land basis, the preset selection condition being for an attribute managed by step (a).

Assignees

• Nec Solution Innovators Ltd

Inventors

• Hara Masaki

Classifications

• G06Q50/02

  Agriculture; Fishing; Forestry; Mining · CPC title

• G09B5/02

  with visual presentation of the material to be studied, e.g. using film strip · CPC title

• G09B19/00 Primary

  Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass (teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26) · CPC title

• A01G7/00

  Botany in general · CPC title

• A01G1/001

  Human Necessities · mapped topic