Facility Search Prioritization in High-Frequency Visit Areas
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing navigation systems struggle to accurately identify new facilities that a user is likely to be unfamiliar with, particularly in areas where the user frequently visits, leading to reduced accuracy in facility searches.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus and method that detects when a user is in a high-frequency visit area and searches for new facilities within a predetermined range based on position information, excluding facilities with known search histories, and outputs information about these new facilities to a device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If the system searches for all facilities in a user's vicinity, then the completeness of facility information is improved, but the accuracy of identifying new facilities that the user is likely unfamiliar with deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the facility search results into two categories: new facilities (opened within a predetermined period) and existing facilities. By dividing the search results based on opening timing, the system can prioritize presenting new facilities to users in frequently visited areas, thereby improving the accuracy of identifying facilities the user is likely unfamiliar with while maintaining completeness of information.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary classification of facilities by opening timing before presenting information to the user. By pre-identifying which facilities are new versus existing, the system can optimize the presentation order and content, ensuring that new facilities are prominently displayed to users in their frequently visited areas, thus improving identification accuracy before the user even requests information.
2Quantity of substance
If the system presents all facility information to the user, then the information completeness is improved, but the processing load and unnecessary information presentation increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and separates new facilities from the complete set of facility information. By isolating new facilities (those opened within a predetermined period) from existing facilities, the system can present only the relevant new facility information to users in frequently visited areas, reducing unnecessary information presentation and processing load while maintaining information completeness for new facilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies local quality by providing different types of information based on the user's location characteristics. In frequently visited areas, the system specifically highlights new facility information, while in other areas it provides standard facility information. This localized approach optimizes processing load by focusing computational resources on identifying and presenting new facilities only where relevant to the user.
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus determines, when detecting an instruction from a user to search for a facility, whether position information of the user indicates that the user is in a first area where visit frequency of the user is higher than a predetermined threshold. The information processing apparatus detects, when the position information of the user indicates that the user is in a first area, a new facility by searching within a predetermined range based on the position information, and outputs the information about the detected new facility to a predetermined device. The information processing apparatus records, as the first area, an area where a visit frequency indicated by movement history information indicating movement history of the user is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold.