Facility Vacancy Information Transmission via Mobile Terminal Positioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional technologies cannot provide real-time information about unoccupied spaces in facilities to users outside or within the facility, limiting their ability to find available seating or spaces for rest or meals.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus that uses a terminal position information obtainment unit, person detection unit, vacancy information generation unit, and transmitter unit to provide vacancy information to mobile terminals, utilizing temperature detection sensors and image data of facility layouts to determine and display available spaces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional vacancy management systems are used, then seat vacancy information can be confirmed within the facility, but information cannot be provided to users outside the facility who are looking for available spaces
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a communication unit that acts as an intermediary between the vacancy management system and external mobile terminals. This intermediary component transmits vacancy information from the facility management system to users outside the facility, enabling them to access real-time vacancy data without being physically present in the facility.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transitions from providing vacancy information only within the physical facility boundaries to delivering information across spatial dimensions by transmitting data to mobile terminals anywhere in the network. This dimensional expansion allows users to access vacancy information from any location, not just within the facility premises.
2Ease of operation
If real-time vacancy information is transmitted to mobile terminals, then users can easily find vacant spaces, but system complexity and information processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the core vacancy information transmission function from the overall facility management system and implements it as a dedicated communication unit. This extracted component specifically handles the transmission of vacancy data to mobile terminals, simplifying the interface between the management system and external users while maintaining the complexity only where necessary for the core function.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a digital copy of the physical vacancy state and transmits it to mobile terminals. Instead of requiring users to physically check the facility, the system replicates the vacancy information in digital form and delivers it remotely, reducing the operational complexity for users while maintaining accurate real-time data.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables users to easily find vacant spaces in facilities around their current location by transmitting real-time vacancy information, enhancing convenience and accessibility.
Implementation Method 1
the person detection data is information detected by the person detection unit, and wherein the existence or non-existence of a user at the place available for users in the facility is determined based on a temperature detected by at least one temperature detection sensor
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus includes a terminal position information obtainment unit (312) configured to obtain positional information of a mobile terminal (200); a vacancy information search unit (313) configured to refer to a vacancy information storage unit (320) storing vacancy information for one or more facilities, the stored vacancy information including one or more places not occupied by a user in each of the facilities, the places being available for users if not occupied, so as to obtain the vacancy information of the facilities within a predetermined range including the positional information of the mobile terminal (200); and a transmitter unit (315) configured to transmit the obtained vacancy information to the mobile terminal (200).