Guidance System Using Post Information for Consistent World View
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing route guidance systems struggle to provide a consistent service with a world view similar to those that offer post information, such as word-of-mouth information, as they typically rely on map-based navigation which differs significantly from the service providing post information.
Innovation Solution
A guidance system comprising a server and terminal device that receives and displays post information, using image or audio guidance information from contributors to provide route guidance to locations within the post information, ensuring a consistent world view with the service providing the post information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If map-based navigation is used for route guidance, then guidance accuracy is improved, but consistency with post information service world view deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines map-based navigation technology with post information service elements by integrating contributor images, audio messages, and location data into the guidance system. This merging allows the system to maintain navigation accuracy while presenting information in a style consistent with social networking services, thereby resolving the contradiction between guidance accuracy and service consistency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a multi-functional guidance service that simultaneously provides accurate route navigation and social networking features. By making the guidance system universal enough to handle both traditional navigation tasks and post information display, it achieves consistency with the post information service world view without sacrificing guidance accuracy.
2Adaptability or versatility
If post information service style is used for guidance, then consistency with service world view is improved, but guidance accuracy deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the guidance information into distinct functional components: navigation data for accuracy (routes, directions, location coordinates) and social information for consistency (contributor images, audio messages, post content). This segmentation allows each component to fulfill its specific function optimally while working together within a unified service framework.
3Adaptability or versatility
If image and audio information from contributors is integrated, then service consistency is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary processing layer that manages the integration of contributor images, audio messages, and location data. This intermediary component handles the complexity of multi-format data integration, selection, and presentation, thereby achieving service consistency without requiring the entire system to become proportionally more complex.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing and storing contributor information (images, audio messages, location data) in a structured format before it is needed for guidance. This advance preparation reduces the complexity of real-time integration and allows the system to efficiently combine multiple information types when providing guidance services.
Data Source
AI summary
A guidance system includes an SNS server that distributes guidance information, e.g., to a smartphone. The SNS server includes a post information DB, a map DB, and a guidance information DB. Pieces of post information and selected guidance information are transmitted to the smartphone via a communication unit. The smartphone displays the pieces of post information, and includes a setting unit that sets, as a destination, a location contained in a piece of post information among the displayed pieces of post information, and a guidance unit that provides, by using the guidance information, guidance on a guidance route to the destination.