Restaurant Search Along Travel Route
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems fail to effectively suggest restaurants at times other than fixed meal hours and cannot satisfy the desire for finding new restaurants during travel from a point of departure to a destination.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus and method that estimates a user's mealtime and location during travel, generating search conditions to find restaurants within a certain distance from the travel route but outside the typical departure and destination areas, allowing for the discovery of new restaurants during the journey.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If restaurant search is limited to locations near point of departure or destination, then search accuracy for intended destinations is improved, but the ability to discover new restaurants during travel is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a new spatial dimension for restaurant search by calculating restaurants along the travel route between departure and destination, rather than only searching near the final destination. This intermediate route dimension allows users to discover restaurants during travel while maintaining search precision through distance constraints from the route.
2Reliability
If restaurant search is performed only at fixed meal times, then service relevance to user schedules is improved, but flexibility for travel-based meal opportunities is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent dynamically adjusts the restaurant search timing by determining mealtime based on the travel schedule between departure and destination, rather than using fixed meal time thresholds. This dynamic approach allows the system to adapt to varying travel durations and suggest restaurants at appropriate times during the journey.
3Quantity of substance
If search scope is expanded to include restaurants along the travel route, then the number of restaurant options is increased, but search complexity and processing time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by setting different distance constraints for different search zones: restaurants must be within a first distance from the travel route and a second distance from departure/destination points. This localized constraint approach efficiently narrows the search scope to relevant areas along the route without requiring exhaustive search of all possible locations.
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus includes a control circuitry that judges that a mealtime of a user is included between a schedule time of departure of a mobile object that travels while carrying the user and a schedule time of arrival of the mobile object, estimates a location where the mobile object is traveling during the mealtime, and generates search conditions of restaurant search for extracting restaurants located within a first distance from the estimated location where the mobile object is traveling and located a second distance away from at least one of a point of departure and a destination of the mobile object, from restaurant information associated with location information.