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Title:
TRAVEL DESTINATION FORECAST DEVICE AND METHOD
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2009036594
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a travel destination forecast device and a travel destination forecast method for accurately forecasting a travel destination with the action characteristics of each user sufficiently reflected therein.

This travel destination forecast device 100 includes a position information detection part 101 for detecting the position of a user, a day-of-the week detection part 102 for detecting a date and hour including a day of the week, a one's own house determination part 107 determining whether or not a destination in a move history is a one's own house, a frequency calculation part 110 for calculating a frequency (arrival frequency) with which destinations other than the own house have been arrived at among the respective destinations in the move history, a day-of-the week frequency calculation part 111 for calculating a frequency (appearance frequency) with which the respective destinations in the move history have been arrived at on the respective days of the week within a prescribed period, an action class calculation part 112 for calculating action classes based on the arrival frequency and the appearance frequency, and a travel destination forecast part 106 for forecasting a travel destination by using the move history included in an action class corresponding to present date/hour information.


Inventors:
YOSHIOKA MOTOTAKA
KUDO TAKAHIRO
Application Number:
JP2007199988A
Publication Date:
February 19, 2009
Filing Date:
July 31, 2007
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
PANASONIC CORP
International Classes:
G01C21/00; G08G1/0969; G09B29/00; G09B29/10
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Hiromori Arai