JP2005201919A - Building information guide apparatus and method - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided is a building information guidance device and method capable of displaying and displaying internal information of a tenant or the like occupying a building such as a high-rise building in an easy-to-understand manner for a user.
A building such as a high-rise building is specified in map data, and detailed information such as a tenant in the high-rise building is displayed in the vicinity of the selected building. Building information such as a high-rise building is registered for each floor in the building database 14, and is displayed for each high-rise floor, middle-rise floor, or low-rise floor, for example, by the user specifying it with the control device 18.
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Description

  The present invention relates to a building information guide apparatus and method, and in particular, selects and designates a target building from a plurality of buildings in a selected area, and allows a user to know information on tenants and facilities in the building. The present invention relates to a building information guide device and method for easily displaying.

  A lot of buildings are built in the city area, especially in the commercial area and the area with convenient transportation access. It is necessary to provide information on tenants and facilities in these buildings to users. In particular, recently, buildings have become increasingly taller for effective use of land, and some high-rise buildings are high-rise buildings of 60 to 70 floors. Such high-rise buildings are built adjacent to a specific area with convenient traffic access, for example.

  Many of these high-rise buildings are not single facilities such as hotels, condominiums, restaurants, retail stores, and hospitals. For example, stores (shopping centers) from the basement to the fifth floor, office buildings from the sixth to the 25th floor, 26 The hotel is used from the floor to the 35th floor as a hotel, and the 36th to 40th floors are used as a complex facility like a restaurant. Furthermore, these stores, offices, and restaurants are generally not single stores, companies, and restaurants, but are stores, companies, and restaurants with different managers and names on each floor. In the case of a large high-rise building, it is not uncommon for the same floor to be shared by a plurality of stores and companies.

  In order to visit or use such high-rise buildings or areas with high-rise buildings for business or as a customer, we go out by acquiring the internal information of the buildings in advance together with the location, access and surrounding information of those buildings. Is efficient. Therefore, a building information guidance device or a building information guidance service is necessary.

Conventional techniques relating to such building information services are disclosed in many documents. By entering the external shape, telephone number, and name of the building (or building), the building at the destination point is searched and the building is displayed in a three-dimensional (3D) display on the display device, and detailed information such as the tenant is displayed. An information guide device using an object shape map is disclosed (for example, see Patent Document 1). Also, there is disclosed a floor number display method in a navigation device that displays on a display screen a three-dimensional display of a building together with map information indicating on which floor of the building the target facility exists (for example, see Patent Document 2).
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-30952 (page 6, FIG. 16) Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 11-65428 (page 4, FIG. 1)

  The prior art as described above has the following problems. That is, in the information guide device disclosed in Patent Document 1, the detailed internal information, that is, the tenant, together with the 3D display of the designated building, is displayed in order, for example, divided into the right half and the left half of the display screen. However, the geographical relationship with the adjacent building group is not displayed in sufficient detail, and in the case of a high-rise building, it is difficult to display the internal information in an easy-to-understand manner for the user. In the case of Patent Document 2, the target building and the geographical relationship with the surroundings are displayed, but it is difficult to display detailed information in the building in an easy-to-understand manner for the user.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems of the prior art, and is a building information guide device capable of displaying in a user-friendly manner the internal information of a building as well as the geographical relationship between a large number of buildings and surrounding buildings. And to provide a method.

In order to solve the above-described problems, the building information guide apparatus and method according to the present invention employs the following characteristic configuration.

(1) In a building information guidance apparatus that selects and designates a target building from buildings in a selected area and displays information such as a tenant in the designated building,
A building information guide device comprising: means for determining whether or not the designated building is a high-rise building; and display means for displaying the internal information of the high-rise building for each of a plurality of floors.

  (2) The building information guide device according to (1), wherein the display unit groups the high-rise building into three stages of a high-rise floor, a middle floor, and a low-rise floor and displays the group on the display means.

  (3) The building information guide device according to (1) or (2), wherein the floors of the group designated and designated for the high-rise building are highlighted with different colors or the like.

  (4) The building information guide device according to (1), (2), or (3), wherein the internal information of the building is displayed in the vicinity of the building together with the 3D display of the building on the display unit.

  (5) The building information guide device according to (1), (2), (3), or (4), wherein the display unit displays the designated building in front.

(6) In a building information guide method for designating a target building from buildings in a selected area and displaying information such as a tenant in the designated building,
Specifying the target building by displaying map data on the display means, displaying the target building in a three-dimensional manner on the display means, and displaying the three-dimensional displayed building on a plurality of floors A building information guidance method comprising: selecting a desired group by grouping; and displaying internal information of the selected floor group of the building on the display means.

  (7) The building information guide method according to (6), wherein the selected floor group of the building is highlighted with a different display color.

  (8) The building information guiding method according to (6) or (7), wherein the internal information of the selected floor group is displayed in the vicinity of the selected floor group of the building.

  According to the building information guide apparatus and method of the present invention, it is possible to display the detailed contents in an easy-to-understand manner to the user even in a particularly high-rise building. In addition, the building intended by the user can be quickly searched from the map data.

  Hereinafter, the configuration and operation of a preferred embodiment of a building information guidance apparatus and method according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  First, FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an overall configuration of a preferred embodiment of a building information guide apparatus according to the present invention. The building information guide device 10 includes a map database 12, a building database 14, a graphic display device 16, and a control device 18.

  When the area where the target building exists is specified by the control device 18, the map data of the area is acquired from the map database 12, and a graphic display such as a personal computer (PC) or an arc station having a liquid crystal display panel or the like is obtained. Display on the device 16. When a target location is designated from the map data displayed on the graphic display device 16 by a mouse or other means, a three-dimensional (3D) image of the building at that location (and surrounding buildings including it) is displayed in detail. It is taken from the building database 14 together with various internal information and is displayed in 3D on the display device 16.

  Data is registered in the building database 14 for each floor of the building. Therefore, the user can display detailed information for each floor of the designated building on the graphic display device 16. In addition, for example, in the case of a 30-story high-rise building, the user divides the group into three floors, that is, a low floor of 1 to 9, a middle floor of 10 to 19, and a high floor of 20 to 30. By selecting and specifying the floor of the building displayed on the graphic display device 16, for example, only the upper floor, only the middle floor, only the lower floor, or detailed information of all these floors along the displayed building Enable display selectively or collectively.

  In general two-dimensional map data, only the space according to the site area can be obtained regardless of whether the building built there is a low-rise building or a high-rise building. That is, it is difficult or impossible to display the information in an easy-to-understand manner for the user. However, according to the building information guide apparatus 10 of the present invention, a high-rise building is displayed longer than a low-rise building, so that a sufficient space for displaying the internal information can be secured.

  Next, with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 2, the detailed operation | movement of the building guidance service of the building information display apparatus 10 by this invention is demonstrated. The user operates the control device 18 shown in FIG. 1 to display the building together with a map of the area including the target building on the graphic display device (step S1). In this display, two-dimensional map information from the map database 12 may be displayed in advance, the location of the building may be confirmed based on this map information, and then a 3D display of a group of buildings including the target building may be performed.

  Next, the user designates a target building with a mouse or the like (step S2). Here, it is preferable that the designated building is displayed at the forefront of the display screen so that the designated building can be seen most easily. Next, it is determined whether or not the designated building is a high-rise building (step S3). If the building is not a high-rise building, the building name, company name, store name, tenant name, etc., which are the contents, are displayed (step S5), and the guidance service is terminated. On the other hand, in the case of a high-rise building, the user selects and designates an arbitrary place of the displayed high-rise building, for example, by clicking near the high-rise floor, middle-rise floor, or low-rise floor (step S4). And the tenant etc. which are the detailed contents of the floor are displayed (step S5). Since the building database 14 stores the internal data of the building for each floor as described above, the user can input a specific floor using a keyboard or the like and display the detailed information of that floor. Good.

  As described above, according to the building information guide apparatus 10 of the present invention, a much higher visual effect can be obtained by replacing the conventional map guide using a two-dimensional map with one using three-dimensional data. It aims to. When the building information guide device according to the present invention is compared with the conventional technique, there are the following advantages.

  When there is a very large number of tenants such as high-rise buildings with regard to links with attribute information such as clicking on a building (building) in the map to see information such as tenants occupying that building When using a conventional two-dimensional map, information on all tenants is displayed and it is very difficult to see. However, in the present invention, by using the three-dimensional data, tenant information is separately registered for each floor, and it can be classified and displayed for each floor on the three-dimensional data. That is, it is possible to provide easy-to-understand information.

  In addition, for example, if you want to see a tenant on a higher floor of a building, you can display tenant information on that floor by clicking near the high floor of a building expressed in 3D. A person (user) can perform intuitive information retrieval. In this way, by performing information management including building height information and providing information using three-dimensional data, it is possible to provide a building information guidance service that is significantly improved as compared with the prior art.

  Next, a specific example of the building information guidance apparatus according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. Information on tenants belonging to each building is registered in the building database 14 as the attribute information in addition to the address and contact information.

  Tenant information relating to a building (high-rise building) located in the center of FIG. 3 is grouped into a high-rise floor, a middle-rise floor, a low-rise floor, and a third-floor floor. Therefore, it is assumed that the user clicks on the three-dimensional map data, for example, near the upper floor with the mouse or keyboard of the control device 18. Then, the selected part (for example, 20th to 30th floors) of this high-rise building is highlighted with a different color (for example, red). And only the tenant included in the high floor of this high-rise building is displayed by the character in the vicinity (for example, immediately right side). In the specific example shown in FIG. 3, the AAAA company (30th floor), BBBB Shoji (29th floor), ..., CCCC planning (22nd floor), ..., DDDD Transportation (20th floor) Is displayed for each floor in the vicinity of the higher floor of the high-rise building.

  Similarly, when the user clicks on the middle floor, that portion is highlighted in green, for example. Only the tenant information included in the middle floor of the building is displayed in the vicinity of the middle floor of the high-rise building. For example, in the specific example of FIG. 3, high-rise buildings such as EEEE company (19th floor), FFFF Trading (19th floor), ..., GGGG planning (15th floor), ..., HHHH Transportation (10th floor) It is displayed near the middle floor. The same applies to the tenants on the lower floors of this high-rise building. As described above, the greatest feature of the present invention is that information retrieval using height information can be intuitively performed using three-dimensional data.

  The construction and operation of the preferred embodiment of the building information guidance apparatus and method according to the present invention have been described in detail above. However, it should be noted that such examples are merely illustrative of the invention and do not limit the invention in any way. Those skilled in the art will readily understand that various modifications and changes can be made according to a specific application without departing from the gist of the present invention. For example, the floor grouping of a high-rise building does not necessarily have to be three stages. In consideration of the user's intelligibility, it is preferable that one group is selected to have 10 to 20 floors according to the number of floors of the building.

It is a block diagram which shows the whole structure of the building information guidance apparatus by this invention. It is a flowchart explaining operation | movement of the building information guidance apparatus by this invention. It is a figure which shows the specific example of the guidance display by the building information guidance apparatus of this invention.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Building information guidance apparatus 12 Map database 14 Building database 16 Graphic display apparatus (display means)
18 Control device

Claims (8)

In the building information guide device that selects and designates a target building from buildings in the selected area and displays information such as a tenant in the designated building,
A building information guide comprising: means for determining whether or not the designated building is a high-rise building; and display means for displaying the internal information of the high-rise building in groups divided into a plurality of floors. apparatus.   2. The building information guide device according to claim 1, wherein the display unit displays the high-rise building on the display unit by grouping the high-rise building into three levels of a high floor, a middle floor, and a low floor.   3. The building information guide device according to claim 1, wherein the floors of the group designated and designated for the high-rise building are highlighted with different colors or the like.   The building information guide device according to claim 1, wherein the internal information of the building is displayed on the display unit in the vicinity of the building together with the 3D display of the building.   5. The building information guide device according to claim 1, wherein the designated means displays the designated building in front. In the building information guide method for designating a target building from the buildings in the selected area and displaying information such as a tenant in the designated building,
Specifying the target building by displaying map data on the display means, displaying the target building in a three-dimensional manner on the display means, and displaying the three-dimensional displayed building on a plurality of floors A building information guidance method comprising: selecting a desired group by grouping; and displaying internal information of a selected floor group of the building on the display means.   The building information guidance method according to claim 6, wherein the selected floor group of the building is highlighted with different display colors. The building information guiding method according to claim 6 or 7, wherein the internal information of the selected floor group is displayed in the vicinity of the selected floor group of the building.

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