Patent ID: 9448080
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: G01C,G08G,H04N,H04W

Claim Text:
1. An information providing method, comprising a two-way communications step of performing two-way communications between a server and a plurality of mobile communications terminals, and a digital broadcasting step of digitally delivering and broadcasting to the plurality of mobile communications terminals from a digital broadcast station, wherein: the two-way communications step further comprises: a route search request step carried out via wireless communications for transmitting from the mobile communications terminals with respect to the server a current position of each of the mobile communications terminals, and a search request for a guidance route to a destination point; a search route transmission step of transmitting the guidance route that was searched for by the server by way of wireless communications from the server with respect to each of the mobile communications terminals; and a route guidance step for performing route guidance in the mobile communications terminals using the guidance route that was obtained from the server; the digital broadcasting step further comprises: a broadcasting step of digitally delivering and broadcasting contents information from the digital broadcast station with respect to the plurality of mobile communications terminals; and a contents receiving step of receiving the digital delivery and broadcast and displaying or outputting the contents information that is included in the digital delivery and broadcast, in the mobile communications terminals; the digital delivery and broadcast includes sequential delivery of plural data files, each of which includes multiple types of contents files and guidance file for selecting and extracting a contents file to be displayed, from among the contents files; each of the multiple types of contents files contains the contents information that is output to or displayed on the mobile communications terminals, and a contents information identifier corresponding to the contents information; the guidance file contains association information, which is information that associates the contents information identifier included in the multiple types of contents files with an area identifier, the area identifiers each being given correspondingly to each of plural areas divided in the broadcast target area of the digital delivery and broadcast; in the broadcasting step, same guidance file is delivered multiple times in one delivery period of the multiple types of contents files; and the contents receiving step further comprises: a contents file specifying step of specifying the contents file, which corresponds to the contents information identifier associated with the area identifier that matches an area identifier of a present region that includes the current position contained within the guidance file, or matches an area identifier of a mobile plan region including the guidance route obtained from the server; a contents file extracting step of extracting only the specified contents file from the digital delivery and broadcast; and a contents displaying/outputting step of displaying or outputting, in the mobile communications terminals, the contents information included in the extracted contents file.