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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2012
Masaki Kamiya, Kanagawa, JP;
Masaki Kamiya, Kanagawa, JP;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A mobile device includes a storage unit which stores application specification information that specifies an application to be activated in association with movement information that is a combination of a movement source and a movement destination, a position information acquisition unit which repeatedly acquires current position information of a user, and a control unit that calculates a movement direction of the user based on a history of the position information that the position information acquisition unit acquires, selects any one of the movement information that is stored in the storage unit based on the calculated movement direction and the current position information of the user, reads the application specification information associated with the selected movement information from the storage unit, and activates the application associated with the application specification information that is read.