A method of predicting the origin and destination points of an unknown trip using a computer includes receiving an input of second marker information including the type and position of a known marker included in a second region; generating a second feature vector at each spot included in the second region on the basis of the second marker information; and predicting the probability that the respective spots included in the second region are the origin and destination points on the basis of a prediction model, which is acquired based on first marker information including the type and position of a known marker included in a first region and information on the known origin and destination points included in the first region, and the second feature vector.
Please help me write a proper abstract based on the patent claims. CLAIM: 1. A method of predicting the origin and destination points of an unknown trip using a computer, the method comprising: receiving an input of second marker information including the type and position of a known marker included in a second region; generating a second feature vector at each spot included in the second region on the basis of the second marker information; and predicting the probability that the respective spots included in the second region are the origin and destination points on the basis of a prediction model, which is acquired based on first marker information including the type and position of a known marker included in a first region and information on the known origin and destination points included in the first region, and the second feature vector. 2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising learning a prediction model on the basis of the first marker information including the type and position of the known marker included in the first region and the information on the known origin and destination points included in the first region. 3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the prediction model learning further includes: receiving an input of the first marker information including the type and position of the known marker included in the first region; and generating a first feature vector at each spot included in the first region on the basis of the first marker information. 4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the prediction model learning further includes: receiving an input of probe data including a plurality of time-series data for latitude and longitude; and counting the number of times that each spot included in the first region is the origin or the destination on the basis of the corresponding latitude and longitude at the start or end of each time-series data. 5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the prediction model uses regression with an explanatory variable as the first feature vector and an objective variable as the number of times that each spot included in the first region is the origin or the destination. 6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the prediction model is modeled in forms different from each other; a probabilistic model in which o is the number of trips where the spot is the origin and a probabilistic model in which d is the number of trips where the spot is the destination, with respect to each spot. 7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the prediction model is modeled as a probabilistic model in which dij is the number of trips where the spot i is the origin and the spot j is the destination, with respect to each spot. 8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the prediction model is modeled on the assumption that probability that n is the number of trips where the spot is the origin or destination conforms to the Poisson distribution, with respect to each spot. 9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the linear approximation equation is represented by log μi(θ)=ωTφi+b, where μi is the parameter of the Poisson distribution at each spot i, φi is the first feature vector, θ is a learning parameter, and b is a baseline. 10. The method according to claim 9, the prediction model learning further includes: receiving an input of first area information on the start area and the end area of the known trip which is included in the first region and contains a plurality of spots; and adjusting the baseline on the basis of the first area information. 11. The method according to claim 9, wherein the prediction model learning further includes leaning the parameter θ by minimizing a negative logarithm likelihood as an objective function. 12. The method according to claim 9, wherein the prediction model learning further includes leaning the parameter θ by minimizing a negative logarithm likelihood with a regularization term as an objective function. 13. The method according to claim 11, wherein the prediction model learning further includes: performing a second-order Taylor approximation for the objective function around the current parameter estimation value; and updating the parameter to a value which minimizes an objective function L for which the second-order Taylor approximation is performed. 14. The method according to claim 1, wherein predicting the probability that the respective spots included in the second region are the origin and destination points further includes: receiving an input of second area information on the start area and the end area of the known trip which is included in the second region and contains a plurality of spots; finding start area event probability and end area event probability in each area on the basis of the second area information; and predicting the probability that the respective spots are the origin and destination points on the basis of the start area event probability and the end area event probability. 15. The method according to claim 1, wherein the trip is made by a vehicle and the spot is an intersection on a road. 16. The method according to claim 1, wherein the second region is wide in comparison with the first region. 17. The method according to claim 1, wherein the second region does not include the first region. 18. A computer program product which is executed by a computer, thereby causing the computer to perform a method comprising: receiving an input of second marker information including the type and position of a known marker included in a second region; generating a second feature vector at each spot included in the second region on the basis of the second marker information; and predicting the probability that the respective spots included in the second region are the origin and destination points on the basis of a prediction model, which is acquired based on first marker information including the type and position of a known marker included in a first region and information on the known origin and destination points included in the first region, and the second feature vector.