Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100047744 | Driving evaluation system and driving evaluation method - Systems, method, and programs evaluate a driving condition of a vehicle in accordance with road characteristic information that is included in map data, acquire evaluation information that includes an evaluation result based on the evaluation, and store the evaluation information. The systems, methods, and programs acquire update data to change the road characteristic information included in the map data, update the map data, and analyze the evaluation result for the evaluation information acquired during the period between the time when a road characteristic is modified and the time when the map data is updated, based on the changed road characteristic information included in the updated map data. | 02-25-2010 |
20100063725 | Safe driving evaluation system, method, and program - Systems, methods, and programs input a current drive condition of a vehicle at a predetermined location before a predetermined temporary stop position, determine whether there is a possibility that the vehicle will not be able to safely stop at the temporary stop position based on the input current drive condition, and execute a wake-up call to a driver if it is determined that there is a possibility that the vehicle will not be able to stop safely at the temporary stop position. The systems, methods, and programs calculate a wake-up call ratio as a ratio of the total number of wake-up calls executed to the total number of temporary stop positions passed, and then acquire evaluation information based on the calculated wake-up call ratio. | 03-11-2010 |
20100109908 | SAFE DRIVING EVALUATION SYSTEM AND SAFE DRIVING EVALUATION PROGRAM - Safe driving evaluation systems, methods, and programs acquire traffic signal information that indicates the display status of a traffic signal present ahead in the traveling direction of a vehicle, determine the vehicle is within a prescribed stop supplement zone set up in front of the traffic signal installation point, and determine a red light encounter, which is a state where the vehicle is within the stop supplement zone and the traffic signal information indicates that the traffic signal is red. The systems, methods, and programs perform a stop supplementary operation with respect to a driver in order to stop the vehicle at the traffic signal installation point based on a driving operation of the vehicle during the red light encounter, and calculate a stop supplement percentage. | 05-06-2010 |
20100112529 | Safe driving evaluation system and safe driving evaluation program - Safety driving evaluation systems, methods, and programs count a frequency of a braking operation of a vehicle and determine whether each braking operation is a sudden braking operation. The systems, methods, and programs calculate a sudden braking percentage. The systems, methods, and programs determine whether a vehicle deceleration frequency is low for a road where the sudden braking occurred, and correct the sudden braking percentage to a higher value if the vehicle deceleration frequency is determined as low. The systems, methods, and programs acquire evaluation information based on the sudden braking percentage. | 05-06-2010 |
20100250045 | Vehicle operation diagnosis device, vehicle operation diagnosis method, and computer program - Vehicle operation diagnosis devices, methods, and programs diagnose a driver's operation of a vehicle based on a vehicle parameter and a driving diagnosis judgment standard that is set for a diagnosis item. The devices, methods, and programs acquire information that pertains to an accident factor for a high-accident location in the vicinity of the vehicle where not less than a specified number of accidents have occurred in the past, modify the driving diagnosis judgment standard based on the accident factor for the high-accident location, in a case where the vehicle is traveling in the high-accident location, and acquire the vehicle parameter. The devices, methods, and programs diagnose the driver's operation of the vehicle based on the modified driving diagnosis judgment standard and the acquired vehicle parameter. | 09-30-2010 |
20100250046 | Vehicle operation diagnosis device, vehicle operation diagnosis method, and computer program - Vehicle operation diagnosis devices, methods, and programs diagnose a driver's vehicle operation in a vehicle that is provided with an inter-vehicular distance control system. When an inter-vehicular distance between the driver's own vehicle and a vehicle ahead that is moving forward ahead of the driver's own vehicle is within a specified distance, the inter-vehicular distance between the driver's own vehicle and the vehicle ahead is controlled by performing deceleration control of the driver's own vehicle. The devices, methods, and programs acquire a first driving parameter and a second driving parameter and diagnose the driver's vehicle operation based on a difference between the first driving parameter and the second driving parameter. | 09-30-2010 |
20100315217 | DRIVING SUPPORT DEVICE AND PROGRAM - Provided is a driving support device including an other-vehicle detection unit that detects if an other-vehicle is traveling in the same lane as a host vehicle. The device also includes an overtaking operation detection unit to detect when the host vehicle overtakes the other-vehicle and a determination unit that evaluates an overtaking operation. When is determined that the overtaking operation is not appropriate, the overtaking operation is deemed a dangerous operation. The driving support device may also include continuation prediction unit that determines whether the other-vehicle will continue traveling in the same lane. If it is determined that the other-vehicle will continue traveling in the same lane, the other-vehicle is identified as a target vehicle by a target vehicle identification unit. | 12-16-2010 |
20110060493 | NAVIGATION DEVICE, NAVIGATION METHOD, AND NAVIGATION PROGRAM - Navigation devices, methods, and programs acquire a reference position related to the traveling of a host vehicle and acquire a host vehicle condition at the reference position. The devices, methods, and programs accesses a travel information storage unit that stores travel sequences. The stored data for each travel sequences includes at least one position along the travel sequence, operation information that specifies a vehicle operation at each stored position, and vehicle condition information that specifies a vehicle condition at each stored position. The devices, methods, and programs identify a stored sequence of travel having a stored position that corresponds to the acquired host vehicle reference position and stored vehicle condition information that corresponds to the acquired host vehicle condition, acquire the stored operation information of the identified stored sequence of travel, generate display information based on the acquired operation information, and display the generated display information. | 03-10-2011 |
20110106368 | GUIDANCE CONTROL DEVICE, GUIDANCE CONTROL METHOD, AND GUIDANCE CONTROL PROGRAM - Guidance control device, methods and programs control an in-vehicle apparatus of a vehicle. The devices, methods, and programs access vehicle state information that specifies a state of the vehicle and determine whether a vehicle state condition is established based on the accessed vehicle state information. The devices, methods, and programs access driving environment information that specifies a driving environment of the vehicle and determine whether a driving environment condition is established based on the accessed driving environment information. The devices, methods, and programs generate guidance based on whether the vehicle state condition is established and whether the driving environment condition is established and cause the generated guidance to be output on a display. | 05-05-2011 |
20120035843 | NAVIGATION DEVICE, NAVIGATION METHOD, AND NAVIGATION PROGRAM - A navigation device apparatus and method are provided. The apparatus includes a fuel consumption determination unit that determines a fuel consumption during a travel of a vehicle. Also included is a fuel consumption information storage unit that stores point information identifying a departing point and a destination in the travel of the vehicle and fuel consumption information identifying the fuel consumption during a previous travel A display unit is included that acquires previous fuel consumption information identifying the fuel consumption during the previous travel corresponding to the departing point and the destination during a current travel of the vehicle, and controls the display of the fuel consumption during the previous travel based on the acquired previous fuel consumption information and the fuel consumption during the current travel determined by the fuel consumption determination unit. | 02-09-2012 |
20120041671 | INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information providing device, having a route acquisition unit that acquires a reference travel route between two points, a route finding unit that finds a fuel-saving travel route between the two points, a fuel cost calculating unit that calculates a difference in cost of fuel between the reference travel route and the fuel-saving travel route based on fuel consumption and a fee of fuel, a communication cost calculating unit that calculates a communication cost concerning the fuel-saving travel route, and a control unit that executes control for transmitting predetermined information to a terminal device based on the result of a comparison between the difference in cost of fuel and the communication cost. | 02-16-2012 |
20120089327 | ROUTE RELATED INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR PROVIDING ROUTE RELATED INFORMATION, A COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND ROUTE GUIDANCE SYSTEM - Apparatuses, methods, programs, and systems obtain fuel efficiency information indicative of a zone associated with a fuel efficiency if a vehicle were to travel the zone, for each of a plurality of zones. The apparatuses, methods, programs, and systems provide information related to a first route searched according to a first route search method. The first route search method has a greater tendency to use a zone with a smaller deviation of the fuel efficiency indicated in the fuel efficiency information as a configuration zone of the first route. The apparatuses, methods, programs, and systems provide information related to a second route searched according to a second route search method. The second route search method has a greater tendency to use a zone with a larger deviation of the fuel efficiency indicated in the fuel efficiency information as a configuration zone of the second route. | 04-12-2012 |
20130018538 | EVALUATION INDICATION SYSTEM, EVALUATION INDICATION METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMAANM MIURA; NaokiAACI ToyokawaAACO JPAAGP MIURA; Naoki Toyokawa JPAANM NONOMURA; JunichiAACI OkazakiAACO JPAAGP NONOMURA; Junichi Okazaki JPAANM YAMAKAWA; JunkiAACI OkazakiAACO JPAAGP YAMAKAWA; Junki Okazaki JPAANM MIZUNO; HiroyukiAACI KariyaAACO JPAAGP MIZUNO; Hiroyuki Kariya JP - Evaluation indication systems, methods, and programs are provided for a hybrid vehicle that is configured to travel in an HV mode with an internal combustion engine or in an EV mode without the internal combustion engine. The systems, methods, and programs display a current position of the hybrid vehicle on a map, acquire current evaluations of fuel consumption of the hybrid vehicle in current travel by unit sections, acquire previous evaluations of fuel consumption of the hybrid vehicle in previous travel by unit sections, and indicate current evaluation icons on the map, each of the icons being an EV icon or art HV icon. Each EV icon indicates that the hybrid vehicle has travelled within the corresponding unit section in the EV mode and each HV icon indicates that the hybrid vehicle has travelled within the corresponding unit section in the HV mode. | 01-17-2013 |
20130018583 | NAVIGATION SYSTEM, NAVIGATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMAANM MIURA; NaokiAACI ToyokawaAACO JPAAGP MIURA; Naoki Toyokawa JPAANM NONOMURA; JunichiAACI OkazakiAACO JPAAGP NONOMURA; Junichi Okazaki JP - Navigation systems, methods, and programs acquire evaluation information for each unit interval having a predetermined distance, the evaluation information being an index for evaluating a driver's driving operation of a vehicle, and determine based on a first scale of a map displayed on a display unit, a first distance of an evaluation interval for evaluating the driver's driving operation. The systems, methods, and programs evaluate the driver's driving operation in the evaluation interval having the first distance based on the evaluation information for each unit interval included in the evaluation interval, and display the evaluation result at a position corresponding to the evaluation interval on the map displayed on the display unit. | 01-17-2013 |
20130158850 | EVALUATION DISPLAY SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - Evaluation display systems, methods, and programs display a current position of a vehicle on a map around on a display unit. The systems, methods, and programs acquire a current evaluation indicating a fuel efficiency evaluation of each unit interval in a current travel of the vehicle, and acquire a past evaluation indicating a fuel efficiency evaluation of the each unit interval in a past travel that is earlier than the current travel. The systems, methods, and programs display the current evaluation and the past evaluation of each unit interval on the map and, if a distance between the current position of the vehicle and a display position of at least one past evaluation on the map becomes equal to or smaller than a predetermined distance, erases the at least one past evaluation from the map. | 06-20-2013 |