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20090091439 | VEHICLE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE SYSTEM - A vehicle environmental service system includes an in-vehicle information terminal mounted in a vehicle, a center server provided in a center, and a provider terminal managed by an affiliated service provider providing various services to users. The in-vehicle information terminal is capable of communicating with the provider terminal directly or through the center server. The in-vehicle information terminal or the center server has a point calculating unit for determining whether safety driving and/or ecological driving is being performed with respect to each of the users based on prescribed criteria and calculating the number of points to be awarded based on the result of the determination. The center server has a database for managing total number of points obtained by accumulating the number of points to be awarded with respect to each of the users. The provider terminal has a service providing unit for providing a prescribed service in exchange for a prescribed number of points in the database and an advertisement generating unit for generating advertisement information of the affiliated service provider. The in-vehicle information terminal has a unit enabling the in-vehicle information terminal to receive the advertisement information from the provider terminal directly or through the center server. | 04-09-2009 |
20090204600 | MOBILE RECOMMENDATION AND RESERVATION SYSTEM - Apparatus and methods are described for assisting a requester to identify and reserve a resource that meets the need of the requestor's request. For example, a request can be augmented using augmentation data, such as current position and requester preferences, and resources are located and ranked according to their match against the augmented request. A person who is the requester may engage in another attention demanding task, such as driving a car, while resources well matched to preferences are located. Preference data may be determined from social network data, a preference file, and/or other sources. | 08-13-2009 |
20100185359 | DRIVING DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS AND DRIVING DIAGNOSIS SYTEM - A driving diagnosis apparatus temporarily records a diagnosis result of the user before changed when a user is switched, and starts to diagnose the user after changed. Accordingly, since driving status of each user is independently diagnosed, the diagnosis result is proper. Further, when a driving distance of the vehicle is smaller than a threshold, the diagnosis result of a driving interval is not recorded so that the driving interval is removed from an object of giving a point. Influence to environment is also considered in evaluation of the driving status. Accordingly, in the driving diagnosis apparatus and a driving diagnosis system for diagnosing driving status and for evaluating a driver based on the diagnosis result, the diagnosis and the evaluation are properly performed. | 07-22-2010 |
20100332130 | VEHICLE NAVIGATION APPARATUS - A vehicle navigation apparatus determines whether or not the currently traveled route having a current vehicle position matches with estimated routes after determining, on the basis of the traveled route history, the estimated routes which correspond to destination candidates. Then, the navigation apparatus further determines whether or not the subsequent portion of the estimated route overlaps with other estimated route, for selecting one of the destination candidates. The vehicle navigation apparatus thus selects the destination candidate, in a highly accurate manner in terms of user preference, based on the traveled route history. | 12-30-2010 |
20110145290 | ROUTE SEARCHING APPARATUS AND ROUTE SEARCHING METHOD - A route searching apparatus includes a travel route accumulation unit, an algorithm selection unit to select route searching algorithms to meet the preference of a user based on the accumulated travel routes, and a route searching unit to perform a route search up to a destination by using the selected algorithms. Preferably, the algorithm searching unit searches for each of the travel routes accumulated in the accumulation unit by means of several algorithms, calculates, for each algorithm, a match rate between the searched route and the actual travel route, and selects an algorithm of the highest match rate. Also, it is preferable that a condition common to roads avoided by the user is extracted from the accumulated travel routes, and a route search is performed by adjusting search costs so as to make such roads less prone to be selected. | 06-16-2011 |
20110161003 | VEHICLE-MOUNTED DEVICE, NAVIGATION SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD FOR NAVIGATION SYSTEM - A vehicle-mounted device | 06-30-2011 |
20110166778 | INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM - The invention aims to provide an information providing device and an information providing system which can provide suitable destination information according to the utilization situation of a user. The information providing device related to the invention is an information providing device which is mounted on a vehicle and provides information on potential destinations. The information providing device includes an information providing unit which provides information on a potential destination in accordance with the performance of electronic payment at a destination after traveling assistance to the destination by a vehicle-mounted device. By providing information on a potential destination in accordance with the performance of electronic payment at a destination after traveling assistance to the destination by a vehicle-mounted device, a potential destination can be selected on the basis of information on a destination for which traveling assistance has actually been provided and which has been utilized, information on the potential destination can be provided, and information on a suitable potential destination according to the actual utilization situation of a user can be provided. | 07-07-2011 |
20110196601 | TRAVEL ROUTE EVALUATION SYSTEM AND TRAVEL ROUTE EVALUATION PROGRAM - A travel route evaluation system is provided which is capable of enhancing the driver's consciousness of traveling on the a recommended route, in order to improve a degree of attainment of purposes, such as suppression of a fuel consumption and shortening of a required time, that would be obtained by presenting the recommended route. | 08-11-2011 |
20120232741 | DRIVING EVALUATION SYSTEM, VEHICLE-MOUNTED MACHINE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING CENTER - An eco-driving probability density estimation unit and an eco-driving awareness pre-learning unit resets an evaluation standard of driving of a driver of a host vehicle for each condition in which the host vehicle is driven for each driving evaluation. Therefore, it becomes possible to set the evaluation standard of the driving in accordance with an actual condition during evaluation compared to a case where the standard for uniformly evaluating the driving is set. An eco-driving capability/proficiency estimation unit and an eco-driving awareness estimation unit evaluate the driving of the driver of the host vehicle by the evaluation standard reset by the eco-driving probability density estimation unit and the eco-driving awareness pre-learning unit. Therefore, it becomes possible to perform driving evaluation more suitable for the actual condition. | 09-13-2012 |
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20100250059 | FUEL ECONOMY DRIVING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS - A fuel economy driving assistance apparatus includes advice provision means for providing a driver with driving advice that contributes to improvement of fuel economy of a vehicle; driving tendency estimation means for estimating a driving tendency of the driver in each driving situation; and advice mode changing means for changing a mode of the driving advice, according to the driving tendency of the driver estimated by the driving tendency estimation means. | 09-30-2010 |
20100265074 | INATTENTIVE STATE DETERMINATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF DETERMINING INATTENTIVE STATE - An inattentive state determination device includes an observed amount acquiring means for acquiring information on the driver's line of sight and at least one of either information on driving operations or information on the traveling state as an observed amount; and an inattentive state determining means for determining the inattentive state of the driver based on the stochastic relationship between the inattentive state and the observed amount as well as the observed amount acquired by using the observed amount acquiring means. In addition, the inattentive state determining means calculates the probability that the driver is driving inattentively and determines that the driver is driving inattentively when the calculated probability exceeds a threshold. | 10-21-2010 |
20120209453 | IN-VEHICLE DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING CENTER, AND DRIVING EVALUATION SYSTEM - A check point calculation unit evaluates the driving of a driver in a travel segment where a host vehicle has traveled and extracts a check point where the driving evaluation does not meet a predetermined evaluation standard, thereby obtaining data representing a point in the travel segment where the driving evaluation is lowered. An advice generation unit provides maneuver support to the driver on the basis of the check point. When there is the check point in the traveling direction host vehicle, the advice generation unit provides maneuver support at the check point such that the driving evaluation by the check point calculation unit meets a predetermined evaluation standard, thereby improving the driving evaluation at the check point where the driving evaluation is low and improving the driving evaluation as a whole. | 08-16-2012 |
20120221215 | IN-VEHICLE APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING CENTER - A vehicle information processing unit | 08-30-2012 |
20130103405 | OPERATING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATING - An operation determination processing section of a center extracts words included in the utterance of a driver and an operator, reads an attribute associated with each word from a synonym and related word in which an attribute is stored so as to be associated with each word, reads a domain of a candidate or the like for the task associated with the attribute from the synonym and related word in which domains of a candidate for a task associated with the read attribute or domains of a task to be actually performed are stored, totals the domains read for each word for words included in the utterance of the driver or the like, and estimates those related to a domain with a highest total score as the candidate for the task and the task to be actually performed. In this manner, it is possible to estimate the task with high accuracy. | 04-25-2013 |