Patent application number | Description | Published |
20140163854 | DRIVE ASSIST APPARATUS - An electronic control unit of a drive assist apparatus acquires electric power source identification information for identifying a source of an electric power currently charged in a battery and electric power amount information representing an electric power amount corresponding to the source from an electric power acquisition unit, thereby recognizing a battery remaining amount SOCrg representing a green electric power, a battery remaining amount SOCj representing a privately generated green electric power, and a battery remaining amount SOCrs representing a non-green electric power. The unit presents travelable ranges each formed by connecting a group of maximum reachable points to which a PHV can reach by using each of a battery total remaining amount SOCr and the battery remaining amounts SOCrg, SOCj, and SOCrs to a user (driver) by using an information presentation unit. | 06-12-2014 |
20140214321 | CHARGING INFORMATION-PROVIDING APPARATUS - An information providing apparatus is configured so as to provide, to an occupant of an electric vehicle, information indicating a location of a charging station together with information indicating whether or not the electric vehicle can be charged with a clean electric power at that charging station, through an on-board display. Accordingly, the occupant of the electric vehicle can go to the charging station at which the electric vehicle can be charged with electric power including the clean electric power, based on the provided location information of the charging station and a clean degree, and can charge the electric vehicle with the electric power including the clean electric power there. In this manner, the electric vehicle is charged with the electric power including the clean electric power, and thus, the demand for the clean electric power serving as the electric power for charging electric vehicles can be increased. | 07-31-2014 |
20140249913 | ADVERTISEMENT PRESENTATION SYSTEM, ADVERTISEMENT PRESENTATION DEVICE, AND ADVERTISEMENT PROVISION DEVICE - An information management center transmits advertisement information to a vehicle. The vehicle displays a predetermined advertisement on a body display part based on the transmitted advertisement information. After a predetermined time has passed since the display of the advertisement by the body display part ended, the information management center acquires the results information about change of the sales results of an advertised good which is an object of a predetermined advertisement from the store existing within a predetermined distance from a location of the body display part through a network. The information management center returns remuneration to a user of the vehicle which permitted use of the body display part, when a sales volume, for example, is increasing based on the acquired results information. | 09-04-2014 |
20140337546 | INFORMATION INPUTTING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM PROVIDED WITH THESE APPARATUSES - A vehicle is provided with a button that is depressed by a driver at any time for inputting intention information indicating an intention of approving a condition or an intention of rejecting the condition. The intention information inputted by the depressing operation of the button is transmitted to an information providing center. The intention information is transmitted together with position information indicating a point where the button is depressed and time information indicating a time. In the center, a server provides related information related to the transmitted intention information as a feedback. The server also supposes the reason why the transmitted intention information is inputted, and transmits the supposed reason to a closed SNS or an open SNS with a response form. The server then determines a reason of input based upon a response in accordance with the response form, and accumulates the determined reason in an information storage section so as to be retrievable in association with the intention information. | 11-13-2014 |
20150126225 | POSITION INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, POSITION INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM - A navigation device, which works as a position information providing device for providing information on positions to a user, includes a terminal ECU that can log in management servers, each of which manages a social networking service (SNS) to which information can be posted, via a line network. The terminal ECU logs in the management servers via the line network in synchronization with a start operation of the navigation device to acquire the whole or a part of posting information on positions posted to the SNS by network users and accumulated in the management servers. | 05-07-2015 |
20150142497 | ON-DEMAND VEHICLE SERVICE MANAGEMENT DEVICE, ON-DEMAND VEHICLE SERVICE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND ON-DEMAND VEHICLE SERVICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - An operation management center uses desired provision content and desired provision time of a commodity or service to determine a first operation schedule in which a user is moved to a location at which the commodity or the service is to be provided or a second operation schedule in which the commodity or the service is moved to a location at which the provision of the commodity or the service is to be received by the user. The center determines the first operation schedule or the second operation schedule so as to satisfy the desired provision time desired by the user. | 05-21-2015 |
20150154870 | POSITION INFORMATION TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, POSITION INFORMATION TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE - A navigation device serving as a position information transmission apparatus for transmitting position information about a vehicle to a position information service center includes a terminal ECU that is authorized to log in to the position information service center via networks. The terminal ECU is configured to, in a logged-in state to the position information service center, transmit the position information about the vehicle to the position information service center on condition that a predetermined operation has been performed. | 06-04-2015 |
20150180947 | INFORMATION-PROVIDING DEVICE, INFORMATION-PROVIDING SYSTEM - An information-providing system for providing information to a user includes an information terminal including a display unit as an output unit capable of outputting information, and an information management server for managing a predetermined site, which is registered by the user and is capable of providing information on a network, the information management server being connected to the information terminal via networks to be able to communicate information to and from the information terminal. The information terminal and the information management servers respectively include control units for causing, when a significant change has been made, through involvement of another party other than the user, to a site status of the predetermined site, the display unit as the output unit to output recommendation information for recommending access to the predetermined site. | 06-25-2015 |