US 12,252,112 B2
Information processing device, route information providing method, and route information providing system
Atsushi Okubo, Nisshin (JP); Kento Nitta, Tokyo (JP); Takaaki Kato, Saitama (JP); Daiki Kaneichi, Tokyo (JP); and Minoru Nakadori, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Dec. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/550,133.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-023652 (JP), filed on Feb. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0258726 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
Int. Cl. B60W 30/06 (2006.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G08G 1/14 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 30/06 (2013.01) [G01C 21/3476 (2013.01); G08G 1/142 (2013.01); B60W 2556/45 (2020.02)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing device comprising:
a processor; and
a memory storing,
movement information relating to movement of a vehicle that is not occupied by a user
the movement of the vehicle including movement to change a parking position of the vehicle, and
the movement information including
position information of a movement destination; and
information indicating whether the movement to change a parking position of the vehicle is started voluntarily by the vehicle or started in response to an instruction from an external device located outside of the vehicle, and
program instructions that cause the processor to:
acquire the movement information of the vehicle,
calculate an evaluation value indicating validity of the instruction from the external device regarding the movement of the vehicle started in response to receiving the instruction from the external device, in a case where the movement of the vehicle is started in response to receiving the instruction from the external device;
not calculate an evaluation value indicating validity of the movement of the vehicle started voluntarily by the vehicle, in a case where the movement of the vehicle is the voluntary movement;
search the pieces of the movement information stored in the memory when the user performs a predetermined operation on an information terminal of the user,
generate route information indicating time-series positions of the vehicle;
transmit the route information and the evaluation value to the information terminal of the user; and
display the route information on a display panel of the information terminal.
 
6. A route information providing method to be executed by an information processing device, the route information providing method comprising:
acquiring movement information relating to movement of a vehicle that is not occupied by a user
the movement of the vehicle including movement to change a parking position of the vehicle, and
the movement information including
position information of a movement destination; and
information indicating whether the movement to change a parking position of the vehicle is started voluntarily by the vehicle or started in response to an instruction from an external device located outside of the vehicle;
calculating an evaluation value indicating validity of the instruction from the external device regarding the movement of the vehicle started in response to receiving the instruction from the external device, in a case where the movement of the vehicle is started in response to receiving the instruction from the external device;
not calculate an evaluation value indicating validity of the movement of the vehicle started voluntarily by the vehicle, in a case where the movement of the vehicle is the voluntary movement;
storing the movement information of the vehicle;
searching the pieces of the movement information stored in the storage when the user performs a predetermined operation on an information terminal of the user;
generating route information indicating time-series positions of the vehicle;
transmitting the route information and the evaluation value to the information terminal of the user; and
displaying the route information on a display panel of the information terminal.
 
11. A route information providing system comprising:
a vehicle; and
an information processing device, wherein:
the vehicle includes a vehicle control device;
the vehicle control device is configured to transmit, to the information processing device, movement information relating to movement of the vehicle that is not occupied by a user
the movement of the vehicle including movement to change a parking position of the vehicle, and
the movement information including
position information of a movement destination, and
information indicating whether the movement to change a parking position of the vehicle is started voluntarily by the vehicle or started in response to an instruction from an external device located outside of the vehicle; and
the information processing device includes
a storage configured to store the movement information of the vehicle, and
a processor configured to
acquire the movement information from the vehicle,
calculate an evaluation value indicating validity of the instruction from the external device regarding the movement of the vehicle started in response to receiving the instruction from the external device, in a case where the movement of the vehicle is started in response to receiving the instruction from the external device,
not calculate an evaluation value indicating validity of the movement of the vehicle started voluntarily by the vehicle, in a case where the movement of the vehicle is the voluntary movement,
search the pieces of the movement information stored in the storage when the user performs a predetermined operation on an information terminal of the user,
generate route information indicating time-series positions of the vehicle based on the movement information stored in the storage,
transmit the route information and the evaluation value to the information terminal of the user, and
display the route information on a display panel of the information terminal.