US 12,253,366 B2
Information processing method, information processing system, information processing device, and information terminal
Kenta Suzuki, Kanagawa (JP); Kazuhiro Suzuki, Kanagawa (JP); Toshiharu Nakajima, Kanagawa (JP); and Yasunori Maruyama, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama (JP)
Appl. No. 17/788,780
Filed by Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama (JP)
PCT Filed Dec. 15, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/046749
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 24, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/131903, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 1, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-238096 (JP), filed on Dec. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0046133 A1, Feb. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. G01C 21/00 (2006.01); B60L 58/12 (2019.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01)
CPC G01C 21/3415 (2013.01) [B60L 58/12 (2019.02); G01C 21/3469 (2013.01); G01C 21/3605 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing method that uses a server and a terminal having a processor and a display device to set a travel route to a destination for a vehicle, the information processing method comprising:
accepting the destination for the vehicle;
conducting a first search to obtain a first travel route to the destination;
controlling the display device to display the first travel route;
setting a travel start time to start traveling on the first travel route;
acquiring vehicle information for the vehicle after conducting the first search to obtain the first travel route;
at a time after acquiring the vehicle information and prior to the travel start time by a prescribed amount of time, conducting a second search based on the vehicle information to obtain a second travel route to the destination, the second search including calculating a waypoint that must be passed through based on the vehicle information;
controlling the display device to display the second travel route;
setting a startup time for starting equipment installed in the vehicle in accordance with a travel start time at which the vehicle starts traveling on the second travel route; and
starting the equipment at the startup time,
the first search being conducted without using the vehicle information to obtain the first travel route and without calculating the waypoint,
the first travel route being set as a temporary travel route,
the second travel route being set as a main route, and
the method enabling a user to set the prescribed amount of time.