US 12,482,348 B2
Information management device, information management method and storage medium
Kenta Maruyama, Tokyo (JP); Junichiro Onaka, Tokyo (JP); and Yusuke Ishida, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/370,896.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-153222 (JP), filed on Sep. 27, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0105052 A1, Mar. 28, 2024
Int. Cl. G08G 1/01 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC G08G 1/0112 (2013.01) [G01C 21/3697 (2013.01); G06T 11/00 (2013.01); H04R 3/00 (2013.01); H04R 2430/01 (2013.01); H04R 2499/13 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A simulated boarding experience system including:
a plurality of first devices mounted on respective mobile objects that are boardable by occupants;
a second device used by a user at a location different from locations of the mobile objects; and
an information management device that comprises a processor and manages information provided to the plurality of first devices and the second device, wherein the processor is configured to execute a program to:
acquire information from the plurality of first devices and the second device;
perform matching processing that selects, as a matching target from among the plurality of first devices, a first device to be operated together with the second device;
establish, based on a result of the matching processing, communication between the first device and the second device;
render, on the second device via the communication, a simulated boarding experience in a mobile object, of the mobile objects, on which the first device is mounted;
receive, via interaction with the second device while the second device is rendering the simulated boarding experience, a designation from the user of another first device of the plurality of first devices as the matching target that is to be operated together with the second device; and
in response to receipt of the designation, switch the matching target from the first device to the other first device, wherein switching of the matching target comprises stopping the communication between the first device and the second device, establishing another communication between the other first device and the second device, and rendering, on the second device via the other communication, a simulated boarding experience in another mobile object, of the mobile objects, on which the other first device is mounted.