US 11,841,382 B2
Information providing apparatus, information providing method, and system
Ryo Oshima, Wako (JP); Sho Takada, Wako (JP); Nobuyuki Sasaki, Wako (JP); Mio Oshima, Wako (JP); Yoshihiro Matsunaga, Wako (JP); and Mitsuhiro Ito, Wako (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 11, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/018,787.
Application 17/018,787 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2018/044477, filed on Dec. 4, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-052599 (JP), filed on Mar. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0408807 A1, Dec. 31, 2020
Int. Cl. G01R 11/56 (2006.01); G06Q 30/0283 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0645 (2023.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H01M 10/48 (2006.01)
CPC G01R 11/56 (2013.01) [G06Q 30/0283 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0645 (2013.01); H01M 10/48 (2013.01); H02J 7/0047 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information providing apparatus comprising:
a receiving unit configured to receive, from a portable electric power supply device including a storage battery that stores electric power to be supplied to electrical equipment detachably connected, electric power information relating to an amount of electric power stored in the storage battery and a feature quantity relating to electric power supplied to the electrical equipment;
a calculating unit configured to calculate an amount of electric power used by a user of the electric power supply device based on the electric power information received by the receiving unit;
an inferring unit configured to infer a kind of the electrical equipment based on the feature quantity received by the receiving unit; and
a determining unit configured to determine an added value to be provided to the user of the electric power supply device based on the amount of electric power calculated by the calculating unit and the kind of the electrical equipment inferred by the inferring unit, wherein
in a case where the kind of the electrical equipment inferred by the inferring unit is a specified kind of electrical equipment, the determining unit determines the added value to be provided to the user in such a manner that the added value to be provided to the user is higher than an added value in a case where the kind of the electrical equipment inferred by the inferring unit is not the specified kind of electrical equipment.