Information notification device, information notification system, information notification method, and information notification program

• US 10,380,894 B2
• Filed: 10/31/2014
• Issued: 08/13/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Sawato, Hiroaki, Kakinuma, Atsuki, Tokunaga, Takeo
• Primary Examiner(s): Feild, Joseph H
• Assistant Examiner(s): Point, Rufus C
• Application Number:
  US15/032,955
• Publication Number:
  US 20160253905A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,747 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/091 Traffic information broadcasting broadcasting communication H04H
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/161 Decentralised systems, e.g. inter-vehicle communication
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/162 event-triggered
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/163 involving continuous checking
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/46 for vehicle-to-vehicle communication [V2V]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/48 for in-vehicle communication

Abstract

Provided is an information notification device (10) utilizing presence information which includes a processing unit (11) to generate, according to trigger information, at least one presence information (MESSAGE 10, MESSAGE 20, MESSAGE 30) between a first moving body (a four-wheeled vehicle (200)), and a second moving body (a two-wheeled vehicle (300) or a riding electric cart (300)), and a transmitting unit (16) which transmits the presence information to both of the four-wheeled vehicle (200) and the two-wheeled vehicle or the electric cart (300). The presence information is, for example, first presence information (MESSAGE 20) and second presence information (MESSAGE 30). The second presence information (MESSAGE 30) can cause a second processing unit (31) of the electric cart (300) to identify another presence information (34-5) representing the presence of the four-wheeled vehicle (200) around the electric cart (300) based on the second presence information (MESSAGE 30).

Claims

1. An information notification device which directly communicates with each of a first moving body and a second moving body, the information notification device comprising:

a processing unit configured to generate, according to trigger information, at least one presence information; and

a transmitting unit configured to transmit the at least one presence information to both of the first moving body and the second moving body according to the trigger information,

wherein

the at least one presence information is capable of causing a second processing unit of the second moving body to identify presence information representing presence of the first moving body based on the at least one presence information and causing a first processing unit of the first moving body to identify presence information representing presence of the second moving body based on the at least one presence information,

the trigger information is request information from the first moving body or request information from the second moving body, and at least one of the request information from the first moving body and the request information from the second moving body is generated by a manual operation by a user, and

the information notification device is provided on a third moving body.

2. The information notification device according to claim 1, wherein the information notification device is a portable terminal that can be carried into an interior of a vehicle that is the third moving body.

3. The information notification device according to claim 1, wherein the information notification device is a vehicle-mounted device built in a dashboard of a vehicle or in a periphery of the dashboard, wherein the vehicle is the third moving body.

4. An information notification method comprising:

generating, using an information notification device provided on a third moving body and communicating directly with each of a first moving body and a second moving body, and according to trigger information, at least one presence information between the first moving body and the second moving body; and

transmitting the at least one presence information to both of the first moving body and the second moving body according to the trigger information,

wherein

the at least one presence information is capable of causing a second processing unit of the second moving body to identify presence information representing presence of the first moving body based on the at least one presence information and causing a first processing unit of the first moving body to identify presence information representing presence of the second moving body based on the at least one presence information,

the trigger information is request information from the first moving body or request information from the second moving body, and at least one of the request information from the first moving body and the request information from the second moving body is generated by a manual operation by a user.

5. An information notification program for causing a computer to execute:

generating, using an information notification device provided on a third moving body and communicating directly with each of a first moving body and a second moving body, and according to trigger information, at least one presence information between the first moving body and the second moving body; and

transmitting the at least one presence information to both of the first moving body and the second moving body according to the trigger information,

wherein

the at least one presence information is capable of causing a second processing unit of the second moving body to identify presence information representing presence of the first moving body based on the at least one presence information and causing a first processing unit of the first moving body to identify presence information representing presence of the second moving body based on the at least one presence information,

the trigger information is request information from the first moving body or request information from the second moving body, and at least one of the request information from the first moving body and the request information from the second moving body is generated by a manual operation by a user.