Destination information retrieval device, storage medium storing program, and destination information retrieval system

• US 10,582,339 B2
• Filed: 12/28/2018
• Issued: 03/03/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Kusanagi, Daichi, Ito, Masaki, Miyahara, Kenta, Kato, Kihiro, Shidochi, Yuka, Tanigawa, Yohei
• Primary Examiner(s): Nealon, William
• Application Number:
  US16/234,742
• Publication Number:
  US 20190215659A1
• Time in Patent Office: 431 Days
• Field of Search: 4554563
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]

Abstract

There is provided a destination information retrieval device including: a first memory; and a first processor connected to the first memory, wherein the first processor acquires posted information from a management server that manages a social networking service (SNS), determines, based on the acquired posted information and current positional information regarding a vehicle, a destination of the vehicle, and outputs the determined destination as destination information.

Claims

1. A destination information retrieval device, comprising:

a first memory;

a first processor connected to the first memory; and

a second processor connected to the first memory, wherein the first processor;

acquires posted information from a management server that manages a social networking service (SNS),

determines, based on the acquired posted information and current positional information regarding a vehicle, a destination of the vehicle, and

outputs the determined destination as destination information, and;

wherein the second processor;

optimizes a traveling route of the vehicle, based on the current positional information regarding the vehicle and the determined destination of the vehicle, and

issues a notification of the optimized traveling route.

2. The destination information retrieval device according to claim 1, wherein the first processor:

acquires the posted information, which has been posted by a specific user who rides in the vehicle,

analyzes a preference of the specific user, based on the acquired posted information posted by the specific user, and

determines the destination, based on the current positional information regarding the vehicle and the preference of the specific user.

3. The destination information retrieval device according to claim 2, wherein, in the first processor, the preference of the specific user is set by the specific user who rides in the vehicle.

4. The destination information retrieval device according to claim 1, wherein the first processor:

determines, for the vehicle, an order of stopping off at a plurality of destinations, and

outputs the destination information, to which the order of stopping off has been added.

9. A destination information retrieval system, comprising:

the destination information retrieval device according to claim 1; and

a positional information provision device capable of transmitting the current positional information regarding the vehicle to the destination information retrieval device.

10. A destination information retrieval system, comprising:

the destination information retrieval device according to claim 1;

a mobile terminal registered in the destination information retrieval device; and

a positional information provision device capable of transmitting the current positional information regarding the vehicle to the destination information retrieval device,

wherein the first processor transmits the destination information to the positional information provision device in a case in which the mobile terminal is located at an interior of the vehicle.

5. A non-transitory storage medium storing a first program for causing a first processor to execute destination information retrieval processing and a second program for causing a second processor to execute route optimization processing, the destination information retrieval processing comprising:

acquiring posted information from a management server that manages a social networking service (SNS);

determining, based on the acquired posted information and current positional information regarding a vehicle, a destination of the vehicle; and

outputting the determined destination as destination information; and

the route optimization processing comprising;

optimizing a traveling route of the vehicle, based on the current positional information regarding the vehicle and the determined destination; and

issuing a notification of the optimized traveling route.

6. The non-transitory storage medium storing a program according to claim 5, the destination information retrieval processing further comprising:

acquiring the posted information, which has been posted by a specific user who rides in the vehicle;

analyzing a preference of the specific user, based on the acquired posted information posted by the specific user; and

determining the destination, based on the current positional information regarding the vehicle and the preference of the specific user.

7. The non-transitory storage medium storing a program according to claim 6, wherein, in the destination information retrieval processing, the preference of the specific user is set by the specific user who rides in the vehicle.

8. The non-transitory storage medium storing a program according to claim 5, the destination information retrieval processing further comprising:

determining, for the vehicle, an order of stopping off at a plurality of destinations; and

outputting the destination information, to which the order of stopping off has been added.