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Charging system

  • US 20020049630A1
  • Filed: 10/26/2001
  • Published: 04/25/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/28/1999
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A charging system comprising:

  • a GPS positioning device for detecting a position of a moving body;

    a monitor device which, by using the GPS positioning device, generates information expressing a ground position of the moving body; and

    a charging processing device which, by using the information, judges whether or not the ground position is within a charge region, and if the charging processing device judges that the ground position is within a charge region, the charging processing device carries out data processing for charging the moving body, wherein the monitor device has simple data including at least absolute positions and configurations of facilities or geographical features which are a cause of GPS positioning impossibility, and when GPS positioning is impossible, by the information which was generated before GPS positioning became impossible, the monitor device detects, from that data, a facility or geographical feature which is a cause of GPS positioning impossibility this time, and changes the detected absolute position of the facility or the geographical feature to that information and makes that information be the current ground position of the moving body.

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