Data recording apparatus, data recording method, program for data recording and information recording medium

• US 20040024525A1
• Filed: 05/28/2003
• Published: 02/05/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Maruyama, Kazuhiko
• Granted Patent: US 6,975,929 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/211
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/085 using electronic data carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0858 wherein the data carrier is removable

Abstract

This invention provides a data-recording apparatus that is capable of managing the travel history of a moving object according to the objective of that movement.

This data-recording apparatus comprises: a operating unit 8 for entering the type of use or travel of an automobile; a position-recognition unit 5 that calculates at least the distance traveled by the automobile during the entered type of use; and a control unit 1 that records at least the calculated distance traveled in an external recording unit 10 according to type of use.

Claims

1. A data-recording apparatus comprising:

an input device that is used for entering the type of use of movement of a moving object;

a calculation device of calculating at least the distance traveled by said moving object under said entered type of use; and

a recording device of recording at least said calculated distance of travel on a recording medium according to said type of use.

2. A data-recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein;

said recording medium is a portable recording medium.

3. A data-recording apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a temporary-stop detection device of detecting whether or not recording of said travel distance is temporarily stopped; and

a restart-usage detection device of detecting whether or not recording is started again with the same type of use as before said temporary stop; and

wherein

said recording device calculates the distance traveled to a temporary stopping point when travel is temporarily stopped and starts recording the distance again under the same type of use as before the temporary stop;

or starts recording a new travel distance under the different type of use as before the temporary stop, that is separate from the travel distance recorded up until the time the temporary stop occurred.

4. A data-recording apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a starting-point-data-recording device that detects starting-point data of movement, which indicates the point where said moving object starts moving, and records it on said recording medium; and

an ending-point-data-recording device that detects ending-point data of movement, which indicates the point where said moving object stops moving, and records it on said recording medium.

5. A data-recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein;

said recording device writes over said travel distance at least once every time a preset length of time elapses and records it on said recording medium.

6. A data-recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein;

said type of use is either ‘

Private Use’

or ‘

Business Use’

.

8. A computer data signal embodied in a carrier wave and representing a sequence of instructions, which executed by a computer included in said data-recording apparatus according to claim 1, the instructions cause the computer to function as:

an input device that can be used for entering the type of use of movement of a moving object;

a calculation device of calculating at least the distance traveled by said moving object during said entered type of use; and

a recording device of recording at least said calculated distance of travel on a recording medium according to said type of use.

9. An information recording medium in which a program for a data-recording is recorded so as to be readable by a computer included in said data-recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said program allows said computer to function as:

an input device that can be used for entering the type of use of movement of a moving object;

a calculation device of calculating at least the distance traveled by said moving object during said entered type of use; and

a recording device of recording at least said calculated distance of travel on a recording medium according to said type of use.

7. A data-recording method comprising:

an input process of entering the type of use of movement of a moving object;

a calculation process of calculating at least the distance traveled by said moving object under said entered type of use; and

a recording process of recording at least said calculated distance of travel on a recording medium according to said type of use.