INFORMATION SUPPLYING SYSTEM, APPARATUS MOUNTED IN VEHICLE, INFORMATION SUPPLYING SERVER, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20080228394A1
• Filed: 02/01/2008
• Published: 09/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Plat-Ease Corporation, Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Plat-Ease Corporation, Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sumita, Tetsu, Maruyama, Tetsuo, FUKUDA, Kazuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,082,098 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/208
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0207 Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates

Abstract

An apparatus mounted in a vehicle which can communicate with an information supplying server includes: a detection portion for detecting that a predetermined process is carried out in the vehicle; an institution information acquiring portion for acquiring institution information indicating an institution in a location where the process is carried out; a recording portion for recording the institution information acquired by the institution information acquiring portion in a memory medium; an information acquiring portion for acquiring information to be outputted from an information supplying server which stores information to be outputted, including map additional information to be added to maps or advertisement information; and an extraction portion for extracting information to be outputted relating to an institution indicated by the institution information recorded in the memory medium from the information to be outputted acquired by the information acquiring portion.

Claims

1. An information supplying system including an apparatus mounted in a vehicle and an information supplying server which can communicate with the apparatus mounted in a vehicle, comprising:

a detection portion for detecting that a predetermined process is carried out in the vehicle;

an institution information acquiring portion for acquiring institution information indicating an institution in a location where the process is carried out;

a recording portion for recording the institution information acquired by the institution information acquiring portion in a memory medium; and

an extraction portion for extracting information to be outputted relating to an institution indicated by the institution information recorded in the memory medium from information to be outputted, which is recorded in the information supplying server and includes map additional information to be added to maps and advertisement information.

2. An apparatus mounted in a vehicle which can communicate with an information supplying server, comprising:

a detection portion for detecting that a predetermined process is carried out in the vehicle;

an institution information acquiring portion for acquiring institution information indicating an institution in a location where the process is carried out;

a recording portion for recording the institution information acquired by the institution information acquiring portion in a memory medium;

an information acquiring portion for acquiring information to be outputted from an information supplying server which stores information to be outputted, including map additional information to be added to maps or advertisement information; and

an extraction portion for extracting information to be outputted relating to an institution indicated by the institution information recorded in the memory medium from the information to be outputted acquired by the information acquiring portion.

3. The apparatus mounted in a vehicle according to claim 2, further comprising an output control portion for controlling an output apparatus to output the information to be outputted extracted by the extraction portion.

4. The apparatus mounted in a vehicle according to claim 2, wherein the extraction portion determines institution information, of which the recorded number of pieces satisfies a predetermined criterion, from among institution information indicating the same type of institutions recorded in the memory medium, and extracts the information to be outputted relating to the institution indicated by the determined institution information.

5. The apparatus mounted in a vehicle according to claim 2, wherein

the recording portion records time information indicating the time when the process is carried out associated with the institution information in the memory medium, and

the apparatus mounted in a vehicle further comprises a management portion for deleting institution information, with which time information indicating the time out of the range from the present time to the set time before is associated in the memory medium.

6. An information supplying server which can communicate with an apparatus mounted in a vehicle, comprising:

an institution information acquiring portion for acquiring institution information indicating an institution in the location where a predetermined process is carried out in the vehicle;

a storing portion for storing information to be outputted, which includes map additional information to be added to maps or advertisement information, and the institution information acquired by the institution information acquiring portion;

an extraction portion for extracting information to be outputted relating to an institution indicated by the institution information recorded in the memory medium from the information to be outputted stored in the storing portion; and

a transmission portion for transmitting the information to be outputted extracted by the extraction portion to the apparatus mounted in a vehicle.

7. The information supplying server according to claim 6, wherein the extraction portion extracts information to be outputted relating to an institution indicated by the institution information, of which the stored number of pieces satisfies a predetermined criterion from institution information indicating the same type of institutions stored in the storing portion.

8. The information supplying server according to claim 6, wherein

the storing portion stores time information indicating the time when the process is carried out in the vehicle associated with the institution information, and

the apparatus mounted in a vehicle further comprises a management portion for deleting institution information, with which time information indicating the time out of the range from the present time to the set time before is associated in the storing portion.

9. A program for making a computer function as an apparatus mounted in a vehicle, which can communicate with an information supplying server, and comprises:

a detection portion for detecting that a predetermined process is carried out in the vehicle;

an institution information acquiring portion for acquiring institution information indicating an institution in a location where the process is carried out;

a recording portion for recording the institution information acquired by the institution information acquiring portion in a memory medium;

an information acquiring portion for acquiring

information to be outputted from an information supplying server which stores information to be outputted, including map additional information to be added to maps or advertisement information; and

an extraction portion for extracting information to be outputted relating to an institution indicated by the institution information recorded in the memory medium from the information to be outputted acquired by the information acquiring portion.

10. A program for making a computer function as an information supplying server, which can communicate with an apparatus mounted in a vehicle, and comprises:

an institution information acquiring portion for acquiring institution information indicating an institution in the location where a predetermined process is carried out in the vehicle;

a recording portion for recording information to be outputted, which includes map additional information to be added to maps or advertisement information, and the institution information acquired by the institution information acquiring portion in a memory medium;

an extraction portion for extracting information to be outputted relating to an institution indicated by the institution information recorded in the memory medium from the information to be outputted stored in the memory medium; and

a transmission portion for transmitting the information to be outputted extracted by the extraction portion to the apparatus mounted in a vehicle.

11. An information processing method used in an apparatus mounted in a vehicle which can communicate with an information supplying server, comprising the steps of:

detecting that a predetermined process is carried out in the vehicle;

acquiring institution information indicating an institution in the location where the process is carried out;

recording the institution information in a memory medium;

acquiring information to be outputted from an information supplying server which stores information to be outputted, including map additional information to be added to maps or advertisement information; and

extracting information to be outputted relating to an institution indicated by the institution information recorded in the memory medium from the information to be outputted.

12. An information processing method in an information supplying server which can communicate with an apparatus mounted in a vehicle, comprising the steps of:

recording information to be outputted, which includes map additional information to be added to maps or advertisement information, in a memory medium;

acquiring institution information indicating an institution in the location where a predetermined process is carried out in the vehicle;

recording the institution information in the memory medium;

extracting information to be outputted relating to an institution indicated by the institution information from the information to be outputted recorded in the memory medium; and

transmitting information to be outputted extracted from the information to be outputted recorded in the memory medium to the apparatus mounted in a vehicle.

13. An information supplying system including an apparatus mounted in a vehicle and an information supplying server which can communicate with the apparatus mounted in a vehicle, comprising:

a detection portion for detecting the state of the vehicle, which includes the state of the operation of the vehicle or the state of the environment; and

an extraction portion for extracting information to be outputted in accordance with the state of the vehicle detected by the detection portion from information to be outputted, which includes map additional information to be added to maps or advertisement information stored in the information supplying server.

14. An apparatus mounted in a vehicle which can communicate with an information supplying server, comprising:

a detection portion for detecting the state of the vehicle, which includes the state of the operation of the vehicle or the state of the environment;

an information acquiring portion for acquiring information to be outputted from the information supplying server which stores information to be outputted, including map additional information to be added to maps or advertisement information; and

an extraction portion for extracting information to be outputted in accordance with the state of the vehicle detected by the detection portion from the information to be outputted acquired by the information acquiring portion.

15. The apparatus mounted in a vehicle according to claim 14, further comprising an output control portion for controlling the information to be outputted extracted by the extraction portion distinguished from other information to be outputted in an output apparatus when outputted.

16. An information supplying server which can communicate with an apparatus mounted in a vehicle, comprising:

a vehicle state acquiring portion for acquiring the state of the vehicle, which includes the state of the operation of the vehicle or the state of the environment;

a storing portion for storing information to be outputted, which includes map additional information to be added to maps or advertisement information;

an extraction portion for extracting information to be outputted in accordance with the state of the vehicle acquired by the vehicle state acquiring portion from the information to be outputted stored in the storing portion; and

a transmission portion for transmitting the information to be outputted extracted by the extraction portion to the apparatus mounted in a vehicle.

17. A program for making a computer function as an apparatus mounted in a vehicle which can communicate with an information supplying server, comprising:

a detection portion for detecting the state of the vehicle, which includes the state of the operation of the vehicle or the state of the environment;

an information acquiring portion for acquiring information to be outputted from the information supplying server which stores information to be outputted, including map additional information to be added to maps or advertisement information; and

an extraction portion for extracting information to be outputted in accordance with the state of the vehicle detected by the detection portion from the information to be outputted acquired by the information acquiring portion.

18. A program for making a computer function as an information supplying server which can communicate with an apparatus mounted in a vehicle, comprising:

a vehicle state acquiring portion for acquiring the state of the vehicle, which includes the state of the operation of the vehicle or the state of the environment;

a recording portion for recording information to be outputted, which includes map additional information to be added to maps or advertisement information, in a memory medium;

an extraction portion for extracting information to be outputted in accordance with the state of the vehicle acquired by the vehicle state acquiring portion from the information to be outputted stored in the memory medium; and

a transmission portion for transmitting the information to be outputted extracted by the extraction portion to the apparatus mounted in a vehicle.

19. An information processing method used in an apparatus mounted in a vehicle which can communicate with an information supplying server, comprising the steps of:

detecting the state of the vehicle, which includes the state of the operation of the vehicle or the state of the environment;

acquiring information to be outputted from the information supplying server which stores information to be outputted, including map additional information to be added to maps or advertisement information; and

extracting information to be outputted in accordance with the state of the vehicle from the information to be outputted.

20. An information processing method used in an information supplying server which can communicate with an apparatus mounted in a vehicle, comprising the steps of:

recording information to be outputted, which includes map additional information to be added to maps or advertisement information in a memory medium;

acquiring the state of the vehicle, which includes the state of the operation of the vehicle or the state of the environment;

extracting information to be outputted in accordance with the state of the vehicle from the information to be outputted recorded in the memory medium; and

transmitting information to be outputted extracted from the information to be outputted recorded in the memory medium to the apparatus mounted in a vehicle.