VEHICLE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND VEHICLE INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20140244103A1
• Filed: 08/04/2011
• Published: 08/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Uno, Satoshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,573,597 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/33.4
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/0075 Automatic parameter input, automatic initialising or calibrating means
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/10 Historical data
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/50 of positioning data, e.g. GPS [Global Positioning System] data
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 40/08 related to drivers or passengers
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 40/09 Driving style or behaviour

Abstract

Provided is a vehicle information processing apparatus which, in order to link driver operation information to a learning result more smoothly, learns operation information obtained in response to respective vehicle operations performed by the driver in association with locations in which the vehicle operations have been respectively performed. The vehicle information processing apparatus learns a reproducibility of an identical type of operation information in an identical location in accordance with a number of times the identical type of operation information is obtained consecutively in the location.

Claims

1-13. -13. (canceled)

14. A vehicle information processing apparatus comprising an operation information learning unit configured to learn operation information obtained in response to respective vehicle operations performed by a driver in association with locations in which the vehicle operations have been respectively performed,

wherein the operation information learning unit is configured to learn whether or not there is a reproducibility of an identical type of operation information in an identical location in accordance with a number of times the identical type of operation information is obtained consecutively in the location.

15. The vehicle information processing apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the location is set as a location constituted by a predetermined range that includes a location in which the operation information is obtained for a first time.

16. The vehicle information processing apparatus according to claim 14, wherein when the location is a location in which a specific vehicle operation is required, the operation information learning unit is configured to modify the number of times operation information of an identical type to the specific vehicle operation is obtained consecutively, which is used to learn the reproducibility of the operation information.

17. The vehicle information processing apparatus according to claim 14, wherein when a number of passages through an identical location exceeds a predetermined number, the operation information learning unit is configured to learn the reproducibility of the operation information on the basis of a proportion of the number of times operation information of an identical type is obtained in the predetermined number of newest passages.

18. The vehicle information processing apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the operation information is information obtained on the basis of a deceleration operation performed on a vehicle by the driver.

19. The vehicle information processing apparatus according to claim 14, wherein the vehicle information processing apparatus is installed in a vehicle.

20. A vehicle information processing apparatus comprising an assistance information output unit configured to provide information required for driving assistance on the basis of a vehicle operation performed by a driver when an identical type of vehicle operation is executed by the driver consecutively at least a predetermined number of times in an identical location.

21. A vehicle information processing method in which operation information obtained in response to respective vehicle operations performed by a driver is learned in association with locations in which the vehicle operations have been respectively performed, the vehicle information processing method comprising:

counting a number of times an identical type of operation information is obtained consecutively in an identical location; and

learning whether or not there is a reproducibility of the identical type of operation information in the location in accordance with the counted number of times.

22. The vehicle information processing method according to claim 21, further comprising setting the location as a location constituted by a predetermined range that includes a location in which the operation information is obtained for a first time prior to counting the number of times the identical type of operation information is obtained consecutively.

23. The vehicle information processing method according to claim 21, further comprising, on the condition that the location is a location in which a specific vehicle operation is required, modifying the number of times operation information of an identical type to the specific vehicle operation is obtained consecutively, which is used to learn the reproducibility of the operation information.

24. The vehicle information processing method according to claim 21, wherein, on the condition that a number of passages through an identical location exceeds a predetermined number, the reproducibility of the operation information is learned on the basis of a proportion of the number of times operation information of an identical type is obtained in the predetermined number of newest passages.

25. The vehicle information processing method according to claim 21, wherein a deceleration operation performed on a vehicle by the driver is obtained as the operation information.

26. The vehicle information processing method according to claim 21, wherein the vehicle information processing method is performed in the vehicle.