INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20160189546A1
• Filed: 03/27/2014
• Published: 06/30/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: YAMASAKI, Kenichi, KAMI, Nobuharu
• Application Number:
  US14/892,798
• Publication Number:
  US 20160189546A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/10 Services
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/14 indicating individual free spaces in parking areas
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/141 with means giving the indication of available parking spaces

Abstract

An information processing device (10) having: a characteristic information acquisition unit (110) that acquires, as characteristic information for multiple parking spaces contained in a parking lot, the usage history and/or the physical characteristics of the parking spaces; an attribute associating unit (120) that assigns a usage trend attribute to the parking spaces, on the basis of the acquired characteristic information; and an output unit (130) that outputs a correspondence relationship between a parking space and the usage trend attribute assigned to that parking space.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a characteristic information acquisition unit acquiring at least one of a use history and physical characteristics of each of a plurality of parking spaces existing in a parking lot, as characteristic information on the parking space;

an attribute associating unit associating a use trend attribute with the parking space based on the acquired characteristic information; and

an output unit outputting a correspondence relationship between the parking space and the use trend attribute associated with the parking space.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising a motivation information determination unit determining motivation information corresponding to the use trend attribute, among a plurality of pieces of motivation information for motivating respective different actions,

wherein the output unit outputs the motivation information determined based on the use trend attribute associated with the parking space, in association with the parking space.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2, further comprising a user information acquisition unit acquiring user preference information indicating user preference,

wherein the motivation information determination unit determines the motivation information based on the use trend attribute and the user preference information.

4. The information processing device according to claim 3, further comprising a user information learning unit learning, based on the motivation information associated with the parking space at which a user has parked a vehicle, the user preference information on the user.

5. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein the motivation information determination unit changes a reward level to be included in the motivation information for motivating a user to move a vehicle out of the parking space as one of the actions, according to effect to be obtained by moving the vehicle out of the parking space.

6. The information processing device according to claim 2, further comprising an input reception unit receiving input information related to the motivation information,

wherein the motivation information determination unit changes the motivation information based on the input information.

7. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising an area classification unit classifying the plurality of parking spaces into one or more areas,

wherein

the characteristic information acquisition unit means acquires, for each of the areas, the characteristic information on at least one of the parking spaces included in the area, and

the attribute associating unit commonly associates, for each of the areas, the use trend attribute with the parking spaces included in the area, based on the characteristic information acquired for the area.

8. The information processing device according to claim 1, further comprising an availability judgment unit acquiring a current use state of the parking space and judging availability of the parking space,

wherein the output unit outputs the availability of the parking space identifiably.

9. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein

the characteristic information acquisition unit acquires the use history as the characteristic information, and

the attribute associating unit extracts an individual use time trend of the parking space per use and an individual vacant time trend of the parking space per vacancy from the acquired use history, and associates the use trend attribute relating to a combination of frequency of vehicle turnover and frequency of use with the parking space, based on the individual use time trend and the individual vacant time trend.

10. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein the plurality of pieces of motivation information are categorized into a plurality of categories including economy, comfort, and entertainment.

11. An information processing method comprising a:

acquiring at least one of a use history and physical characteristics of each of a plurality of parking spaces existing in a parking lot, as characteristic information on the parking space;

associating a use trend attribute with the parking space based on the acquired characteristic information; and

outputting a correspondence relationship between the parking space and the use trend attribute associated with the parking space.

12. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium recording thereon a program for causing a computer to function as:

a characteristic information acquisition units acquiring at least one of a use history and physical characteristics of each of a plurality of parking spaces existing in a parking lot, as characteristic information on the parking space;

an attribute associating unit associating a use trend attribute with the parking space based on the acquired characteristic information; and

an output unit outputting a correspondence relationship between the parking space and the use trend attribute associated with the parking space.