FACILITY-INFORMATION DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, FACILITY-INFORMATION DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND FACILITY-INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM

• US 20170160099A1
• Filed: 06/10/2014
• Published: 06/08/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: YOSHIMURA, Keito, SHIMOTANI, Mitsuo
• Application Number:
  US15/309,715
• Publication Number:
  US 20170160099A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/005 with correlation of navigation data from several sources, e.g. map or contour matching G01C21/30 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3644 Landmark guidance, e.g. using POIs or conspicuous other objects
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3647 Guidance involving output of stored or live camera images or video streams
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3682 output of POI information on a road map G01C21/3614, G01C21/3685 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3694 Output thereof on a road map
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/00 Satellite radio beacon positioning systems; Determining position, velocity or attitude using signals transmitted by such systems
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/39 the satellite radio beacon positioning system transmitting time-stamped messages, e.g. GPS [Global Positioning System], GLONASS [Global Orbiting Navigation Satellite System] or GALILEO

Abstract

Based on map information stored in a map-information storage, a display information generation/output unit generates display information for displaying, together with a map, facility information regarding service-providing facilities which provide a service using a function of predetermined public equipment, and outputs the generated display information to a display device. A controller controls the display-information generation/output unit to generate display information for displaying, in different modes on the map, the facility information of a service-providing facility among the service-providing facilities, the service-providing facility including recovery equipment enabling the service to be provided in place of the public equipment in a case where the public equipment does not function, and the facility information of a service-providing facility among the service-providing facilities, the service-providing facility not including the recovery equipment, and to output the generated display information to the display device.

Claims

1. A facility-information display control device comprising:

a map-information storage to store map information regarding a map;

a processor to execute a program; and

a memory to store the program which, when executed by the processor, results in performance of steps comprising,

based on said map information stored in said map-information storage, generating display information for displaying, together with said map, facility information regarding service-providing facilities which provide a service using a function of predetermined public equipment,

outputting said generated display information to a display device; and

controlling to generate said display information for displaying, in different modes on said map, said facility information of a service-providing facility among said service-providing facilities, said service-providing facility including recovery equipment enabling said service to be provided in place of said public equipment in a case where said public equipment does not function, and said facility information of a service-providing facility among said service-providing facilities, said service-providing facility not including said recovery equipment, and to output said generated display information to said display device.

2. The facility-information display control device according to claim 1,

wherein said steps further comprise

acquiring public equipment information that indicates a condition of said public equipment, and

controlling includes changing a display mode of said facility information between the case where said public equipment does not function and a case where said public equipment functions based on acquired said public equipment information.

3. The facility-information display control device according to claim 1,

wherein said controlling includes:

confirming a condition of said service-providing facility in the case where said public equipment does not function, and

controlling to change a display mode of said facility information between before the confirmation and after the confirmation.

4. The facility-information display control device according to claim 1,

wherein said public equipment is an electric power system,

said recovery equipment is a non-utility generation equipment, and

said service-providing facilities are charging stations which provide, as said service, a charging service of charging a battery mounted on a vehicle.

5. The facility-information display control device according to claim 1,

wherein said public equipment is water supply,

said recovery equipment is a water storage tank, and

said service-providing facilities are water supply facilities which provide a water supply service as said service.

6. The facility-information display control device according to claim 1,

wherein said public equipment is a gas pipeline,

said recovery equipment is a gas cylinder, and

said service-providing facilities are gas supply facilities which provide a gas supply service as said service.

7. The facility-information display control device according to claim 1,

wherein said controlling includes:

performing at least one of route search and generation of a running plan of a vehicle based on said facility information of the service-providing facility that includes said recovery equipment and on said facility information of the service-providing facility that does not include said recovery equipment.

8. The facility-information display control device according to claim 7,

wherein said controlling includes:

performing at least one of said route search and said generation of the running plan of the vehicle one more time in the case where said public equipment does not function.

10. A facility-information display system comprising:

the facility-information display control device according to claim 1, the facility-information display control device outputting, to said display device, display information for displaying, together with a map, facility information regarding service-providing facilities which provide a service using a function of predetermined public equipment; and

a display device that performs map display of displaying an image including said map and said facility information based on said display information.

9. A facility-information display control method wherein:

when map information regarding a map is acquired; and

based on said acquired map information, display information for displaying, together with said map, facility information regarding service-providing facilities which provide a service using a function of predetermined public equipment is generated, and said generated display information is outputted to a display device;

then there is generated said display information for displaying, in different modes on said map, said facility information of a service-providing facility among said service-providing facilities, said service-providing facility including recovery equipment enabling said service to be provided in place of said public equipment in a case where said public equipment does not function, and said facility information of a service-providing facility among said service-providing facilities, said service-providing facility not including said recovery equipment, and said generated display information is outputted to said display device.