Information processing system and information processing program

• US 8,442,799 B2
• Filed: 07/31/2008
• Issued: 05/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Yuhara, Hiromitsu, Habaguchi, Masayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): CHERRY, STEPHEN J
• Application Number:
  US12/670,641
• Publication Number:
  US 20100217560A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,748 Days
• Field of Search: 702/150
• US Class Current: 702/150
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3837 Data obtained from a single source
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3844 Data obtained from position sensors only, e.g. from inertial navigation
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096741 where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station

Abstract

A system for smoothly executing information processing in the case where information processing is executed to all of the information in relation to a target area, and at the same time other information processing is executed in parallel thereto. In information processing system 10, each of a plurality of mesh groups differing from one another is decided as a first mesh group through an n-th mesh group (n=2, 3, . . . ), respectively. A predetermined information processing is executed to the mesh information group in relation to each mesh group in the order from the first mesh group to the n-th mesh group. The load of the information processing system for the predetermined information processing is reduced by executing the predetermined information processing for each mesh information group.

Claims

1. An information processing system which includes an output device and a position measuring unit, and which is mounted on a functional device having a moving function or carried by a user, comprising:

a receiver configured to receive mesh information including weather information;

a storing unit configured to store the mesh information received by the receiver;

a first processing unit configured to decide a mesh group including a position of the functional device measured by the position measuring unit among a plurality of mesh groups as a first mesh group, and which decides each of the other mesh groups as each of a second mesh group through an n-th mesh group (n=2, 3, . . . ), so that all of a target area is covered by a primary set of a plurality of the mesh groups equal to or smaller than a predetermined size and which differs from each other; and

a second processing unit configured to execute a predetermined information processing taking mesh information in relation to each mesh included in each mesh group as a target thereof, in the order from the first mesh group to the n-th mesh group decided by the first processing unit for reading from the storing unit and for outputting to display the weather information included in the mesh information to the output device;

wherein the first processing unit determines whether or not the position of the functional device departs from a boundary region between the first mesh group and the mesh group adjacent to the first mesh group, and in a case where the position of the functional device is included in the boundary region, a mesh group including the position of the functional device among a secondary set of a plurality of mesh groups different from the primary set is decided as the first mesh group.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1,

wherein the first processing unit decides the second mesh group so that the position of the functional device is included therein.