Information providing device and information providing system

• US 8,510,036 B2
• Filed: 08/04/2009
• Issued: 08/13/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Sekiyama, Hiroaki, Sugiyama, Shinji, Katsukawa, Keiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Tarcza, Thomas
• Assistant Examiner(s): GOLDMAN, RICHARD A
• Application Number:
  US13/001,705
• Publication Number:
  US 20110166778A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,470 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 701/424
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3617 using user history, behaviour, conditions or preferences, e.g. predicted or inferred from previous use or current movement
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096816 where the complete route is transmitted to the vehicle at once
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/09685 where the complete route is computed only once and not updated
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096883 where input information is obtained using a mobile device, e.g. a mobile phone, a PDA

Abstract

The invention provides an information providing device and an information providing system which can provide suitable destination information according to the utilization situation of a user. The information providing device is an information providing device mounted on a vehicle and provides information on potential destinations. An information providing unit which provides information on a potential destination in accordance with the performance of electronic payment at a destination after traveling assistance is provided. By providing this information on a potential destination, a potential destination can be selected on the basis of information on a destination for which traveling assistance has actually been provided and which has been utilized, information on the potential destination can be provided, and information on a suitable potential destination according to the actual utilization situation of a user can be provided.

Claims

1. An information providing system which provides information on potential destinations in a vehicle, the information providing system comprising:

an electronic payment information acquisition unit which acquires information on electronic payment performed at a destination after traveling assistance to the destination by a vehicle-mounted device; and

an information providing unit which provides information on a potential destination in accordance with the electronic payment information acquired by the electronic payment information acquisition unit, wherein the information providing unit preferentially provides information on a designation at which electronic payment has been performed with a higher frequency as the potential destination.