Position information providing device, position information providing system

• US 9,743,247 B2
• Filed: 05/11/2012
• Issued: 08/22/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Endo, Masato, Todoroki, Chihaya, Sekiyama, Hiroaki, Sumiya, Takayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Mizrahi, Diane
• Application Number:
  US14/400,006
• Publication Number:
  US 20150126225A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,929 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3679 Retrieval, searching and output of POI information, e.g. hotels, restaurants, shops, filling stations, parking facilities G01C21/3611 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3682 output of POI information on a road map G01C21/3614, G01C21/3685 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3685 the POI's being parking facilities
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/007 using computer methods
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

A navigation device, which works as a position information providing device for providing information on positions to a user, includes a terminal ECU that can log in management servers, each of which manages a social networking service (SNS) to which information can be posted, via a line network. The terminal ECU logs in the management servers via the line network in synchronization with a start operation of the navigation device to acquire the whole or a part of posting information on positions posted to the SNS by network users and accumulated in the management servers.

Claims

1. A position information providing device that provides information on positions to a user, the position information providing device comprising:

a control unit configured to log in a management server via a line network to post a destination of the user to a network service, the management server managing the network service, wherein

the control unit sends a notification to a terminal apparatus managed by the user in synchronization with an enabling of a parking braking of a vehicle in which the user rides, the notification prompting to post the destination to the network service.

2. A position information providing system comprising:

the position information providing device according to claim 1;

the management server that manages one or more social networking services (SNS) each working as the network service; and

the line network that connects the position information providing device and the management server.

3. A position information providing device that provides information on positions to a user, the position information providing device comprising:

a control unit configured to log in a management server via a line network to post a destination of the user to a network service, the management server managing the network service; and

a display unit configured to display a destination evaluation screen in synchronization with a setting of a starting device of a vehicle, in which the user rides, from an off state to an on state and, at the same time as a setting of a parking brake of the vehicle from a disabled state to an enabled state.

4. The position information providing device according to claim 3, wherein

if an evaluation is not performed for the destination, the control unit sends a notification to a terminal apparatus managed by the user, the notification prompting to evaluate the destination.

5. A position information providing system comprising:

the position information providing device according to claim 3;

the management server that manages one or more social networking services (SNS) each working as the network service; and

the line network that connects the position information providing device and the management server.