Vehicle action suggestion device and method

• US 9,919,599 B2
• Filed: 04/18/2016
• Issued: 03/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Fuchiwaki, Yosuke, Yamanaka, Keizo, Miura, Naoki, Nihei, Yasunori
• Primary Examiner(s): Milord, Marceau
• Application Number:
  US15/131,751
• Publication Number:
  US 20160309440A1
• Time in Patent Office: 701 Days
• Field of Search: 4554351
• 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 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/48 for in-vehicle communication

Abstract

A terminal detection unit detects a mobile terminal located inside a vehicle. An action history information generation unit and storage unit associate the mobile terminal detected by the terminal detection unit and an action of the vehicle associated with each other and store them as action history information. An action suggestion unit searches the action history information stored in the storage unit for the action associated with the mobile terminal detected by the terminal detection unit and suggests the found action to a passenger of the vehicle.

Claims

1. A vehicle action suggestion device, comprising:

a terminal detection unit configured to detect, a mobile terminal located inside a vehicle during a traveling time period, based on at least one of an elapsed time period or a traveling distance;

a terminal registration unit configured to register the mobile terminal which is detected by the terminal detection unit for a first number of times or more for a second determined number of times or more during the traveling time period;

a storage unit configured to store action history information in which the mobile terminal registered by the terminal registration unit is associated with an action of the vehicle; and

an action suggestion unit configured to;

search the action history information stored in the storage unit for the action of the vehicle associated with the mobile terminal detected by the terminal detection unit; and

suggest the action found based on the search to a passenger of the vehicle.

2. The vehicle action suggestion device according to claim 1, further comprising a door opening/closing detection unit configured to detect at least one of an opening operation or a closing operation of a door of the vehicle,

wherein the terminal detection unit is further configured to detect the mobile terminal based on the detection of the at least one of the opening operation or the closing operation of the door by the door opening/closing detection unit.

3. The vehicle action suggestion device according to claim 1,

wherein information that indicates the second determined number of times is acquired from the storage unit,

wherein the terminal registration unit is further configured to register the mobile terminal which has been detected by the terminal detection unit for the acquired second determined number of times or more during the determined traveling time period, and

wherein the storage unit is further configured to store action history information in which the mobile terminal registered by the terminal registration unit is associated with the action of the vehicle.

4. The vehicle action suggestion device according to claim 1, further comprising a display device configured to display the suggested action.

5. The vehicle action suggestion device according to claim 1, further comprising a speaker configured to output the suggested action.

6. A vehicle action suggestion method, comprising:

detecting a mobile terminal located inside a vehicle during a traveling time period, based on at least one of a time period or a traveling distance;

registering the mobile terminal which is detected for a first number of times or more for a second determined number of times or more during the traveling time period;

associating the registered mobile terminal with an action of the vehicle to generate action history information and storing the action history information;

searching the stored action history information for the action of the vehicle associated with the detected mobile terminal; and

suggesting the action found based on the search to a passenger of the vehicle.

7. The vehicle action suggestion method according to claim 6, further comprising detecting at least one of an opening operation or a closing operation of a door of the vehicle,

wherein the mobile terminal is detected based on the at least one of the opening operation or the closing operation of the door.

8. The vehicle action suggestion method according to claim 6,

wherein information that indicates the second determined number of times is acquired from a storage unit,

wherein the mobile terminal is registered for the acquired second determined number of times or more during the determined traveling time period, and

wherein the registered mobile terminal is associated with the action of the vehicle to generate action history information and to store the action history information.