EVALUATION DISPLAY SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20130158850A1
• Filed: 10/23/2012
• Published: 06/20/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Naoki Miura, Toru Sakai, Toshio Uchida
• Inventors: MIURA, Naoki, UCHIDA, Toshio, SAKAI, Toru
• Application Number:
  US13/658,463
• Publication Number:
  US 20130158850A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/123
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3469 Fuel consumption; Energy use; Emission aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3697 Output of additional, non-guidance related information, e.g. low fuel level G01C21/3679 takes precedence

Abstract

Evaluation display systems, methods, and programs display a current position of a vehicle on a map around on a display unit. The systems, methods, and programs acquire a current evaluation indicating a fuel efficiency evaluation of each unit interval in a current travel of the vehicle, and acquire a past evaluation indicating a fuel efficiency evaluation of the each unit interval in a past travel that is earlier than the current travel. The systems, methods, and programs display the current evaluation and the past evaluation of each unit interval on the map and, if a distance between the current position of the vehicle and a display position of at least one past evaluation on the map becomes equal to or smaller than a predetermined distance, erases the at least one past evaluation from the map.

Claims

1. An evaluation display system comprising:

a map display control unit that displays a current position of a vehicle and a map around the current position on a display unit;

a current evaluation acquisition unit that acquires a current evaluation indicating a fuel efficiency evaluation of each unit interval in a current travel of the vehicle; and

a past evaluation acquisition unit that acquires a past evaluation indicating a fuel efficiency evaluation of the each unit interval in a past travel that is earlier than the current travel, wherein

the map display control unit displays the current evaluation and the past evaluation of the each unit interval on the map and, if a distance between the current position of the vehicle and a display position of at least one past evaluation on the map becomes equal to or smaller than a predetermined distance, erases the at least one past evaluation from the map.

2. The evaluation display system according to claim 1, wherein:

the past evaluation acquisition unit acquires a past traveling direction in association with the past evaluation;

the past traveling direction is a traveling direction in which the vehicle traveled the unit interval in the past travel; and

the map display control unit erases the at least one past evaluation from the map if the distance between the current position of the vehicle and the display position of the at least one past evaluation on the map becomes equal to or smaller than the predetermined distance and if the past traveling direction corresponding to the at least one past evaluation matches a current traveling direction of the vehicle.

3. The evaluation display system according to claim 1, wherein:

the past evaluation acquisition unit acquires a travel order number in association with the past evaluation;

the travel order number is set in such a way that the later the vehicle traveled in the unit interval in the past travel, the larger the travel order number is; and

if the distance between the current position of the vehicle and each of display positions of a plurality of the past evaluations becomes equal to or smaller than the predetermined distance on the map, the map display control unit erases the past evaluation of the plurality of past evaluations, with which a smallest travel order number is associated, from the map.

4. The evaluation display system according to claim 1, wherein:

the current evaluation acquisition unit acquires the current evaluation in an interval from a starting point to the current position when the vehicle travels from the starting point to a destination; and

the past evaluation acquisition unit acquires the past evaluation in the past travel whose starting point and destination are the same as the starting point and the destination of the current travel.

5. The evaluation display system according to claim 4, wherein, if the at least one past evaluation is erased when the distance between the current position of the vehicle and the display position of the at least one past evaluation becomes equal to or smaller than the predetermined distance and if the past evaluation of a traveled unit interval, over which the vehicle traveled in the past travel before arriving at the unit interval corresponding to the at least of one of past evaluations, is displayed, the map display control unit erases the past evaluation of the traveled unit interval from the map.

6. An evaluation display method comprising:

displaying a current position of a vehicle and a map around the current position on a display unit;

acquiring a current evaluation indicating a fuel efficiency evaluation of each unit interval in a current travel of the vehicle;

acquiring a past evaluation indicating a fuel efficiency evaluation of the each unit interval in a past travel that is earlier than the current travel;

displaying the current evaluation and the past evaluation of the each unit interval on the map; and

if a distance between the current position of the vehicle and a display position of at least one past evaluation on the map becomes equal to or smaller than a predetermined distance, erasing the at least one past evaluation from the map.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores computer-executable instructions for performing an evaluation display function comprising:

displaying a current position of a vehicle and a map around the current position on a display unit;

acquiring a current evaluation indicating a fuel efficiency evaluation of each unit interval in a current travel of the vehicle;

acquiring a past evaluation indicating a fuel efficiency evaluation of the each unit interval in a past travel that is earlier than the current travel;

displaying the current evaluation and the past evaluation of the each unit interval on the map; and

if a distance between the current position of the vehicle and a display position of at least one past evaluation on the map becomes equal to or smaller than a predetermined distance, erasing the at least one past evaluation from the map.