DRIVE DIAGNOSIS DEVICE, DRIVE DIAGNOSIS SYSTEM AND TERMINAL DEVICE

• US 20170287238A1
• Filed: 03/24/2017
• Published: 10/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: ISOMURA, YOSUKE, Suzuki, Kenji, Izumi, Yoshifumi
• Granted Patent: US 10,204,462 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0808 Diagnosing performance data testing of vehicles G01M17/00; testing of electrical installation on vehicles G01R31/005
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0825 using optical means

Abstract

A drive diagnosis device includes: a storage unit in which travel records of a moving body and past drive diagnosis results from past drive diagnoses executed for the moving body are stored; and a diagnosis processing unit that executes a drive diagnosis based upon driver'"'"'s skills for driving the moving body, and personal characteristics of the driver and/or experience of the driver by using the travel records and the past drive diagnosis results stored in the storage unit.

Claims

1. A drive diagnosis device, comprising:

a storage unit in which travel records of a moving body and past drive diagnosis results from past drive diagnoses executed for the moving body are stored; and

a diagnosis processing unit that executes a drive diagnosis based upon driver'"'"'s skills for driving the moving body, and personal characteristics of the driver and/or experience of the driver by using the travel records and the past drive diagnosis results stored in the storage unit.

2. The drive diagnosis device according to claim 1, wherein:

the diagnosis processing unit determines the driver'"'"'s skills based upon the travel records.

3. The drive diagnosis device according to claim 1, wherein:

the diagnosis processing unit determines the personal characteristics of the driver based upon records of past drive diagnosis results obtained based upon the driver'"'"'s skills.

4. The drive diagnosis device according to claim 3, wherein:

the records of the past drive diagnosis results obtained based upon the driver'"'"'s skills include at least one of;

frequencies each indicating a number of times a score value representing drive diagnosis results was awarded over a predetermined past period, succession values each indicating a number of times a score value was successively awarded over the predetermined past period and a score variance indicating an extent of variance among score values representing the drive diagnosis results obtained over the predetermined past period.

5. The drive diagnosis device according to claim 1, wherein:

the drive diagnosis processing unit determines the personal characteristics of the driver based upon at least one of;

records each indicating a number of times the moving body was driven during a traveling time block, records indicating durations of time over which the moving body was continuously driven, records indicating intervals between drive diagnoses and an age and a gender of the driver.

6. The drive diagnosis device according to claim 1, wherein:

the diagnosis processing unit determines the experience of the driver based upon at least one of a length of time over which the drive diagnosis has been in use and a number of times the drive diagnosis has been used.

7. A drive diagnosis system, comprising:

a terminal device that obtains information pertaining to travel of a moving body; and

a center device engaged in communication with the terminal device via a communication line, wherein;

the center device includes;

a travel record reception unit that receives travel records pertaining to the moving body based upon the information from the terminal device;

a storage unit in which the travel records of the moving body and past drive diagnosis results from past drive diagnoses executed for the moving body are stored;

a diagnosis processing unit that executes a drive diagnosis based upon driver'"'"'s skills for driving the moving body, personal characteristics of the driver and/or experience of the driver by using the travel records and the past drive diagnosis results stored in the storage unit; and

a diagnosis result transmission unit that transmits results of the drive diagnosis to the terminal device; and

the terminal device provides the results of the drive diagnosis transmitted from the center device.

8. A terminal device, comprising:

an information acquisition unit that obtains information pertaining to travel of a moving body;

a storage unit in which travel records pertaining to the moving body based upon the information obtained by the information acquisition unit and past drive diagnosis results from past drive diagnoses executed for the moving body are stored;

a diagnosis processing unit that executes a drive diagnosis based upon driver'"'"'s skills for driving the moving body, personal characteristics of the driver and/or experience of the driver by using the travel records and the past drive diagnosis results stored in the storage unit; and

a drive diagnosis result providing unit that provides results of the drive diagnosis.

9. A terminal device that displays a diagnosis result screen showing results of a drive diagnosis executed for a moving body, wherein:

the diagnosis result screen includes a score value determined based upon personal characteristics and/or experience of a driver of the moving body.