Information processing system and information processing device

• US 9,162,681 B2
• Filed: 09/12/2012
• Issued: 10/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoshizu, Sayaka
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheung, Calvin
• Assistant Examiner(s): Martinez Borrero, Luis A
• Application Number:
  US14/241,920
• Publication Number:
  US 20140214312A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,133 Days
• Field of Search: 701/123, 701/24, 701/50, 701/54, 701/101, 701/411, 701/469, 701/31.4, 701/104, 701/1, 701/110, 701/115, 701/29.4, 701/29.6, 701/3, 340/438, 340/450, 340/905, 340/988, 340/990, 340/995.15, 340/995.22
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/0236 for economical driving
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 40/076 Slope angle of the road
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 9/00 Measuring inclination, e.g. by clinometers, by levels
• CPC Class Codes: G01F 9/00 Measuring volume flow relative to another variable, e.g. of liquid fuel for an engine
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0816 Indicating performance data, e.g. occurrence of a malfunction
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/84 Data processing systems or methods, management, administration

Abstract

An information processing system which includes a center server and a movable body performing a communication with the center server, includes a fuel efficiency information obtainment unit which obtains information on fuel efficiency when the movable body moves in a first direction heading toward the other direction from one direction in a predetermined section and obtains information on fuel efficiency when the movable body moves in a second direction heading toward one direction from the other direction in the section; a comparison unit which compares the fuel efficiency in the first direction with the fuel efficiency in the second direction; and a slope estimation unit which estimates a slope of the section based on a difference between the fuel efficiency in the first direction and the fuel efficiency in the second direction.

Claims

1. An information processing system which includes a center server and a movable body performing a communication with the center server, the information processing system comprising:

a processor that is configured to;

obtain information on fuel efficiency when the movable body moves in a first direction heading toward a second point from a first point in a predetermined section and obtain information on fuel efficiency when the movable body moves in a second direction heading toward the first point from the second point in the predetermined section;

compare the fuel efficiency in the first direction with the fuel efficiency in the second direction;

estimate a slope of the predetermined section based on a difference between the fuel efficiency in the first direction and the fuel efficiency in the second direction; and

perform a control plan for energy source of the movable body using the estimated slope when the movable boy is traveling.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to estimate that the predetermined section is in an uphill slope heading toward the first direction in a case where the fuel efficiency in the second direction is higher than the fuel efficiency in the first direction, and that the predetermined section is in a downhill slope heading toward the first direction in a case where the fuel efficiency in the first direction is higher than the fuel efficiency in the second direction.

3. The information processing system according to claim 2, wherein the processor is configured to estimate that the predetermined section is in the uphill slope heading toward the first direction in a case where fuel efficiency dispersion in the second direction is higher than fuel efficiency dispersion in the first direction and the fuel efficiency in the second direction is higher than the fuel efficiency in the first direction, and that the predetermined section is in the downhill slope heading toward the first direction in a case where the fuel efficiency dispersion in the first direction is higher than the fuel efficiency dispersion in the second direction and the fuel efficiency in the first direction is higher than the fuel efficiency in the second direction.

4. An information processing device comprising:

a processor that is configured to;

obtain information on fuel efficiency when a movable body moves in a first direction heading toward a second point from a first point in a predetermined section and obtain information on fuel efficiency when the movable body moves in a second direction heading toward the first point from the second point in the predetermined section;

compare the fuel efficiency in the first direction with the fuel efficiency in the second direction;

estimate a slope of the predetermined section based on a difference between the fuel efficiency in the first direction and the fuel efficiency in the second direction; and

perform a control plan for energy source of the movable body using the estimated slope when the movable boy is traveling.