Driving diagnosis device, driving diagnosis system and driving diagnosis method

• US 9,430,886 B2
• Filed: 06/03/2014
• Issued: 08/30/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Yano, Katsutoshi, Kawai, Jun, Ando, Toshiaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Shaawat, Mussa A
• Assistant Examiner(s): SOOFI, YAZAN A
• Application Number:
  US14/294,589
• Publication Number:
  US 20140365070A1
• Time in Patent Office: 819 Days
• Field of Search: 701/33.4
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0808 Diagnosing performance data testing of vehicles G01M17/00; testing of electrical installation on vehicles G01R31/005

Abstract

A driving diagnosis device includes storage device which stores plural pieces of advice and a processor. The processor makes a diagnosis on driving by a driver according to vehicle information indicating at least one of behavior of a certain vehicle and an operation of the driver while the driver is driving the certain vehicle. The processor judges a degree of influence, on the diagnosis, of a driving experience of the driver before the driver drives the certain vehicle according to history information as for a history of the driver driving one or more different vehicles including the certain vehicle. And the processor determines to present to the driver a piece of advice stored in the storage device, from among plural pieces of advice, in association with a combination of a result of the diagnosis and the judged degree of influence.

Claims

1. A driving diagnosis device comprising:

a storage device which stores plural pieces of advice that include plural types of advice for a result of a diagnosis; and

a processor which

makes a diagnosis on driving by a driver according to vehicle information indicating at least one of behavior of a certain vehicle and an operation of the driver while the driver is driving the certain vehicle;

judges a degree of influence, on the diagnosis, of a driving experience of the driver before the driver drives the certain vehicle according to history information as for a history of the driver driving one or more different vehicles including the certain vehicle; and

determines to present, to the driver, a piece of advice corresponding to the judged degree of influence from among the plural types of advice included in the plural pieces of advice stored in the storage device and associated with the result of the diagnosis, wherein

the history information includes first vehicle specification information indicating a specification of the certain vehicle, second vehicle specification information indicating a specification of another vehicle other than the certain vehicle in the one or more different vehicles, and ending time information indicating time at which the driver has completed driving the another vehicle other than the certain vehicle,

the plural types of advice for the result of the diagnosis include plural types of advice that depend on a degree of positive influence, and plural types of advice that depend on a degree of negative influence, and

the processor determines whether influence on the diagnosis is positive or negative according to a difference between the specification indicated by the first vehicle specification information and the specification indicated by the second vehicle specification information, and judges the degree of influence by monotonically decreasing the degree of influence toward zero according to a length of time lapse from the time indicated by the ending time information.

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

the history information includes at least starting time information indicating time at which the driver has started driving the certain vehicle;

the processor judges the degree of influence so that magnitude of the degree of influence monotonically decrease with respect to a length of time lapse from the time indicated by the starting time information.

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

the history information includes at least driving time information indicating a length of time in which the driver drives another vehicle other than the certain vehicle; and

the processor judges the degree of influence so that magnitude of the degree of influence monotonically increase with respect to the length of the time indicated by the driving time information.

4. The driving diagnosis device according to claim 1, wherein:

the history information includes at least number-of-vehicle information indicating a number of the one or more vehicles;

the processor judges the degree of influence as zero when the number of vehicles indicated by the number-of-vehicle information is 1;

the processor judges the degree of influence so that the magnitude of the degree of influence monotonically decreases with respect to the number of vehicles indicated by the number-of-vehicle information when the number of vehicles indicated by the number-of-vehicle information is larger than 1.

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

in the storage device, each piece of the plural pieces of advice is stored in association with a combination of the result of the diagnosis, the degree of influence, and a result of a prior diagnosis;

the history information includes the result of the prior diagnosis obtained when the driver drove another vehicle other than the certain vehicle; and

the processor determines to present to the driver a piece of advice stored in the storage device in association with a combination of the obtained result of the diagnosis, the judged degree of influence, and the result of the prior diagnosis included in the history information.

6. The driving diagnosis device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a reader which reads the history information from a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium which stores the history information; and

a writer which writes the history information as for driving the certain vehicle to the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium.

7. The driving diagnosis device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a receiver which receives the history information over a network from an information storage device; and

a transmitter which transmits to the information storage device the history information as for the driving of the certain vehicle over the network.

8. The driving diagnosis device according to claim 1, further comprising an output device which outputs the advice which the processor determined to present.

9. The driving diagnosis device according to claim 8, wherein the processor controls timing of outputting by the output device the advice which the processor determined to present according to the vehicle information.

10. A driving diagnosis system, comprising:

an onboard device equipped into a certain vehicle; and

a management device which communicates information with the onboard device over a network, wherein;

the onboard device includes;

a first processor which acquires, from the certain vehicle, vehicle information indicating at least one of behavior of the certain vehicle and an operation of the driver while a driver is driving the certain vehicle; and

a first transmitter/receiver which communicates with the management device over the network;

the management device comprises;

a second processor;

a second transmitter/receiver which communicates with the onboard device over the network; and

a history storage device which stores first history information as for a history of the driver driving a vehicle other than the certain vehicle;

the onboard device or the management device comprises an advice storage device which stores plural pieces of advice that include plural types of advice for a result of a diagnosis;

the first processor or the second processor makes a judgment on driving of the driver according to the vehicle information;

the first processor or the second processor judges a degree of influence, on the diagnosis, of a driving experience of the driver before the driver driving the certain vehicle according to at least one of the first history information and second history information as for a history of the driver driving the certain vehicle;

the first processor or the second processor determines to present, to the driver, a piece of advice corresponding to the judged degree of influence from among the plural types of advice included in the plural pieces of advice stored in the advice storage device and associated with the result of the diagnosis;

wherein

the history information includes first vehicle specification information indicating a specification of the certain vehicle, second vehicle specification information indicating a specification of another vehicle other than the certain vehicle in one or more different vehicles, and ending time information indicating time at which the driver has completed driving the another vehicle other than the certain vehicle;

the plural types of advice for the result of the diagnosis include plural types of advice that depend on a degree of positive influence, and plural types of advice that depend on a degree of negative influence; and

the first processor or the second processor determines whether influence on the diagnosis is positive or negative according to a difference between the specification indicated by the first vehicle specification information and the specification indicated by the second vehicle specification information, and judges the degree of influence by monotonically decreasing the degree of influence toward zero according to a length of time lapse from the time indicated by the ending time information.

11. The driving diagnosis system according to claim 10, wherein:

the onboard device generates or acquires the second history information, and transmits the second history information from the first transmitter/receiver to the management device over the network; and

the management device receives the second history information by the second transmitter/receiver, and adds the received second history information to the first history information stored in the history storage device.

12. The driving diagnosis system according to claim 10, wherein:

the onboard device comprises the advice storage device;

the first processor makes the diagnosis, judges the degree of influence, and determines the advice to be presented to the driver; and

the first history information stored in the history storage device is transmitted from the second transmitter/receiver over the network, received by the first transmitter/receiver, and acquired by the first processor.

13. The driving diagnosis driving diagnosis system according to claim 10, wherein:

the management device comprises the advice storage device;

the second processor makes the diagnosis, judges the degree of influence, and determines the advice to be presented to the driver; and

the onboard device further comprises an output device which outputs the advice which the second processor determines to present;

the vehicle information acquired by the first processor is transmitted from the first transmitter/receiver over the network, received by the second transmitter/receiver, and acquired by the second processor; and

the advice which the second processor determines to present is transmitted from the second transmitter/receiver over the network, received by the first transmitter/receiver, and output from the output device.

14. A driving diagnosis method comprising:

making, by a computer, a diagnosis on driving by a driver according to vehicle information indicating at least one of behavior of a certain vehicle and an operation of the driver while the driver is driving the certain vehicle;

determining, by the computer and according to history information that includes first vehicle specification information indicating a specification of the certain vehicle, second vehicle specification information indicating a specification of another vehicle other than the certain vehicle in one or more different vehicles, and ending time information indicating time at which the driver has completed driving the another vehicle other than the certain vehicle, a difference between the specification indicated by the first vehicle information and the specification indicated by the second vehicle information;

determining, by the computer, whether influence on the diagnosis is positive or negative according to the difference between the specifications;

judging, by the computer, the degree of influence by monotonically decreasing the degree of influence toward zero according to a length of time lapse from the time indicated by the ending time information; and

determining, by the computer, to present to the driver a piece of advice corresponding to the judged degree of influence from among plural types of advice included in plural pieces of advice stored in a storage device and associated with the result of the diagnosis, wherein

the plural types of advice for the result of the diagnosis include plural types of advice that depend on a degree of positive influence, and plural types of advice that depend on a degree of negative influence.