Arrangement system for trial use or trial fitting vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11488238-B2
Application number	US-201816227687-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 20, 2018
Priority date	Dec 26, 2017
Publication date	Nov 1, 2022
Grant date	Nov 1, 2022

Abstract

An arrangement system of a vehicle that permits a user to perform a trial use or a trial fitting of a product in a vehicle interior includes a display unit configured to display products that are candidates for purchase, an operation unit configured to be operated by the user to select a desired product from the products displayed on the display unit, and a vehicle arrangement unit configured to arrange the vehicle on which the product selected through an operation performed on the operation unit is loaded.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An arrangement system of a vehicle that permits a user to perform a trial use or a trial fitting of a product in a vehicle interior, the arrangement system comprising a display unit and an input device communicatively coupled to a processor configured to:
display products on the display unit that are candidates for purchase;
receive a selection, from the input device, of a desired product from the products displayed on the display unit;
display map data indicating a position of a vehicle on which a product that is a candidate for purchase is loaded;
display, on the display unit, at the position of the vehicle indicated on the displayed map data a first image of the vehicle indicating a present location of the vehicle, on which the product that is the candidate for purchase is loaded, and a second image of a product loaded on the vehicle, wherein the second image is displayed as a graphical extension of the displayed first image; and
cause, via circuitry configured to control the vehicle in accordance with a travel route set between the present location of the vehicle and a position of the user, the vehicle on which the product selected is loaded to travel to the position of the user.

2. The arrangement system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to display a predicted amount of time that the vehicle, on which the product selected is loaded, will take to arrive at the position of the user.

3. The arrangement system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to recommend a product that is a candidate for purchase in accordance with a preference of the user.

4. The arrangement system according to claim 1 , wherein the display unit and the input device comprise a touchscreen display.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Matsuoka Tomohito
• Tsunoda Seiichi
• Goto Jiro
• Yamada Masayuki
• Eto Yasutaka
• Fukunaga Keima
• Tagawa Kinya
• Sasaki Yasuhiro
• Tanaka Sho
• Shinohara Yuki

Classifications

• G06Q30/0631

  Recommending goods or services · CPC title

• G06Q30/0643 Primary

  graphically representing goods, e.g. 3D product representation · CPC title

• G06Q30/0601

  Electronic shopping [e-shopping] · CPC title

• G05D1/0221 Primary

  involving a learning process · CPC title

• G05D1/0246

  using a video camera in combination with image processing means · CPC title