Information processing system, information processing method, and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11541908-B2
Application number	US-201816620906-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 15, 2018
Priority date	Jun 16, 2017
Publication date	Jan 3, 2023
Grant date	Jan 3, 2023

Abstract

An information processing system includes an acquirer configured to acquire a boarding request, a deriver configured to derive, when an action schedule of an automatic driving vehicle includes a standby state based on a boarding request acquired by the acquirer, a usage charge of the automatic driving vehicle reflecting a cost generated in a traveling state in which the automatic driving vehicle carries a user and travels and a cost generated in the standby state, and an output configured to output information including the usage charge derived by the deriver.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An information processing system comprising:
a hardware processor executing software, hardware including circuitry, or a cooperation of the software and the hardware configured to operate as:
an acquirer configured to acquire, from a terminal device, via a wireless communication network, a boarding request;
a deriver configured to derive, when an action schedule of an automatic driving vehicle includes a standby state based on the boarding request acquired by the acquirer, a first usage charge of the automatic driving vehicle reflecting a cost generated in a traveling state in which the automatic driving vehicle carries a user and travels and a cost generated in the standby state; and
an output configured to output, via the wireless communication network on a display of the terminal device, information including the first usage charge derived by the deriver, wherein
based on receipt of a request, from the terminal device, for use of the automatic driving vehicle in response to the information output on the display, a usage of the automatic driving vehicle is allocated for the user, wherein
the standby state includes traveling in an unmanned state,
the acquirer acquires information related to an estimated stay time of the user at a stopover between a departure location and a destination,
the deriver generates, based on the estimated stay time of the user at the stopover and an additional request for adding a stopover indicated by the boarding request acquired by the acquirer, an action plan of the automatic driving vehicle that moves in the unmanned state to the stopover indicated by the additional request, and derives a cost generated in the standby state based on a generated action plan, and
an automatic driving controller of the automatic driving vehicle that controls movement of the automatic driving vehicle according to the action plan.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1 ,
the deriver derives at least the cost generated in the standby state on the basis of the estimated stay time of the user at the stopover acquired by the acquirer.

3. The information processing system according to claim 2 ,
wherein the deriver generates the action plan of the automatic driving vehicle in the standby state on the basis of the estimated stay time of the user at the stopover between the departure location and the destination, and derives the cost generated in the standby state on the basis of the generated action plan.

4. The information processing system according to claim 3 ,
wherein, when the action plan includes a standby state starting from the stopover, the deriver generates a plurality of action plans which are taken by the automatic driving vehicle in the standby state and derives a cost generated in an action plan for each of the action plans, and
the output outputs information further including a cost for each of the action plans derived by the deriver.

5. The information processing system according to claim 4 ,
wherein the plurality of action plans which are taken by the automatic driving vehicle include a plan in which a plurality of different vehicles move through different routes, and at least one vehicle joins a user and is boarded again.

6. The information processing system according to claim 3 ,
wherein the deriver searches for at least a parking-available location satisfying a predetermined condition based on the estimated stay time of the user at the stopover between the departure location and the destination and map information indicating parking-available locations in the vicinity of the stopover, and derives the first usage charge reflecting a cost generated by using the parking-available location when the parking-available location satisfying the predetermined condition is a paid location.

7. The information processing system according to claim 6 ,
wherein the deriver generates the action plan in which the automatic driving vehicle keeps traveling in the unmanned state when no parking-available locations satisfying the predetermined condition are detected.

8. The information processing system according to claim 7 ,
wherein the deriver derives the first usage charge on the basis of a third usage charge generated by using the parking-available location at the time of traveling in the unmanned state.

9. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the hardware processor executing software, the hardware including circuitry, or the cooperation of the software and the hardware are further configured to operate as:
an operation receptor configured to receive an operation of the user; and
a transmitter configured to transmit at least one of a locking signal that locks a compartment of the automatic driving vehicle from outside of the automatic driving vehicle, an unlocking signal that unlocks the compartment, and an air conditioning control signal that controls air conditioning of the automatic driving vehicle to the automatic driving vehicle based on the operation of the user received by the operation receptor in the standby state.

10. The information processing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the deriver derives a second usage charge when transferring to another automatic driving vehicle at the stopover, and
the output outputs information including the second usage charge derived by the deriver.

11. The information processing system according to claim 10 ,
wherein the output outputs a condition of the boarding request when the first usage charge calculated by the deriver is lower than the second usage charge.

12. The information processing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the acquirer is capable of acquiring a change request indicating a change in the boarding request while the automatic driving vehicle is traveling based on the boarding request, and
the deriver derives a difference in amount from the first usage charge that is caused by a change from the boarding request on the basis of the change request acquired by the acquirer.

13. The information processing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the deriver derives the first usage charge further on the basis of a usage status of the automatic driving vehicle.

14. An information processing system comprising:
a hardware processor executing software, hardware including circuitry, or a cooperation of the software and the hardware configured to operate as:
an acquirer configured to acquire, from a terminal device via a wireless communication network, a boarding request including an estimated stay time at a stopover between a departure location and a destination;
a deriver configured to derive a first usage charge when an automatic driving vehicle is occupied from the departure location to the destination and a second usage charge when transferring to another automatic driving vehicle at the stopover on the basis of the boarding request acquired by the acquirer; and
an output configured to output, via the wireless communication network and on a display of the terminal device, information including the first usage charge and the second usage charge derived by the deriver;
based on receipt of a first request for use of the automatic driving vehicle in response to the first usage charge, use of the automatic driving vehicle is allocated for a user of the terminal device, wherein the first request is received from the terminal device via the wireless communication network, wherein
the acquirer acquires information related to the estimated stay time of the user at the stopover between the departure location and the destination, and
the deriver generates, based on the

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yasui Yuji
• Ishisaka Kentaro
• Watanabe Nobuyuki
• AHEGO Kovi
• Lang Christopher
• Liu Liyan
• Ito Yo
• Uchitomi Hirotaka

Classifications

• G06Q50/10

  Services · CPC title

• G06Q30/0284

  Time or distance, e.g. usage of parking meters or taximeters · CPC title

• G08G1/00

  Traffic control systems for road vehicles (arrangement of road signs or traffic signals E01F9/00 {; automatic vehicle control B62D}) · CPC title

• B60R25/24

  using electronic identifiers containing a code not memorised by the user · CPC title

• B60H1/00878

  the components being temperature regulating devices · CPC title