Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11727418-B2
Application number	US-202117220222-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 1, 2021
Priority date	Apr 3, 2020
Publication date	Aug 15, 2023
Grant date	Aug 15, 2023

Abstract

The present disclosure includes an object to acquire information indicating a tendency on a visit spot for each vehicle sort.
The present disclosure provides an information processing apparatus including a controller configured to execute: acquiring first information about a plurality of vehicles, the first information including vehicle information about a vehicle, the first information not being capable of identifying an individual user or an individual vehicle but reflecting at least part of attributes or preferences of a user associated with the vehicle, and spot information about a visit spot of the vehicle; and acquiring tendency information indicating a tendency on the visit spot of the vehicle for each vehicle classification based on the vehicle information, from the first information about the plurality of vehicles.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising a controller including at least one processor configured to execute:
receiving first information about a plurality of vehicles, the first information being based on information acquired in real-time from a plurality of in-vehicle devices that are respectively mounted on the plurality of vehicles at a predetermined cycle, the first information including vehicle information being associated with at least one piece of data classified as any one of a plurality of attributes about a vehicle, the vehicle information not being capable of identifying an individual user or an individual vehicle but reflecting at least part of attributes or preferences of a user associated with the vehicle, the first information including spot information being associated with at least one piece of data classified as any one of a plurality of attributes about a visit spot of the vehicle, and the first information including time information being associated with at least one piece of data classified as any one of a plurality of attributes about time;
receiving the first information based on information acquired from a plurality of cameras installed at a position associated with a predetermined spot at a predetermined cycle, the plurality of cameras include first cameras that are installed in each site of stores and facilities and whose capturing range is a parking lot in the site, and second cameras that are installed along a road and whose capturing range is a part of the road;
acquiring the vehicle information from captured images by the plurality of cameras;
acquiring the spot information from information about the predetermined spot at which the plurality of cameras is installed;
acquiring the first information based on a post on an social networking service (SNS) from a plurality of SNS servers;
acquiring the vehicle information from at least one of a message and an image included in the post;
acquiring the spot information from at least one of position information and the message included in the post;
reforming, into a common format, the vehicle information and the spot information included in the first information which is received from the plurality of in-vehicle devices, the vehicle information acquired from the captured images, the spot information acquired from the information about the predetermined spot, the vehicle information acquired from the at least one of the message and the image, and the spot information acquired from the at least one of the position information and the message, and acquiring the reformed first information including the reformed vehicle information and the reformed spot information;
receiving an input of an extraction condition for extracting first information used for totaling, from a user terminal or a display on an operation terminal of the information processing apparatus, the extraction condition being about the vehicle information, the spot information and the time information;
extracting the first information satisfying the extraction condition, from the reformed first information about the plurality of vehicles;
receiving an input of a totaling condition including specification of an attribute used for totaling, the totaling condition being about the vehicle information and the spot information, from the user terminal or the display on the operation terminal;
totaling numbers of records of the first information extracted about the plurality of vehicles according to at least one attribute of the plurality of attributes associated with the vehicle information, at least one attribute of the plurality of attributes associated with the spot information, and at least one attribute of the plurality of attributes associated with the time information, which are specified by the input of the totaling condition received;
acquiring second information including the vehicle information about one vehicle, and the spot information about each of a visit spot of a movement source and a visit spot of a movement destination, the second information indicating a history in which the one vehicle has moved from the visit spot of the movement source to the visit spot of the movement destination based on the first information totaled;
acquiring tendency information indicating a tendency for a vehicle to move between two visit spots including the visit spot of the movement source and the visit spot of the movement destination, for each classification based on the vehicle information, from the second information about the plurality of vehicles, wherein the tendency information is based at least on a family structure of the user of the vehicle that has been determined based on a number of passengers of the vehicle;
receiving an input of an output condition for specifying an output format of the tendency information, from the user terminal or the display on the operation terminal;
creating the tendency information in the output format specified by the output condition; and
outputting the tendency information created, to the user terminal or the display on the operation terminal, the user terminal or the display on the operation terminal being input the output condition,
wherein the plurality of attributes associated with the vehicle information comprises two or more attributes among identification information of a vehicle, a vehicle name, a vehicle body style, a body color, a vehicle model year, and the number of passengers, the number of passengers having been detected by a sensor mounted in the vehicle and transmitted to the information processing apparatus,
wherein the plurality of attributes associated with the spot information comprises two or more attributes among identification information of a spot, a position of the spot, and a genre of the spot;
wherein the plurality of attributes associated with the time information comprises two or more attributes among a date and time, a year, a month, a day of a week, a time slot, a season, and a staying time; and
wherein the controller is further configured to:
determine, in the process of extracting the first information, in reaction to the input of the extraction condition, for the vehicle information, the spot information, and the time information related to each of the two visit spots:
whether values of the identification information of the vehicle associated with the vehicle information match;
whether values of the date and time associated with the time information are within a range of a predetermined length in time; and
whether values of the identification information of the spot associated with the spot information are different; and

extract the first information, in a case where:
the values of the identification information of the vehicle associated with the vehicle information related to the each of the two visit spots match;
the values of the date and time associated with the time information related to the each of the two visit spots are within the range of the predetermined length in time; and
the values of the identification information of the spot associated with the spot information related to the each of the two visit spots are different.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the output format includes at least one of a totaling table, a list, a pie chart, and a band chart.

3. An information processing method, comprising:
receiving first information about a plurality of vehicles, the first information being based on information acquired in real-time from a plurality of in-vehicle devices that are respectively mounted on the plurality of vehicles at a predetermined cycle, the first information including vehicle information being associated with at least one piece of data classified as any one of a plurality of attributes about a vehicle, the vehicle information not being capa

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yamane Josuke
• Oka Naoya
• Yamamoto Ryosuke
• Okuda Kaori

Classifications

• G06Q10/40 Primary

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• G06Q30/0201 Primary

  Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data · CPC title

• G06Q50/01

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F16/9535 Primary

  Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation · CPC title

• G06F16/9536

  Search customisation based on social or collaborative filtering · CPC title