Information providing apparatus, method for providing information, non-transitory storage medium storing program, and method of controlling air-conditioner of vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2019359029-A1
Application number	US-201916419757-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 22, 2019
Priority date	May 24, 2018
Publication date	Nov 28, 2019
Grant date	—

Abstract

An information providing apparatus, includes: a communication unit configured to communicate with a vehicle used by a user; and a control unit configured to receive user information on the user and weather information on weather at an outing destination of the user through the communication unit, the outing destination being obtained based on the user information, and notify, to the vehicle through the communication unit, a set temperature of an air-conditioner of the vehicle based on a sensible temperature derived based on the weather information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An information providing apparatus, comprising:
a communication unit configured to communicate with a vehicle used by a user; and a control unit configured to
receive user information on the user and weather information on weather at an outing destination of the user through the communication unit, the outing destination being obtained based on the user information, and
notify, to the vehicle through the communication unit, a set temperature of an air-conditioner of the vehicle based on a sensible temperature derived based on the weather information.

2 . The information providing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the control unit is configured to determine the set temperature in accordance with the sensible temperature and information on vehicle cabin humidity of the vehicle.

3 . The information providing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the control unit is configured to
determine a second set temperature in accordance with an outdoor temperature at the outing destination, and
notify the second set temperature to the vehicle through the communication unit.

4 . The information providing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the control unit is configured to display clothes information corresponding to each of the sensible temperature and an outdoor temperature at the outing destination on at least one of a display unit of the vehicle and a display unit of a terminal device of the user.

5 . The information providing apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein
the control unit is configured to
store a selection history of the clothes information selected by the user, and
display the selection history on at least one of the display unit of the vehicle and the display unit of the terminal device of the user.

6 . The information providing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the control unit is configured to
display information indicating at least one of raindrops, ripples, necessity of an umbrella, and wiper operation, on at least one of a display unit of the vehicle and a display unit of a terminal device of the user based on a precipitation amount of the outing destination.

7 . The information providing apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein
the control unit is configured to display information indicating at least one of the raindrops, the ripples, the necessity of the umbrella, and the wiper operation, on at least one of the display unit of the vehicle and the display unit of the terminal device of the user, further based on information on a use history of wipers of other vehicles at the outing destination.

8 . The information providing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the control unit is configured to calculate the sensible temperature at the outing destination based on the weather information.

9 . The information providing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the control unit is configured to receive the weather information including information on the sensible temperature.

10 . A method for providing information, comprising:
receiving user information on a user using a vehicle and weather information on weather at an outing destination, the outing destination being obtained based on the user information; obtaining a sensible temperature at the outing destination based on the weather information; and notifying, to the vehicle, a set temperature of an air-conditioner of the vehicle, the set temperature being derived based on the sensible temperature.

11 . A non-transitory storage medium storing a program, the program, upon being executed on a computer, causing the computer to execute the method for providing information according to claim 10 .

12 . A method of controlling an air-conditioner of a vehicle, comprising:
acquiring user information on a user using the vehicle and information on an outing destination based on the user information; and controlling, based on a sensible temperature derived based on weather information on weather at the outing destination, the air-conditioner of the vehicle.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tokita Hiroyuki

Classifications

• G01D21/02

  Measuring two or more variables by means not covered by a single other subclass · CPC title

• B60H1/00735

  Control systems or circuits characterised by their input, i.e. by the detection, measurement or calculation of particular conditions, e.g. signal treatment, dynamic models · CPC title

• B60H1/0073 Primary

  Control systems or circuits characterised by particular algorithms or computational models, e.g. fuzzy logic or dynamic models · CPC title

• G01S19/42

  Determining position · CPC title

• G01W1/02

  Instruments for indicating weather conditions by measuring two or more variables, e.g. humidity, pressure, temperature, cloud cover or wind speed (G01W1/10 takes precedence) · CPC title