Information processing device and recording medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2021306826-A1
Application number	US-202117201787-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 15, 2021
Priority date	Mar 24, 2020
Publication date	Sep 30, 2021
Grant date	—

Abstract

An information processing device is capable of being placed inside a vehicle. The information processing device includes a controller that is configured to transmit an acquisition request for first information about music that is being played back in a vehicle, in relation to a target vehicle among one or a plurality of vehicles existing in a periphery, receive the first information related to the target vehicle from a predetermined device possessing the first information related to the target vehicle, and output the first information related to the target vehicle. The predetermined device may be a first information processing device that is placed inside the target vehicle, or may be a predetermined server.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An information processing device capable of being placed inside a vehicle, the information processing device comprising a controller configured to:
transmit an acquisition request for first information about music that is being played back in a vehicle, in relation to a target vehicle among one or a plurality of vehicles existing in a periphery, receive the first information related to the target vehicle from a predetermined device possessing the first information related to the target vehicle, and output the first information related to the target vehicle.

2 . The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to receive the first information related to the target vehicle, through inter-vehicle communication, from a first information processing device, as the predetermined device, that is placed inside the target vehicle.

3 . The information processing device according to claim 2 , wherein the controller is configured to transmit the acquisition request for the first information related to the target vehicle through the inter-vehicle communication, by multicast or broadcast.

4 . The information processing device according to claim 3 , wherein the controller is further configured to:
transmit information about the target vehicle, together with the first information related to the target vehicle; receive, from a second information processing device, information about a target vehicle of the second information processing device and the acquisition request for the first information related to the target vehicle of the second information processing device; and transmit, to the second information processing device, the first information related to a first vehicle where the information processing device is placed, in a case where the information about the target vehicle of the second information processing device indicates the first vehicle.

5 . The information processing device according to claim 4 , wherein the controller is further configured to output information indicating that the acquisition request for the first information related to the first vehicle is received from the second information processing device.

6 . The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to:
transmit, to a predetermined server as the predetermined device, the acquisition request for the first information related to the target vehicle, and receive, from the predetermined server, the first information related to the target vehicle.

7 . The information processing device according to claim 6 , wherein the controller is further configured to:
receive, from the predetermined server, a notification indicating that the acquisition request for the first information related to a first vehicle where the information processing device is placed is received from a second information processing device, and output the notification.

8 . The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein
the controller is configured to acquire information about the target vehicle from a captured image including the target vehicle, and transmit the information about the target vehicle, together with the acquisition request for the first information.

9 . An information processing device capable of being placed inside a first vehicle, the information processing device comprising a controller configured to:
receive first information about music that is being played back in a vehicle, from one or a plurality of second information processing devices placed inside one or a plurality of second vehicles existing in a periphery, and cause a display device inside the first vehicle to display the first information related to the one or plurality of second vehicles.

10 . The information processing device according to claim 9 , wherein
the controller is configured to transmit an acquisition request for the first information by multicast or broadcast, and receive the first information from one or plurality of information processing devices, as the one or plurality of second information processing devices, receiving the acquisition request for the first information.

11 . The information processing device according to claim 9 , wherein the controller is configured to:
receive the first information from the one or plurality of second information processing devices at a predetermined timing, store the first information that is received, in a storage, and cause the display device to display the first information stored in the storage in relation to the one or plurality of second vehicles, in a case where a user operation for the acquisition request for the first information is input.

12 . The information processing device according to claim 9 , wherein the controller is configured to:
receive position information from the one or plurality of second information processing devices, together with the first information, identify a positional relationship between the first vehicle and the one or plurality of second vehicles based on the position information that is received, and cause the display device to further display the positional relationship.

13 . The information processing device according to claim 9 , wherein the controller is configured to:
receive information about volume of the music that is being played back in a vehicle, from the one or plurality of second information processing devices, together with the first information, and cause the display device to display the first information that is received from the second information processing device for which the volume is at or greater than a predetermined value.

14 . The information processing device according to claim 9 , wherein the controller is further configured to:
receive a user operation of selecting one piece of the first information for playback of music, from the first information related to the one or plurality of second vehicles displayed on the display device, and notify the second information processing device corresponding to the first information selected by the user operation that there is an inquiry about the information about music that is being played back in the vehicle.

15 . An information processing device comprising one or a plurality of controllers, the controllers each being configured to:
receive, from a first user terminal that is capable of being placed inside a vehicle, an acquisition request for first information about music that is being played back in a vehicle, in relation to a target vehicle among one or a plurality of vehicles existing in a periphery of the first user terminal, acquire the first information related to the target vehicle, and transmit the first information related to the target vehicle to the first user terminal.

16 . The information processing device according to claim 15 , wherein the one or plurality of controllers are each configured to:
transmit the acquisition request for the first information related to the target vehicle to a second user terminal associated with the target vehicle, in a case where the acquisition request for the first information related to the target vehicle is received from the first user terminal, and receive the first information related to the target vehicle from the second user terminal.

17 . The information processing device according to claim 15 , wherein
the one or plurality of controllers are each configured to:
receive, at a predetermined timing, the first information from a plurality of user terminals

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

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

Classifications

• H04W4/48 Primary

  for in-vehicle communication · CPC title

• H04L67/12

  specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks · CPC title

• H04W4/46 Primary

  for vehicle-to-vehicle communication [V2V] · CPC title