Vehicle information management method and vehicle information management apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2024046340-A1
Application number	US-202318229910-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Aug 3, 2023
Priority date	Aug 8, 2022
Publication date	Feb 8, 2024
Grant date	—

Abstract

A vehicle information management method for managing vehicle information linked with a vehicle, includes the steps of: including: image information illustrating at least one of a whole and a part of the vehicle; and setting information indicating a setting state of a function provided in the vehicle, into the vehicle information; permitting a user of the vehicle to view the vehicle information in a stereoscopic view or a planar view through a communication terminal from before a delivery date of the vehicle; and updating the setting information based on operation information from the communication terminal. The updating includes generating the vehicle information as a non-fungible token to be recorded in a blockchain.

First claim

1 . A vehicle information management method for managing vehicle information linked with a vehicle, comprising the steps of:
including: image information illustrating at least one of a whole and a part of the vehicle; and setting information indicating a setting state of a function provided in the vehicle, into the vehicle information; permitting a user of the vehicle to view the vehicle information in a stereoscopic view or a planar view through a communication terminal from before a delivery date of the vehicle; updating the setting information based on operation information from the communication terminal; and generating the vehicle information as a non-fungible token to be recorded in a blockchain.

2 . The vehicle information management method according to claim 1 , further comprising the steps of:
issuing an instruction to change a function corresponding to the setting information after the updating to the vehicle.

3 . The vehicle information management method according to claim 2 , further comprising the steps of:
including status information indicating a status of the vehicle information into the vehicle information; and updating the status information based on travel information of the vehicle after the delivery date.

4 . The vehicle information management method according to claim 3 , wherein
the travel information is information indicating at least one of: a travel distance; a travel time; and an arrival at a plurality of predetermined places of the vehicle.

5 . The vehicle information management method according to claim 4 , wherein
each of the plurality of predetermined places includes characteristic information different from each other, wherein the updating the status information includes updating the status information based on the characteristic information when the vehicle arrives at any one of the plurality of predetermined places.

6 . The vehicle information management method according to claim 5 , wherein
the plurality of predetermined places are charging facilities or refueling facilities for the vehicle.

7 . The vehicle information management method according to claim 6 , wherein
the characteristic information of the charging facilities or the refueling facilities are different from each other in accordance with origins of power to be charged of fuel to be refueled.

8 . A vehicle information management apparatus configured to manage vehicle information linked with a vehicle, comprising:
a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the processor is configured to perform: including: image information illustrating at least one of a whole and a part of the vehicle; and setting information indicating a setting state of a function provided in the vehicle, into the vehicle information; permitting a user of the vehicle to view the vehicle information in a stereoscopic view or a planar view through a communication terminal from before a delivery date of the vehicle; updating the setting information based on operation information from the communication terminal; and generating the vehicle information as a non-fungible token to be recorded in a blockchain.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tsujino Yoshihiro
• Sawai Daisuke
• Mikami Shinji
• Osanai Koki
• Tamaki Daisuke

Classifications

• H04L9/3213

  using tickets or tokens, e.g. Kerberos (network architectures or network communication protocols for entities authentication using tickets in a packet data network H04L63/0807) · CPC title

• G07C5/008 Primary

  communicating information to a remotely located station (transmission systems for measured values G08C) · CPC title

• G06Q30/0643 Primary

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

• H04N13/106

  Processing image signals (for multi-view video sequence encoding H04N19/597) · CPC title

• H04L2209/84

  Vehicles · CPC title