# US 11,027,623 B2 · Information processing server and information processing system

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- Number: US 11,027,623 B2
- Document ID: US11027623B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/865,811
- Filed: 2018-01-09
- Published: 2018-07-19
- Granted: 2021-06-08
- Earliest claimed: 2017-01-19
- Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Yuji Takeuchi; Koji Sengoku
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11027623B2

## CPC

- B60L 53/60: Monitoring or controlling charging stations
- G01C 21/3469: {Fuel consumption; Energy use; Emission aspects}
- G09B 29/10: Map spot or coordinate position indicators; Map reading aids (optical projection apparatus per se G03B)
- G01C 21/3605: {Destination input or retrieval}
- G01C 21/3697: {Output of additional, non-guidance related information, e.g. low fuel level (G01C21/3679 takes precedence)}
- G06F 16/487: using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
- Y02T 10/70: Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
- Y02T 10/7072: Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
- Y02T 90/12: Electric charging stations
- Y02T 90/16: Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles
- B60L: PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (arrangements or mounting of electrical propulsion units or of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion in vehicles B60K1/00, B60K6/20; arrangements or mounting of electrical gearing in vehicles B60K17/12, B60K17/14; preventing wheel slip by reducing power in rail vehicles B61C15/08; dynamo-electric machines H02K; control or regulation of electric motors H02P); SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (electric coupling devices combined with mechanical couplings of vehicles B60D1/64; electric heating for vehicles B60H1/00); ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL (control or regulation of electric motors H02P); MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES
- G01C: MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY (measuring liquid level G01F; radio navigation, determining distance or velocity by use of propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effects, propagation time, of radio waves, analogous arrangements using other waves G01S)
- G09B: EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS (devices for psychotechnics or for testing reaction times A61B5/16; games, sports, amusements A63; projectors, projector screens G03B)
- G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)
- Y02T: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION

## Abstract

Provided is a system and the like which further improves the user-friendliness of checking the amount of energy charge (e.g., amount of refuelling) for a mobile body (e.g., a vehicle) by effectively utilizing a function of a mobile terminal (e.g., a smartphone). A present amount of refuelling ΔFa(i) (present amount of energy charge) is estimated based on a deviation ΔD(i) and a fuel consumption Fe(i) (travel efficiency) when the deviation ΔD(i) of a present drivable distance D(i) from a last drivable distance D(i−1) of a vehicle X becomes a threshold ΔDth (>0) or higher. Accordingly, without the inconvenience that the user of the vehicle X inputs the fuelling amount into a mobile terminal 2 every time of refuel to the vehicle X, the estimation result of the fuelling amount can be automatically accumulated.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An information processing server, comprising:
an information input unit configured to recognize a deviation of a present drivable distance determined according to a present actual remaining amount of energy at a present time point of a mobile body from a last drivable distance determined according to a last actual remaining amount of energy at a last time point of the mobile body, and a travel efficiency that is an amount of energy consumption per a unit travel distance of the mobile body or a travel distance per a unit energy consumption of the mobile body, the deviation and the travel efficiency being issued from a mobile terminal cooperating with the mobile body, the mobile terminal being separated from the mobile body;
a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the deviation recognized by the information input unit is equal to or higher than a threshold that is a positive value;
an estimation unit configured to estimate a present amount of energy charge completed between the last time point and the present time point in the mobile body, by dividing the deviation by the travel efficiency of the mobile body recognized by the information input unit or by subtracting the travel distance between the last time point and the present time point from the deviation and dividing by the travel efficiency, in the case where the determination unit determines that the deviation is equal to or higher than the threshold; and
an information output unit configured to transmit the present amount of energy charge estimated by the estimation unit to the mobile terminal.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The information processing server according to claim 1, further comprising
an information output unit configured to provide the mobile terminal with designation information that includes an amount of energy charge in the mobile body estimated by the estimation unit.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The information processing server according to claim 2,
wherein the information output unit provides the mobile terminal with, as the designation information, information pertaining to a time series of the amount of energy charge in the mobile body, including the amount of energy charge in the mobile body estimated by the estimation unit.

### Claim 4 (depends on 2)

The information processing server according to claim 2,
wherein the information output unit provides the mobile terminal with the designation information that includes the amount of energy charge in the mobile body estimated by the estimation unit, and the amount of energy charge in the mobile body input into the mobile terminal and issued from the mobile terminal, in a discriminable manner.

### Claim 5 (depends on 2)

The information processing server according to claim 2,
wherein in the case where the determination unit determines that the deviation is equal to or higher than the threshold, the information input unit recognizes location information pertaining to a location position of the mobile terminal at a time point of this case, and
the information output unit provides the mobile terminal with a location information on the mobile body recognized by the information input unit.

### Claim 6

An information processing system comprising a mobile terminal cooperating with a mobile body, and an information processing server,
the information processing server, comprising:
an information input unit configured to recognize a deviation of a present drivable distance determined according to a present actual remaining amount of energy at a present time point of the mobile body from a last drivable distance determined according to a last actual remaining amount of energy at a last time point of the mobile body, and a travel efficiency that is an amount of energy consumption per a unit travel distance of the mobile body or a travel distance per a unit energy consumption of the mobile body, the deviation and the travel efficiency being issued from the mobile terminal cooperating with the mobile body, the mobile terminal being separated from the mobile body;
a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the deviation recognized by the information input unit is equal to or higher than a threshold that is a positive value;
an estimation unit configured to estimate a present amount of energy charge completed between the last time point and the present time point in the mobile body, by dividing the deviation by the travel efficiency of the mobile body recognized by the information input unit or by subtracting the travel distance between the last time point and the present time point from the deviation and dividing by the travel efficiency, in the case where the determination unit determines that the deviation is equal to or higher than the threshold; and
an information output unit configured to transmit the present amount of energy charge estimated by the estimation unit to the mobile terminal,
wherein the mobile terminal comprises an input interface configured to allow the mobile terminal to receive the amount of energy charge of the mobile body from a user or a device mounted on the mobile body.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The information processing system according to claim 6,
the information processing server further comprises an information output unit configured to provide the mobile terminal with designation information that includes an amount of energy charge in the mobile body estimated by the estimation unit, based on communication with the mobile terminal, and
the mobile terminal further comprises an output interface configured to output the designation information.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The information processing system according to claim 7,
wherein the output interface of the mobile terminal outputs the designation information in a manner capable of identifying an entity of inputting the amount of energy charge in the mobile body into the input interface.