Benefit selection apparatus, method for selecting benefit, and information terminal
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKazuhiro UMEDA, Takumi FUKUNAGA, Makoto AKAHANE, Satoshi USUI
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Abstract
A benefit selection apparatus includes at least one processor configured to calculate, based on information on a travel route of a vehicle used by a user and on traffic congestion information, a congested travel record of the vehicle traveling in a congested section, and select a benefit corresponding to the congested travel record as a benefit awarded to the user.
Claims7
A benefit selection apparatus, comprising at least one processor configured to calculate, based on information on a travel route of a vehicle used by a user and on traffic congestion information, a congested travel record of the vehicle traveling in a congested section, and select a benefit corresponding to the congested travel record as a benefit awarded to the user.
A method for selecting a benefit, comprising:
- calculating, based on information on a travel route of a vehicle used by a user and on traffic congestion information, a congested travel record of the vehicle traveling in a congested section;
- and
- selecting a benefit corresponding to the congested travel record as a benefit awarded to the user.
An information terminal, comprising:
- a transmission module configured to repeatedly transmit, while a vehicle equipped with the information terminal is used by a user, information on a current location of the information terminal and a time as information on a travel route of the vehicle;
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- a display configured to receive and display details of a benefit corresponding to a congested travel record that is at least one of a congested travel distance and a congested travel time of the vehicle traveling in a congested section, the congested travel record being calculated based on the information on the travel route and on traffic congestion information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.