# US 2021/0239487 A1 · Information providing device, vehicle, and method of providing information > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2021/0239487 A1 - Document ID: US20210239487A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 17/160,826 - Filed: 2021-01-28 - Published: 2021-08-05 - Earliest claimed: 2020-01-30 - Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Masahide KOBAYASHI; Shintaro MASU - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20210239487A1 ## CPC - G01C 21/3626: {Details of the output of route guidance instructions (traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968)} - G01C 21/3484: {Personalized, e.g. from learned user behaviour or user-defined profiles} - G01C 21/3641: {Personalized guidance, e.g. limited guidance on previously travelled routes} - G01C 21/3691: {Retrieval, searching and output of information related to real-time traffic, weather, or environmental conditions (arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions G08G1/09)} - G01S 19/42: Determining position - G06Q 30/0251: Targeted advertisements - G06Q 30/0282: Rating or review of business operators or products - G06Q 50/40: Business processes related to the transportation industry (shipping G06Q10/083) - G08G 1/09626: {where the origin of the information is within the own vehicle, e.g. a local storage device, digital map} - 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) - G01S: RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES - G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - G08G: TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS (guiding railway traffic, ensuring the safety of railway traffic B61L; arrangement of road signs or traffic signals E01F9/00; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S13/91, G01S15/88, G01S17/88; {radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for anti-collision purposes G01S13/93, G01S15/93, G01S17/93}) ## Abstract An information providing device is equipped with a position information acquisition unit that acquires information concerning a position of a user's own vehicle, a regional information acquisition unit that acquires regional information defined by information concerning a region located on a travel route of the user's own vehicle, and a providing unit that provides the regional information acquired by the regional information acquisition unit in accordance with the position of the user's own vehicle, in the case it is determined by a determination unit that a visiting experience of a driver is less than an experience threshold value, or in the case it is determined by the determination unit that a visiting interval of the driver is greater than or equal to an interval threshold value. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An information providing device comprising: one or more processors that execute computer-executable instructions stored on a memory, wherein execution of the computer-executable instructions by the one or more processors cause the information providing device to: acquire information concerning a position of a user's own vehicle; determine whether or not a visiting experience of a driver with respect to a region located on a travel route of the user's own vehicle is less than an experience threshold value, or alternatively, whether or not a visiting interval of the driver with respect to the region located on the travel route of the user's own vehicle is greater than or equal to an interval threshold value; acquire regional information defined by information concerning the region located on the travel route of the user's own vehicle; and provide the acquired regional information in accordance with the position of the user's own vehicle, in a case it is determined that the visiting experience of the driver is less than the experience threshold value, or in a case it is determined that the visiting interval of the driver is greater than or equal to the interval threshold value. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The information providing device according to claim 1, wherein the regional information includes information concerning customs of the region. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The information providing device according to claim 1, wherein the regional information includes information concerning traffic customs of the region. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The information providing device according to claim 1, wherein the regional information includes information concerning facilities existing in the region. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The information providing device according to claim 1, wherein the regional information includes information concerning transportation infrastructure of the region. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The information providing device according to claim 1, wherein the regional information includes information concerning a percentage of elderly people in the region. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The information providing device according to claim 1, wherein the regional information includes information concerning a percentage of young people in the region. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The information providing device according to claim 1, wherein the regional information includes information concerning a percentage of small children in the region. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The information providing device according to claim 1, wherein the regional information includes information concerning a percentage of people who have transferred into the region. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The information providing device according to claim 1, wherein the regional information includes information concerning a disaster in the region. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The information providing device according to claim 1, wherein the one or more processors further cause the information providing device to acquire the regional information from a social networking service. ### Claim 12 A vehicle comprising a information providing device, wherein the information providing device comprises: one or more processors that execute computer-executable instructions stored on a memory, wherein execution of the computer-executable instructions by the one or more processors cause the information providing device to: acquire information concerning a position of a user's own vehicle; determine whether or not a visiting experience of a driver with respect to a region located on a travel route of the user's own vehicle is less than an experience threshold value, or alternatively, whether or not a visiting interval of the driver with respect to the region located on the travel route of the user's own vehicle is greater than or equal to an interval threshold value; acquire regional information defined by information concerning the region located on the travel route of the user's own vehicle; and provide the acquired regional information in accordance with the position of the user's own vehicle, in a case it is determined that the visiting experience of the driver is less than the experience threshold value, or in a case it is determined that the visiting interval of the driver is greater than or equal to the interval threshold value. ### Claim 13 A method of providing information, comprising: acquiring information concerning a position of a user's own vehicle; determining whether or not a visiting experience of a driver with respect to a region located on a travel route of the user's own vehicle is less than an experience threshold value, or alternatively, whether or not a visiting interval of the driver with respect to the region located on the travel route of the user's own vehicle is greater than or equal to an interval threshold value; acquiring regional information defined by information concerning the region located on the travel route of the user's own vehicle; and providing the regional information acquired in the acquiring of the regional information, in accordance with the position of the user's own vehicle, in a case it is determined, in the determining, that the visiting experience of the driver is less than the experience threshold value, or in a case it is determined, in the determining, that the visiting interval of the driver is greater than or equal to the interval threshold value.