Control apparatus and method
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShin Sakurada, Yasuhiro Baba, Shuichi Sawada, Shintaro Matsutani, Yurika Tanaka, Ryosuke Kobayashi, Genshi Kuno, Tomoya Makino
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Abstract
A control apparatus includes a controller configured to identify a section on which a user can travel by either passenger carrying apparatus or walking, as a rewarding section, and determine a reward to be provided to the user, upon determining that the user has traveled on the rewarding section by walking.
Claims20
A control apparatus comprising a controller configured to:
- identify a section on which a user can travel by either passenger carrying apparatus or walking, as a rewarding section;
- and
- determine a reward to be provided to the user, upon determining that the user has traveled on the rewarding section by walking.
A method executed by a terminal apparatus configured to communicate with a control apparatus configured to identify a section on which a user can travel by either passenger carrying apparatus or walking, as a rewarding section, and determine a reward to be provided to the user, upon determining that the user has traveled on the rewarding section by walking, the method comprising:
- detecting positional information for the user;
- and
- transmitting the detected positional information to the control apparatus.
A method executed by a control apparatus, the method comprising:
- identifying a section on which a user can travel by either passenger carrying apparatus or walking, as a rewarding section;
- and
- determining a reward to be provided to the user, upon determining that the user has traveled on the rewarding section by walking.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.