Information providing apparatus for engine-equipped mobile body
AssigneePioneer Corporation
InventorsMasahiro Odashima, Tadamasa Yamanaka, Koji Sakuma
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Abstract
An information providing apparatus includes a terminal device in a mobile body for transmitting an information request signal and an information providing device for transmitting information data to the terminal device in response to the information request signal. The information request signal is issued in response to an operation of starting the mobile body's engine.
Claims9
An information providing apparatus for providing mobile bodies with various information data, each of the mobile bodies having an engine, the information providing apparatus comprising:
- a terminal device provided in each of the mobile bodies for transmitting an information request signal in response to an operation of starting the engine of the mobile body;
- and
- an information providing device for transmitting information data to the terminal device of the mobile body upon receiving the information request signal,
- wherein the terminal device of the mobile body transmits the information request signal only in response to the first time the engine is started within each of a plurality of predetermined time periods of a day.
An information providing method for providing mobile bodies with various information data, each of the mobile bodies having an engine, the information providing method comprising the steps of:
- making a request for information in response to an operation of starting the engine of the mobile body;
- and
- transmitting information data to a terminal device of the mobile body in response to the information request,
- wherein the step of making a request for information makes a request for information only in response to the first time the engine is started within each of a plurality of predetermined time periods of a day.
An information providing apparatus for providing a mobile body with various information data, the mobile body having an engine, the information providing apparatus comprising:
- a terminal device provided in the mobile body for transmitting an information request signal in response to an operation of starting the engine of the mobile body;
- and
- an information providing device for transmitting information data to the terminal device of the mobile body upon receiving the information request signal,
- wherein the terminal device of the mobile body transmits the information request signal only in response to the first time the engine is started within each of a plurality of predetermined time periods of a day.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.