US 8,576,062 B2Granted

Apparatus and method for providing driving advice

AssigneesDenso Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsKousuke Yamaoka, Ichiro Takeuchi, Shojiro Takeuchi

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Abstract

A driving advice provision apparatus generates an advice, based on diagnosis performed on multiple diagnosis items regarding the driving condition of the vehicle and based on the diagnosis results from those diagnosis items, and provides the generated advice to the driver. The multiple diagnosis items are classified into different categories according to the diagnosis methods. For the diagnosis items suitable to the comparative evaluation rather than the quantitative evaluation, a diagnosis result A for the previous evaluation section is compared with a diagnosis result B for the current evaluation section for yielding a comparative evaluation and for advice generation, thereby enabling an effective advice generation and provision in terms of diagnosis item category.

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Dependent claims

A driving advice provision apparatus comprising:

an information acquisition unit for acquiring vehicle information that represents a condition of a vehicle;
a diagnosis unit for diagnosing on diagnosis items regarding a driving condition of the vehicle based on the vehicle information acquired by the information acquisition unit;
an advice generation unit for generating an advice to be provided for a driver of the vehicle based on a diagnosis result by the diagnosis unit;
a notification unit for notifying the advice for the driver of the vehicle generated by the advice generation unit, wherein
the diagnosis items are multiple items of diagnosis,
the diagnosis unit uses a diagnosis method that is suitable for respective items of diagnosis,
the advice generation unit notifies the advice at a timing that is suitable for respective items of diagnosis,
the notification unit notifies the generated advice at a time of stopping the vehicle or during a stopping of the vehicle,
the notification unit includes an advice selection unit that at least selects an advice having a high priority assigned to each of the advices in advance,
the notification unit notifies the driver of the vehicle of the advice selected by the advice selection unit in a prioritized manner,
the advice generation unit generates the advice at a time of stopping the vehicle or during a stopping of the vehicle,
the multiple items of diagnosis includes environment-related diagnosis items and safety-related diagnosis items,
the advice selection unit selects a high priority environment-related advice having the highest priority from among the generated advices on the environment-related diagnosis items, and selects a high priority safety-related advice having the highest priority from among the generated advices on the safety-related diagnosis items, and
the notification unit notifies the driver of the high priority environment-related advice and the high priority safety-related advice.

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A driving advice provision apparatus comprising:

an information acquisition unit for acquiring vehicle information that represents a condition of a vehicle;
a diagnosis unit for diagnosing on diagnosis items regarding a driving condition of the vehicle based on the vehicle information acquired by the information acquisition unit;
an advice generation unit for generating an advice to be provided for a driver of the vehicle based on a diagnosis result by the diagnosis unit;
a notification unit for notifying the advice for the driver of the vehicle generated by the advice generation unit, wherein
the diagnosis items are multiple items of diagnosis,
each of the multiple items is categorized according to a method of diagnosis of the each of the multiple items,
the diagnosis unit performs diagnosis of each of the multiple items by a method that is suitable to a category of the each of the multiple items,
the advice generation unit generates, for each of the multiple items, an advice that is suitable to the category of the each of the multiple items,
the notification unit notifies the generated advice at a time of stopping the vehicle or during a stopping of the vehicle,
the notification unit includes an advice selection unit that at least selects an advice having a high priority assigned to each of the advices in advance,
the notification unit notifies the driver of the vehicle of the advice selected by the advice selection unit in a prioritized manner,
the advice generation unit generates the advice at a time of stopping the vehicle or during a stopping of the vehicle,
the multiple items of diagnosis includes environment-related diagnosis items and safety-related diagnosis items,
the environment-related diagnosis items and the safety-related diagnosis items are classified into respectively different diagnosis methods,
the advice selection unit selects a high priority environment-related advice having the highest priority from among the generated advices on the environment-related diagnosis items, and selects a high priority safety-related advice having the highest priority from among the generated advices on the safety-related diagnosis items, and
the notification unit notifies the driver of the high priority environment-related advice and the high priority safety-related advice.

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