JP2002352390A - Travel recording communication device, host computer and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a travel record acquired by a user, to be compared with the travel records of many unspecified persons. SOLUTION: A car navigation system 1 transmits a travel record in prescribed travel conditions to the host computer 19. The host computer 19 compares the travel record received from the car navigation system 1, with the travel records of other automobiles in the same prescribed travel conditions to acquire an evaluation result, and transmits the acquired evaluation result to the car navigation system 1. The car navigation system 1 displays the evaluation result received from the host computer 19, on a display 16. The user can know the degrees of the performance of an automobile driven by the user and the driving technique of the user in comparison with many unspecified persons.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to a travel record communication device capable of communicating with a host computer, a program executed by the travel record communication device, a host computer capable of communicating with a plurality of vehicles, and a program executed by the host computer. About the program to be done.

[0002]

Conventionally, as one of the car navigation systems, the time required to travel 400 m from a stopped state of a car or 1000 m from a stopped state of a car. Is provided, which measures the time required for the running and displays the running records on a display. According to this one, the user:
By checking the running record, for example, the performance of the car that the user has driven and his / her driving technique can be checked.

[0003] By the way, a user can, for example, report a traveling record to an acquaintance or report the traveling record from an acquaintance, thereby comparing the traveling record of the user with the traveling record of the acquaintance. You can know the performance of your car and how much your driving skills are compared to those you know. However, in this case, an acquaintance who reports the driving record obtained by himself or reports the driving record to himself,
Basically, since he / she is acquainted with himself / herself, it is undeniable that traveling records to be compared are limited. Therefore, even if there is a request to compare one's own travel record with the travel records of an unspecified number of unfamiliar people, it is difficult to respond to the request.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and has as its object to enable a user to compare his or her own running record with the running records of an unspecified number of people. Another object of the present invention is to provide a travel recording communication device, a host computer, and a program that can enhance entertainment.

[0005]

According to the traveling record communication device of the present invention, when the traveling record acquiring unit acquires the traveling record of the vehicle, the transmitting unit transmits the traveling record acquired by the traveling record acquiring unit. To the host computer,
When the receiving unit receives the evaluation result related to the traveling record processed by the host computer, the output unit outputs the evaluation result received by the receiving unit. By checking the results, it is possible to know, for example, the performance of the vehicle that the driver has driven and how much his / her driving skills are compared to an unspecified number of people, thereby increasing the entertainment. .

According to the traveling record communication device of the second aspect, when the traveling condition is received from the host computer by the receiving device, the traveling record acquisition device transmits the traveling condition of the vehicle based on the traveling condition received by the receiving device. Since the configuration is such that the record is acquired, it is possible to acquire the evaluation result under the same running conditions as other vehicles.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, since the travel recording communication device is provided with travel condition selection means for selecting travel conditions, any one of a plurality of travel conditions is selected. And the entertainment can be further enhanced.

According to the program described in claim 4,
When the program is installed in the travel record communication device and executed, the travel record of the vehicle is acquired by the travel record acquisition means, and the travel record acquired by the travel record acquisition means is transmitted from the transmission means to the host computer. The receiving unit receives the evaluation result related to the traveling record processed in the step (1), and outputs the evaluation result received by the receiving unit from the output unit. The operation and effect can be obtained. That is, by confirming the evaluation result output from the output means, the user can know, for example, the performance of the car that he / she has driven and how much his / her driving skill is as compared with an unspecified number of people. Yes, this can enhance entertainment.

According to the host computer described in claim 5, when the receiving means receives the running record for each vehicle,
The storage unit stores each traveling record received by the receiving unit, and when the receiving unit receives an evaluation result providing request from any of the vehicles, the evaluation result acquiring unit transmits the traveling record of the vehicle that transmitted the evaluation result providing request. And comparing the travel records of other vehicles stored in the storage means to obtain an evaluation result,
The transmitting unit transmits the evaluation result obtained by the evaluation result obtaining unit to the vehicle that has transmitted the evaluation result providing request. It is possible to inform how much the technology is compared to an unspecified number of people.

According to the program described in claim 6,
When the program is installed in the host computer and executed, the running record for each vehicle is received by the receiving unit, and each running record received by the receiving unit is stored in the storage unit, and the evaluation result is provided from any vehicle. When the request is received by the receiving unit, the evaluation result obtaining unit compares the travel record of the vehicle that transmitted the evaluation result provision request with the travel record of another vehicle stored in the storage unit, and compares the evaluation result. And transmitting the evaluation result obtained by the evaluation result obtaining means to the vehicle which has transmitted the evaluation result provision request from the transmission means. Can be obtained. That is, to the user who transmitted the evaluation result provision request,
It is possible to report the performance of the car and the degree of driving skills as compared with an unspecified number of people.

[0011]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment in which a travel record communication device according to the present invention is applied to a car navigation device mounted on an automobile will be described below with reference to the drawings. First, FIG. 1 shows a configuration of a car navigation device and a host computer as a functional block diagram.
The car navigation device 1 has a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 2 mainly composed of a microcomputer.
(Driving record acquisition means in the present invention) includes a position detection unit 3;
Data input unit 4, operation switch unit 5 (running condition selection means in the present invention), mobile phone interface unit 6, voice input unit 7, voice output unit 8, storage unit 9, display control unit 10, and remote control sensor 11 are connected. It is configured.

The position detector 3 is a GPS (Global Positio)
ning System) A GPS receiver 12 that receives GPS radio waves transmitted from satellites, calculates parameters stored in the received GPS radio waves, and obtains position data.
A geomagnetic sensor 13 for detecting an azimuth based on geomagnetism and obtaining azimuth data representing the detected azimuth, a gyroscope for calculating an azimuth based on detecting an angular velocity and obtaining azimuth data indicating the calculated azimuth 14. It is configured to include a distance sensor 15 that detects a traveling distance and acquires distance data indicating the detected distance, and mutually complements each data acquired by each sensor to detect (identify) the current position of the vehicle. ).

The data input unit 4 is, for example, a CD-ROM
(Compact Disk-Read Only Memory), DVD-ROM
(Digital Versatile Disk-Read Only Memory) or map data, map matching data, landmark data or HTML (Hy
Input various data such as per Text Markup Language) data. The operation switch unit 5 includes a display 16
(Output means in the present invention) and the like, and detects the operation of various switches and outputs an operation detection signal to C
Output to PU2.

The mobile phone interface section 6 is provided with a mobile phone 17 (transmitting means of the travel recording communication device according to the present invention,
Receiving means) and has an interface function,
The overall operation of the mobile phone 17 is controlled. Voice input unit 7
Is composed of, for example, a microphone, and inputs a voice uttered by a user to set a destination, for example. The audio output unit 8 is composed of, for example, a speaker, and outputs audio for guidance, audio for screen operation, and the like. The storage unit 9 stores a program to be executed by the CPU 2, and the CPU 2 reads and executes the program stored in the storage unit 9 to perform processing described later in detail. Then, the display control unit 10 controls the display 1
6, the remote control sensor 11 detects an operation on the operation remote controller 18 (running condition selection means in the present invention), and outputs an operation detection signal to the CPU 2.

The host computer 19 includes a communication unit 21 (receiving means and transmitting means of the host computer according to the present invention), a CPU 20 (evaluation result obtaining means according to the present invention) mainly composed of a microcomputer, a running condition database 22 and The running record database 23 (storage means) is connected and configured. The communication unit 21 is connected to the network 2 with the car navigation device 1 described above.
4 is controlled. Running condition database 22
As shown in FIG. 3, “running time of 400 m from the stop state”, “running time of 1000 m from the stop state”, “annual mileage (km)”, “distance of north limit land-south limit land traveled annually” (Km) and a plurality of items such as "distance traveled at 10 km / h or less per year (km)" are stored as traveling conditions.

The CPU 20 identifies the car navigation device by assigning unique device identification numbers “0001” to “n” (n is an arbitrary natural number) to the car navigation device. As shown in FIG. 4, the CPU 20 is configured to be able to store the values of the driving conditions stored in the driving condition database 22 for the car navigation device to which the device identification number has been assigned. That is, the travel record database 23
For example, for a car navigation device to which the device identification number “0001” is assigned by the CPU 20, for example,
“6.5 seconds” is stored as “running time (seconds) 400 m from the stop state”, and “1000 seconds from the stop state”.
“12.0 seconds” is stored as “m running time (seconds)”, and “12551k” is stored as “annual running distance (km)”.
m ”and the like.

Next, the operation of the above configuration will be described with reference to FIG.
This will be described with reference to FIGS. Here, FIG. 5 shows a process performed by the CPU 2 of the car navigation device 1 and a process performed by the CPU 20 of the host computer 19 as a flowchart. Here, as shown in FIG. 4, the host computer 19 assigns the device identification numbers “0001” to “0006” to the six car navigation devices earlier than this, and It is assumed that the value of the driving condition is stored in the driving record database 23 for the car navigation device.

First, the user operates the host computer 19.
The operation for acquiring the driving condition from is performed. In the car navigation device 1, when the CPU 2 detects that an operation for transmitting a driving condition providing request from the mobile phone 17 to the host computer 19 has been performed ("YES" in step S1), the CPU 2 issues the driving condition providing request. The mobile phone 17 transmits the data to the host computer 19 (step S2).

In the host computer 19, a CPU
20 detects that a driving condition providing request has been received from the car navigation device 1 ("Y" in step T1).
ES "), a list of driving conditions stored in the driving condition database 22 is read from the driving condition database 22, and the read list of driving conditions is transmitted from the communication unit 22 to the car navigation device 1 (step T2).

In the car navigation device 1, the CP
When U2 detects that a list of driving conditions has been received from the host computer 19 ("YE" in step S3).
S ")), a part of the received list of driving conditions is displayed on the display 16 as shown in FIG. 7 (step S4). Here, the user operates the “up scroll” key or the “down scroll” key shown in FIG. 7 to sequentially scroll the running condition list upward or downward, thereby allowing other portions of the running condition list to be displayed. Can be displayed on the display 16.

The user operates either the operation switch section 5 or the operation remote controller 18, selects one of the traveling conditions, and actually travels. In addition, here, for convenience of explanation, for example, "400 m
Is assumed to have been selected. CPU
2 detects that any of the traveling conditions has been selected ("YES" in step S5), and detects that the vehicle has actually traveled ("YE" in step S6).
S "), a travel record corresponding to the selected travel condition is acquired (step S7), and the acquired travel record is displayed on the display 16 (step S8). More specifically, when the CPU 2 acquires, for example, “7.5 (second)” as a travel record according to the selected travel condition “travel time (second) of 400 m from the stop state”, FIG. As shown in FIG.

When CPU 2 detects that an operation for transmitting the acquired running record from mobile phone 17 to host computer 19 has been performed ("YES" in step S9), the running result is evaluated together with the running record. The provision request is transmitted from the mobile phone 17 to the host computer 19 (step S10).

In the host computer 19, a CPU
When detecting that the evaluation result providing request has been received together with the travel record from the car navigation device 1 ("YES" in step T3), the control unit 20 stores the received travel record in the travel record database 23 (step T4). More specifically, as shown in FIG. 4, the CPU 20 assigns device identification numbers “0001” to “0006” to six car navigation devices earlier than this, as shown in FIG.
And the values of the driving conditions are stored in the driving record database 23 for the six car navigation devices, so that the car navigation device 1 that has transmitted the driving record is the next device. Identification number "000
7, the travel record received from the car navigation device 1 is stored in the area of the device identification number “0007” of the travel record database 23 as shown in FIG.

Next, the CPU 20 compares the traveling record received from the car navigation device 1 with another traveling record under the same traveling conditions (step T5), and acquires an evaluation result (step T6). More specifically, here, the CPU 20 determines that the traveling condition is “400 m from the stopped state”.
, The travel time received from the car navigation device 1 is “7.5 seconds”.
"6.5 seconds", which is another running record under the running conditions,
“7.2 seconds”, “6.0 seconds”, “6.1 seconds”, “7.8
"7.5 seconds", which is the travel record received from the car navigation device 1, as compared with "7.5 seconds" and "9.5 seconds".
It recognizes that it is the fifth rank in the case, and acquires that fact as an evaluation result (step T6). And CPU
The communication unit 22 transmits the evaluation result thus obtained to the communication unit 22.
Is transmitted to the car navigation device 1 (step T7).

In the car navigation device 1, when the CPU 2 detects that the evaluation result has been received from the host computer 19 ("Y" in step S11).
ES "), the received evaluation result is decrypted, and a display message" You are the fifth out of seven "is displayed on the display 16 as shown in FIG. 9 (step S12).

With such control, as shown in FIG. 2, assuming that the user is driving the car 25, for example, and the car navigation device 1 is mounted on the car 25, the user records the running record. By transmitting the evaluation result to the host computer 19, receiving the evaluation result from the host computer 19, and confirming the evaluation result displayed on the display 16, the user can record his / her own driving record, for example, an unspecified number of people driving the automobiles 26 and 27. Can be compared with the running records of other people.

By the way, the case where the user receives a list of driving conditions from the host computer 19 and selects a desired driving condition from the list of driving conditions received from the host computer 19 has been described above. For example, predetermined driving conditions are set in advance in the car navigation device 1, and the set predetermined driving conditions are the same as the driving conditions set in the car navigation devices mounted on the other automobiles 26 and 27. If they are the same, the reception of the running condition list from the host computer 19 can be omitted.

Also, the case where the user has selected only the “running time (seconds) of 400 m from the stop state” as the running condition has been described, but a plurality of running conditions can be selected at the same time. Is the host computer 19
Stores a plurality of travel records corresponding to the selected plurality of travel conditions in the travel record database 23. In addition, when the user selects a traveling condition using a year as a unit of measurement, such as “annual traveling distance (km)” or “distance (km) between north limit land and south limit land traveled during the year” as the traveling condition, The car navigation device 1 continuously acquires the travel record throughout the year, and transmits the travel record to the host computer 19 after a predetermined measurement period has elapsed.

Further, the car navigation device 1 transmits, for example, the vehicle registration number of the vehicle in which the car navigation device 1 is mounted to the host computer 19 together with the travel record, and the host computer 19 uses the vehicle registration number of the vehicle instead of the device identification number. If the car navigation device 1 is configured to identify the car navigation device, the car navigation device 1 may be, for example, “running time (seconds) 400 m from a stopped state” which is a driving condition.
As a result of the evaluation for, as shown in FIG.
Display 1 using the vehicle registration number of the car
6 can be displayed. Furthermore, if the car navigation device is configured to be identified by using the driver's name, nickname, telephone number, address, or the like instead of the vehicle registration number of the automobile, the top three players, etc.
The information can be displayed on the display 16 using a nickname, a telephone number or an address.

According to this embodiment as described above,
The car navigation device 1 transmits a traveling record of the automobile 25 under predetermined traveling conditions to the host computer 19,
The host computer 19 controls the car navigation device 1
The driving record received from the vehicle is compared with the driving records of the other vehicles 26 and 27 under the same predetermined driving condition to obtain an evaluation result, and the obtained evaluation result is obtained by the car navigation device 1.
, And the car navigation device 1 is configured to display the evaluation result received from the host computer 19 on the display 16.

Therefore, the user obtains the running record under the predetermined running conditions and transmits the obtained running record to the host computer 19 so that the host computer 19 can store the running record obtained by the user. Can be compared with the driving records of the automobiles 26 and 27 under the same predetermined driving conditions, that is, the driving records of an unspecified number of people, and by confirming the evaluation results, for example, It is possible to know the performance of the vehicle 25 and how much the driver's own driving skills are compared with an unspecified number of people, and thereby, it is possible to enhance entertainment.

Further, in this case, the car navigation device 1 transmits a driving condition providing request to the host computer 19, and upon receiving the driving condition providing request from the car navigation device 1, the host computer 19 transmits the predetermined driving condition to the car computer. The data is transmitted to the navigation device 1, and the car navigation device 1 is configured to acquire a travel record under predetermined travel conditions received from the host computer 19.

Therefore, even if the predetermined driving conditions are not set in the car navigation device 1 or the predetermined driving conditions are set, the set predetermined driving conditions are not applied to the other automobiles 26 and 27. Even if the driving conditions are different from the driving conditions set in the car navigation device, the user transmits the driving condition providing request to the host computer 19, so that the other vehicles 26, 27
By receiving the same travel condition as the travel condition set in the car navigation device, and acquiring the travel record using the travel condition received from the host computer 19 thereafter, the above-described travel condition is obtained. Such an operation and effect can be obtained.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, but can be modified or expanded as follows. The configuration is not limited to a configuration applied to a car navigation device mounted on an automobile, and may be a configuration using a dedicated device. Further, the car navigation device may be configured to use a modem or the like instead of the mobile phone.

When the running conditions include a specific area or road shape (for example, presence or absence of a curve), the corresponding specific area or road shape is notified from the external recording medium to notify the user of the specific area or road shape. A configuration may be adopted in which map data including a region and a road shape is read, and the read map data is displayed on a display.

When the ranking is notified as the evaluation result, the configuration may be such that not only the three highest rankings but also the lower three rankings and the front and rear are reported. The running condition, the running record or the evaluation result may be notified by voice. An external recording medium on which the running conditions are recorded may be prepared, and the running conditions may be input from the external recording medium.

The program for performing the above-described processing is not limited to the program stored in the storage unit from the beginning (for example, at the stage of commercialization). For example, the program may be downloaded from a specific server to a car navigation device via a network, or may be a CD-ROM. It may be transferred from a storage medium such as a card or a card to the car navigation device and installed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of contents stored in a traveling condition database.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of contents stored in a traveling record database.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing processing of the car navigation device and the host computer.

FIG. 6 is a diagram corresponding to FIG. 4;

FIG. 7 shows an example of a display.

FIG. 8 is a diagram corresponding to FIG. 7;

FIG. 9 is a diagram corresponding to FIG. 7;

FIG. 10 is a diagram corresponding to FIG. 7;

[Explanation of symbols]

In the drawings, 1 is a car navigation device (running record communication device), 2 is a CPU (running record acquisition unit), 5 is an operation switch unit (running condition selecting unit), 16 is a display (output unit), and 17 is a mobile phone ( 18 is an operation remote controller (running condition selecting means), 19 is a host computer, 20 is a CPU (evaluation result acquiring means), 21 is a communication unit (receiving means of the host computer, transmitting means). Means, 23 are running record databases (storage means).

Claims (6)

[Claims] A travel record communication device capable of communicating with a host computer, comprising: travel record acquisition means for acquiring a travel record of a vehicle; and a travel record acquired by the travel record acquisition means, transmitted to the host computer. A travel record, comprising: a transmission unit; a reception unit that receives an evaluation result related to the travel record processed by the host computer; and an output unit that outputs the evaluation result received by the reception unit. Communication device. 2. The travel recording communication device according to claim 1, wherein the reception unit receives travel conditions from the host computer, and the travel record acquisition unit receives the travel conditions based on the travel conditions received by the reception unit. And a travel record communication device for acquiring a travel record of the vehicle. 3. The travel recording communication device according to claim 2, further comprising travel condition selection means for selecting the travel condition. 4. A procedure in which a travel record communication device capable of communicating with a host computer causes a travel record acquisition unit to acquire a travel record of a vehicle, and the travel record acquired by the travel record acquisition unit is transmitted from the transmission unit to the host computer. Transmitting the evaluation result of the traveling record processed by the host computer to a receiving unit, and outputting the evaluation result received by the receiving unit from an output unit. program. 5. A host computer capable of communicating with a plurality of vehicles, a receiving unit for receiving a running record for each vehicle, and a storing unit for storing each running record received by the receiving unit. When the receiving unit receives the evaluation result provision request from the vehicle, the traveling record of the vehicle that transmitted the evaluation result provision request is compared with the traveling record of another vehicle stored in the storage unit, A host computer comprising: an evaluation result obtaining unit that obtains an evaluation result; and a transmitting unit that transmits the evaluation result obtained by the evaluation result obtaining unit to a vehicle that has transmitted the evaluation result providing request. 6. A procedure for causing a host computer capable of communicating with a plurality of vehicles to receive a travel record for each vehicle by a receiving means, a procedure for storing each travel record received by the receiving means in a storage means, When the receiving unit receives the evaluation result provision request from any of the vehicles, the traveling record of the vehicle that transmitted the evaluation result provision request to the evaluation result acquisition unit, and the other vehicle stored in the storage unit And a procedure for transmitting the evaluation result obtained by the evaluation result obtaining unit to the vehicle that transmitted the evaluation result providing request from the transmitting unit. Program.