Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100299057 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VERIFYING ROUTE IN ROUTE VERIFICATION SYSTEM - In a route verification method for verifying a route that allows arrival at a destination in a shortest time, a server obtains, via a network, route information including a starting point and destination of a vehicle having a car navigation device, calculates a route with a shortest required time from the starting point to the destination based on the route information obtained from a plurality of vehicles, and transmits route information with the shortest required time to a terminal device, and the terminal device displays on a display the route with the shortest required time and a route on which the target vehicle runs from the starting point to the destination, wherein the route with the shortest required time is calculated using a link travel time, in the time to be expected that the target vehicle runs, included in the route information obtained from the plurality of vehicles. | 11-25-2010 |
20110250920 | MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal retains a communication device allocation priority table in which the allocation priorities of communication devices to respective applications are recorded for each of the communication devices mounted to the mobile terminal. The allocation priorities are determined from the combination of the types of an application and the operation state of the application. The mobile terminal allocates the communication devices to the applications in accordance with the priority orders recorded in the allocation priority table. The allocation priorities recorded in the communication device allocation priority table are varied in accordance with the operation states of the applications and the presence/absence of an alternate device. | 10-13-2011 |
20110282566 | COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT, INTER-VEHICLE COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD AND INTER-VEHICLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An object of the present invention is to provide communication equipment, an inter-vehicle communication control method, and an inter-vehicle communication system by which information can be efficiently transmitted to a designated range even at a blind intersection or on a curved road. Communication equipment that received transfer data including data to be transferred, position information of a destination of the data to be transferred, position information of relay points used to determine a route to the destination, and position information of the last transferring vehicle determines a standby time that becomes shorter as a distance between the position of the last transferring vehicle and the position of the host vehicle becomes longer in the case where the host vehicle is not located in a predetermined range on the basis of the relay points. In addition, the communication equipment determines the standby time that becomes longer as a distance between the position of the host vehicle and the position of the relay point becomes longer in the case where the host vehicle is located in the predetermined range, and performs a process of transmitting the transfer data after the standby time passes. | 11-17-2011 |
20120215835 | METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SERVER PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CLIENT PROCESSING APPARATUS - In a client processing apparatus, each application program independently performs communication with a server processing apparatus in spite of relevance between the application programs. For example, when plural application programs issue a request at the same timing in correspondence with a user's operation, the operation speed of the application program may become low. A request which occurs at the same timing of a particular request outputted from an application program to the server processing apparatus is previously defined in a communication grouping table. When the application program actually outputs a request, the communication grouping table is referred to, then the request and a request in the table to occur at the same timing are transmitted at once to the server processing apparatus. The server processing apparatus processes the plural requests at once, and returns the result of processing to the client processing apparatus. | 08-23-2012 |
20120253662 | INFORMATION TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION TERMINAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM IN WHICH PROGRAM IS STORED - An aspect of the invention is an information terminal device includes a widget management unit for managing execution of a widget being a monofunctional program for performing display on the display part of a display device. The widget management unit includes a policy determination unit for determining the operation policy, including operation restriction and priority, concerning a display state at the display device in the widget, and a reliability determining unit for determining the reliability representing the reliability of the widget in the widget. When the state of the movement calculated by a navigation unit becomes a preset state, the widget management unit regulates the display state of the widget according to the operation restriction and the reliability, and performs display, while preferentially displaying guidance state and positional information calculated by the navigation unit. | 10-04-2012 |
20130083919 | ACCESS CONTROL METHOD, INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME, AND INFORMATION DISPLAY SYSTEM - When a user carries a mobile terminal with confidential information, such as customer information, stored therein, it is required to maintain information confidentiality and to prevent an unauthorized third party from accessing the confidential information even if the mobile terminal is stolen. According to the disclosed access control method, an encryption key is generated based on a planned route and the information is encrypted. When the user accesses the information, a decryption key is generated based on the actual movement route that is regularly acquired. The encrypted information can be decrypted if the planned route and the movement route match. | 04-04-2013 |
20130238162 | DRIVING RANGE CALCULATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - A storage part stores beforehand, as an energy consumption graph, amounts of energy consumed by a vehicle traveling in both directions along road links on a map. A processing part traces a road link from a specified start point location peripherally, calculates, for each road node, a first and second integration values obtained by integrating amounts of energy in a direction moving away from the start point location on the energy consumption graph and in a direction moving toward the start point location on the energy consumption graph, and based on a relationship between the sum of the first integration value and the second integration value, and a given specified amount of energy for each road node, decides a round-trip driving range which is a range within which the vehicle is able to return to the start point location by using the specified amount of energy. | 09-12-2013 |
20130261953 | ROUTE SEARCH SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRIC AUTOMOBILE - An object of the present information is to search for a route taking into account the charging times in the charging stations. When an electric automobile provided with a battery cannot reach a second point from a first point without the battery being charged in a charging station halfway, a route-search processing section specifies one or two or more charging stations, which the electric automobile is to pass through in order to reach the second point from the first point in a shorter time including a charging time in each of the charging stations and moving times among the charging stations, and derives a route for reaching the second point from the first point passing through the specified charging stations. | 10-03-2013 |