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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2021
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Kazuki Ikeda, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A road manager system and method to identify a road surface property in a convenient and stable manner, including a vehicle positional information sensor and road surface condition sensor; a server computer that manages a road surface property; and a client computer that accesses the server computer. The server computer carries out processing of receiving, from the vehicle, permission information regarding provision of road surface condition information; receiving the road surface condition information transmitted from the vehicle, in which output information from the positional information sensor and output information from the road surface condition sensor are associated with each other; identifying, using output information from the road surface condition sensor, the road surface property of the road identified by the output information from the positional information sensor; and displaying the road surface property on the client computer in response to a request from the client computer.