Patent ID: 7778941

Claim:
An accounting system configured to decide a zone where a moving object takes a position, thereby to generate accounting information on the basis of the decision result, the accounting system comprising: a controller configured for: determining a travel distance of the moving object between a first point and a second point on a travel route of the moving object; comparing the determined travel distance to a predetermined distance; and determining whether a travel distance of the moving object exceeds the predetermined distance, wherein: when the travel distance of the moving object is determined to have exceeded the predetermined distance, the controller is configured to determine an existence of a zone borderline between different accounting zones in the travel route of the moving object; when it is determined that the zone borderline exists in the travel route of the moving object, the controller is configured to determine a first distance from the first point to the zone borderline and a second distance from the zone borderline to the second point; when the determined first distance exceeds the predetermined distance, the controller is configured to execute an accounting process to generate the accounting information based on the determined first distance; when the determined second distance exceeds the predetermined distance, the controller is configured to execute an accounting process to generate the accounting information based on the determined second distance; and the controller is configured not to perform the accounting resulting from the movement of the moving object, when the controller decides that the travel distance of the moving object is no more than the predetermined distance; and a communication unit configured to send the accounting information to an accounting station.