Patent ID: 6959282

Claim:
A charging device which charges based on map information without local infrastructure, the charging device comprising: detecting means for detecting position information specifying the position of a moving body; deciding means for determining a charge applicable area in predetermined map information and for determining a buffer area, which is defined by a first boundary line of a charge applicable area and a second boundary line around the first boundary line, located adjacent to the charge applicable area and an area other than the charge applicable area, and matching the map information with the position information, and deciding an entry state indicating whether or not the moving body has at least entered into one of the charge applicable area or the buffer area; and generating means for generating charging information for the moving body based on a result of a decision by the deciding means, wherein, when a history of the entry state is one in which the moving body moves from the charge applicable area to the buffer area and then back to the same charge applicable area again, generating of charge information relating to an entry into the charge applicable area is prohibited in the generating means.