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Granted Patent B2
US 10,046,764 · App. 15/269,337 · Granted Aug 14, 2018

Vehicle control system

Inventors: Takato Masuda (Toyota, JP); Takashi Inoue (Kasugai, JP); Tetsuya Taira (Nisshin, JP); Keiji Yamashita (Seto, JP); Nobuyuki Tomatsu (Toyota, JP); Sokfan Yee (Toyota, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
B60W30/146B60R11/04G06K9/00791G06K9/00818B60W2720/10G06T11/60
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Patent No.
US 10,046,764
App. No.
15/269,337
Granted
Aug 14, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle control system includes a limiter device, and a setting device to set an upper speed limit on the limiter device, based on speed limit values extracted from image information. The setting device includes a derivation unit to derive a condition to raise display priority for each speed limit value; an obtainment unit to obtain determination information for determining whether the condition is satisfied; a calculation unit to raise the display priority of the speed limit value that corresponds to the condition determined satisfied with the determination information, among the speed limit values extracted from the image information; a display control unit to display the speed limit values in descending order of the display priority; and a setting unit configured to set the upper speed limit on the limiter device, based on one of the displayed speed limit values, selected by an occupant of the vehicle.

Claims (14)

1. A vehicle control system comprising:

an imaging device;

an electronic control unit configured to limit speed of the vehicle and to extract one or more speed limit values, based on image information captured by the imaging device, and to set an upper speed limit; and

a display configured to display the speed limit values extracted by the electronic control unit, wherein when a plurality of speed limit values is extracted, the electronic control unit is configured to:

derive a condition for raising display priority for each of the speed limit values, based on the image information,

obtain determination information for determining whether the condition derived is satisfied,

determine whether the determination information satisfies the condition corresponding to each of the speed limit values,

calculate the display priority for each of the speed limit values, by raising the display priority of the speed limit value that corresponds to the condition determined satisfied with the determination information,

display the speed limit values on the display in descending order of the display priority calculated,

receive selection of one speed limit value among the speed limit values displayed in descending order of the display priority, by an occupant of the vehicle, and

set the upper speed limit based on the one speed limit value received as the selection.

2. The vehicle control system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electronic control unit displays at least the speed limit values extracted while a predetermined time passes, or the speed limit values extracted while the vehicle travels for a predetermined distance.

3. The vehicle control system as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the electronic control unit associates an area among areas included in the image information that includes condition information for deriving the condition, with the speed limit value, and displays the associated area and the speed limit value on the display.

4. The vehicle control system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electronic control unit associates an area among areas included in the image information that includes condition information for deriving the condition, with the speed limit value, and displays the associated area and the speed limit value on the display.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 19, 2016
From: MASUDA, TAKATO; INOUE, TAKASHI; TAIRA, TETSUYA; YAMASHITA, KEIJI; TOMATSU, NOBUYUKI; YEE, SOKFAN
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 039782/0532 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2015-205844 · Oct 19, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20170106864A1 · Apr 20, 2017