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Granted Patent B2
US 11,210,689 · App. 16/126,431 · Granted Dec 28, 2021

Vehicle dispatch device

Inventors: Junya Watanabe (Sunto-gun, JP); Seiji Arakawa (Sunto-gun, JP); Yuji Sasaki (Toyota, JP); Masafumi Hayakawa (Susono, JP); Naotoshi Kadotani (Sunto-gun, JP); Takashi Hayashi (Mishima, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
G06Q30/0207G05D1/0287G05D2201/0213
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Patent No.
US 11,210,689
App. No.
16/126,431
Granted
Dec 28, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle dispatch device is configured to dispatch a vehicle having an autonomous driving function to a user, the device includes: a search unit configured to search for a first alternative moving object when the vehicle cannot continue the autonomous driving to the destination during the autonomous driving of the vehicle on which the user is boarded, the first alternative moving object to which the user can transfer at a boarding position which is within a predetermined distance from a position on a route to an end position of the autonomous driving of the vehicle, within a predetermined time from alighting from the vehicle; and a grant unit configured to grant a reward to the user when the first alternative moving object does not exist.

Claims (9)

1. A vehicle dispatch device configured to dispatch an autonomous driving vehicle to a user, the device comprising a processor programmed to:

search for a first alternative moving object when the dispatched autonomous driving vehicle on which the user is boarded cannot continue autonomous driving to a destination, the first alternative moving object to which the user can transfer being within a predetermined distance from the position at which the dispatched autonomous driving vehicle cannot continue, and within a predetermined time from the user alighting from the dispatched autonomous driving vehicle;

and grant a first reward to the user when the first alternative moving object does not exist,

wherein the first reward is a number of points, and

wherein the number of points increases as a distance from the end position of the dispatched autonomous driving vehicle to the destination increases,

wherein the processor is further programmed to:

search for a second alternative moving object having the autonomous driving function, to which the user can transfer after the predetermined time has elapsed when the first alternative moving object does not exist,

and grant a second reward to the user when the user transfers to the second alternative moving object after the predetermined time has elapsed.

2. The vehicle dispatch device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further programmed to select the first alternative moving object having the shortest transfer time based on the search.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 10, 2018
From: WATANABE, JUNYA; ARAKAWA, SEIJI; SASAKI, YUJI; HAYAKAWA, MASAFUMI; KADOTANI, NAOTOSHI; HAYASHI, TAKASHI
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 046830/0596 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2017-196776 · Oct 10, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
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