IP Library › Granted Patent US 11,904,862
Granted Patent B2
US 11,904,862 · App. 17/500,649 · Granted Feb 20, 2024

Automated driving system

Inventor: Hironori Ito (Tokyo-to, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Patent No.
US 11,904,862
App. No.
17/500,649
Granted
Feb 20, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

The automated driving system includes a vehicle speed detection device for detecting a speed of a vehicle, a display device capable of displaying a running lane and an adjacent lane of the vehicle, and a processor configured to control display content of the display device, and execute an autonomous lane change of the vehicle. The processor is configured to prohibit the autonomous lane change of the vehicle when a speed of the vehicle is less than a predetermined value. The processor is configured to hide the adjacent lane when the autonomous lane change is prohibited and start displaying the adjacent lane before the speed of the vehicle reaches the predetermined value if it is planned for the vehicle to accelerate from a speed below the predetermined value to a speed equal to or greater than the predetermined value in order to carry out the autonomous lane change.

Claims (10)

1. An automated driving system comprising:

a vehicle speed detection device for detecting a speed of a vehicle;

a display device capable of displaying a running lane and an adjacent lane of the vehicle; and

a processor configured to control display content of the display device, and execute an autonomous lane change of the vehicle, wherein

the processor is configured to prohibit the autonomous lane change of the vehicle when a speed of the vehicle is less than a predetermined value, and

the processor is configured to hide the adjacent lane when the autonomous lane change is prohibited and start displaying the adjacent lane before the speed of the vehicle reaches the predetermined value if it is planned for the vehicle to accelerate from a speed below the predetermined value to a speed equal to or greater than the predetermined value in order to carry out the autonomous lane change.

2. The automated driving system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to start displaying a destination lane of a lane change among adjacent lanes before the speed of the vehicle reaches the predetermined value if it is planned for the vehicle to accelerate from a speed below the predetermined value to a speed equal to or greater than the predetermined value in order to carry out the autonomous lane change.

3. The automated driving system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to display only the running lane and a destination lane of a lane change when the autonomous lane change is executed if there are adjacent lanes on both sides of the running lane.

4. The automated driving system according to claim 1 , further comprising a vehicle detection device for detecting surrounding vehicles present around the vehicle, wherein

the processor is configured to set a vehicle necessitating deceleration among the surrounding vehicles detected by the vehicle detection device, control acceleration and deceleration of the vehicle so that the vehicle does not approach the vehicle necessitating deceleration, and display the vehicle necessitating deceleration when a surrounding vehicle in an adjacent lane not displayed on the display device is set as the vehicle necessitating deceleration.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 14, 2021
From: ITO, HIRONORI
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 057791/0159 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-176318 · Oct 20, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
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