IP Library Granted Patent US 11,915,176
Granted Patent B2
US 11,915,176 · App. 17/518,942 · Granted Feb 27, 2024

Vehicle dispatch system, vehicle dispatch method, server, user terminal, and storage medium

Inventors: Junya Watanabe (Sunto-gun, JP); Yuji Sasaki (Toyota, JP); Seiji Arakawa (Sunto-gun, JP); Naotoshi Kadotani (Sunto-gun, JP); Masafumi Hayakawa (Susono, JP); Takashi Hayashi (Mishima, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
G06Q10/06315G05D1/021G06Q10/02G06Q50/30G07C5/008G07C5/0808G08G1/202G05D2201/0213G06F3/04817
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Patent No.
US 11,915,176
App. No.
17/518,942
Granted
Feb 27, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A server includes a unit obtaining a position of a registered vehicle, a unit obtaining a vehicle dispatch position, a unit determining a candidate vehicle based on the vehicle dispatch position and the position of the registered vehicle, a unit transmitting information regarding an autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle to a user device, a unit receiving information for identifying a dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting a vehicle dispatch position to the dispatch vehicle. The user device includes a unit receiving the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, a unit displaying the information regarding the autonomous driving function of the candidate vehicle, an unit accepting a user operation for selecting the dispatch vehicle, and a unit transmitting the information for identifying the dispatch vehicle to the server.

Claims (38)

1. A vehicle dispatch system comprising a server, and a user device capable of communicating with the server,

the server comprising a first processor, the first processor programmed to:

obtain a vehicle dispatch position from the user device;

receive information for identifying a selected dispatch vehicle from the user device;

transmit the vehicle dispatch position to the dispatch vehicle;

determine whether or not the dispatch vehicle at the time of dispatching the vehicle is a manned vehicle; and

in response to the determination that the dispatch vehicle at the time of dispatching the vehicle is not the manned vehicle, generate authentication information for authenticating the combination of the dispatch vehicle and the user device that transmits the information for identifying the dispatch vehicle, and transmit the generated authentication information to the user device that transmits the information for identifying the dispatch vehicle and to the dispatch vehicle, and

the user device comprising a display unit and a second processor, the second processor programmed to:

transmit the vehicle dispatch position to the server;

accept a user operation for selecting the dispatch vehicle;

transmit the information for identifying the dispatch vehicle selected based on the user operation to the server;

in response to receiving the authentication information from the server, authenticate the combination by using the received authentication information and the authentication information obtained from the dispatch vehicle; and

dispatch the dispatch vehicle to the vehicle dispatch position.

2. The vehicle dispatch system according to claim 1 , wherein the first processor is further programmed to:

in response to determining the dispatch vehicle at the time of dispatching the vehicle is the manned vehicle, generate information of the dispatch vehicle and information of a user without generating the authentication information, and transmit the information of the dispatch vehicle to the user device, and transmit the information of the user to the dispatch vehicle.

3. The vehicle dispatch system according to claim 1 further comprising the dispatch vehicle, wherein the dispatch vehicle authenticates the combination by using the authentication information obtained from the server and the authentication information obtained from the user device.

4. A vehicle dispatch method comprising:

obtaining a vehicle dispatch position from a user device;

receiving information for identifying a selected dispatch vehicle from the user device;

transmitting the vehicle dispatch position to the dispatch vehicle;

determining whether or not the dispatch vehicle at the time of dispatching the vehicle is a manned vehicle;

in response to determining the dispatch vehicle at the time of dispatching the vehicle is not the manned vehicle, generating authentication information for authenticating the combination of the dispatch vehicle and the user device that transmits the information for identifying the dispatch vehicle, and transmitting the generated authentication information to the user device that transmits the information for identifying the dispatch vehicle and to the dispatch vehicle;

authenticating the combination by using the authentication information received by the user device and the authentication information obtained from the dispatch vehicle; and

dispatching the dispatch vehicle to the vehicle dispatch position.

5. The vehicle dispatch method according to claim 4 further comprising:

in response to determining the dispatch vehicle at the time of dispatching the vehicle is the manned vehicle, generating information of the dispatch vehicle and information of a user without generating the authentication information, and transmitting the information of the dispatch vehicle to the user device, and transmitting the information of the user to the dispatch vehicle.

6. The vehicle dispatch method according to claim 4 further comprising: authenticating the combination by using the authentication information obtained from a server and the authentication information obtained from the user device, by the dispatch vehicle.

7. One or more non-transitory computer readable media having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to execute processing comprising:

obtaining a vehicle dispatch position from a user device;

receiving information for identifying a selected dispatch vehicle from the user device;

transmitting the vehicle dispatch position to the dispatch vehicle;

determining whether or not the dispatch vehicle at the time of dispatching the vehicle is a manned vehicle;

in response to determining the dispatch vehicle at the time of dispatching the vehicle is not the manned vehicle, generating authentication information for authenticating the combination of the dispatch vehicle and the user device that transmits the information for identifying the dispatch vehicle, and transmitting the generated authentication information to the user device that transmits the information for identifying the dispatch vehicle and to the dispatch vehicle;

authenticating the combination by using the authentication information received by the user device and the authentication information obtained from the dispatch vehicle; and

dispatching the dispatch vehicle to the vehicle dispatch position.

8. The non-transitory computer readable media according to claim 7 , wherein the processing further comprising:

in response to determining the dispatch vehicle at the time of dispatching the vehicle is the manned vehicle, generating information of the dispatch vehicle and information of a user without generating the authentication information, and transmitting the information of the dispatch vehicle to the user device, and transmitting the information of the user to the dispatch vehicle.

9. The non-transitory computer readable media according to claim 7 further comprising: authenticating the combination by using the authentication information obtained from a server and the authentication information obtained from the user device, by the dispatch vehicle.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2017-152620 · Aug 7, 2017 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 16848164 · Apr 14, 2020
Continuation 16009387 · Jun 15, 2018
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