IP Library Granted Patent US 11,267,487
Granted Patent B2
US 11,267,487 · App. 16/929,430 · Granted Mar 8, 2022

Driving control device

Inventors: Yuji Suzuki (Toyota, JP); Mutsumi Matsuura (Okazaki, JP); Tomoaki Miyazawa (Nagoya, JP); Toshiki Kindo (Yokohama, JP); Shunsuke Tanimori (Susono, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
B60W60/00253B60W2556/50
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Patent No.
US 11,267,487
App. No.
16/929,430
Granted
Mar 8, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A driving control device includes a general user terminal that receives a request for a driving service for moving a vehicle to a destination by receiving, as inputs, a destination, a transit point, and a non-transit point at which the vehicle is not to be stopped, an occupant of the vehicle operation information acquisition device that receives an instruction from an occupant indicating a location where the vehicle is to be stopped, and a control device that, if the location input at the occupant operation information acquisition device of the vehicle running under the driving service corresponds to the non-transit point, causes the vehicle to pass without stopping at the location, and stops the vehicle at the location if the location does not correspond to the non-transit point.

Claims (11)

1. A driving control device comprising:

a general user terminal that receives a request for a driving service for moving a vehicle carrying an occupant to a destination by receiving, as inputs, a destination, a transit point, and a non-transit point at which the vehicle is not to be stopped;

an occupant operation information acquisition device that receives, as input, an instruction from the occupant in a state in which the occupant is riding the vehicle to the destination indicating a location where the vehicle is to be stopped; and

a control device that:

(i) when the location input by the occupant at the occupant operation information acquisition device of the vehicle with the occupant riding the vehicle to the destination and running under the driving service corresponds to the non-transit point, causes the vehicle to pass through the location input by the occupant without stopping at the location, and

(ii) when the location input by the occupant at the occupant operation information acquisition device of the vehicle with the occupant riding the vehicle to the destination and running under the driving service does not correspond to the non-transit point, stops the vehicle at the location.

2. The driving control device according to claim 1 , further comprising a remote control terminal for remotely controlling the vehicle, wherein the control device instructs the remote control terminal to move the vehicle to the destination, stop the vehicle at the transit point, cause the vehicle to pass without stopping at the location, or stop the vehicle at the location.

3. The driving control device according to claim 1 , wherein the vehicle is capable of autonomous traveling, and the control device instructs the vehicle to move to the destination, stop at the transit point, pass without stopping at the location, or stop at the location.

4. The driving control device according to claim 2 , wherein the control device is a server, the server registers the destination, the transit point, and the non-transit point received by the general user terminal, gives the remote control terminal remote driving permission for the vehicle, and issues an instruction to the remote control terminal to move the vehicle to the destination, stop the vehicle at the transit point, cause the vehicle to pass without stopping at the location, or stop the vehicle at the location based on the registered destination, the transit point, and the non-transit point.

5. The driving control device according to claim 4 , wherein the remote operation of the vehicle by the remote control terminal does not go through the server.

6. The driving control device according to claim 3 , wherein the control device is a server, the server registers the destination, the transit point, and the non-transit point received by the general user terminal, and issues an instruction to the vehicle to move to the destination, stop at the transit point, pass without stopping at the location, or stop at the location based on the registered destination, the transit point, and the non-transit point.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 15, 2020
From: SUZUKI, YUJI; MATSUURA, MUTSUMI; MIYAZAWA, TOMOAKI; KINDO, TOSHIKI; TANIMORI, SHUNSUKE
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 053215/0369 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2019-139985 · Jul 30, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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