IP Library Granted Patent US 11,501,640
Granted Patent B2
US 11,501,640 · App. 16/779,698 · Granted Nov 15, 2022

Processing device, processing method, and processing program

Inventors: Kunihiro Murakami (Okazaki, JP); Katsuhiko Sakakibara (Kariya, JP); Makoto Matsushita (Ichinomiya, JP); Junya Sato (Nagoya, JP); Kiyonori Yoshida (Toyota, JP); Tae Sugimura (Miyoshi, JP); Takashi Hayashi (Aichi-gun, JP); Jun Endo (Nagoya, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
G08G1/127G05D1/0022G05D1/0027G05D1/0055G08G1/0112H04W4/46G05D2201/0213
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Patent No.
US 11,501,640
App. No.
16/779,698
Granted
Nov 15, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

Disclosed is a processing device that is mounted in a vehicle and is able to perform communication with a center server during a normal time. The processing device includes a controller configured to execute searching for one or a plurality of other vehicles with which a host vehicle is able to perform communication, in emergency where a situation of emergency occurs and communication with the center server is disrupted, inquiring the other vehicles searched by the search about whether or not to enable intervention control related to the situation, and deciding a center vehicle giving an instruction related to the intervention control from among the other vehicles replying to enable the intervention control and the host vehicle.

Claims (20)

1. A processing device that is mounted in a vehicle and is able to perform communication with a center server during a normal time, the processing device comprising a controller configured to execute:

searching for one or a plurality of other vehicles with which a host vehicle is able to perform communication;

in emergency where a situation of emergency occurs and communication with the center server is disrupted, inquiring the other vehicles searched by the search about whether or not to enable intervention control related to the situation;

deciding a center vehicle giving an instruction related to the intervention control from among the other vehicles replying to enable the intervention control and the host vehicle; and

controlling the at least one of the other vehicles replying to enable the intervention control and the host vehicle to operate in an emergency mode based on the instruction.

2. The processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to search for the other vehicles connectable in a peer-to-peer manner through direct communication between the host vehicle and the other vehicles and direct communication between the other vehicles as the other communicable vehicles.

3. The processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to acquire resource information indicating at least one of mounted equipment, a load, a remaining amount of fuel, a remaining capacity of a battery, and a communication circumstance for each of the host vehicle and the other vehicles, and decide the center vehicle based on the resource information.

4. The processing device according to claim 1 , wherein, in a case where the host vehicle is the center vehicle, the controller transmits an instruction for instructing to operate in the emergency mode and perform at least one of route guidance, traffic control, movement, transportation of goods, and supply of electric power to the other vehicles.

5. The processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to acquire circumstance information indicating surrounding circumstances from a sensor and determine the occurrence of the situation of emergency based on the circumstance information.

6. The processing device according to claim 1 , wherein, in a case where the host vehicle is decided as the center vehicle, and the host vehicle is able to perform communication with another center vehicle, a center vehicle giving an instruction related to the intervention control is decided from among the host vehicle, the other vehicles enabling intervention control from the host vehicle, the other center vehicle, and the other vehicles enabling intervention control from the other center vehicle.

7. A processing method where a in which a computer, which is mounted in a vehicle and is able to perform communication with a center server during a normal time, executes:

a step of searching for one or a plurality of other vehicles with which a host vehicle is able to perform communication;

a step of, in emergency where a situation of emergency occurs and communication with the center server is disrupted, inquiring the other vehicles searched by the search about whether or not to enable intervention control related to the situation;

a step of deciding a center vehicle giving an instruction related to the intervention control from among the other vehicles replying to enable the intervention control and the host vehicle; and

a step of controlling the at least one of the other vehicles replying to enable the intervention control and the host vehicle to operate in an emergency mode based on the instruction.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program which, when executed by a computer that is mounted in a vehicle and is able to perform communication with a center server during a normal time, causes the computer to execute:

a step of searching for one or a plurality of other vehicles with which a host vehicle is able to perform communication;

a step of, in emergency where a situation of emergency occurs and communication with the center server is disrupted, inquiring the other vehicles searched by the search about whether or not to enable intervention control related to the situation;

a step of deciding a center vehicle giving an instruction related to the intervention control from among the other vehicles replying to enable the intervention control and the host vehicle; and

a step of controlling the at least one of the other vehicles replying to enable the intervention control and the host vehicle to operate in an emergency mode based on the instruction.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 3, 2020
From: MURAKAMI, KUNIHIRO; SAKAKIBARA, KATSUHIKO; MATSUSHITA, MAKOTO; SATO, JUNYA; YOSHIDA, KIYONORI; SUGIMURA, TAE; HAYASHI, TAKASHI; ENDO, JUN
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2019-034730 · Feb 27, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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