IP Library Granted Patent US 12,631,464
Granted Patent B2
US 12,631,464 · App. 18/786,993 · Granted May 19, 2026

Flood information processing device

Inventors: Kazuya Okada (Tokyo, JP); Hiroshi Abe (Kasukabe, JP); Naoya Kaneko (Tokyo, JP); Toru Furusawa (Yokohama, JP); Takayuki Sakai (Tokyo, JP); Koji Takeoka (Yokohama, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
G01C21/3626G01C21/3691G08B21/10H04W4/90
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Patent No.
US 12,631,464
App. No.
18/786,993
Granted
May 19, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A control unit is provided which is configured to execute: acquiring an occurrence position of an abnormal interruption in communication with a vehicle and an occurrence position of an abnormal interruption in communication; detecting that a flood damage has occurred in the first area in response to an abnormal interruption in communication occurring a predetermined number of times or more at a position lower than a predetermined altitude in the first area; and outputting information on flood damage in response to detecting that a flood damage has occurred in the first area.

Claims (15)

1 . An information processing device comprising one or more processors configured to:

communicate with first vehicles;

acquire communication status for each of the first vehicles;

acquire occurrences of abnormal interruptions in communications with abnormal interruption vehicles among the first vehicles;

acquire positions of each of the abnormal interruption vehicles;

determine whether each of the acquired positions is lower than a predetermined altitude;

count the number of second vehicles whose positions are determined to be lower than the predetermined altitude;

detect that a flood has occurred in a first region in response to the number of the second vehicles exceeding a first predetermined value in the first region; and

output information on the flood in response to detection that the flood has occurred in the first region.

2 . The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to;

count the number of third vehicles whose positions are determined not to be lower than the predetermined altitude; and

detect that the flood has occurred in the first region in response to the number of the third vehicles being equal to or less than a second predetermined value.

3 . The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to output the first region in which the flood has occurred, superimposed on a map.

4 . The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to predict a second region where the flood is expected to occur in a future based on time transition in a plurality of the first regions where occurrence of the flood has been detected.

5 . The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further configured to send a notification about occurrence of the flood to a vehicle present in the first region or a terminal of an owner of the vehicle present in the first region.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 29, 2024
From: OKADA, KAZUYA; ABE, HIROSHI; KANEKO, NAOYA; FURUSAWA, TORU; SAKAI, TAKAYUKI; TAKEOKA, KOJI
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 068110/0867 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2023-188327 · Nov 2, 2023 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20250146831A1 · May 8, 2025
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