US 11,891,079 B2
Information processing apparatus and information processing method
Naoki Uenoyama, Nagoya (JP); Josuke Yamane, Nisshin (JP); Hikaru Gotoh, Nagoya (JP); Takumi Fukunaga, Nisshin (JP); Shin Sakurada, Toyota (JP); Soutaro Kaneko, Nagoya (JP); and Rio Minagawa, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Jan. 11, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/145,443.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-006285 (JP), filed on Jan. 17, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0221395 A1, Jul. 22, 2021
Int. Cl. B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 30/16 (2020.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.01); B60W 30/09 (2012.01); H04W 4/024 (2018.01); G08G 1/08 (2006.01); G08G 1/07 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 50/14 (2013.01) [B60W 30/16 (2013.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.02); B60W 2552/53 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4041 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4042 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4045 (2020.02); B60W 2554/802 (2020.02); B60W 2554/804 (2020.02)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus mounted on a vehicle, the information processing apparatus comprising a controller configured to:
detect whether or not the vehicle and a following vehicle are traveling on a same lane,
acquire position information of the vehicle,
transmit an inquiry to an external device together with the position information of the vehicle, and acquire a type of a traveling lane of the vehicle from the external device,
acquire information about the following vehicle via vehicle-to-vehicle communication, a vehicle-mounted sensor, or a vehicle-mounted camera,
determine whether or not the following vehicle is approaching at a speed faster than a speed of the vehicle with a different method according to which of the vehicle-to-vehicle communication, the vehicle-mounted sensor, and the vehicle-mounted camera acquires the information about the following vehicle, and
output a guidance to change lanes on a condition that the vehicle being not close to an intersection and that a road where the vehicle is travelling having two or more lanes, in a case where the vehicle and the following vehicle are traveling on the same lane, and the following vehicle is approaching at a speed faster than the speed of the vehicle.