US 11,912,309 B2
Travel control device and travel control method
Yasuo Uehara, Gotemba (JP); Nobuhide Kamata, Susono (JP); Nozomu Hatta, Susono (JP); and Shunsuke Tanimori, Susono (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Dec. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/145,294.
Application 18/145,294 is a continuation of application No. 16/788,653, filed on Feb. 12, 2020, granted, now 11,648,964.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-024528 (JP), filed on Feb. 14, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0119887 A1, Apr. 20, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01)
CPC B60W 60/00253 (2020.02) [G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); G05D 1/0212 (2013.01); G05D 1/0231 (2013.01); G05D 1/0276 (2013.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); B60W 2556/45 (2020.02); G05D 2201/0213 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30248 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
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1. A travel control device comprising:
a communication circuit configured to be communicable with an autonomous driving vehicle and a user terminal that a user who intends to board the autonomous driving vehicle has; and
processing circuitry configured to
make the autonomous driving vehicle travel in such a way that the autonomous driving vehicle arrives at a specified position specified by the user,
when the autonomous driving vehicle has reached a predetermined range from the specified position, transmit an information sending request requesting sending of a user periphery image depicting a peripheral region around the user to the user terminal via the communication circuit, and
when receiving the user periphery image via the communication circuit, change a position of the autonomous driving vehicle, based on the user periphery image in such a way that the autonomous driving vehicle comes close to the user.