US 11,657,654 B2
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory storage medium
Takashige Hori, Aisai (JP); Masaru Wakabayashi, Nagoya (JP); Yoko Sakurai, Anjo (JP); and Ken Ishikawa, Anjo (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Mar. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/215,551.
Claims priority of application No. JP2020-061021 (JP), filed on Mar. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0304520 A1, Sep. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G08G 1/01 (2006.01); G07B 15/06 (2011.01); G08G 1/065 (2006.01)
CPC G07B 15/063 (2013.01) [G01C 21/3461 (2013.01); G01C 21/3602 (2013.01); G01C 21/3617 (2013.01); G08G 1/0133 (2013.01); G08G 1/0145 (2013.01); G08G 1/065 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus comprising a controller configured to:
select a plurality of candidate lanes in which a first vehicle can travel at a tollbooth based on whether or not the first vehicle scheduled to pass through the tollbooth is an ETC vehicle, and a type of each lane at the tollbooth;
calculate a predicted value for each candidate lane, the predicted value being in correlation with a required time predicted to be required for the first vehicle traveling in the candidate lane to pass through the tollbooth;
determine a recommended lane that is recommended for the first vehicle to travel, from the plurality of candidate lanes based on the predicted value for each candidate lane;
calculate an ease level indicating ease of entry of the first vehicle for each candidate lane;
the controller determines the recommended lane from the plurality of candidate lanes, based on the predicted value and the ease level for each candidate lane;
weight the predicted value and the ease level for each candidate lane based on a driving history of a driver of the first vehicle at a previous passage through the tollbooth; and
the controller determines the recommended lane from the plurality of candidate lanes, based on the weighted predicted value and ease level for each candidate lane,
wherein the weights given to the predicted value and the ease level are determined based on whether a driving tendency at the previous passage through the tollbooth in the driving history of the driver of the first vehicle is a passage time priority tendency or ease of entry priority tendency.