US 11,921,518 B2
Vehicle control system
Jun Fujiyama, Kanagawa (JP); Naoya Koike, Fukuoka (JP); Jun Ogawa, Kanagawa (JP); and Shinya Ota, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed by PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Jun. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/354,276.
Application 17/354,276 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2019/044197, filed on Nov. 11, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-246032 (JP), filed on Dec. 27, 2018; and application No. 2018-246033 (JP), filed on Dec. 27, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0311493 A1, Oct. 7, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 4/80 (2018.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01); H04W 12/06 (2021.01)
CPC G05D 1/0278 (2013.01) [G05D 1/0223 (2013.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.02); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); H04W 12/06 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle control system comprising:
a vehicle comprising an operation device;
a first communication device configured to wirelessly communicate with the vehicle; and
a second communication device configured to wirelessly communicate with the vehicle,
wherein in a case in which the first communication device is positioned in a first area containing a position of the vehicle, the vehicle operates in an operation waiting state in which the operation device is allowed to receive an operation,
wherein in a case in which the first communication device is not positioned in the first area, the vehicle does not operate in the operation waiting state,
wherein in a case in which the second communication device is positioned in a second area contained in the first area and smaller than the first area, the vehicle operates in the operation waiting state,
wherein in a case in which the second communication device is not positioned in the second area, the vehicle does not operate in the operation waiting state, and
wherein in a case in which the first communication device is positioned in the first area and the second communication device is positioned in the second area, the second communication device generates a second notification indicating that the vehicle is in the operation waiting state.