US 11,951,984 B2
Open vehicle and operation management system thereof
Takuya Watabe, Hachioji (JP); Tetsuya Kanata, Susono (JP); Yozo Iwami, Susono (JP); Daisaku Honda, Nagoya (JP); Yuhei Katsumata, Fuji (JP); Hideki Fukudome, Toyota (JP); Yuta Maniwa, Susono (JP); Naoko Ichikawa, Shibuya-ku Tokyo-to (JP); Saki Narita, Toyota (JP); and Yuki Nishikawa, Susono (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Sep. 13, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/473,070.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-154776 (JP), filed on Sep. 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0080965 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. B60W 30/14 (2006.01); B60Q 5/00 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G06Q 10/02 (2012.01); G06Q 10/1093 (2023.01); G06Q 50/40 (2024.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01); G06V 40/16 (2022.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01)
CPC B60W 30/143 (2013.01) [B60Q 5/00 (2013.01); B60W 60/00136 (2020.02); B60W 60/0021 (2020.02); B60W 60/00253 (2020.02); G06Q 10/02 (2013.01); G06Q 10/1095 (2013.01); G06Q 50/40 (2024.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01); G06V 40/172 (2022.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.02); B60W 2540/21 (2020.02); B60W 2556/45 (2020.02)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An open vehicle having a riding space that is not shielded from an outside, the open vehicle comprising:
a vehicle upper portion having a riding surface that forms a bottom surface of the riding space and is configured for a plurality of users to ride on;
a traveling device including at least a power unit and configured to drive and turn the open vehicle;
one or more external sensors configured to recognize a surrounding environment of the open vehicle; and
one or more electronic control units configured to control the traveling device to cause the open vehicle to automatically travel, wherein
the one or more electronic control units are configured to execute:
a specific person recognition process to use the one or more external sensors to recognize a specific person being a person existing in an outside space that is not shielded from the riding space; and
an automatic travel control process to control the traveling device such that, when the specific person exists within a range of a predetermined distance from the open vehicle, the traveling device executes of moving the open vehicle away from the specific person and executes increasing a vehicle speed being a speed of the open vehicle as compared to when the specific person does not exist within the range.