US 12,294,923 B2
Vehicle and in-vehicle device
Masayuki Imoto, Susono (JP); Jun Miyagawa, Numazu (JP); Yasue Mano, Numazu (JP); Ayako Nakamura, Shizuoka-ken (JP); and Naohiro Seo, Shizuoka-ken (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-Ken (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed on May 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/739,172.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-118282 (JP), filed on Jul. 16, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0025660 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 4/46 (2018.01); H04L 67/75 (2022.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 4/46 (2018.02) [H04L 67/75 (2022.05); H04W 84/18 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle comprising a processor that includes hardware, wherein in response to an own vehicle being connected to an external network via a communication mesh network created by vehicle-to-vehicle communication that takes place between multiple vehicles, the processor outputs connection information, using at least one of displaying the information on the windshield, blinking a hazard lamp, or extending an antenna, indicating that the own vehicle is connected to the external network as information that is able to be visually recognized by a person outside of the vehicle.