US 12,307,324 B2
Vehicle
Makoto Matsushita, Ichinomiya (JP); Yuko Mizuno, Nagoya (JP); Hayato Mizuma, Tokyo (JP); Kohei Miwa, Shizuoka-ken (JP); and Naoki Yamada, Kasugai (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Apr. 16, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/636,390.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-093065 (JP), filed on Jun. 6, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0412016 A1, Dec. 12, 2024
Int. Cl. G06K 7/14 (2006.01)
CPC G06K 7/1417 (2013.01) 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
3. A vehicle comprising:
a drive recorder configured to capture an image of an area ahead of the vehicle;
an external display device configured to display an indication for an area behind the vehicle; and
a control unit configured to:
read information indicated by a pattern in the image captured by the drive recorder;
when the pattern in the image is a specific pattern, notify an occupant about the information;
control the external display device to display the same pattern as the specific pattern in response to an operation of the occupant after the occupant is notified about the information; and
control the external display device to display control information that is used only for controlling the vehicle, wherein the control information is not notified to the occupant inside the vehicle.