US 11,989,761 B2
Vehicle usage fee determination system and vehicle usage fee determination method
Reiko Yamamoto, Anjo (JP); Gen Fukuyama, Nagoya (JP); Masao Tajima, Toyota (JP); and Mikio Inoue, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-Ken (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed on Mar. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/685,319.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-081154 (JP), filed on May 12, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0366466 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/02 (2012.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/18 (2006.01); G06Q 30/0283 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0283 (2013.01) [A61B 5/18 (2013.01); A61B 5/4809 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle usage fee determination system comprising:
a reception unit that receives a usage application by a user who has an intention to drive a vehicle;
a wakefulness level estimation unit that estimates a wakefulness level of the user based on data received from a sensor configured to capture image data of the user;
a fee determination unit that sets a usage fee of the vehicle when a target wakefulness level that is the wakefulness level at a time a first predetermined time before a scheduled driving start time of the vehicle by the user is a predetermined value to be equal to or lower than a usage fee of the vehicle when the target wakefulness level is lower than the predetermined value; and
a warning generation unit configured to generate a warning in response to the wakefulness level being lower than the predetermined value, and in response to said warning, activate a speaker control unit configured to audibly relay said warning to the user or a display to output the warning to the user.