US 12,394,315 B2
Information collection system
Marie Ishikawa, Nagoya (JP); Aya Hamajima, Nagoya (JP); Daichi Hotta, Tokyo (JP); Hayato Ito, Susono (JP); Hidekazu Sasaki, Yokohama (JP); Yasuhiro Kobatake, Nagoya (JP); and Akihiro Kusumoto, Susono (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Oct. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/963,567.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-175893 (JP), filed on Oct. 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0125597 A1, Apr. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. G08G 1/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2024.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01)
CPC G08G 1/202 (2013.01) [G05D 1/0217 (2013.01); G05D 1/0246 (2013.01); G05D 1/0287 (2013.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01); G08G 1/205 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information collection system comprising:
a plurality of autonomously traveling vehicles, each including a camera that captures an image of an outside of the vehicle; and
a server configured to be communicable with each of the vehicles, wherein:
the server is configured to, when an event occurrence notification notifying that a specific event has occurred at least together with an occurrence location of the event is received:
divide a predetermined area around the occurrence location of the event into a plurality of areas;
select an information collection vehicle for moving toward the occurrence location of the event for each of the areas from the vehicles that no person desires to board among the vehicles present in each of the areas; and
transmit an information collection instruction notification to each of the selected information collection vehicles; and
the vehicles are each configured to, when the information collection instruction notification is received, move toward the occurrence location of the event and collect the image captured by the camera as event-related information that is information related to the event.