US 11,738,747 B2
Server device and vehicle
Hideo Hasegawa, Nagoya (JP); Keiko Kameda, Toyota (JP); Misa Ejiri, Nagoya (JP); Shintaro Naruse, Nisshin (JP); Tadahiro Kashiwai, Nagoya (JP); Naoya Oka, Toyota (JP); Kensuke Koike, Nisshin (JP); and Hiroyuki Monji, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Dec. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/545,622.
Application 17/545,622 is a continuation of application No. 15/929,152, filed on Oct. 9, 2017, granted, now 11,208,100.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-225418 (JP), filed on Nov. 30, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0097693 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B60W 30/09 (2012.01); B60W 30/095 (2012.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); G07C 5/00 (2006.01); G08G 1/0967 (2006.01); G08G 1/16 (2006.01); B60W 10/20 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 30/0956 (2013.01) [B60W 10/20 (2013.01); B60W 30/09 (2013.01); B60W 30/095 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); G07C 5/008 (2013.01); G08G 1/096791 (2013.01); G08G 1/161 (2013.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.02); B60W 2050/143 (2013.01); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01); B60W 2554/00 (2020.02); B60W 2556/65 (2020.02)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle comprising:
a communication circuitry configured to communicate with a server device;
a camera configured to capture a road ahead of the vehicle; and
a control circuitry configured to:
associate, when the control circuitry detects from a captured image that a first fallen object is present on a lane in which the vehicle is traveling, position information on the first fallen object with information indicating whether an avoidance operation was performed for the first fallen object,
send the associated information to the server device as fallen object avoidance information via the communication circuitry, and
receive a signal from the server device via the communication circuitry, the signal indicating that a second fallen object should be avoided,
wherein a server control circuitry of the server device is configured to determine that the first fallen object should be avoided when the server control circuitry determines that a ratio of the number of vehicles that performed the avoidance operation for the first fallen object to the total number of: i) vehicles that performed the avoidance operation for the first fallen object; and ii) vehicles that did not perform the avoidance operation for the first fallen object, is equal to or greater than a predetermined value.