US 12,072,196 B2
Mobile-object control device, mobile-object control method, mobile object, information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program
Masahiro Tamori, Tokyo (JP); and Yasufumi Ogawa, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/297,462
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Dec. 6, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/047765
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 27, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/129689, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 25, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-237947 (JP), filed on Dec. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0396532 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. G01C 21/00 (2006.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC G01C 21/3453 (2013.01) [G01C 21/3438 (2013.01); G05D 1/0225 (2013.01); G05D 1/0276 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mobile-object control device comprising:
processing circuitry configured to
transmit a call signal to a mobile object, the call signal including a set time and a set place input by a user,
receive, from the mobile object, a proposed route, selected from one or more detected routes, that allows reaching the set place by the set time,
notify the mobile object of a propriety of the proposed route,
control an operation of the mobile object to move the mobile object to be present at the set place at the set time,
receive, from the mobile object, a situation notification signal including a location of the mobile object estimated by the mobile object and an image of surroundings of the mobile object obtained by the mobile object,
determine whether at least one of the set time or the set place cannot be achieved,
in response to a determination that at least one of the set time or the set place cannot be achieved, notify the mobile object that at least one of the set time or the set place cannot be achieved, and
in a case where the mobile object arrives at the set place but subsequently cannot stay at the set place, the mobile object has not joined with the user,
and the set time can still be achieved, control an operation of the mobile object to
move the mobile object to circle around the set place.