US 12,403,864 B2
Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium storing vehicle control program
Hironori Obayashi, Kariya (JP)
Assigned to DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya (JP)
Filed by DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya (JP)
Filed on May 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/319,306.
Application 18/319,306 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2021/036582, filed on Oct. 4, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-192579 (JP), filed on Nov. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0286467 A1, Sep. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. B60S 1/08 (2006.01); B60S 1/52 (2006.01)
CPC B60S 1/0818 (2013.01) [B60S 1/52 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A control device for a vehicle, the vehicle including, as a sensor system, a plurality of external sensors individually set with sensing regions through external surfaces, the vehicle including, as a cleaning system, a plurality of cleaning nozzles configured to inject cleaning fluid to individually clean the external surfaces of the external sensors, the control device comprising:
an injection control unit configured to
perform classification of the cleaning nozzles, which correspond to the external surfaces whose sensing regions of the external sensors overlap with each other, into an injected nozzle, which performs injection of cleaning fluid, and a stopped nozzle, which stops injection of cleaning fluid, and
control the classification according to a stain state of the external surface; and
a priority control unit configured to control a priority of cleaned sensor data, which is acquired through an external sensor of the external sensors whose external surface corresponds to the injected nozzle, to be lower than a priority of non-cleaned sensor data, which is acquired through an external sensor of the external sensors whose external surface corresponds to the stopped nozzle.