US 12,412,469 B2
Information processing method, information processing device, and program
Masahiro Yamada, Tokyo (JP); Yohei Chishiki, Tokyo (JP); and Kenji Takao, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 23, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/125,393.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-049044 (JP), filed on Mar. 24, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0306839 A1, Sep. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. G08G 1/017 (2006.01); G08G 1/056 (2006.01); G08G 1/065 (2006.01)
CPC G08G 1/017 (2013.01) [G08G 1/056 (2013.01); G08G 1/065 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing method, comprising:
a step of acquiring movement information on a first mobile body including information on a first position through which the first mobile body is scheduled to pass in a first time slot and information on a travel direction of the first mobile body; and
a step of setting, as an exclusive area in the first time slot, an area between the first position and a second position on a travel direction side of the first mobile body from the first position based on the movement information on the first mobile body, wherein
the exclusive area is set in a manner that a second mobile body other than the first mobile body is not permitted to move within the exclusive area in a travel direction different from the travel direction of the first mobile body in the first time slot and that the second mobile body is permitted to move within the exclusive area in a travel direction identical to the travel direction of the first mobile body in the first time slot,
the method further comprises
a step of outputting, after setting the exclusive area of the first mobile body, to the first mobile body, a command to permit movement within the exclusive area in the first time slot,
when the second mobile body moves in the exclusive area in the same direction of travel as the first mobile body, outputting a command to allow movement to the second mobile body, and
when the second mobile body moves in the exclusive area in a direction of travel different from the first mobile body, not outputting a command to allow movement to the second mobile body.