US 12,087,089 B2
Vehicle, information processing apparatus, and method
Yoshiyasu Takezawa, Okazaki (JP); Hirotaka Todaka, Toyota (JP); Takao Kiguchi, Nagoya (JP); Chieko Sawada, Nagoya (JP); Yosuke Tokuda, Toyota (JP); Ayaka Kagami, Inazawa (JP); Natsuki Sugiyama, Nisshin (JP); Takuzo Hirano, Nagoya (JP); Taichi Amakasu, Toyota (JP); Seiei Hibino, Nagakute (JP); and Hiroshi Kawakami, Nisshin (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on May 17, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/322,192.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-086680 (JP), filed on May 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0354534 A1, Nov. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. G06V 10/60 (2022.01); B60J 1/17 (2006.01); B60J 3/04 (2006.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01); G06V 40/16 (2022.01); G06V 40/20 (2022.01)
CPC G06V 40/174 (2022.01) [B60J 1/17 (2013.01); B60J 3/04 (2013.01); G06V 10/60 (2022.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01); G06V 40/20 (2022.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle comprising:
a plurality of dimming glass units used for a plurality of windows;
a sensor configured to acquire an entering situation of natural light at a predetermined position; and
a controller configured to:
specify a first dimming glass unit that is a control target out of the plurality of dimming glass units in accordance with the entering situation of the natural light; and
control quantity of transmitted light of the first dimming glass unit; wherein
the controller is configured to control the first dimming glass unit so as to be in a light shielding state in a case where the entering situation of the natural light satisfies a first condition indicating a degree of glaringness in the vehicle, wherein
the sensor is an image capturing apparatus that captures an image of an interior of the vehicle including the plurality of dimming glass units, and
the controller is configured to:
analyze a captured image of the image capturing apparatus;
as the first condition, determine whether a region of a luminance equal to or higher than a predetermined value, the region including a predetermined area or more, is detected from the captured image; and
specify a dimming glass unit that natural light enters out of the plurality of dimming glass units included in the captured image as the first dimming glass unit in response to a result of an analysis of the captured image in a case where the region satisfying the first condition is detected from the captured image.