US 12,420,706 B2
Control device
Atsushi Ishioka, Saitama (JP); and Takuma Ando, Saitama (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/128,038.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-057685 (JP), filed on Mar. 30, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0311761 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. B60Q 9/00 (2006.01); B60R 25/30 (2013.01); B60R 25/31 (2013.01); B60R 25/34 (2013.01); B60R 25/40 (2013.01)
CPC B60Q 9/008 (2013.01) [B60R 25/305 (2013.01); B60R 25/31 (2013.01); B60R 25/34 (2013.01); B60R 25/40 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A control device for controlling a vehicle including an external sensor that acquires surrounding information of the vehicle and a notification device capable of executing a predetermined notification to an occupant of the vehicle, the control device comprising processing circuitry configured to execute alarm control for causing the notification device to execute the notification, when an object that has a possibility of colliding with the vehicle exists around the vehicle, based on the surrounding information acquired by the external sensor, wherein
the processing circuitry is capable of ending processing for the alarm control when a door of the vehicle gets locked,
the processing circuitry ends the processing for the alarm control or continues the processing for the alarm control depending on a locking method for the door,
the locking method includes exterior locking of locking the door from outside the vehicle and interior locking of locking the door from inside the vehicle,
the processing circuitry ends the processing for the alarm control when the door gets locked by the exterior locking, and continues the processing for the alarm control when the door gets locked by the interior locking,
the exterior locking is a method of locking the door by physically operating a locking operation unit mounted on an exterior of the door,
the interior locking is a method of locking the door by physically operating a locking operation unit mounted on an interior of the door,
the locking method further includes communication locking of locking the door in response to a locking request sent from a terminal device capable of communicating with the vehicle and being moved from being inside the vehicle and outside the vehicle, the terminal being different from the locking operation unit mounted on the exterior of the door and the locking operation unit mounted on the interior of the door, and
the processing circuitry determines whether the terminal device exists in the vehicle when the door is locked by the communication locking, and based on a determination that the terminal device does not exist in the vehicle, ends the processing for the alarm control.