US 12,103,513 B2
Vehicle controller
Keiji Kaita, Miyoshi (JP); Takahiko Hirasawa, Toyota (JP); Kentaro Otokubo, Nagoya (JP); Hirotaka Omisha, Nisshin (JP); and Kimihiro Nakayama, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed on Feb. 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/678,050.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-033466 (JP), filed on Mar. 3, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0281438 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. B60W 20/20 (2016.01); B60W 20/40 (2016.01); B60W 30/182 (2020.01); B60W 40/08 (2012.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01)
CPC B60W 20/40 (2013.01) [B60W 20/20 (2013.01); B60W 30/182 (2013.01); B60W 40/08 (2013.01); B60W 60/001 (2020.02); B60W 2510/081 (2013.01); B60W 2540/22 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle controller that controls a power train of a vehicle, wherein
the vehicle controller is configured to switch control of the power train between a first control and a second control, the second control reducing operating noise of the power train by a greater degree than the first control,
the vehicle controller is configured to:
based on sounds in a passenger compartment, perform mood determination in order to determine whether an occupant of the vehicle is in a state of high tolerance for the operating noise or in a state of low tolerance for the operating noise;
control the power train through the first control when determining that the occupant is in the state of high tolerance through the mood determination; and
control the power train through the second control when determining that the occupant is in the state of low tolerance through the mood determination,
the sounds in the passenger compartment include sound of music being played by a vehicle on-board audio system, and
the vehicle controller is configured to perform the mood determination when determining that the vehicle on-board audio system is not selecting a piece of music.