US 12,103,546 B2
Vehicle control device
Tasuku Ishigooka, Tokyo (JP); Nobuyasu Kanekawa, Tokyo (JP); Tomohito Ebina, Hitachinaka (JP); Kazuyoshi Serizawa, Hitachinaka (JP); and Tatsuya Horiguchi, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Ibaraki (JP)
Appl. No. 17/799,407
Filed by Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Hitachinaka (JP)
PCT Filed Dec. 18, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/047350
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 12, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/166411, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 26, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-028833 (JP), filed on Feb. 21, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0339484 A1, Oct. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 50/035 (2012.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G06F 1/32 (2019.01); G06F 1/3234 (2019.01); G06F 1/324 (2019.01); G06F 1/3287 (2019.01); G06F 15/78 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 50/035 (2013.01) [B60W 60/001 (2020.02); G06F 1/324 (2013.01); G06F 1/3243 (2013.01); G06F 1/3287 (2013.01); G06F 15/7814 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle control device having a CPU, the vehicle control device comprising:
a power saving execution determination unit configured to determine a shift to or a release from a normal mode to a power saving mode in which power saving of the CPU is performed on a basis of a preset power saving condition; and
a power saving execution unit configured to execute power saving control of the CPU by determining the shift to the power saving mode, and stop the power saving control of the CPU by determining the release of the power saving mode,
wherein the power saving execution determination unit has a plurality of power saving conditions, and determines to shift to the power saving mode when all of the plurality of power saving conditions are satisfied, and determines to release the power saving mode when a state in which all of the plurality of power saving conditions are satisfied changes to a state in which at least some of the power saving conditions are not satisfied.