US 12,434,730 B2
Driving assistance apparatus, driving assistance method, and computer-readable storage medium storing driving assistance program
Yuma Ito, Obu (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on May 22, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/321,087.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-126986 (JP), filed on Aug. 9, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0051564 A1, Feb. 15, 2024
Int. Cl. B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 50/10 (2012.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 50/14 (2013.01) [B60W 50/10 (2013.01); B60W 60/001 (2020.02); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); B60W 2540/21 (2020.02); B60W 2540/215 (2020.02); G10L 2015/221 (2013.01); G10L 2015/223 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A driving assistance apparatus, comprising:
an electronic control unit configured to execute a moving control to autonomously control a moving of a vehicle,
the electronic control unit being configured to:
output a first announcement and a second announcement,
the first announcement being an announcement to inform a driver of the vehicle of contents of a voice operation process planned to be executed for the moving control in accordance with utterance contents of the driver acquired by voice recognition, and
the second announcement being an announcement to request the driver to perform an approval operation to approve the informed contents; and
execute the voice operation process when the approval operation is performed,
wherein the electronic control unit is configured to:
complete outputting the first announcement and execute the voice operation process in response to the approval operation being performed before completing the output of the first announcement.