US 12,116,002 B2
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium
Hiroyuki Wada, Kyoto (JP); Yoshiharu Imamoto, Kanagawa (JP); Toru Iwano, Osaka (JP); and Takayuki Fujii, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS CO., LTD., Kanagawa (JP)
Filed by Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Sep. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/466,359.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-154123 (JP), filed on Sep. 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0080989 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. B60W 50/029 (2012.01); B60W 50/02 (2012.01); G06F 9/455 (2018.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 21/74 (2013.01)
CPC B60W 50/029 (2013.01) [B60W 50/0205 (2013.01); G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 21/554 (2013.01); G06F 21/74 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45587 (2013.01); G06F 2221/034 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus, comprising:
a device that communicates with an external apparatus, the external apparatus being outside the information processing apparatus;
a memory that includes a protected region and an unprotected region;
a processor that operates in a first mode and a second mode, the first mode allowing access to the protected region of the memory and allowing access to the unprotected region of the memory, the second mode prohibiting access to the protected region of the memory and allowing access to the unprotected region of the memory;
a first controller that controls the device in response to the processor operating in the first mode;
a virtual machine manager that is a hypervisor, the hypervisor causing one or more virtual machines to operate in response to the processor operating in the second mode; and
a second controller that controls the device in response to the processor operating in the second mode.