US 12,122,427 B2
Pedestrian protection system
Marie Ishikawa, Nagoya (JP); Aya Hamajima, Nagoya (JP); Daichi Hotta, Tokyo (JP); Hayato Ito, Susono (JP); Hidekazu Sasaki, Yokohama (JP); Yasuhiro Kobatake, Nagoya (JP); and Akihiro Kusumoto, Susono (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Sep. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/944,655.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-179535 (JP), filed on Nov. 2, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0137845 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 60/00 (2020.01)
CPC B60W 60/0017 (2020.02) [B60W 2540/041 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4029 (2020.02); B60W 2556/45 (2020.02)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pedestrian protection system comprising:
a plurality of autonomous driving vehicles; and
a server configured to be able to communicate with each of the autonomous driving vehicles, wherein:
the server is configured to select at least one vehicle to be moved to a location of a pedestrian from among the autonomous driving vehicles as a pedestrian protection vehicle when a particular situation occurrence notification is received and is configured to send an instruction notification to the pedestrian protection vehicle, the particular situation occurrence notification indicating that the pedestrian is placed in a particular situation, the instruction notification instructing the pedestrian protection vehicle to move to the location of the pedestrian for protecting the pedestrian;
each of the autonomous driving vehicles is configured to move to the location of the pedestrian for protecting the pedestrian when the instruction notification is received;
each of the autonomous driving vehicles is configured to notify the pedestrian of starting side by side travel and travel side by side with the pedestrian for protecting the pedestrian when the instruction notification is received.