US 12,131,640 B2
Boarding and alighting time informing method
Taizo Masuda, Yokohama (JP); Ryota Tomizawa, Mishima (JP); Sei Miyazaki, Susono (JP); and Yuki Nishikawa, Susono (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Nov. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/978,385.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-004909 (JP), filed on Jan. 17, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0230482 A1, Jul. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. G08G 1/133 (2006.01); G08G 1/005 (2006.01)
CPC G08G 1/133 (2013.01) [G08G 1/005 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A boarding and alighting time informing method comprising:
receiving first characteristics associated with a first person;
receiving second characteristics associated with a bus stop;
receiving third characteristics associated with a bus;
receiving a first image of an interior of the bus;
receiving a second image of the bus stop;
determining, at the bus stop where the bus stops, whether the first person is going to board the bus and whether the first person is going to alight from the bus based on the first image and the second image;
upon determination that the first person is going to board the bus or alight from the bus, predicting a boarding and alighting time at the bus stop based on the first characteristics, the second characteristics, and the third characteristics; and
outputting information indicating the predicted boarding and alighting time to inform at least one of an inside of the bus and an outside of the bus.