US 12,464,092 B2
Information processing method
Kazuya Nishimura, Anjo (JP); Naoki Uenoyama, Kasugai (JP); Keiko Nakano, Kawasaki (JP); Yohei Nakanishi, Nagoya (JP); and Takahiro Matsumura, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-Ken (JP); and NOMURA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP); and NOMURA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 3, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/764,099.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-111637 (JP), filed on Jul. 6, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2025/0016289 A1, Jan. 9, 2025
Int. Cl. H04N 7/18 (2006.01); G08B 21/02 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 7/181 (2013.01) [G08B 21/02 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing method to be performed using an information processing system, wherein
the information processing system includes:
vehicles; and
a server device installed outside the vehicles;
the vehicles each include:
an image capturing unit that captures an image of surroundings to generate a peripheral image;
a position information obtainment unit that obtains position information of the vehicle; and
a communication unit that performs external communication,
the information processing system is configured such that the peripheral image and the position information are transmitted from the communication unit of each vehicle to the server device via a communication network,
the information processing method comprises:
transmitting, using the communication unit of each vehicle, a notification information set to the server device, the notification information set including the peripheral image in which an elementary school student is captured, and position information of the vehicle obtained when the peripheral image is generated by the image capturing unit; and
sending, using the server device, at least one notification information set among the notification information sets to at least one of an information terminal belonging to an elementary school and an information terminal belonging to a staff member of the elementary school, the at least one notification information set including the peripheral image in which an elementary school student who is away from a school route of the elementary school is captured, and the position information of the vehicle obtained when the peripheral image is generated by the imaging unit.