US 12,472,972 B2
Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, non-transitory storage medium
Masashi Nose, Nagoya (JP); Tomoaki Miyazawa, Nagoya (JP); Kazuya Kumazawa, Nagoya (JP); Miki Tsujino, Nagakute (JP); and Tsukasa Kitazawa, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Nov. 22, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/517,943.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-188774 (JP), filed on Nov. 25, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0174253 A1, May 30, 2024
Int. Cl. B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01)
CPC B60W 50/14 (2013.01) [B60W 30/18163 (2013.01); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle control device, comprising:
a processor that, after a first lane change control has been executed on a vehicle traveling in a cruising lane to move the vehicle to a target lane, is configured to execute a second lane change control on the vehicle to return the vehicle from the target lane to the cruising lane; and
a display device that is configured to display a first image expressing information related to a start of the second lane change control prior to the second lane change control being executed on the vehicle traveling in the target lane,
wherein the display device displays the first image when the second lane change control has not been in an executable state for a period of time equivalent to a first threshold from a first time at which the vehicle was moved from the cruising lane to the target lane under the first lane change control, and
wherein the display device does not display the first image before a period of time less than the first threshold has elapsed from the first time.