US 12,177,935 B2
Control apparatus, control system, vehicle, and control method
Kentaro Asai, Okazaki (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Nov. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/523,618.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-187534 (JP), filed on Nov. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0150688 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 8/22 (2009.01); B60W 40/08 (2012.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01)
CPC H04W 8/22 (2013.01) [B60W 40/08 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 60/001 (2020.02); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A control apparatus comprising a controller configured to:
determine whether a terminal apparatus is present in a vehicle with reference to first positional data that indicates a position of the vehicle and second positional data that indicates a position of the terminal apparatus; and
when the terminal apparatus is determined as being present in the vehicle, determine, according to a driving state of the vehicle, whether to prohibit a first operation to be performed on the terminal apparatus,
wherein the controller is configured to:
refer to, as the second positional data, data that indicates positions of a plurality of terminal apparatuses; and
when the plurality of terminal apparatuses is determined as being present in the vehicle, determine whether to prohibit, as the first operation, an operation to be performed on every terminal apparatus of the plurality of terminal apparatuses.