Control device, vehicle, control system, program, and control method
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTatsunori Katoh
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Abstract
A control device is configured to control a vehicle in which an engine is able to be started in response to a request signal transmitted from the outside of the vehicle. The control device includes a controller. The controller acquires the result of detection about the vehicle state of the vehicle from a first sensor group including one or more sensors able to detect the vehicle state of the vehicle before the engine of the vehicle is started in response to the request signal, starts the engine in a case where the vehicle state satisfies a first condition including a condition relating to a range of a transmission of the vehicle, and does not start the engine in a case where the vehicle state does not satisfy the first condition.
Claims17
A control device configured to control a vehicle in which an engine is able to be started in response to a request signal transmitted from an outside of the vehicle, the control device comprising:
- a controller configured to:
- acquire a result of detection about a vehicle state of the vehicle from a first sensor group including one or more sensors able to detect the vehicle state of the vehicle before the engine of the vehicle is started in response to the request signal;
- acquire a result of detection about a state of a vicinity of the vehicle from a second sensor croup including one or more sensors able to detect the state of the vicinity before the engine of the vehicle is started in response to the request signal;
- transmit information about the state of the vicinity to a terminal device external to the vehicle in a case where the vehicle is stopped in a closed space in order to receive a determination from the terminal device regarding whether or Trot to start the engine;
- receive the determination from the terminal device regarding whether or not to start the engine in the case where the vehicle is stopped in the closed space;
- start the engine in a case where (i) the vehicle state satisfies a first condition including a condition relating to a range of a transmission of the vehicle, and (ii) the state of the vicinity satisfies a second condition including a condition that the vehicle is not stopped in a closed space;
- start the engine in a case where (i) the vehicle state satisfies the first condition, (ii) the state of the vicinity does not satisfy the second condition, and (iii) the determination from the terminal device is to start the engine;
- not start the engine in a case where the vehicle state does not satisfy the first condition;
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- not start the engine in a case where (i) the vehicle state satisfies the first condition, (ii) the state of the vicinity does not satisfy the second condition, and (iii) the determination from the terminal device is to not start the engine.
A program causing a control device configured to control a vehicle in which an engine is able to be started in response to a request signal transmitted from an outside of the vehicle to perform an operation comprising:
- acquiring a result of detection about a vehicle state of the vehicle from a first sensor group including one or more sensors able to detect the vehicle state of the vehicle before the engine of the vehicle is started in response to the request signal;
- acquiring a result of detection about a state of a vicinity of the vehicle from a second sensor group including one or more sensors able to detect the state of the vicinity before the engine of the vehicle is started in response to the request signal;
- transmitting information about the state of the vicinity to a terminal device external to the vehicle in a case where the vehicle is stopped in a closed space in order to receive a determination from the terminal device regarding whether or not to start the engine;
- receiving the determination from the terminal device regarding whether or not to start the engine in the case where the vehicle is stopped in the closed space;
- starting the engine in a case where (i) the vehicle state satisfies a first condition including a condition relating to a range of a transmission of the vehicle, and (ii) the state of the vicinity satisfies a second condition including a condition that the vehicle is not stopped in a closed space;
- starting the engine in a case where (i) the vehicle state satisfies the first condition, (ii) the state of the vicinity does not satisfy the second condition, and (iii) the determination from the terminal device is to start the engine;
- not starting the engine in a case where the vehicle state does not satisfy the first condition;
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- not starting the engine in a case where (i) the vehicle state satisfies the first condition, (ii) the state of the vicinity does not satisfy the second condition, and (iii) the determination from the terminal device is to not start the engine.
A control method for a control device configured to control a vehicle in which an engine is able to be started in response to a request signal transmitted from an outside of the vehicle, the method comprising:
- acquiring a result of detection a vehicle state of the vehicle from a first sensor group including one or more sensors able to detect the vehicle state of the vehicle before the engine of the vehicle is started in response to the request signal;
- acquiring a result of detection about a state of a vicinity of the vehicle from a second sensor group including one or more sensors able to detect the state of the vicinity before the engine of the vehicle is started in response to the request signal;
- transmitting information about the state of the vicinity to a terminal device external to the vehicle in a case where the vehicle is stopped in a closed space in order to receive a determination from the terminal device regarding whether or not to start the engine;
- receiving the determination from the terminal device regarding whether or not to start the engine in the case where the vehicle is stopped in the closed space;
- starting the engine in a case where (i) the vehicle state satisfies a first condition including a condition relating to a range of a transmission of the vehicle, and (ii) the state of the vicinity satisfies a second condition including a condition that the vehicle is not stopped in a closed space;
- starting the engine in a case where (i) the vehicle state satisfies the first condition, (ii) the state of the vicinity does not satisfy the second condition, and (iii) the determination from the terminal device is to start the engine;
- not starting the engine in a case where the vehicle state does not satisfy the first condition;
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- not starting the engine in a case where (i) the vehicle state satisfies the first condition, (ii) the state of the vicinity does not satisfy the second condition, and (iii) the determination from the terminal device is to not start the engine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.