Driving assistance apparatus, vehicle, driving assistance method, and non-transitory storage medium storing program
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNaoki Hayashi
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Abstract
A driving assistance apparatus includes a memory and a processor including hardware. The processor is configured to acquire voice information uttered by a driver, recognize content of the voice information, output information on content of a process based on a recognition result of the voice information before executing the process, and execute the process when an approval signal that approves the execution of the process is input from an operation member disposed on a steering wheel that the driver holds to steer a vehicle.
Claims7
A driving assistance apparatus comprising:
- a memory;
- a processor including hardware, wherein the processor is configured to:
- acquire voice information uttered by a driver;
- recognize content of the voice information;
- output information prompting the driver to confirm acceptance of a content of a process to be executed based on a recognition of the content of the voice information before executing the process;
- execute the process when an approval signal that approves the execution of the process is input from an operation member disposed on a steering wheel that the driver holds to steer a vehicle;
- determine whether a level indicating a correlation between the content of the process to be executed based on a recognition of the content of the voice information and steering by autonomous driving is equal to or higher than a predetermined level;
- and
- output the information prompting the driver to confirm acceptance of the content of the process when the level indicating the correlation between the content of the process and the steering by autonomous driving is equal to or higher than the predetermined level.
A driving assistance method executed by a driving assistance apparatus, the method comprising:
- acquiring voice information uttered by a driver;
- recognizing content of the voice information stored in a memory;
- outputting information prompting the driver to confirm acceptance of a content of a process to be executed based on a recognition of the content of the voice information before executing the process;
- executing the process when an approval signal that approves the execution of the process is input from an operation member disposed on a steering wheel that the driver holds to steer a vehicle;
- determining whether a level indicating a correlation between the content of the process to be executed based on a recognition of the content of the voice information and steering by autonomous driving is equal to or higher than a predetermined level;
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- outputting the information prompting the driver to confirm acceptance of the content of the process when the level indicating the correlation between the content of the process and the steering by autonomous driving is equal to or higher than the predetermined level.
A non-transitory storage medium storing a program executed by a driving assistance apparatus, wherein the program causes a processor of the driving assistance apparatus to:
- acquire voice information uttered by a driver;
- recognize content of the voice information;
- output information prompting the driver to confirm acceptance of a content of a process to be executed based on a recognition of the content of the voice information before executing the process;
- execute the process when an approval signal that approves the execution of the process is input from an operation member disposed on a steering wheel that the driver holds to steer a vehicle;
- determine whether a level indicating a correlation between the content of the process to be executed based on a recognition of the content of the voice information and steering by autonomous driving is equal to or higher than a predetermined level;
- and
- output the information prompting the driver to confirm acceptance of the content of the process when the level indicating the correlation between the content of the process and the steering by autonomous driving is equal to or higher than the predetermined level.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.