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US 11,441,910 B2Granted
Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control method
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
InventorsKotaro Sakata, Kimio Minami, Tetsuji Fuchikami
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Abstract
When a self-driving vehicle that transfers an object to a predetermined location is left at the predetermined location without the object in the vehicle, a vehicle control apparatus determines a moving destination among a plurality of standby places, based on the current location of the vehicle, the locations of the plurality of standby places, and vehicle-demand prediction information, and instructs the vehicle to move to the determined moving destination.
Claims8
An apparatus comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing a computer program, which when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform operations including:
- determining whether or not a self-driving vehicle that transfers an object to a predetermined location is left at the predetermined location without the object in the vehicle based on a state of the vehicle;
- determining, in response to determining that the vehicle is left at the predetermined location, a moving destination among a plurality of standby places, based on (i) a current location of the vehicle, (ii) locations of the plurality of standby places, and (iii) vehicle-demand prediction information indicating vehicle-demand prediction distribution;
- and
- instructing the vehicle to move to the determined moving destination.
4 more elements
A method performed by a processor, the method comprising:
- determining whether or not a self-driving vehicle that transfers an object to a predetermined location is left at the predetermined location without the object in the vehicle based on a state of the vehicle;
- and
- determining, in response to determining that the vehicle is left at the predetermined location, a moving destination among a plurality of standby places, based on (i) a current location of the vehicle, (ii) locations of the plurality of standby places, and (iii) vehicle-demand prediction information indicating vehicle-demand prediction distribution.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.