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US 11,447,084 B2Granted
Vehicle control device, vehicle control method and program
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsOsamu Ito, Hiroshi Akaba, Hidetoshi Nakamura
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Abstract
The present invention is a vehicle control device including a restriction unit configured to restrict a change in an orientation of a vehicle seat, a vehicle information recognition unit configured to recognize information of a traveling environment of a vehicle, a risk evaluation unit configured to evaluate a risk of a collision which may occur in the vehicle on the basis of the traveling environment recognized by the vehicle information recognition unit, and a control unit configured to control the restriction unit and restrict the change in the orientation of the vehicle seat on the basis of a level of the risk of the collision evaluated by the risk evaluation unit.
Claims9
A vehicle control device comprising:
- a restriction unit configured to restrict a change in an orientation of a vehicle seat;
- a vehicle information recognition unit configured to recognize an external recognition information of a vehicle;
- a storage device configured to store a map information which includes a road traffic information;
- an information generation unit configured to generate a road information on the basis of the map information;
- a traveling environment recognition unit configured to connect the road information and the external recognition information, and to generate an information related to a traveling environment of the vehicle;
- a risk evaluation unit configured to evaluate a risk of a collision which may occur in the vehicle on the basis of the information related to the traveling environment of the vehicle;
- a control unit configured to control the restriction unit and restrict the change in the orientation of the vehicle seat on the basis of a level of the risk of the collision evaluated by the risk evaluation unit,
- wherein the control unit is further configured to:
- prohibit the change in the orientation of the vehicle seat, in a case when the vehicle is traveling in a region with a high risk of collision determined by the risk evaluation unit and a seat position is a normal state of facing the front of the vehicle, and
- perform a display operation of prompting an occupant or notify to return the orientation of the vehicle seat to an original position, in a case when the vehicle starts to travel in a region with a high risk of the collision and the seat position is in a state in which a backrest part has a reclining rotation angle greater than or equal to a prescribe angle.
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A vehicle control method using an in-vehicle computer, the vehicle control method comprising:
- storing a map information which includes a road traffic condition;
- recognizing an external recognition information of a vehicle on the basis of a traveling state of the vehicle;
- generating a road information on the basis of the map information;
- connecting the road information and the external recognition information;
- generating an information related to a traveling environment of the vehicle;
- evaluating, a risk of a collision which may occur in the vehicle on the basis of the information related to the traveling environment of the vehicle;
- controlling a restriction unit configured to restrict a change in an orientation of a vehicle seat and restricting the change in the orientation of the vehicle seat on the basis of a level of the evaluated risk of the collision;
- prohibiting the change in the orientation of the vehicle seat, in a case when the vehicle is traveling in an region with a high risk of collision, and a seat position is a normal state of facing the front in the vehicle;
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- performing a display operation of prompting an occupant or notify to return the orientation of the vehicle seat to an original position, in a case when the vehicle starts to travel in a region with the high risk of the collision and the seat position is in a state in which a backrest part has a reclining rotation angle greater than or equal to a prescribed angle.
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A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium for causing a computer to:
- cause a map information which includes a road traffic information to be stored;
- cause an external recognition information of a vehicle to be recognized on the basis of a traveling state of the vehicle;
- cause a road information to be generated on the basis of the map information;
- cause the road information and the external recognition information to be connected,
- cause an information related to the traveling environment of the vehicle to be generated;
- cause a risk of a collision which may occur in the vehicle to be evaluated based on information related to the traveling environment of the vehicle;
- cause a restriction unit configured to restrict a change in an orientation of a vehicle seat to be controlled and cause the change in the orientation of the vehicle seat to be restricted on the basis of a level of the evaluated risk of the collision;
- cause the change in the orientation of the vehicle seat to be prohibited, in a case where the vehicle is traveling in an region with a high risk of collision, and a seat position is a normal state of facing the front in the vehicle;
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- cause a display operation of prompting an occupant to be performed or to be notified to return the orientation of the vehicle seat to an original position, in a case where the vehicle starts to travel in a region with the high risk of the collision and the seat position is in a state in which a backrest part has a reclining rotation angle greater than or equal to a prescribed angle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.