Remote assist system and remote assist method of automated drive vehicles

A remote assist system of vehicles, comprising:

• a vehicle configured to perform an automated driving;
• and
• a remote facility configured to communicate with the vehicle,
• wherein the vehicle comprises a controller configured to execute automated driving control of the vehicle based on driving environment information including shot image information in front of the vehicle,
• wherein the remote facility comprises:
• an input device which is operated by an operator;
• a display device configured to display the shot image information
• an information processing device configured to execute input information processing to process input information received by the input device, and display control processing of the display device,
• wherein, in the automated driving control, the controller is configured to:
• determine, based on the driving environment information, whether or not a passage permit condition of the vehicle according to an instruction content of a traffic light that exists in front of the vehicle is satisfied;
• if it is determined that the passage permit condition is not satisfied, execute vehicle control to stop the vehicle temporally in front of the traffic light;
• and
• transmit an assist requesting signal for requesting an assist by the operator to the remote facility,
• wherein, the information processing device is configured to:
• when receiving the assist requiring signal, execute processing to display reference image information indicating the shot image information during the temporal stop of the vehicle;
• and
• when receiving, as the input information, positional information of pixels constituting the traffic light included in the reference image information, transmit to the vehicle assist information including the positional information in the input information processing,
• wherein, in the automated driving control, the controller is further configured to:
• when receiving the assist information, determine whether or not the passage permit condition of the vehicle based on the received assist information;
• and
• if it is determined that the passage permit condition is satisfied, execute vehicle control in which the temporarily stop of the vehicle is released and the vehicle is controlled to travel in accordance with the instruction content of the traffic light.