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US 12,179,656 B2Granted
Control device, system, vehicle, and determination method
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsShin Sakurada, Satoru Sakuma, Genshi Kuno, Shota Minami
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Abstract
A control device includes a control unit that acquires an image taken by a vehicle provided with a power supply function for a user, identifies an electric light that is turned off and that is included in the acquired image, refers to definition data that defines whether the identified electric light should be turned on during a time zone when the image was taken to determine whether a power outage has occurred.
Claims20
A control device comprising a control unit configured to;
- (i) acquire an image taken by a camera mounted on a vehicle provided with a power supply function for a user,
- (ii) identify an electric light that is turned off and that is included in the acquired image,
- (iii) refer to definition data that defines whether the identified electric light should be turned on during a time when the image was taken, and
- (iv) determine that a power outage has occurred based on (iii) the referred definition data.
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A determination method comprising:
- acquiring, by a control unit, an image taken by a camera mounted on a vehicle provided with a power supply function for a user;
- identifying, by the control unit, an electric light that is turned off and that is included in the acquired image;
- referring to, by the control unit, definition data that defines whether the electric light should be turned on during a time when the image was taken;
- and determining that a power outage has occurred based on the referred definition data.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.