Notification control device
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKiyotoshi Sekine, Takahiko Kuwabara, Ko Igarashi
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Abstract
When a driver of a vehicle is not recognized by a driver monitoring camera during autonomous driving, it is determined whether a notification relaxation condition is satisfied based on a driver status and a driving status of the vehicle. When it is determined that the notification relaxation condition is not satisfied, normal notification processing is executed in which an output device notifies the driver in a first manner. When it is determined that the notification relaxation condition is satisfied, relaxation notification processing is executed in which the output device notifies the driver in a second manner that is more relaxed than the first mode.
Claims10
A notification control device for a vehicle capable of autonomous driving, in which a part of driving operations performed by a driver of the vehicle are automatically performed, the notification control device comprising at least one processor programmed to:
- determine whether a face of the driver is recognized by a driver monitoring camera during the autonomous driving;
- when it is determined, based on recognition of a failure signal from the driver monitoring camera, that the face of the driver is not recognized by the driver monitoring camera, determine whether a notification relaxation condition is satisfied based on a driver status and a driving status of the vehicle;
- when it is determined that the notification relaxation condition is not satisfied, execute normal notification processing in which an output device notifies the driver in a first manner;
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- when it is determined that the notification relaxation condition is satisfied, execute relaxation notification processing in which the output device notifies the driver in a second manner that is more limited than the first manner.
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