Vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasatoshi Hayashi
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Abstract
When there is a request to open the luggage compartment door, the ECU performs processing including the following steps: activating the back camera, acquiring a moving image, displaying the moving image on the display device, acquiring a still image, calculating the distance to the object in the image, stopping the operation of the luggage compartment door when the distance to the object is less than or equal to a threshold, stopping the display on the display device, and performing an opening operation of the luggage compartment door when the distance to the object is greater than the threshold.
Claims6
A vehicle comprising:
- a door that is provided at an opening of a luggage compartment provided behind a rear seat of the vehicle in a front-back direction of the vehicle;
- a display that is visible to a user in a vehicle cabin;
- a camera provided on the door;
- an actuator configured to apply driving force to the door in a movable direction of the door to open and close the door by turning about a hinge;
- and
- a processor configured to
- receive an operation to the display by the user in a state where the door is closed, the operation requesting the door to open,
- start displaying on the display a video recorded by the camera in response to receiving the operation to the display requesting the door to open,
- acquire a captured image from the video after starting to display the video,
- calculate a distance between the door and an object in the captured image,
- determine whether the calculated distance is equal to or smaller than a threshold,
- cause the actuator to perform an opening operation of the door in a case where a first determination is made that the calculated distance is greater than the threshold,
- stop displaying the video recorded by the camera in response to a completion of the opening operation, and
- prohibit the opening operation of the door and stop displaying the video recorded by the camera, in response to a second determination that the calculated distance is equal to or smaller than the threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.