# US 2021/0170943 A1 · Autonomous driving vehicle information presentation apparatus > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2021/0170943 A1 - Document ID: US20210170943A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 17/117,224 - Filed: 2020-12-10 - Published: 2021-06-10 - Earliest claimed: 2019-12-10 - Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Yoshitaka Mimura; Takashi Oshima; Yuji Tsuchiya; Yuki Kizumi - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20210170943A1 ## CPC - G08G 1/166: {for active traffic, e.g. moving vehicles, pedestrians, bikes} - B60Q 1/08: automatically - B60Q 1/5037: {the display content changing automatically, e.g. depending on traffic situation} - B60Q 1/507: {specific to autonomous vehicles} - B60Q 1/543: {for indicating other states or conditions of the vehicle (indicating taxis' state of hire or fare G07B13/045)} - B60Q 1/547: {for issuing requests to other traffic participants; for confirming to other traffic participants they can proceed, e.g. they can overtake} - B60Q 1/549: {for expressing greetings, gratitude or emotions} - B60R 25/25: using biometry - B60R 25/31: of human presence inside or outside the vehicle - B60Q 2400/40: Welcome lights, i.e. specific or existing exterior lamps to assist leaving or approaching the vehicle - B60R 2300/50: characterised by the display information being shared, e.g. external display, data transfer to other traffic participants or centralised traffic controller - G08G: TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS (guiding railway traffic, ensuring the safety of railway traffic B61L; arrangement of road signs or traffic signals E01F9/00; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S13/91, G01S15/88, G01S17/88; {radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for anti-collision purposes G01S13/93, G01S15/93, G01S17/93}) - B60Q: ARRANGEMENT OF SIGNALLING OR LIGHTING DEVICES, THE MOUNTING OR SUPPORTING THEREOF OR CIRCUITS THEREFOR, FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL - B60R: VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR ## Abstract In an autonomous driving vehicle information presentation apparatus, based on outside information, an identification unit searches for a person present around a host vehicle and identifies whether the person extracted by the search matches a user of the host vehicle. When a result of the identification by the identification unit indicates that the person extracted by the search matches the user of the host vehicle, the information presentation unit presents information by using a preset presenting state to a specific person, as a presentation target, identified to match the user of the host vehicle by the identification unit with an exterior display apparatus provided at a front portion of the host vehicle. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An autonomous driving vehicle information presentation apparatus that is used in an autonomous driving vehicle which obtains outside information on an outside including targets present around a host vehicle, generates an action plan for the host vehicle based on the obtained outside information, and autonomously controls at least one of speed and steering of the host vehicle in accordance with the generated action plan, and that presents information to a person present around the host vehicle, the autonomous driving vehicle information presentation apparatus comprising: an identification unit that, based on the outside information, searches for a person present around the host vehicle and identifies whether the person extracted by the search matches a user of the host vehicle; and an information presentation unit that presents information addressed to the person by using an exterior display apparatus provided at a front portion of the host vehicle, wherein when a result of the identification by the identification unit indicates that the person extracted by the search matches the user of the host vehicle, the information presentation unit presents the information by using a preset presenting state to a specific person, as a presentation target, identified to match the user of the host vehicle by the identification unit. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The autonomous driving vehicle information presentation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the exterior display apparatus includes a pair of eye equivalent units provided at portions of the host vehicle where headlights thereof are installed, and equivalent to eyes of the host vehicle on an assumption that the host vehicle is personified in a front view, and the information presentation unit expresses a wandering sight line with the pair of eye equivalent units during the search, and presents the information to the specific person as the presentation target by expressing a sight line directed to the specific person with the pair of eye equivalent units after the specific person is identified as the presentation target. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The autonomous driving vehicle information presentation apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a front display unit provided between the pair of eye equivalent units, wherein after the specific person is identified as the presentation target, the information presentation unit presents the information to the specific person as the presentation target by expressing a sight line directed to the specific person with the pair of eye equivalent units and displaying a message addressed to the specific person with the front display unit. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The autonomous driving vehicle information presentation apparatus according to claim 2, wherein after the specific person is identified as the presentation target, the information presentation unit presents the information to the specific person as the presentation target by expressing affection for the specific person with a sight line directed to the specific person by using the pair of eye equivalent units. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The autonomous driving vehicle information presentation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information presenting state to be used by the information presentation unit after the specific person is identified as the presentation target is set by the user. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The autonomous driving vehicle information presentation apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the information presentation unit stops presenting the information to the specific person as the presentation target when the specific person gets into the host vehicle. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The autonomous driving vehicle information presentation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the host vehicle is in an autonomous driving mode, the information presentation unit presents information corresponding to the autonomous driving mode.