# US 2022/0036736 A1 · Reserved vehicle control method, reserved vehicle control device, and reserved vehicle control system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2022/0036736 A1 - Document ID: US20220036736A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 17/277,574 - Filed: 2018-09-21 - Published: 2022-02-03 - Earliest claimed: 2018-09-21 - Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.; RENAULT s.a.s. - Applicants: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.; Renault S.A.S. - Inventors: Yutaka Mikuriya; Eijo Iwasaki; Takashi Hashimoto - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20220036736A1 ## CPC - G08G 1/202: {Dispatching vehicles on the basis of a location, e.g. taxi dispatching} - G08G 1/205: {Indicating the location of the monitored vehicles as destination, e.g. accidents, stolen, rental} - G06Q 10/0283: {for travel seating} - G06Q 50/40: Business processes related to the transportation industry (shipping G06Q10/083) - G08G 1/09: Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions ({railroad crossing signals B61L; reflectors E01F, G08B}; indicating arrangements for variable information by selection or combination of individual elements G09F9/00) - H04L 67/12: specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks - H04L 67/52: specially adapted for the location of the user terminal - G08G 1/123: indicating the position of vehicles, e.g. scheduled vehicles; {Managing passenger vehicles circulating according to a fixed timetable, e.g. buses, trains, trams}(transmission of navigation instructions to vehicles G08G1/0968) - 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}) - G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) ## Abstract A reserved vehicle control method includes a step of acquiring positional information of a terminal device, a step of acquiring positional information of a reserved vehicle, a step of determining whether a distance between the terminal device and the reserved vehicle is a predetermined value or less, in accordance with the positional information of the terminal device and the positional information of the reserved vehicle, and a step of outputting, to the terminal device, allowing information indicating that an operation on a light-emitting device mounted on the reserved vehicle is allowed, when determining that the distance between the terminal device and the reserved vehicle is the predetermined value or less. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A reserved vehicle control method of a reserved vehicle control device capable of communicating with a terminal device that a user possesses and a plurality of vehicles, and controlling a reserved vehicle reserved by the user from the plural vehicles through the terminal device in accordance with an operation performed on the terminal device, the method comprising: acquiring positional information of the terminal device; acquiring positional information of the reserved vehicle; outputting, to the terminal device, allowing information indicating that an operation on a light-emitting device mounted on the reserved vehicle is allowed, in accordance with the positional information of the terminal device, the positional information of the reserved vehicle, and a location at which the user is to get in the reserved vehicle. ### Claim 2 A reserved vehicle control device comprising a control unit capable of communicating with a terminal device that a user possesses and a plurality of vehicles, and controlling a reserved vehicle reserved by the user from the plural vehicles through the terminal device in accordance with an operation performed on the terminal device, wherein the control unit is configured to: acquire positional information of the terminal device; acquire positional information of the reserved vehicle; output, to the terminal device, allowing information indicating that an operation on a light-emitting device mounted on the reserved vehicle is allowed, in accordance with the positional information of the terminal device, the positional information of the reserved vehicle, and a location at which the user is to get in the reserved vehicle. ### Claim 3 A reserved vehicle control system comprising a terminal device that a user possesses, a plurality of vehicles, and a computer capable of communicating with the terminal device and the plural vehicles, the system being configured to control a reserved vehicle reserved by the user from the plural vehicles through the terminal device in accordance with an operation performed on the terminal device, wherein the computer is configured to: acquire positional information of the terminal device; acquire positional information of the reserved vehicle; output, to the terminal device, allowing information indicating that an operation on a light-emitting device mounted on the reserved vehicle is allowed, in accordance with the positional information of the terminal device, the positional information of the reserved vehicle, and a location at which the user is to get in the reserved vehicle. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The reserved vehicle control system according to claim 3, wherein the computer controls light emission of the light-emitting device in accordance with the operation performed on the terminal device having received the allowing information. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The reserved vehicle control system according to claim 3, wherein the computer is configured to output the allowing information to the terminal device when it is determined that the terminal device and the reserved vehicle are present within a predetermined range around the location at which the user is to get in the reserved vehicle. ### Claim 6 (depends on 3) The reserved vehicle control system according to claim 3, wherein the computer turns on the light-emitting device mounted at a position corresponding to a direction of the terminal device. ### Claim 7 (depends on 3) The reserved vehicle control system according to claim 3, wherein the computer is configured to: determine whether the distance between the terminal device and the reserved vehicle is a predetermined value or less than the predetermined value in accordance with the positional information of the terminal device and the positional information of the reserved vehicle; and inhibit the allowing information from being output to the terminal device when determining that the distance between the terminal device and the reserved vehicle is the predetermined value or less than the predetermined value. ### Claim 8 (depends on 3) The reserved vehicle control system according to claim 3, wherein the computer is configured to: acquire map information; determine whether there is a construction obstructing a field of vision of the user between the terminal device and the reserved vehicle, in accordance with the positional information of the terminal device, the positional information of the reserved vehicle, and the map information; and output the allowing information to the terminal device when determining that there is no construction obstructing the field of vision of the user between the terminal device and the reserved vehicle.