Vehicle control device and vehicle control method
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakashi SAITO
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Abstract
A vehicle control device comprises: an acquirer that acquires play information of a game played by an occupant of a vehicle; and a controller that controls a variable damping force absorber provided between a wheel and a vehicle body. The controller is capable of setting the variable damping force absorber to a first mode in which the magnitude of damping force generated in response to input is set, and to a second mode in which the damping force generated in response to the input is smaller than the first mode. The controller sets the variable damping force absorber to one of the first mode and the second mode according to an acquired game playing state.
Claims5
A vehicle control device comprising:
- an acquirer that acquires play information of a game played by an occupant of a vehicle;
- and
- a controller that controls a variable damping force absorber provided between a wheel and a vehicle body,
- wherein the controller is capable of setting the variable damping force absorber to a first mode in which the magnitude of damping force generated in response to input is set, and to a second mode in which the damping force generated in response to the input is smaller than the first mode, and
- wherein the controller sets the variable damping force absorber to one of the first mode and the second mode according to an acquired game playing state.
A vehicle control method in which each step is performed by a vehicle control device mounted on a vehicle, the vehicle control method comprising:
- acquiring play information of a game played by an occupant of the vehicle;
- and
- controlling a variable damping force absorber provided between a wheel and a vehicle body;
- wherein the variable damping force absorber is set to a first mode in which the magnitude of damping force generated in response to input is set, or to a second mode in which the damping force generated in response to the input is smaller than the first mode,
- wherein in the controlling, the variable damping force absorber is set to one of the first mode and the second mode according to an acquired game playing state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.