Smell control device, smell control method, and vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNaoki UENOYAMA, Koki MORI, Yuki NAKAGAWA, Teruyuki KANOU
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Abstract
A smell control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to: acquire, from a server, operation schedule information indicating a schedule of operation of a vehicle; based on the operation schedule information, recognize an occupant who is to gets on the vehicle, and determine whether the occupant is a target person of smell control; and in response to determining that the occupant is the target person, activate a smell control function before the occupant gets on the vehicle, after the occupant gets on the vehicle, or after the occupant gets off the vehicle.
Claims19
A smell control device comprising a processor configured to:
- acquire, from a server, operation schedule information indicating a schedule of operation of a vehicle;
- based on the operation schedule information, recognize an occupant who is to get on the vehicle, and determine whether the occupant is a target person of smell control;
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- in response to determining that the occupant is the target person, activate a smell control function before the occupant gets on the vehicle, after the occupant gets on the vehicle, or after the occupant gets off the vehicle.
A smell control device comprising a processor configured to recognize an occupant who is to get on a vehicle, and, in a case that the occupant is a target person of smell control, activate a smell control function before the occupant gets on the vehicle, after the occupant gets on the vehicle, or after the occupant gets off the vehicle.
A smell control method comprising, by a smell control device, recognizing an occupant who is to get on a vehicle, and, in a case that the occupant is a target person of smell control, activating a smell control function before the occupant gets on the vehicle, after the occupant gets on the vehicle, or after the occupant gets off the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.