Vehicle control apparatus
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsRyosuke TANIMURA, Aika Miyajima, Akari Yamada, Reina Yamamura
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Abstract
A vehicle control apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to output, when a first signal indicating that payment of a debt regarding a vehicle is not correctly performed is received, at least one of a reminder and an advertisement of encouraging payment regarding performance of the debt in response to reception of the first signal.
Claims12
A vehicle control apparatus, comprising a processor, wherein the processor is configured to:
- perform, when a first signal indicating that completion of an unresolved condition regarding a target vehicle is not correctly performed is received from a account condition monitoring server configured to manage account condition of the target vehicle, control to lock engine start of the target vehicle in response to reception of the first signal;
- acquire at least one of an alert for prompting execution of the account condition or a publicity content for advancing execution of the account condition from a memory;
- reproduce and display at least one of an alert message corresponding to the alert and a visual content corresponding to the publicity content on a display apparatus included in the target vehicle;
- and
- perform, after reproduction of the alert message or the visual content is finished, control to unlock engine start of the target vehicle.
A vehicle control apparatus, comprising a processor, wherein the processor is configured to:
- perform, when a first signal indicating that payment of a debt regarding a target vehicle is not correctly performed is received from a credit management server configured to manage credit of the target vehicle, control to lock engine start of the target vehicle in response to reception of the first signal;
- acquire at least one of a reminder of encouraging payment regarding performance of the credit or an advertisement of encouraging payment regarding performance of the credit from a memory;
- reproduce and display at least one of a reminder message corresponding to the reminder and a video image corresponding to the advertisement on a display apparatus included in the target vehicle;
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- perform, after reproduction of the reminder message or the video image is finished, control to unlock engine start of the target vehicle.
A vehicle control apparatus, comprising a processor, wherein the processor is configured to output, when a first signal indicating that payment of a debt regarding a target vehicle is not correctly performed is received, at least one of a reminder and an advertisement of encouraging payment regarding performance of the debt in response to reception of the first signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.