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US 2026/0249781 A1Published application
Vehicle system and vehicle control method
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTomohiko KANEKO, Junichi MORIMURA, Shun MARUYAMA, Ryoma HIRAIKE, Satoshi OMI
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Abstract
A vehicle system and vehicle control method enabling notifications to be made for smoothing traffic involving a host vehicle, that is, a vehicle system having a processor for judging a running state of a host vehicle, wherein in case of the processor judges that a second running state in which the host vehicle will change in behavior compared with a first running state in which the host vehicle or other vehicles present in the surroundings of the host vehicle are currently running will occur due to a predetermined reason, alerts the outside of the alert content including the predetermined reason.
Claims9
A vehicle system comprising:
- a processor configured to judge a running state of a host vehicle,
- the processor is configured to:
- when the processor judges that a second running state in which the host vehicle will change in behavior compared with a first running state in which the host vehicle or other vehicles present in the surroundings of the host vehicle are currently running will occur due to a predetermined reason, alert an outside of an alert content including the predetermined reason:
- display to the outside a content including first information relating to the predetermined reason;
- when the processor judges that the second running state will occur in order for the other vehicles and the host vehicle to run in cooperation in a predetermined road environment in which the host vehicle and the other vehicles run, display to the outside the alert content including the first information and second information relating to the second running state:
- when the processor judges that the host vehicle running in a predetermined road environment, and the second running state including a wait state of the host vehicle waiting in order to give priority to the other vehicles will occur, or priority running in which the host vehicle runs given priority over the other vehicles will occur, display to the outside the alert content including the first information and the second information relating to the wait state or priority running;
- when the processor judges that starting priority running after the wait state has occurred at the host vehicle in the predetermined road environment, display to the outside fourth information including a predetermined number of times giving priority to other vehicles and a predetermined time period required for the wait state.
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A vehicle control method operated by a computer, comprising:
- monitoring running states of a host vehicle and other vehicles present in the surroundings of the host vehicle;
- judging if a second running state in which the host vehicle will change in behavior compared with a first running state in which the host vehicle or the other vehicles are currently running will occur based on a predetermined reason;
- notifying alert content including the predetermined reason to the outside if judging that the second running state will arise;
- displaying to the outside a content including first information relating to the predetermined reason;
- when the processor judges that the second running state will occur in order for the other vehicles and the host vehicle to run in cooperation in a predetermined road environment in which the host vehicle and the other vehicles run, displaying to the outside the alert content including the first information and second information relating to the second running state;
- when the processor judges that the host vehicle running in a predetermined road environment, and the second running state including a wait state of the host vehicle waiting in order to give priority to the other vehicles will occur, or priority running in which the host vehicle runs given priority over the other vehicles will occur, displaying to the outside the alert content including the first information and the second information relating to the wait state or priority running;
- when the processor judges that starting priority running after the wait state has occurred at the host vehicle in the predetermined road environment, displaying to the outside fourth information including a predetermined number of times giving priority to other vehicles and a predetermined time period required for the wait state.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.