Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control method
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsAya Sasaki, Tomoaki Ohashi, Nariaki Kuriyama
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Abstract
A vehicle control apparatus includes an environment detection unit that detects environment information about at least one of an interior and an exterior of a target vehicle, an emotion estimation unit that estimates an emotion of a driver of the target vehicle based on the environment information, a control content determination unit that determines control content of the target vehicle when the estimated emotion is a strong emotion, and a vehicle control unit that performs control of the target vehicle based on the determined control content.
Claims5
A vehicle control apparatus, comprising:
- an environment detection unit that detects environment information about at least one of an interior and an exterior of a target vehicle;
- an emotion estimation unit that estimates an emotion of a driver of the target vehicle, based on the environment information;
- a control content determination unit that determines control content of the target vehicle, when the estimated emotion is a strong emotion;
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- a vehicle control unit that performs control of the target vehicle based on the determined control content.
A vehicle control method executed by a computer, the vehicle control method comprising:
- an environment detection step of detecting environment information about at least one of an interior and an exterior of a target vehicle;
- an emotion estimation step of estimating an emotion of a driver of the target vehicle, based on the environment information;
- a control content determination step of determining control content of the target vehicle, when the estimated emotion is a strong emotion;
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- a vehicle control step of performing control of the target vehicle based on the determined control content.
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