Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Denso Corporation

Hiroyasu Hadano

Takaaki Inokuchi

Tatsunori Katoh

Hideo Hasegawa

Hiroko Tsujimura

Yusuke Kaneko

Jun Goto

Asuka Marumo

Miho Otsuka

Kunihiro Murakami

A control apparatus for a vehicle disclosed herein is applied to a vehicle configured to perform pre-air conditioning of the interior of the vehicle by starting an internal combustion engine according to a remote control signal sent from a remote controller. When starting pre-air conditioning according to the remote control signal, the control apparatus sets the control mode of the vehicle to a drive-disabling mode, which is a control mode that disables an operation for driving the vehicle. If a specific mode-cancelling operation is detected in a situation in which the remote controller is present in the interior of the vehicle while the control mode of the vehicle is being set to the drive-disabling mode, the control apparatus cancels the drive-disabling mode while leaving the internal combustion engine operating.

Control apparatus for vehicle, control method for, and control system for vehicle

An information processing device that controls a vehicle including a plurality of heating devices. The information processing device executes acquiring an air conditioning request transmitted from a user terminal, and selecting a heating device to be operated, among the heating devices in which an operation is specified by the air conditioning request, based on a remaining battery amount of the vehicle.

Information processing device, information processing method, program, and vehicle

An information processing device associated with a vehicle includes a processor. The processor is configured to presume that a person or an item has been left behind in a rear seat of the vehicle, based on whether a rear door was opened and closed in a predetermined period before running of the vehicle and whether the rear door was opened and closed in a predetermined period after running of the vehicle. The processor is configured to perform sensing of the rear seat based on a presumption result. The processor is configured to notify the user based on a sensing result.

Information processing device, vehicle, information processing method, and non-transitory storage medium

An information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit extends an operating time of an air conditioner provided in a vehicle when the control unit determines that a user is present within a predetermined range from the vehicle at a predetermined timing when a predetermined operating time has elapsed from a start of pre-air conditioning inside the vehicle by the air conditioner.

Information processing device, information processing method, and system

In an information providing device for providing information about a moving object which is used by a user by making an application for use thereof, the device includes a controller comprising at least one processor configured to execute: receiving a start and an end of the use of the moving object by the user through communication with a user device which is correlated with the user; and displaying information indicating that the moving object is available on a display unit which is provided by the moving object and which can be visually recognized from the outside of the moving object, in cases where the moving object is not being used.

Information providing device, information providing method, and non-transitory storage medium

A vehicle control device includes a controller configured to execute: receiving a remote signal containing a target temperature in a cabin and an expected traveling start time of a vehicle; performing preheating of the cabin in a second air-conditioning mode in which the preheating is performed by using an electric heat pump when a temperature in the cabin is predicted to be increasable to the target temperature in the second air-conditioning mode before the expected traveling start time, the preheating being based on a remote operation; and performing the preheating of the cabin in a first air-conditioning mode in which the preheating is performed by using exhaust heat generated when an internal combustion engine operates when the temperature in the cabin is predicted not to be increasable to the target temperature in the second air-conditioning mode before the expected traveling start time.

Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, non-transitory storage medium and vehicle control system

An information processing device includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to execute acquiring information about temperature inside or outside a vehicle, and generating a command to open or close a window included in the vehicle based on the information about the temperature inside or outside the vehicle.

An information processing apparatus including a control unit configured to acquire a distance between a vehicle and a user terminal based on position information of the vehicle and position information of the user terminal, and generate a command for setting or releasing a remote immobilizer function and a smart cancel function based on the distance between the vehicle and the user terminal. The remote immobilizer function is a function for remotely setting or releasing an immobilizer of the vehicle. The smart cancel function is a function for stopping radio waves transmitted from the vehicle for communication between the vehicle and a key of the vehicle.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and system

A control system includes a manual-type air conditioner, and a control device which causes the manual-type air conditioner to execute remote air conditioning in response to a command from outside of a vehicle. The control device starts actuation of the manual-type air conditioner with a maximum temperature as a target blowout temperature of an air-conditioning air and a maximum air quantity as a target air quantity in response to a trigger command of the remote air conditioning, and gradually changes and reduces the target air quantity while gradually changing the target blowout temperature toward a target intermediate temperature with elapse of time. The control device changes the target blowout temperature and the target air quantity respectively to a set blowout temperature and a set air quantity at a time of previous disembarkment, when boarding of a user to the vehicle is detected.

Control system of manual-type air conditioner for vehicle

A vehicle control device includes a controller configured to execute: receiving a remote signal containing a target temperature in a cabin and an expected traveling start time of a vehicle from a remote controller used by a user of the vehicle; calculating a catalyst warming period which is an estimated period required to warm, to an active temperature, an electrically heated catalyst; calculating a pre-air conditioning period which is an estimated period required to adjust a temperature in the cabin to the target temperature; and starting pre-air conditioning of the cabin by starting an internal combustion engine after completion of warming of the electrically heated catalyst when a sum of the catalyst warming period and the pre-air conditioning period is equal to or shorter than a starting time margin from a time of reception of the remote signal to the expected traveling start time.

A moving object includes: a holder configured to hold a mobile terminal provided with an image pick-up unit; and a controller comprising at least one processor configured to execute enabling the moving object to be used in cases where user authentication is succeeded by carrying out user authentication between the mobile terminal and the controller, instructing the mobile terminal to pick up an image in a repeated manner by using the image pick-up unit during use of the moving object, and transmitting the image obtained from the mobile terminal to an external server.

Moving object, control method, and non-transitory storage medium

An information processing apparatus is provided with a controller including at least one processor. The controller is configured to execute obtaining a consent to advertisement viewing from a user using a transportation system, presenting an advertisement within a period of time during which the user is using the transportation system, and providing a monetary merit to the user.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory storage medium

An information processing apparatus is provided with a controller comprising at least one processor. The controller is configured to execute: displaying presentation information to be presented to a user of a vehicle at an inside or an outside of a window formed in a vehicle; switching over between displaying and non-displaying of the presentation information displayed at the inside of the window according to an instruction received from the user; and displaying the presentation information at the outside of the window in cases where the vehicle is located in a specific place.

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Hiroyasu Hadano