Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Mayumi Otsuka

Atsushi Watanabe

Naoki Taki

Takeshi Matsumura

Keizoh Kawaguchi

Tatsunori Kato

In an in-vehicle device which is carried on an automotive vehicle, an operation unit causes the vehicle to execute a predetermined operation in response to a remote control request from a user. A detection unit detects existence of a moving object in a passenger compartment of the vehicle or in areas surrounding the vehicle. An operation inhibition unit inhibits execution of the predetermined operation by the operation unit when existence of the moving object is detected by the detection unit.

In-vehicle device

A remote control method for remotely controlling the operation of equipment furnished in a vehicle in response to a remote control request generated by a remote controller is provided. The method comprises the steps of (a) acquiring vehicle status information from the vehicle; (b) determining whether to operate particular vehicle equipment designated by the remote control request based on the vehicle status information; and (c) regulating the remote control request based on the determination result representing acceptability of remote-control operation of the requested vehicle equipment.

Remote control method and system, vehicle with remote controllable function, and control server

In a remote operation system in which an in-vehicle unit is controlled by an operation command transmitted from a portable unit carried by a driver via a service center, when the vehicle receives an operation command B for controlling the in-vehicle unit from a second state to a first state, the operation command B is executed only when control based on an operation command A for controlling from the first state to the second state is made.

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Nagoya, Japan

Mayumi Otsuka