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Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 23, 2018
Applicant:

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;

Inventor:

Seii Sai, Yokohama, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/22 (2009.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/22 (2013.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.02); H04W 4/46 (2018.02);
Abstract

A vehicle-mounted millimeter-wave communication device includes: an acquisition unit for acquiring a relay request that requests relay of communication from a first communication partner, a detection unit for detecting directions of the first communication partner and a second communication partner that are viewed from the vehicle, and a communication control unit for performing control such that, in the case where the relay request is received from the first communication partner and it is possible to communicate with the second communication partner, communication, in which a communication time longer than a communication time set for another direction is set for each of the directions of the first communication partner and the second communication partner, is performed, and communication between the first communication partner and the second communication partner is relayed.


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