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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2017
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Toshihiro Yasuda, Toyota, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
A control apparatus comprises a time predictor configured to count a clock signal as a second count value when a timer unit has an abnormality, to stop counting the clock signal when any sub-process is performed by a sub-processor, and to predict time using the second count value; and a processing time storage unit configured to correlate each sub-process to a specified processing time of the sub-process and to store the correlation as a processing time list. When the timer unit has an abnormality, a main controller periodically performs a main process by using the time predicted by the time predictor. The time predictor predicts the time using a time corresponding to the second count value and a specified processing time of a sub-process performed by the sub-processor in the processing time list.