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Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 20, 2018
Applicant:

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;

Inventors:

Tomohito Matsuoka, Nagoya, JP;

Seiichi Tsunoda, Nisshin, JP;

Jiro Goto, Seto, JP;

Masayuki Yamada, Chofu, JP;

Yasutaka Eto, Okazaki, JP;

Keima Fukunaga, Toyota, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G06Q 10/08 (2012.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3438 (2013.01); G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); G06Q 10/0833 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0213 (2013.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01);
Abstract

A pickup system for picking up a product using a vehicle having an autonomous travelling function includes a communication unit configured to accept a pickup request from a user, a travel control unit configured to cause the vehicle to autonomously travel to a user position specified in the pickup request accepted through the communication unit, and an informing unit configured to inform the user that, when the vehicle arrives at the user position, the arrived vehicle is a vehicle that is to pick up a product in response to the pickup request.


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