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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2021
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Naoki Uenoyama, Nagoya, JP;
Josuke Yamane, Nisshin, JP;
Hikaru Gotoh, Nagoya, JP;
Takumi Fukunaga, Nisshin, JP;
Shin Sakurada, Toyota, JP;
Soutaro Kaneko, Nagoya, JP;
Rio Minagawa, Nagoya, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
An information processing apparatus is mounted on a vehicle. The information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to detect whether or not the vehicle and a following vehicle are traveling on a same lane, determine whether or not the following vehicle is approaching at a speed faster than a speed of the vehicle, and output a guidance to change lanes, in a case where the vehicle and the following vehicle are traveling on the same lane, the following vehicle is approaching at a speed faster than the speed of the vehicle, and a guidance target exclusion condition is not satisfied.