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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2021
Applicant:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Inventors:
Keiko Nakano, Kawasaki, JP;
Chikage Kubo, Chofu, JP;
Eiichi Maeda, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Nishizawa, Nagakute, JP;
Assignee:
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 40/08 (2012.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 40/08 (2013.01); G06V 20/593 (2022.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); B60W 2040/0881 (2013.01); B60W 2420/403 (2013.01); G10L 2015/223 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vehicle agent device receives a captured image and vehicle information from an on-board unit, identifies an occupant from the captured image, specifies attributes of the occupant it identified, searches for vehicle functions corresponding to the attributes it specified, and sends, as description information to an on-board unit, a moving image that introduces the vehicle functions.