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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2022
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Aisin Corporation, Aichi-ken, JP;
Yuki Horiuchi, Tokyo-to, JP;
Taku Mitsumori, Kariya, JP;
Yuji Yamanishi, Tokyo-to, JP;
Yuki Takeda, Kariya, JP;
Masahiro Ishihara, Tokyo-to, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
AISIN CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;
Abstract
A travel controller detects objects from an environmental image representing surroundings of a vehicle capable of traveling under autonomous driving control satisfying a predetermined safety standard; detects a looking direction of a driver of the vehicle from a face image of the driver; identifies an object in the looking direction of the driver out of the objects; stores the identified object and a situation condition indicating the situation at detection of the identified object in a memory in association with each other when a danger avoidance action performed by the driver is detected during travel of the vehicle; and changes the predetermined safety standard so that the driver can feel safer, in the case where an object stored in the memory is detected during travel of the vehicle under the autonomous driving control and where the situation at detection of the object satisfies the situation condition.