The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
May. 25, 2023
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Yuma Ito, Obu, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A driving assistance apparatus executes a moving control to autonomously control a moving of a vehicle. The apparatus informs a driver of contents of a voice operation process planned to be executed for the moving control in accordance with utterance contents of the driver acquired by voice recognition and request the driver to perform an approval operation to approve the informed contents. The apparatus executes the voice operation process when the approval operation is performed. When a moving situation of the vehicle is not a predetermined situation which needs the approval operation, the apparatus execute the voice operation process without the approval operation being performed, and set an upper limit of an acceleration of the vehicle by the moving control to a value smaller than the upper limit set when executing the voice operation process in response to the approval operation being performed.