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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2023
Applicant:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Inventors:
Chikage Kubo, Chofu, JP;
Kenichi Yamada, Nisshin, JP;
Yuki Tatsumoto, Seto, JP;
Hiromitsu Fujii, Kariya, JP;
Mitsuhiro Naito, Okazaki, JP;
Assignee:
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3484 (2013.01); B60W 60/0025 (2020.02); B60W 2540/047 (2020.02);
Abstract
A control apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire, as profile data, data read from a medium held by each of users when each of the users gets on a vehicle to be operated with the users on board to a destination having a plurality of facilities, identify, based on the acquired profile data, a facility from among the plurality of facilities at which each of the users is to get off the vehicle, and perform control of operating the vehicle along a route including the identified facility.