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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2023
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Aisin Corporation, Aichi-ken, JP;
Kenta Yamada, Tokyo-to, JP;
Takuhiro Omi, Anjo, JP;
Hiroshi Morimoto, Tokyo-to, JP;
Udara Eshan Manawadu, Tokyo-to, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
AISIN CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;
Abstract
A notification device detecting a predetermined action of a driver of a vehicle in which travel is controlled by an autonomous driving system from a driver image including a face region representing a face of the driver and outputting a confidence rate indicating a certainty in the detection, specifying a message for inhibiting a control ending action which possibly follows the detected action and corresponds to an ending condition of control by the autonomous driving system, and notifying the driver of the specified message through an output device when an effectiveness level is higher than a predetermined notification threshold, the effectiveness level calculated by multiplying the confidence rate by a first probability of the control ending action being inhibited when notifying the driver of the specified message or by a second probability of the control ending action being performed when not notifying the driver of the specified message.