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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2023
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Yuki Takahashi, Sunto-gun Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Hirokazu Ito, Sunto-gun Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Hiroshi Oyagi, Kyoto, JP;
Shinya Shiratori, Susono, JP;
Norimi Asahara, Numazu, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A driving support device, in a mobile body having a plurality of seating positions, includes a processor to set a priority order for seating positions when performing improvement control with respect to emotion of an occupant, acquire a captured image and/or biometric information of the occupant, input thereof to a learning model, and output an emotion estimation result of the occupant, select, in accordance with the priority order, an occupant who is seated in a seated position in which the priority order is set to be high, determine the improvement control for the mobile body based on the emotion estimation result of the selected occupant, and control the mobile body based on the determined improvement control.