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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2023
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Daisaku Honda, Nagoya, JP;
Hiroya Matsubayashi, Nisshin, JP;
Ryota Tomizawa, Mishima, JP;
Satoshi Tanabe, Susono, JP;
Nobutsugu Maruiwa, Mishima, JP;
Yasuhiro Kobatake, Nagoya, JP;
Hiroki Awano, Susono, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A device that monitors an abnormal situation that has occurred in a region inside or around a parking lot using a vehicle in the region includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires state information representing a state within the region; an abnormality detection unit that detects the abnormal situation and specifies an occurrence location of the detected abnormal situation based on the state information; and a command transmission unit that transmits a command for activating a vehicle exterior monitoring sensor provided in the vehicle parked around the occurrence location specified by the abnormality detection unit and causing the vehicle exterior monitoring sensor to detect the occurrence location to the parked vehicle.