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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2023
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Yu Nagata, Chofu, JP;
Tomoyuki Kozuka, Toyota, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
An operation management apparatus operates a plurality of vehicles by autonomous driving. The operation management apparatus includes a controller configured to determine, upon identifying that a reservation holder who has reserved a route on which a plurality of vehicles are operated is a hearing-impaired person, based on reservation data including an attribute of the reservation holder, whether there is a sign language operator capable of sign language among one or more remote operators who perform remote monitoring operations for each vehicle, based on operator data including an attribute of each of the one or more remote operators, and select, according to a result of determination, a dispatch vehicle to dispatch to the route reserved by the reservation holder, from among the plurality of vehicles.