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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 12566073 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2026

Filed:

Nov. 02, 2023

Operation management apparatus

Applicant:

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;

Inventors:

Yu Nagata, Chofu, JP;

Tomoyuki Kozuka, Toyota, JP;

Assignee:

TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;

Attorney:

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

Primary Examiner:

Fadey S Jabr

Assistant Examiner:

Michael J Herrera

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2006.01); B60W 30/14 (2006.01); B60W 40/02 (2006.01); B60W 40/08 (2012.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G06V 20/59 (2022.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3461 (2013.01); B60W 30/146 (2013.01); B60W 40/02 (2013.01); B60W 40/08 (2013.01); B60W 60/00253 (2020.02); G01C 21/3691 (2013.01); G06V 20/593 (2022.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); B60W 2040/0881 (2013.01); B60W 2300/10 (2013.01); B60W 2420/403 (2013.01); B60W 2540/227 (2020.02); B60W 2555/20 (2020.02); B60W 2556/50 (2020.02);
Abstract

An operation management apparatus is configured to operate a vehicle by automated driving. The operation management apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire precipitation data indicating the amount of precipitation forecasted to fall during a time period that lasts until operation of the vehicle is completed, perform, using the acquired precipitation data as an input, a determination process to determine an occurrence state of puddles for each of a plurality of candidate links connecting a first node and a second node included in a route along which the vehicle is scheduled to travel, and select a link, from among the candidate links, based on a determination result of the occurrence state of the puddles and determine, as an operation route for the vehicle, a route constituted of the selected link.

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