Information processing apparatus, vehicle, and storage medium storing program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11215468-B2
Application number	US-201916512625-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 16, 2019
Priority date	Oct 10, 2018
Publication date	Jan 4, 2022
Grant date	Jan 4, 2022

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a registration unit that receives registration of personal information including at least one of an age, an address, a family structure, and a physical feature of a user, a priority management unit that, based on the registered personal information, stores a specific user set with priority for a person to be rescued at the time of disaster occurrence, a disaster information acquisition unit that acquires information regarding occurrence of a disaster in a predetermined area, a positional information acquisition unit that acquires current positional information of an autonomous driving vehicle, a traveling route decision unit that, when the disaster information acquisition unit acquires the information of the disaster, decides a traveling route to a position of the specific user, and an output unit that outputs a signal for executing an autonomous driving mode based on information indicating the traveling route.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
a registration unit configured to receive registration of personal information including at least one of an age, an address, a family structure, and a physical feature of a user;
a priority management unit configured to, based on the registered personal information, store a specific user set with priority for a person to be rescued at the time of disaster occurrence;
a disaster information acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding occurrence of a disaster in a predetermined area;
a positional information acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding a current position of an autonomous driving vehicle;
a traveling route decision unit configured to, when the disaster information acquisition unit acquires the information regarding occurrence of the disaster, decide a traveling route from the current position of the autonomous driving vehicle to a position of the specific user; and
an output unit configured to output a signal for executing an autonomous driving mode based on information indicating the traveling route decided by the traveling route decision unit.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein:
the registration unit is configured to further receive registration of information relating to disaster risk around the address of the user; and
when the information regarding occurrence of the disaster acquired by the disaster information acquisition unit is information corresponding to the disaster risk, the output unit is configured to output the signal for executing the autonomous driving mode to the user positioned around the address.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein:
the priority management unit is configured to raise priority for a person weak in disaster who needs evacuation guidance support at the time of the disaster occurrence, and stores, as the specific user, the person weak in disaster set with the raised priority;
when the disaster information acquisition unit acquires the information regarding occurrence of the disaster, the traveling route decision unit is configured to further decide a priority traveling route from the current position of the autonomous driving vehicle to a position of the person weak in disaster in the traveling route; and
the output unit is configured to output the signal for executing the autonomous driving mode based on information indicating the priority traveling route.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a determination unit configured to determine a specific vehicle positioned around the specific user among autonomous driving vehicles, the information regarding the current position of which is acquired by the positional information acquisition unit, wherein:
the traveling route decision unit is configured to further decide a specific traveling route from a current position of the specific vehicle to the position of the specific user; and
the output unit is configured to output the signal for executing the autonomous driving mode based on information indicating the specific traveling route.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein:
the priority management unit is configured to store first priority as the priority set for each user based on the personal information and second priority as a priority changed to be higher than the first priority for a user who is located in a risk section to be predicted according to a content of the disaster acquired by the disaster information acquisition unit;
the traveling route decision unit is configured to further decide priority-changed traveling route from the current position of the autonomous driving vehicle to a position of the user set with the second priority; and
the output unit is configured to output the signal for executing the autonomous driving mode based on information indicating the priority-changed traveling route.

6. A vehicle mounted with the information processing apparatus according to claim 1 .

7. A storage medium storing a program causing a computer to execute
registering personal information including at least one of an age, an address, a family structure, and a physical feature of a user,
based on the registered personal information, storing a specific user set with priority for a person to be rescued at the time of disaster occurrence,
acquiring information regarding occurrence of a disaster in a predetermined area,
acquiring information regarding current position of an autonomous driving vehicle,
when the information regarding occurrence of the disaster is acquired, deciding a traveling route from the current position of the autonomous driving vehicle to a position of the specific user, and
outputting a signal for executing an autonomous driving mode based on information indicating the traveling route.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sugimura Tae
• Karube Hirotaka
• Matsumoto Kazuki
• Mori Makoto
• Kondo Jun

Classifications

• H04W4/44

  for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H] · CPC title

• H04W4/90 Primary

  Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS] · CPC title

• G01C21/3407

  specially adapted for specific applications · CPC title

• G08B25/016

  Personal emergency signalling and security systems (emergency non-personal manually actuated alarm activators G08B25/12) · CPC title

• G08B7/066

  guiding along a path, e.g. evacuation path lighting strip · CPC title