Processing device, processing method, and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11217052-B2
Application number	US-202117225346-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 8, 2021
Priority date	Feb 8, 2019
Publication date	Jan 4, 2022
Grant date	Jan 4, 2022

Abstract

A processing device includes a control unit configured to perform: identifying a user when the user enters a vehicle and performing a process of guaranteeing a boarded state of the user while the user is in the vehicle; receiving information on a predetermined procedure for performing an authentication process from the user; and transmitting user information which is required for performing the predetermined procedure as information on the user of whom the boarded state in the vehicle is guaranteed to an external device that is installed at a first place for the predetermined procedure in a state in which the boarded state of the user is guaranteed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A processing device comprising a controller configured to:
identify a user when the user enters a vehicle;
receive information on a predetermined procedure from the user; and
transmit, when the vehicle arrives at a first place, the information on the predetermined procedure to an external device that is installed in the first place.

2. The processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the information used in an authentication process.

3. The processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the processing device is mounted in the vehicle.

4. The processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined procedure is a procedure associated with a predetermined service which is provided to the user at the first place.

5. The processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined procedure is a passport control procedure.

6. The processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined procedure is a procedure associated with a predetermined service which is provided to the user at a second place other than the first place as a target place to which the vehicle transfers the user, and
wherein the controller is configured to receive additional information indicating that the predetermined service is able to be provided at the second place from the external device after the information has been transmitted to the external device.

7. The processing device according to claim 6 , wherein the controller is configured to transmit a request for change of at least a part of the predetermined service to the external device when the user exits the vehicle before the vehicle arrives at the second place after the information has been transmitted to the external device.

8. A processing method, comprising:
identifying, with a controller of a processing device, a user when the user enters a vehicle;
receiving, by the controller, information on a predetermined procedure from the user; and
transmitting, with the controller and when the vehicle arrives at a first place, the information on the predetermined procedure to an external device that is installed in the first place.

9. The processing method according to claim 8 , wherein the information used in an authentication process.

10. The processing method according to claim 8 , further comprising disposing the processing device is mounted in the vehicle.

11. The processing method according to claim 8 , wherein the predetermined procedure is a procedure associated with a predetermined service which is provided to the user at the first place.

12. The processing method according to claim 8 , wherein the predetermined procedure is a passport control procedure.

13. The processing method according to claim 8 , wherein the predetermined procedure is a procedure associated with a predetermined service which is provided to the user at a second place other than the first place as a target place to which the vehicle transfers the user, and
wherein the processing method further comprises receiving additional information indicating that the predetermined service is able to be provided at the second place from the external device after the information has been transmitted to the external device.

14. The processing method according to claim 13 , further comprising transmitting a request for change of at least a part of the predetermined service to the external device when the user exits the vehicle before the vehicle arrives at the second place after the information has been transmitted to the external device.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with computer-readable instructions that, when executed by a controller of a processing device, causes the controller to perform a method comprising:
identifying a user when the user enters a vehicle;
receiving information on a predetermined procedure from the user; and
transmitting, when the vehicle arrives at a first place, the information on the predetermined procedure to an external device that is installed in the first place.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 15 , wherein the information used in an authentication process.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 15 , wherein the predetermined procedure is a procedure associated with a predetermined service which is provided to the user at the first place.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 15 , wherein the predetermined procedure is a passport control procedure.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 15 , wherein the predetermined procedure is a procedure associated with a predetermined service which is provided to the user at a second place other than the first place as a target place to which the vehicle transfers the user, and
wherein the method further comprises receiving additional information indicating that the predetermined service is able to be provided at the second place from the external device after the information has been transmitted to the external device.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 19 , further comprising transmitting a request for change of at least a part of the predetermined service to the external device when the user exits the vehicle before the vehicle arrives at the second place after the information has been transmitted to the external device.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Murakami Kunihiro
• Sakakibara Katsuhiko
• Matsushita Makoto
• Sato Junya
• Yoshida Kiyonori
• Sugimura Tae
• Hayashi Takashi
• Endo Jun

Classifications

• G07C9/257 Primary

  electronically (G07C9/26 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06V20/59

  inside of a vehicle, e.g. relating to seat occupancy, driver state or inner lighting conditions · CPC title

• E05Y2400/8505

  User authentication, e.g. biometric · CPC title

• G06V40/166

  using acquisition arrangements · CPC title

• E05Y2900/531

  Doors · CPC title