Patent ID: 11904804
Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  E | IPC B  E

Claim 7:
8. The vehicle control device according to claim 1, wherein the ECU includes:
a getting-off-intention recognizing unit that recognizes a getting-off-intention of a user who is on the vehicle; and
a line-of-sight recognizing unit that recognizes a line-of-sight direction of the user who is on the vehicle from a user's face image, of the user, taken by a camera, wherein
the getting-off-intention recognizing unit recognizes the getting-off-intention of the user who is on the vehicle when the line-of-sight recognizing unit recognizes that the user's line of sight is directed to one of the plurality of power doors, and when the user-action recognizing unit recognizes the action of approaching the power door to which the user who is on the vehicle directs the line-of-sight, and
the door-getting-off-expected-number setting unit specifies the expected-getting-off-door by any of the following first to third specifying conditions:
the first specifying condition being that the power door used when a user gets on the vehicle is specified as the expected-getting-off-door;
the second specifying condition being that when the getting-off-intention recognizing unit recognizes the getting-off-intention of the user who is on the vehicle for any of the plurality of power doors, the power door for which the getting-off-intention is recognized is specified as the expected-getting-off-door; and
the third specifying condition being that the power door closest to a seat that the user who is on the vehicle is on is specified as the expected-getting-off-door.