Patent ID: 11954624
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H  B | IPC B  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A vehicle allocation system comprising:
an automatic driving vehicle;
a mobile terminal configured to transmit a vehicle allocation request signal containing at least information on a vehicle allocation place of the automatic driving vehicle; and
a server configured to
allocate the automatic driving vehicle at the vehicle allocation place in response to reception of the vehicle allocation request signal,
determine whether the automatic driving vehicle has arrived from the vehicle allocation place within a predetermined distance range based on position information transmitted from the automatic driving vehicle,
give a notification to the mobile terminal in response to arrival of the automatic driving vehicle from the vehicle allocation place within the predetermined distance range, and
permit usage of the automatic driving vehicle when a user of the mobile terminal is authenticated based on authentication information transmitted from the mobile terminal in response to the notification, the authentication information is sound announced by the automatic driving vehicle that is in accordance with an instruction that is transmitted by the server, wherein

the server is configured to establish a speech line with the mobile terminal, and
the server comprises an authentication database, the server is further configured to authenticate the user of the mobile terminal by determining whether the sound announced by the automatic driving vehicle which has been transmitted by the mobile terminal coincides with a sound announced of the automatic driving vehicle that is stored in the authentication database.