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

Claim 10:
11. A vehicle control device that controls a closing operation of a plurality of power doors provided in a vehicle, the vehicle control device comprising an ECU (Electronic Control Unit) that includes:
an on-vehicle-user-number recognizing unit that performs recognition of an on-vehicle-user-number, and stores the on-vehicle-user-number in a memory, the on-vehicle-user-number being a number of users who have got on the vehicle;
an off-vehicle-user-number recognizing unit that recognizes an off-vehicle-user-number, the off-vehicle-user-number being a number of the users who have got off the vehicle after the recognition of the on-vehicle-user-number by the on-vehicle-user-number recognizing unit; and
a power door control unit that causes at least one power door, of the plurality of power doors, to perform the closing operation when the on-vehicle-user-number stored in the memory equals the off-vehicle-user-number recognized by the off-vehicle-user-number recognizing unit, the at least one power door being a power door that the users have used at a time of getting off the vehicle, wherein
the vehicle has seats in a third and subsequent rows, the vehicle including a rear-seat power door, the rear-seat power door being a power door, of the plurality of power doors, corresponding to the seats in the third and subsequent rows, and a second row,
the ECU includes a user-action recognizing unit that recognizes an action of a user, of the users, who is on the vehicle, and
the power door control unit causes the rear-seat power door to perform the closing operation, when the user-action recognizing unit recognizes that all the users on the seats in the second row have got off the vehicle, and then the user-action recognizing unit recognizes that any of the users on the seats in the third and subsequent rows makes a gesture instructing the closing operation of the rear-seat power door.