Patent ID: 11938971
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A vehicle control device for an autonomous driving vehicle that autonomously travels based on an operation command, the vehicle control device comprising:
a reference data storage unit that stores in advance data related to a reference gesture image of a person when requesting the autonomous driving vehicle to stop;
a recognition unit that recognizes that there is a person around the autonomous driving vehicle during autonomous traveling of the autonomous driving vehicle;
a traveling data storage unit that stores data related to a gesture image of the person around the autonomous driving vehicle, when the recognition unit recognizes that there is the person around the autonomous driving vehicle;
a discrimination unit that discriminates whether a gesture of the person around the autonomous driving vehicle is a gesture requesting the autonomous driving vehicle to stop, by performing, a predetermined number of times, collation of the data related to the reference gesture image stored in the reference data storage unit with the data related to the gesture image stored in the traveling data storage unit; and
a disaster occurrence determination unit that determines whether a disaster related to a traveling area of the autonomous driving vehicle has occurred, wherein when a ratio of the discrimination results that the gesture of the person around the autonomous driving vehicle is the gesture requesting the autonomous driving vehicle to stop is greater than a predetermined threshold, and the disaster occurrence determination unit determines that the disaster has occurred, the autonomous driving vehicle is caused to stop around the person requesting the autonomous driving vehicle to stop.