Patent ID: 11900812
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A vehicle control device comprising:
a processor configured to:
generate a traveling plan of a vehicle;
recognize a crossing person who crosses over a path of a vehicle that is obtained from the traveling plan;
acquire, from an external sensor, information of the crossing person including a speed of the crossing person;
predict a crossing completion time at which the crossing person completes the crossing based on the speed of the crossing person;
decide a scheduled departure time of the vehicle based on the crossing completion time; and
perform a control to inform an outside of the vehicle, in a manner recognized by the crossing person, of the scheduled departure time, wherein the scheduled departure time is a dynamically changing countdown showing a remaining time from a current time to a time the vehicle departs,

wherein, when the crossing person is not recognized, not perform the control to inform the outside of the vehicle of the scheduled departure time.