Patent ID: 11897482
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A control device for a vehicle, wherein
the control device comprises a processor being configured to:
perform automated driving for automatically performing a driving operation of the vehicle;
request that a driver grip a steering wheel in response to determining that a current driving scene, determined based at least on information collected by sensors in the vehicle, corresponds to a predetermined driving scene;
after the request has been made:
judge based on input information from the driver on the steering wheel whether a steering wheel grip status is a one-handed grip status or a two-handed grip status;
in response to judging that the steering wheel grip status is the two-handed grip status, automatically judge that the steering wheel grip status is a grip completion status where the gripping of the steering wheel is considered finished;
in response to judging that the steering wheel grip status is the one-handed grip status, further judge at a time point later than when the request was made, whether the predetermined driving scene corresponds to a first type where the one-handed grip status would be sufficient for the grip completion status or corresponds to a second type where the two-hand grip status would be required for the grip completion status;
in response to judging that the predetermined driving scene corresponds to the first type, judge that the steering wheel grip status is the grip completion status; and

in response to judging that the predetermined driving scene corresponds to the second type, issue a warning.