Patent ID: 11891089
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 2:
3. A remote assist method of vehicles in which automated driving of the vehicles is remotely assisted, the method comprising the steps of:
executing, by a controller of a vehicle, automated driving control of the vehicle based on driving environment information including shot image information in front of the vehicle; and
executing, by an information processing device of a remote facility configured to communicate with the vehicle, input information processing to process input information received by the input device and executes display control processing of a display device to display the shot image information thereon,
wherein, in the automated driving control, the controller is configured to:
determine, based on the driving environment information, whether or not a passage permit condition of the vehicle according to an instruction content of a traffic light that exists in front of the vehicle is satisfied;
if it is determined that the passage permit condition is not satisfied, execute vehicle control to stop the vehicle temporally in front of the traffic light; and
transmit an assist requesting signal for requesting an assist by the operator to the remote facility,
wherein, the information processing device is configured to:
when receiving the assist requiring signal, execute processing to display reference image information indicating the shot image information during the temporal stop of the vehicle; and
when receiving, as the input information, positional information of pixels constituting the traffic light included in the reference image information, transmit to the vehicle assist information including the positional information in the input information processing,
wherein, in the automated driving control, the controller is further configured to:
when receiving the assist information, determine whether or not the passage permit condition of the vehicle based on the received assist information; and
if it is determined that the passage permit condition is satisfied, execute vehicle control in which the temporarily stop of the vehicle is released and the vehicle is controlled to travel in accordance with the instruction content of the traffic light.