Patent ID: 11928619
Assignee: RENAULT S.A.S.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A vehicle dispatch service network that determines a boarding location for a dispatched vehicle based on a vehicle dispatch request and autonomously moves the dispatched vehicle to the boarding location, the vehicle dispatch service network comprising:
a terminal;
an in-vehicle terminal provided in the dispatched vehicle and configured to control the dispatched vehicle to move autonomously; and
a vehicle dispatch information data server including a map database, the vehicle dispatch information data server being configured to
receive the vehicle dispatch request from the terminal, the vehicle dispatch request including position information indicating a starting location of a user who generated the vehicle dispatch request,
calculate boarding location candidates present within a range surrounding the starting location based on the position information and map information in the map database,
extract information on peripheral targets present in peripheries of the boarding location candidates from the map information, each of the peripheral targets being a visible landmark existing within a range of a respective one of the boarding location candidates, the peripheral targets being registered as points on a map in the map information,
calculate a boarding location recognition difficulty of each of the boarding location candidates based on a predetermined value and a distance between each of the boarding location candidates and a respective one of the peripheral targets such that the boarding location recognition difficulty decreases commensurately as the distance decreases,
the predetermined specificity value being a numerical value from 0 to 1, inclusive, and set to be larger when a radius of the peripheral target is smaller and smaller when the radius of the peripheral target is larger,
a base boarding location recognition difficulty being calculated by subtracting the predetermined specificity value from 1,
the boarding location recognition difficulty being calculated by applying a correction to the base boarding location recognition difficulty, the correction being based on the distance, and
the boarding location recognition difficulty being a numerical value expressing a degree of difficulty for the user to visually recognize each of the boarding location candidates,

determine one of the boarding location candidates as the boarding location such that the one of the boarding location candidates has a lower boarding location recognition difficulty than others of the boarding location candidates, and
transmit a movement instruction to an in-vehicle terminal installed in the dispatched vehicle, the movement instruction instructing the in-vehicle terminal to move the dispatched vehicle autonomously from a current location to the boarding location,

the in-vehicle terminal being configured to control the dispatched vehicle to move autonomously from the current location to the boarding location in response to the movement instruction.