Patent ID: 11971265
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A monitoring device comprising:
a processor configured to:
instruct a vehicle to acquire appearance data of a monitoring object designated by a user;
receive the appearance data from the vehicle and to detect whether a state of the monitoring object has changed based on the appearance data;
notify the user of a monitoring result of the monitoring object when the processor detects that the state of the monitoring object has changed; and
determine a charge for monitoring the monitoring object,

wherein the vehicle is a regular-route bus of which a travel route is determined in advance, and
wherein the processor is configured to set the charge for use to be higher when the monitoring object is not located on the travel route than when the monitoring object is located on the travel route.