Patent ID: 11890901
Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC B  H  G | IPC B  G  H

Claim 6:
7. A method for providing tire change information, the method comprising:
receiving a plurality of tire change requests, each tire change request of the plurality of tire change requests being transmitted upon determining a tire change is required based on an image of a tire of each vehicle of a plurality of vehicles obtained from an image sensor of the each vehicle;
determining respective locations of the plurality of vehicles;
determining a number of first vehicles among the plurality of vehicles that are located in a first region and transmitted a tire change request from the first region;
determining whether the number of the first vehicles is greater than a first threshold number;
providing information about a first tire change group discount to the first vehicles in response to determining that the number of the first vehicles is greater than the first threshold number;
determining a tire change location that has a least average traveling distance from the locations of the first vehicles to travel to the tire change location;
transmitting the tire change location to the first vehicles; and
instructing the first vehicles that transmitted tire change requests to display the information on a screen.