Patent ID: 11893897
Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 10:
11. A communication device to be mounted to an own moving body, the communication device comprising:
a self-information item acquisition unit configured to acquire a self-information item including a destination of the own moving body;
an other-body information acquisition unit configured to acquire an other-body information item from each of other moving bodies located around the own moving body, the other-body information item of each of the other moving bodies including a destination of a corresponding one of the other moving bodies;
a moving-body group setting unit configured to:
use the self-information item and the other-body information item to select, from the other moving bodies, at least one other moving body with the destination that is identical to the destination of the own moving body; and
combine the own moving body and the selected at least one other moving body with each other into a group;

a representative setting unit configured to set one of the own moving body and the selected at least one other moving body in the group as a representative moving body; and
a transmission unit configured to transmit, to a base station, information regarding the own moving object and the at least one other moving object in the group in response to the own moving object being set as the representative moving body.