Patent ID: 11900812
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 5:
6. A control method of informing an outside of a vehicle, executed by one or more processors of an electronic control unit (ECU) mounted in the vehicle, comprising:
generating, using the ECU, a traveling plan of the vehicle;
recognizing, using the ECU, a crossing person who crosses over a path of a vehicle that is obtained from the traveling plan;
acquiring, from an external sensor, information of the crossing person including a speed of the crossing person;
predicting, using the ECU, a crossing completion time at which the crossing person completes the crossing based on the speed of the crossing person;
deciding, using the ECU, a scheduled departure time of the vehicle based on the crossing completion time; and
performing, using the ECU, a control of informing an outside of the vehicle, in a manner recognized by the crossing person, of the scheduled departure time, wherein the scheduled departure time is a dynamically changing countdown showing a remaining time from a current time to a time the vehicle departs,
wherein, when no crossing person is recognized, the informing to the outside of the vehicle of the scheduled departure time is not performed.