Patent application EP20177675A (EP), filed 2020-06-01
Publication number: EP3756925A1
Title: OPERATION DEVICE FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE
Abstract: An operation device for an autonomous vehicle (10) includes a touch panel (38) configured to display at least one of a start button (60a) and a deceleration button (60b) and a notification button (62) on the same screen. The autonomous vehicle is autonomously drivable. The start button is a button for starting driving of the autonomous vehicle in an autonomous drive mode. The deceleration button is a button for decelerating the autonomous vehicle during the autonomous drive mode. The notification button is a button for performing notification to an outside of the autonomous vehicle.
IPC codes: B60K  35/    10            A I
Claims: number: 1
text: An operation device for an autonomous vehicle (10), comprising a touch panel (38) configured to display at least one of a start button (60a) and a deceleration button (60b), and a notification button (62) on the same screen, the autonomous vehicle being autonomously drivable, the start button being a button for starting driving of the autonomous vehicle in an autonomous drive mode, the deceleration button being a button for decelerating the autonomous vehicle during the autonomous drive mode, and the notification button being a button for performing notification to an outside of the autonomous vehicle.
number: 2
text: The operation device for the autonomous vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the touch panel (38) stands upward from an upper surface of a base member (36) on which an operator who operates the touch panel places an arm or a hand of the operator, and at least one of the start button (60a), the deceleration button (60b), and the notification button (62) is displayed on a lower part of the touch panel.
number: 3
text: The operation device for the autonomous vehicle according to claim 2, wherein at least one of the start button and the deceleration button is displayed below the notification button.
number: 4
text: The operation device for the autonomous vehicle according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the start button and the deceleration button is displayed in a center of a screen of the touch panel, and the notification button is displayed near at least one of the start button and the deceleration button.
number: 5
text: The operation device for the autonomous vehicle according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein at least one of the start button and the deceleration button is displayed larger than the notification button.
number: 6
text: The operation device for the autonomous vehicle according to claim 1, wherein:
number: 7
text: The operation device for the autonomous vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the touch panel is further configured to display a state of the autonomous vehicle on the same screen.
number: 8
text: The operation device for the autonomous vehicle according to claim 7, wherein:
number: 9
text: The operation device for the autonomous vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the touch panel is further configured to temporarily display on the same screen a message (76) for an operator who operates the touch panel, and the message is displayed superimposed on at least a part of a state indicator (74) indicating a state of the autonomous vehicle.
number: 10
text: The operation device for the autonomous vehicle according to claim 9, wherein at least one of the start button and the deceleration button or the notification button is operable with the message being displayed.
number: 11
text: The operation device for the autonomous vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising a mechanical operation unit (80) configured to perform vehicle speed control of the autonomous vehicle, the mechanical operation unit having a notification switch (82) for performing the notification to the outside of the autonomous vehicle.
number: 12
text: The operation device for the autonomous vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the autonomous vehicle has a plurality of drive modes including the autonomous drive mode and a manual drive mode, the operation device for the autonomous vehicle further comprising:
Office action: search_report, dated 2020-12-30
Rejection reasons: novelty_epc_54
inventive_step_epc_56
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Final disposition: pending (2020-12-30)