NOTIFICATION CONTROL DEVICE

Organization Name

toyota jidosha kabushiki kaisha

Inventor(s)

Kiyotoshi Sekine of Kakamigahara JP

Takahiko Kuwabara of Yokohama-shi JP

Ko Igarashi of Shinagawa-ku JP

NOTIFICATION CONTROL DEVICE

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20240253657 titled 'NOTIFICATION CONTROL DEVICE

Original Abstract Submitted

when a driver of a vehicle is not recognized by a driver monitoring camera during autonomous driving, it is determined whether a notification relaxation condition is satisfied based on a driver status and a driving status of the vehicle. when it is determined that the notification relaxation condition is not satisfied, normal notification processing is executed in which an output device notifies the driver in a first manner. when it is determined that the notification relaxation condition is satisfied, relaxation notification processing is executed in which the output device notifies the driver in a second manner that is more relaxed than the first mode.