US 11,680,817 B2
Surrounding information collection system and surrounding information acquisition apparatus
Shintaro Iwaasa, Toyota (JP); Takashi Kojima, Seto (JP); Naoki Yamamuro, Nagoya (JP); Masato Endo, Nagakute (JP); Daishi Terato, Nagoya (JP); Masakazu Nomura, Nagoya (JP); and Shinichiro Fujii, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Oct. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/511,830.
Application 17/511,830 is a continuation of application No. 16/838,600, filed on Apr. 2, 2020, granted, now 11,441,922.
Application 16/838,600 is a continuation of application No. 15/443,481, filed on Feb. 27, 2017, granted, now 10,876,855, issued on Dec. 29, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2016-086243 (JP), filed on Apr. 22, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0049972 A1, Feb. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 16/29 (2019.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G01C 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC G01C 21/3691 (2013.01) [G01C 21/3848 (2020.08); G05D 1/0274 (2013.01); G05D 1/0282 (2013.01); G05D 1/0285 (2013.01); G06F 16/29 (2019.01); G05D 2201/0213 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A server comprising circuitry configured to:
request a vehicle to transmit additional surrounding information when a number of stored sets of stored surrounding information is less than a predetermined number, the vehicle acquiring the additional surrounding information having an accuracy greater than a threshold calculated based on accuracy of the stored sets of surrounding information, accuracy of surrounding information being determined according to a type of a sensor that detects the surrounding information;
in response to the number of stored sets of surrounding information being greater than or equal to the predetermined number, calculate a serviceability with respect to the additional surrounding information and a serviceability lowest value with respect to the stored set of surrounding information;
in response to the serviceability being greater than the serviceability lowest value, request the vehicle to transmit the additional surrounding information; and
store the additional surrounding information transmitted from the vehicle in response to the requesting.