公开(公告)号：US20190268742A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-29

申请号：US16263516

申请日：2019-01-31

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Yoshiyuki TAKAHIRA ,  Shohei KIKUTA ,  Shojiro KIDO ,  Toshiya MORIWAKI

IPC: H04W4/46 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G05D1/02

Abstract: A moving body assistance device includes: an obtainment unit that obtains identification information for identifying at least one automobile or at least one person in the at least one automobile, by receiving an optical signal transmitted by the at least one automobile; a communication unit that receives feature information from a server disposed outside of an automobile and the at least one automobile, the feature information corresponding to the identification information and indicating a feature about the at least one automobile or the at least one person in the at least one automobile; and a control unit that determines whether a predetermined condition is satisfied according to the feature information, selects, as a selected automobile, one of the at least one automobile according to a determination result, and causes the communication unit to establish communication with the selected automobile.