It turned out that Toyota had applied for more than 1,400 patents of automatic driving car more than Google

ByDaniel

Google conducted a demonstration run many timesOr Tesla to EV (Electric Vehicle) "Model S"Newly equipped automatic operation functionThe introduction of the fully automatic driving car, such as doing it, will receive the impression that the company of Silicon Valley leads, but in reality it was that Japan Toyota had acquired more than 1,400 patents on the technology concerning the automatic driving car It turned out.

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Thomson Reuters, a company that provides information on academic information and intellectual property, released a report that analyzed patents on technology related to automatic driving cars applied by automobile manufacturers and IT companies, among which automobile manufacturer Toyota I found that I applied for and acquired over 1,400 patents that were far superior to other automakers and IT companies. In addition, it has been found that even automobile manufacturers have obtained more patents than Silicon Valley IT companies, even when comparing the number of patents.

ByMike Mozart

According to Reuters, Toyota follows the number of patents acquired by Robert Bosch (Bosch), German automobile parts maker Robert Bosch (Bosch), Denso Japan, Hyundai, General Motors etc,Automatic driving car completed in 2012Alphabet, a holding company of Google, who has repeatedly run test runs, ranked number 26 in terms of the number of patented patents on automatic driving cars. Although Alphabet was the highest among IT companies, we are watching the future of automobile manufacturers and parts makers.

ByAlan

Toyota, which had acquired a patent which is more than twice as many as other companies, recently applied for preventing power from falling down and selecting "manual operation mode" by default at the start of the car.

However, as Reuters says "It is the quality of the patent that matters", the number of patents is considered to be a different issue from whether it will be successful in the automatic operation market or not.

ByIntel Free Press

"January 2016 held in Las Vegas, USA"CES 2016At the venue of Toyota's progress on the new company "Toyota Research Institute (TRI)" established for research and development of artificial intelligencepresentationWe did. Gill Pratt at the entrance TRI said, "There is still a long way to realizing a car that can fully drive in an unexpected situation," suggesting that it is still time consuming to introduce fully automatic operation I will. However, Toyota believes that automatic operation will be the key to survival, and attention will be drawn to what kind of patents that have been acquired will bring to Toyota in the future.