DOOR LOCK CONTROL DEVICE AND DOOR LOCK CONTROL METHOD

The door lock control device includes: an extra-vehicle object detection unit to detect an extra-vehicle object that approaches a door of a vehicle from outside the vehicle; a qualification determination unit to determine whether or not the detected extra-vehicle object is a qualified object that is qualified to unlock a door that is locked, and output a determination result; and a door control instruction unit to, when the door that the detected extra-vehicle object approaches is a locked door that is locked, output a control signal for instructing an operation on the locked door on the basis of the output determination result, and, when it is determined that the detected extra-vehicle object is the qualified object, the door control instruction unit outputs a control signal for instructing unlocking of the locked door.