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Granted Patent B2
US 11,267,460 · App. 16/778,376 · Granted Mar 8, 2022

Automatic parking management apparatus

Inventor: Tatsuya Sugano (Susono, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
B60W30/06B60W60/001
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Patent No.
US 11,267,460
App. No.
16/778,376
Granted
Mar 8, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

An automatic parking management apparatus is configured to manage an automatic parking control of automatically parking a vehicle in an empty parking space. The automatic parking management apparatus is provided with: an acquirer configured to obtain a common route, which is a common part of a plurality of routes on which the vehicle, which is about to start the automatic parking control, possibly travels in the automatic parking control; a first transmitter configured to transmit information associated with the common route to the vehicle, before a travel route on which the vehicle travels in the automatic parking control is determined; and a second transmitter configured to transmit information associated with a non-common route, which excludes the common route from the travel route, to the vehicle, after the travel route on which the vehicle travels in the automatic parking control is determined.

Claims (13)

1. An automatic parking management apparatus configured to manage an automatic parking control of automatically parking a vehicle in an empty parking space, said automatic parking management apparatus comprising:

a processing circuit configured to:

obtain a plurality of routes from a position of a pick-up or drop-off place to a parking position;

determine whether there is a common section in all of the obtained routes; and

upon determination that there is a common section in all of the obtained routes, set the common section as a common route;

a first transmitter configured to transmit information associated with the common route to the vehicle, before a travel route on which the vehicle travels in the automatic parking control is determined; and

a second transmitter configured to transmit information associated with a non-common route, which excludes the common route from the travel route, to the vehicle, after the travel route on which the vehicle travels in the automatic parking control is determined.

2. The automatic parking management apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuit is configured to obtain the common route, on condition that the vehicle, which has a reservation for the automatic parking control, passes a predetermined point in surroundings of a pick-up/drop-off place, which is a start position of the automatic parking control.

3. The automatic parking management apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the processing circuit is further configured to determine a travel route on which the vehicle travels in the automatic parking control, on condition that the vehicle stops in a pick-up/drop-off place, which is a start position of the automatic parking control,

said first transmitter is configured to transmit the information associated with the common route to the vehicle, before the processing circuit determines the travel route, and

said second transmitter is configured to transmit the information associated with the non-common route to the vehicle, after the processing circuit determines the travel route.

4. The automatic parking management apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuit is configured to update a plurality of routes on which the vehicle possibly travels in the automatic parking control, on the basis of a current position of the vehicle, and is configured to obtain the common route of the plurality of routes updated.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 10, 2020
From: SUGANO, TATSUYA
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 051762/0709 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2019-021398 · Feb 8, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20200254999A1 · Aug 13, 2020
Cited By (1)
US 12,591,237