IP Library Granted Patent US 12,330,685
Granted Patent B2
US 12,330,685 · App. 18/143,995 · Granted Jun 17, 2025

Parking management device, vehicle, and parking management method

Inventors: Daisaku Honda (Nagoya, JP); Hiroya Matsubayashi (Nisshin, JP); Ryota Tomizawa (Mishima, JP); Satoshi Tanabe (Susono, JP); Nobutsugu Maruiwa (Mishima, JP); Yasuhiro Kobatake (Nagoya, JP); Hiroki Awano (Susono, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
B60W60/0025B60W30/06G01C21/3484
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Patent No.
US 12,330,685
App. No.
18/143,995
Granted
Jun 17, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A parking management device for a parking lot adjacent to a store that provides a product includes a provision time acquisition unit 6 that acquires a provision time of a product ordered by a driver driving the vehicle to the store, a parking location determination unit that determines a parking location of the vehicle entering the parking lot based on the provision time acquired by the provision time acquisition unit, and a guidance information generation unit that generates guidance information for guidance of the vehicle to the parking location determined by the parking location determination unit.

Claims (27)

1. A parking management device for a parking lot adjacent to a store that provides a product, comprising:

a processor programmed to:

acquire a provision time of the product that a driver who drives a vehicle orders from the store, wherein the provision time is an amount of remaining time required for providing the product to a product provision location of the store when a preparation of the product is not yet completed;

determine a parking location of the vehicle when the vehicles enters the parking lot based on the provision time of the product; and

generate guidance information for guiding the vehicle to the parking location that has been determined, wherein:

in the parking lot, a plurality of parking areas each including a plurality of parking frames is provided as the parking location; and

the processor is programmed to:

determine a first parking area, from among the parking areas, as the parking location when the provision time is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold value, and

determine a second parking area, from among the parking areas, that is closer to the product provision location than the first parking area as the parking location, when the provision time is smaller than the threshold value;

transmit the guidance information to an on-board communication device of the vehicle; and

cause the vehicle to move by autonomous driving to the parking location in accordance with the guidance information.

2. The parking management device according to claim 1 , further comprising a privilege granting unit that generates privilege data for granting a privilege that the driver is able to use at the store when the parking location determination unit determines the first parking area as the parking location.

3. The parking management device according to claim 1 , wherein:

the processor is further programmed to:

acquire a second provision time of the product that a second driver who drives a second vehicle orders from the store; and

determine, from the parking frames, a second parking frame that is farther from a product provision location of the store than a first parking frame in which the second vehicle is parked as the parking location when the provision time is equal to or more than the second provision time, and

determine, from the parking frames, a third parking frame that is closer to the product provision location than the first parking frame as the parking location when the provision time is smaller than the second provision time.

4. A parking management method for a parking lot adjacent to a store that provides a product, comprising:

acquiring, by a processor, provision time of the product that a driver who drives a vehicle orders from the store, wherein the provision time is an amount of remaining time required for providing the product to a product provision location of the store when a preparation of the product is not yet completed;

determining, by the processor, a parking location of the vehicle when the vehicle enters the parking lot based on the provision time of the product; and

generating, by the processor, guidance information for guiding the vehicle to the parking location that has been determined, wherein

in the parking lot, a plurality of parking areas each including a plurality of parking frames is provided as the parking location; and

the method further comprising:

determining a first parking area, from among the parking areas, as the parking location when the provision time is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold value, and

determining a second parking area, from among the parking areas, that is closer to the product provision location than the first parking area as the parking location, when the provision time is smaller than the threshold value;

transmitting the guidance information to an on-board communication device of the vehicle; and

causing the vehicle to move by autonomous driving to the parking location in accordance with the guidance information.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 5, 2023
From: HONDA, DAISAKU; MATSUBAYASHI, HIROYA; TOMIZAWA, RYOTA; TANABE, SATOSHI; MARUIWA, NOBUTSUGU; KOBATAKE, YASUHIRO; AWANO, HIROKI
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Priority Claims (1)
JP 2022-109973 · Jul 7, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20240010239A1 · Jan 11, 2024
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