US 11,787,395 B2
Automated valet parking system
Ryuji Okamura, Gotemba (JP); and Tatsuya Sugano, Susono (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Sep. 22, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/27,838.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-193652 (JP), filed on Oct. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0122360 A1, Apr. 29, 2021
Int. Cl. B60W 30/06 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01)
CPC B60W 30/06 (2013.01) [B60W 60/0025 (2020.02); B60W 2540/041 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4029 (2020.02)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An automated valet parking system that automatically moves an autonomous driving vehicle to a pick-up space of a parking place by issuing an instruction to the autonomous driving vehicle parked in a parking area of the parking place according to a pick-up request from a user frontend of a user, the system comprising a processor configured to:
acquire position information of the user frontend;
determine whether or not the user frontend is located within a vicinity of a preset pick-up area including the pick-up space;
instruct the autonomous driving vehicle to move to the pick-up space when, in response to receiving the pick-up request from the user, the processor determines that the user frontend is located within the vicinity of the preset pick-up area; and
decline receiving the pick-up request such that the autonomous driving vehicle remains in the parking area when the processor determines that the user frontend is not located within the vicinity of the preset pick-up area.