US 12,190,731 B2
Plan proposal device, system, vehicle, and plan proposal method
Kodai Takanohashi, Okazaki (JP); Atsushi Okubo, Nisshin (JP); Yuji Tachibana, Nisshin (JP); Shogo Momoshima, Nagoya (JP); Takaaki Kato, Saitama (JP); Daiki Kaneichi, Tokyo (JP); and Minoru Nakadori, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Feb. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/651,870.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-061873 (JP), filed on Mar. 31, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0319321 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. G08G 1/14 (2006.01); G06N 3/08 (2023.01); G06Q 10/02 (2012.01)
CPC G08G 1/148 (2013.01) [G06N 3/08 (2013.01); G06Q 10/02 (2013.01); G08G 1/141 (2013.01); G08G 1/146 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A plan proposal device comprising a controller configured to:
predict, as a user action, an action of a first user in a certain period, including parking a vehicle in a parking lot shared by a plurality of users including the first user and a second user;
generate proposal data for proposing an action plan in the certain period based on an obtained prediction result and information on the parking lot in the certain period; and
output the generated proposal data, wherein:
the prediction result includes a first estimated time when the first user is expected to leave the parking lot with the vehicle;
the information on the parking lot includes an estimated congestion status of an exit of the parking lot or a road around the parking lot at the first estimated time; and
the controller is configured to include, in the action plan, an action of leaving the parking lot with the vehicle at a leaving time different from the first estimated time under a condition that the estimated congestion status exceeds a reference congestion level.