US 12,260,754 B2
Parking management device, vehicle, and parking lot management method
Daisaku Honda, Nagoya (JP); Hiroya Matsubayashi, Nisshin (JP); Ryota Tomizawa, Mishima (JP); Satoshi Tanabe, Susono (JP); Nobutsugu Maruiwa, Mishima (JP); Yasuhiro Kobatake, Nagoya (JP); and Hiroki Awano, Susono (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Apr. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/136,042.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-100566 (JP), filed on Jun. 22, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0419828 A1, Dec. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. G08G 1/017 (2006.01); B60W 30/095 (2012.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G08G 1/01 (2006.01); G08G 1/0967 (2006.01); G08G 1/14 (2006.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.01)
CPC G08G 1/096708 (2013.01) [B60W 30/0953 (2013.01); B60W 30/0956 (2013.01); G08G 1/0116 (2013.01); G08G 1/143 (2013.01); G08G 1/146 (2013.01); G08G 1/148 (2013.01); H04W 4/46 (2018.02)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A parking management device configured to manage a vehicle in a parking lot,
the parking management device comprising at least one processor configured to:
acquire user identification data for identifying a position of a user moving in the parking lot,
estimate a movement route based on the acquired user identification data, the movement route being a route along which the user moves in the parking lot,
decide a travelling route of the vehicle so as to avoid the estimated movement route, the vehicle being a vehicle travelling in the parking lot, and parking
give a priority order to the user based on the acquired user identification data, the priority order corresponding to a physical feature of the user, wherein:
the at least one processor is further configured to:
estimate the respective movement routes of a plurality of the users,
obtain a plurality of candidates of the travelling route, and
decide that the travelling route is one of the plurality of obtained candidates, the one of the plurality of obtained candidates being a candidate that allows avoidance of the movement route of the user to which the highest priority order is given.