US 12,291,195 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. 12, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/465,633.
Application 18/465,633 is a continuation of application No. 17/027,838, filed on Sep. 22, 2020, granted, now 11,787,395.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-193652 (JP), filed on Oct. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0415730 A1, Dec. 28, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
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)] 15 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 near-pick-up area including a preset pick-up area that includes 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 near-pick-up area including the preset pick-up area; and
provide a notification to the user frontend that the pick-up request cannot be received when the processor determines that the user frontend is not located within the near-pick-up area including the preset pick-up area.