US 12,314,993 B2
Methods and systems for identifying underused properties and utilizing underused properties by leveraging mobile units
Baik Hoh, Mountain View, CA (US); Kentaro Oguchi, Mountain View, CA (US); John F. Daly, Frisco, TX (US); Akio Orii, Redwood City, CA (US); Satoshi Nagashima, Long Island City, NY (US); Adrian Lombard, Royal Oak, MI (US); Paul Li, Mountain View, CA (US); and Kruti Vekaria, Arlington, VA (US)
Assigned to Toyota Motor Engingeering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US); and Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed by Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US)
Filed on Apr. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/728,465.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/180,469, filed on Apr. 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0343413 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/0645 (2023.01); G01C 21/00 (2006.01); G06Q 30/0201 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01); G06Q 50/163 (2024.01); G06V 20/13 (2022.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0625 (2013.01) [G01C 21/3811 (2020.08); G06Q 30/0201 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0645 (2013.01); G06Q 50/163 (2013.01); G06V 20/13 (2022.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
one or more mobile units;
one or more mobile structures; and
a controller configured to perform operations comprising:
obtaining data about an area related to a user;
determining vacancy information about the area based on the data, the vacancy information relating to unoccupied or underused areas for a predetermined period of time;
determining at least one of an accessibility and a usability of the area;
determining that the area is available for occupancy by the one or more mobile structures based on the vacancy information and at least one of the accessibility and the usability of the area; and
updating a map including the area with an indication that the area is available for occupancy by the one or more mobile structures, wherein the controller is configured to perform operations further comprising:
receiving a selection of the area and a selection of a replaceable liner among a plurality of different replaceable liners; and
controlling a first mobile unit, from the one or more mobile units, to autonomously navigate and carry a first mobile structure, from the one or more mobile structures, that includes the replaceable liner to the area without human input in response to receiving the selection of the area and the selection of the replaceable liner, the first mobile unit including an unmanned aerial vehicle;
the first mobile structure communicating, via wireless communication, with a mobile device of a customer;
determining customer traffic information at the first mobile structure based on the communicating with the mobile device of the customer;
determining that the customer traffic information within the first mobile structure is greater than a threshold; and
in response to determining that the customer traffic information within the first mobile structure is greater than the threshold, controlling a second mobile unit from the one or more mobile units, to autonomously navigate and carry a second mobile structure, from the one or more mobile structures, that includes a second replaceable liner to the area without human input.