US 11,995,987 B2
Apparatus and system for parking position for vehicle pick-up or drop-off
Yasuhiro Hayashi, Mitaka (JP); Kazunori Fujimori, Nagoya (JP); Takuji Yamada, Musashino (JP); Naoya Oka, Nagakute (JP); Daisuke Kimura, Toyota (JP); and Yumiko Yamashita, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Nov. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/517,078.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-192389 (JP), filed on Nov. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0157169 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. G08G 1/14 (2006.01); G08G 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC G08G 1/147 (2013.01) [G08G 1/202 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus comprising a controller configured to:
receive vehicle data from a plurality of vehicles,
specify a first vehicle, among the plurality of vehicles, that is predicted to be parked to pick up or drop off a person in a predetermined period of time, based on the vehicle data,
make a determination, based on the vehicle data, whether the first vehicle is in a first state in which parking for pick-up of the person is predicted to be performed or a second state in which parking for drop-off of the person is predicted to be performed, and
perform assignment of a parking position to the first vehicle based on a result of the determination.