US 12,330,685 B2
Parking management device, vehicle, and parking 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 May 5, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/143,995.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-109973 (JP), filed on Jul. 7, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0010239 A1, Jan. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 30/06 (2006.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 60/0025 (2020.02) [B60W 30/06 (2013.01); G01C 21/3484 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A parking management device for a parking lot adjacent to a store that provides a product, comprising:
a processor programmed to:
acquire a provision time of the product that a driver who drives a vehicle orders from the store, wherein the provision time is an amount of remaining time required for providing the product to a product provision location of the store when a preparation of the product is not yet completed;
determine a parking location of the vehicle when the vehicles enters the parking lot based on the provision time of the product; and
generate guidance information for guiding the vehicle to the parking location that has been determined, wherein:
in the parking lot, a plurality of parking areas each including a plurality of parking frames is provided as the parking location; and
the processor is programmed to:
determine a first parking area, from among the parking areas, as the parking location when the provision time is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold value, and
determine a second parking area, from among the parking areas, that is closer to the product provision location than the first parking area as the parking location, when the provision time is smaller than the threshold value;
transmit the guidance information to an on-board communication device of the vehicle; and
cause the vehicle to move by autonomous driving to the parking location in accordance with the guidance information.