US 12,333,940 B2
Information processing apparatus
Takashi Mizuno, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Oct. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/379,691.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-169453 (JP), filed on Oct. 21, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0135816 A1, Apr. 25, 2024
Prior Publication US 2024/0233539 A9, Jul. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. G08G 1/14 (2006.01)
CPC G08G 1/146 (2013.01) [G08G 1/143 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus comprising a controller configured to:
acquire first information related to a request for a predetermined operation performed before a first vehicle moves, which is required for the first vehicle from outside the first vehicle parked in a parking lot; and
transmit, in response to acquiring the first information, second information for causing a user of a second vehicle waiting for parking to recognize a position where the first vehicle is parked,
wherein the first information is a request to unlock a door of the first vehicle, and
wherein the controller transmits the second information when a time from receiving information that the door of the first vehicle is locked to acquiring the first information is greater than or equal to a predetermined time, and do not transmit the second information when the time from receiving information that the door of the first vehicle is locked to acquiring the first information is less than the predetermined time.