US 12,437,639 B2
Information processing device, information processing method, and information processing program
Yuki Kadono, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa (JP)
Appl. No. 18/687,933
Filed by Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation, Kanagawa (JP)
PCT Filed Oct. 3, 2022, PCT No. PCT/JP2022/036963
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 29, 2024,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/063145, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 20, 2023.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-167807 (JP), filed on Oct. 13, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2025/0131824 A1, Apr. 24, 2025
Int. Cl. G08G 1/14 (2006.01); B62D 15/02 (2006.01)
CPC G08G 1/14 (2013.01) [B62D 15/027 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing device comprising:
a memory storing instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations comprising:
acquiring environmental information around a host vehicle;
detecting a vacant space in an interest area set around the host vehicle on a basis of a positional relationship between a plurality of other vehicles included in the environmental information;
determining whether or not the host vehicle can be parked in the vacant space that has been detected; and
in a case where it is estimated that there is a boundary portion of a parking lot in a space in front of the host vehicle, setting an area along the boundary portion including the space in front of the host vehicle as the interest area.