US 12,441,339 B2
Load and unload support device and load and unload support
Hiroya Chiba, Fuji (JP); Tatsuya Sugano, Sunto-gun Shizuoka-ken (JP); and Rika Oike, Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Nov. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/522,781.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-211140 (JP), filed on Dec. 28, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0217525 A1, Jul. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. B60W 50/02 (2012.01); B60W 30/06 (2006.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01)
CPC B60W 50/0205 (2013.01) [B60W 30/06 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0002 (2013.01); B60W 2050/143 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A removal and retrieval support device for a first vehicle and a second vehicle parked in a parking lot used for parallel parking facing a road, the removal and retrieval support device comprising an information processing unit configured to communicate with a user terminal of the first vehicle and a control terminal of the second vehicle,
wherein at least the second vehicle is a vehicle configured for autonomous driving with removal and retrieval function,
wherein the information processing unit is configured to:
when the second vehicle is parked between an entrance/exit of the parking lot used for parallel parking connected to the road and the first vehicle, transmit a removal instruction for the second vehicle that is received from the user terminal to the control terminal and temporarily moves the second vehicle from the parking lot used for parallel parking by autonomous driving;
when receiving a retrieval instruction for the second vehicle from the user terminal subsequent to a receipt of the removal instruction, transmit the retrieval instruction for the second vehicle to the control terminal for moving the second vehicle into the parking lot used for parallel parking by autonomous driving; and
when a predetermined time elapses after the receipt of the removal instruction without receiving the retrieval instruction for the second vehicle, transmit an alert notification to the user terminal.