US 12,441,492 B2
Automatic parking lot management system, automatic parking lot management method, and storage medium
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 Jun. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/845,473.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-134995 (JP), filed on Aug. 20, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0060036 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. B64U 10/13 (2023.01); B60W 30/06 (2006.01); B64D 47/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC B64U 10/13 (2023.01) [B60W 30/06 (2013.01); B64D 47/00 (2013.01); G05D 1/101 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An automatic parking lot management system comprising:
infrastructure sensors, each of the infrastructure sensors detecting a preset range in a parking lot;
a drone including a peripheral detection sensor, wherein the drone is able to be moved to a detectable position at which the peripheral detection sensor of the drone is able to detect a detection range of each of the infrastructure sensors; and
an electronic control unit including a processor configured to:
detect whether an abnormality exists in any of the infrastructure sensors,
based upon the detection of the abnormality in one of the infrastructure sensors, determine the detection range of the one of the infrastructure sensors that has the abnormality; and
cause the drone including the peripheral detection sensor to move to a movement destination, the movement destination being a position at which the peripheral detection sensor of the drone is able to detect the detection range allocated to the one of the infrastructure sensors that has the abnormality.