US 12,442,655 B2
Travel route suggestion system and travel route suggestion method
Ryota Nakabayashi, Nagoya (JP); Takahiro Suzuki, Tokyo-to (JP); Shigeyuki Kido, Tokyo-to (JP); Naoya Kuwata, Tokyo-to (JP); and Hiroki Fukatsu, Tokyo-to (JP)
Assigned to WOVEN BY TOYOTA, INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Woven by Toyota, Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/161,132.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-014803 (JP), filed on Feb. 2, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0243664 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G06Q 10/02 (2012.01)
CPC G01C 21/3685 (2013.01) [G01C 21/3438 (2013.01); G01C 21/3461 (2013.01); G06Q 10/02 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A travel route system that suggests a parking facility and a travel route according to a destination of a user of a vehicle to the user, the travel route system comprising:
one or more memories storing one or more programs;
one or more processors coupled with the one or more memories;
a control system for controlling operations of the vehicle; and
a user interface,
wherein when executing the one or more programs, the one or more processors are configured to execute:
receiving an input of destination information from the user interface;
acquiring parking facility use information related to at least two parking facilities that are candidates for moving to a destination and transportation service use information related to a transportation service that performs transportation between arbitrary points, wherein the parking facility use information comprises position information, vacancy information and charge information;
generating, based on the destination information, the parking facility use information, and the transportation service use information, at least two travel route candidates including a first candidate for a composite route combining a first route for moving to a first parking facility outside a predetermined range from the destination by using the vehicle and a second route for moving from the first parking facility to the destination by using the transportation service, and a second candidate for a single route for moving to a second parking facility inside the predetermined range from the destination, and performing travel route recommendation processing for outputting the at least two travel route candidates to the user interface, wherein each of the travel route candidates output to the user interface comprises route details, usage fee, and required time of travel route candidate; and
when an input for selecting a route from among the candidates of the travel route candidate information is received from the user interface, if the route is the composite route, automatically making a reservation for use of the transport service from a point near the parking facility to the destination, performing travel route setting processing of setting the composite route as the travel route, and controlling operations of the vehicle to follow the composite route towards the parking facility by autonomous driving, and if the route is a single route, controlling operations of the vehicle to follow the single route towards the destination by autonomous driving wherein the parking facility use information comprises vacancy information of the parking facility.