Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Motor North America, Inc.

Eduard Vandersmitte

Taiki Yamashita

Kuniaki Jinnai

Jake Morrow

Aya Sato

Gunnar Heinisch

Daiki Kubo

Aghyad Saleh

Scott R Meyer

Jarrod Marini

A method of determining a wait time at a point of interest includes obtaining a current occupancy signal of a parking establishment associated with one or more points of interest, obtaining a historic occupancy signal of the parking establishment, determining, with one or more processors, a predicted wait time for the one or more points of interest associated with the parking establishment based on the current occupancy signal and the historic occupancy signal, and communicating the predicted wait time to a user with a user interface device.

Methods, systems, and vehicles for determining a wait time at a point of interest

Systems and methods are provided for determining navigation routing of a vehicle based on predicted total cost of possible routes, including: receiving information identifying a destination for a vehicle; determining two or more possible routes from a origination to the destination; determining a plurality of cost factors for a plurality of the determined possible routes, wherein the cost factors comprise direct cost information for the plurality of determined possible routes and indirect cost information for the plurality of determined possible routes; calculating a total cost for each of the plurality of determined possible routes using the cost factors; and presenting to the user a lowest-total-cost route from among the plurality of determined possible routes.

Cost-based vehicle routing

An energy supply system includes at least one energy supply vehicle and an information processing apparatus. The at least one energy supply vehicle is configured to be able to supply energy to at least one target vehicle that is subject to energy supply. The information processing apparatus is configured to manage operation of the at least one energy supply vehicle. The information processing apparatus is configured to create an operation schedule including a supply schedule for supplying energy to the at least one target vehicle, based on a travel plan for the at least one target vehicle and information on a remaining energy amount that are received from the at least one target vehicle, and transmit the created operation schedule to the at least one energy supply vehicle.

Energy supply system, information processing apparatus, and method

An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire occupant information regarding an occupant in a vehicle trying to park in a parking lot, and identify a parking position appropriate for the vehicle in the parking lot based on the occupant information.

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, non-transitory computer readable medium, and information processing method

A vehicle includes a communication interface, a sensor configured to detect biological information for a user of the vehicle, and a controller configured to perform electronic payments. The controller receives authentication information from a first terminal apparatus using the communication interface and acquires the biological information from the sensor when a first authentication using the received authentication information succeeds. The controller acquires authorization information indicating authorization to perform an electronic payment for the user, who is associated with the authentication information, when a second authentication using the acquired biological information succeeds.

Vehicle, authentication system, non-transitory computer readable medium, and authentication method

A control apparatus includes a controller configured to identify a position of a vehicle presenting an advertisement to outside of the vehicle, and determine whether to apply a discount to a usage fee for the vehicle according to the identified position.

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McKinney, TX, United States of America

Eduard Vandersmitte