Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroya Chiba

Daiki Yokoyama

Tatsuya Sugano

Toshiya Hashimoto

Yoshiyuki Kageura

Masanori Shimada

Sui Kurihashi

Shuntaro Okazaki

Yuji Miyoshi

Yoshihiro Sakayanagi

Kazuhisa Matsuda

Makoto Ogiso

Taizo Masuda

Shogo Tsuge

Hiroki Morita

Shun Ota

Fumihiko Nakamura

Taro Hasegawa

Manabu Handa

Yuka Nishiyama

Daisuke Kakuma

Yuhei Oka

Rika Oike

Tomoya Takeda

Masaki Ito

Ryuji Okamura

Ryosuke Ikemura

Noriyuki Tsuruoka

Yuki Okamoto

Yohei Hareyama

Kazuki Egashira

A vehicle receiving power from a ground power supplying apparatus by noncontact includes: a vehicle side first communication device for directly or indirectly communicating with the ground power supplying apparatus by utilizing wide area wireless communication; a vehicle side second communication device for directly communicating with the ground power supplying apparatus by utilizing short range wireless communication; and a control device for making the vehicle side first communication device transmit vehicle information tied with vehicle identification information to the ground power supplying apparatus and making the vehicle side second communication device transmit the vehicle identification information to the ground power supplying apparatus after the vehicle side first communication device transmits the vehicle information, when the vehicle receives power from the ground power supplying apparatus.

Vehicle, ground power supplying apparatus, and noncontact power supplying system

A load and unload support device includes an information processing unit for communicating with a user terminal of a first vehicle and a control terminal of a second vehicle. When the second vehicle is parked between an entrance/exit of a parallel parking lot connected to a road and the first vehicle, the information processing unit transmits a temporary unload instruction for the second vehicle that is received from the user terminal to the control terminal. When receiving the load instruction for the second vehicle from the user terminal subsequent to a receipt of the temporary unload instruction, the information processing unit transmits the load instruction for the second vehicle to the control terminal. When a predetermined time elapses after the receipt of the temporary unload instruction without receiving the load instruction for the second vehicle, information processing unit transmits an alert notification to the user terminal.

Load and unload support device and load and unload support

A method for operating an air conditioner installed in a vehicle is provided. The method includes a step of operating the air conditioner according to an operation instruction for the air conditioner when the operation instruction is received from a mobile terminal of an operator of the vehicle, and a step of displaying a notification related to an operation of the air conditioner on a screen of the mobile terminal while the air conditioner is operated according to the operation instruction, the step being a step in which the notification related to the operation of the air conditioner is continuously displayed on the screen without being deleted by a predetermined operation of the mobile terminal by the operator when the mobile terminal is located outside the vehicle.

Method and system for operating in-vehicle air conditioner

An automated valet parking (AVP) management system executes a tentative allocation process that allocates a tentative parking space on a passage in a parking lot to an entry vehicle, when there is no available regular parking space in the parking lot. In the tentative allocation process, the AVP management system acquires a scheduled exit time of a parked vehicle parked in a regular parking space. When the scheduled exit time of a first parked vehicle is earlier than the scheduled exit time of a second parked vehicle, the AVP management system preferentially allocates the tentative parking space not present on an exit route of the first parked vehicle to the entry vehicle based on the map information and the vehicle management information.

Automated valet parking management system and automated valet parking management method

A parking lot includes: a plurality of parking spaces arranged in series in a first direction; a camera configured to take a picture of the plurality of parking spaces; and a recognition target provided in each of the plurality of parking spaces. A usage status of each parking space is determined based on a result of recognition of the recognition target by the camera. Each parking space includes a first parking space line and a second parking space line. The first parking space line is located closer to the camera than the second parking space line is in the first direction. The recognition target is arranged to be decentered from a center line between the first parking space line and the second parking space line toward a region on a side of the second parking space line.

Parking lot, parking lot management system, and parking lot management method that determines a usage status of each of a plurality of parking spaces

An automated valet parking management device according to the present disclosure includes one or more processors and one or more memory devices. The one or more memory devices store map information on a parking facility including a loading dock and positional information on a door of a cargo room included in a cargo vehicle that performs at least one of a carry-in and a carry-out of a cargo in the loading dock. The one or more processors execute parking arrangement processing for determining a parking position and a parking direction of the cargo vehicle when the cargo working operation of the cargo vehicle is performed based on the map information and the positional information on the door before the cargo working operation is started by the cargo vehicle.

Automated valet parking management device and automated valet parking management method

A vehicle includes: a controller; a power receiving device that contactlessly receives power from a power transmitting facility; a battery chargeable using the power received by the power receiving device; and a power transmitting device that contactlessly outputs, to another vehicle, the power received by the power receiving device. The other vehicle contactlessly receives power from each of the power transmitting facility and the power transmitting device. When the other vehicle is unable to contactlessly receive the power from the power transmitting facility, the controller controls the power transmitting device to contactlessly output the power received by the power receiving device to the other vehicle in accordance with a request from the other vehicle.

Vehicle and charging system

In a recognition processing of a vehicle included in a camera image acquired by a camera installed in a closed space, the vehicle recognition system determines whether a shutter provided at an entrance/exit for a vehicle in the closed space is opened or not based on opening/closing information on the shutter. Then, the vehicle recognition system determines whether or not an outside illuminance is higher than an inside illuminance based on information on the outside illuminance and information on the inside illuminance. Furthermore, the vehicle recognition system performs brightness correction processing for correcting brightness of the camera image when it is determined that the shutter is opened and the outside illuminance is higher than the inside illuminance.

Vehicle recognition system and vehicle recognition method

An automated parking management device includes a storage device and a processor that performs an organization processing for organizing an automated parking location of a vehicle in a parking lot. In the organization processing, the processor calculates a degree of anti-theft necessity for a loaded vehicle and a load scheduled vehicle for each vehicle. The processor calculates a degree of theft resistance for each parking spot based on a map information of the parking lot, a location information of the loaded vehicle, and a location information of the load scheduled vehicle. The processor determines an automated parking location of the loaded vehicle and the load scheduled vehicle based on the degree of anti-theft necessity and degree of theft resistance such that a vehicle with a higher degree of anti-theft necessity is parked in the parking spot with a higher degree of theft resistance.

Automated parking management device and automated parking management method

A parking lot includes a plurality of parking spaces monitored by a single camera. A parking lot management method for managing the parking lot includes a parking space allocation process that allocates an available parking space having a highest entry priority among the plurality of parking spaces to an entry vehicle entering the parking lot. The plurality of parking spaces include a first parking space and a second parking space that is closer to an installation position of the single camera than the first parking space is. An entry priority of the first parking space is higher than an entry priority of the second parking space.

Parking lot management method and parking lot management system

A running mode proposal device for proposing a running mode up to a destination of a vehicle is configured to: select a first running route by a predetermined algorithm unrelated to noncontact power supply; project, when assuming the vehicle runs on a predetermined running route, a value of a parameter relating to an electric energy projected as being supplied at a power supply section on the running route to the vehicle; select a second running route by which a projected supplied electric energy will be greater than a predetermined standard electric energy if the projected value of the parameter when assuming the vehicle runs on the first running route is a value indicating the projected supplied electric energy is less than the standard electric energy; and propose, as the running route, the first running route, and, when the second running route is selected, further proposing a second running route.

Running mode proposal device, navigation device, and running control device

The vehicle management server manages a vehicle rented as a robot taxi from an owner to a user. The vehicle management server transmits the vehicle position information to a communication terminal of the owner when the vehicle is in operation as a robot taxi. The vehicle position information is a distance from the current position of the owner to the vehicle, or an area where the vehicle is currently located.

Vehicle management server, communication terminal, and vehicle management program

A control apparatus for an object moving in a specific zone while recognizing one or more markers deployed in the specific zone by a camera. The control apparatus is configured to execute detecting whether or not that the specific zone or surroundings of the object is darker than a specified brightness, and when detecting that the specific zone or the surroundings of the object is darker than the specified brightness, operating a lighting device installed in the object to illuminate the one or more markers located around the object.

Control apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer readable media encoded with computer program

A moving body support system supports a moving body that recognizes a marker arranged in a predetermined area. Based on positions of a plurality of markers arranged in the predetermined area, the moving body support system acquires a position of a target marker being a target to be recognized by the moving body. The moving body support system further acquires information indicating brightness at the position of the target marker. When the brightness at the position of the target marker is less than a threshold, the moving body support system selects, based on positions of one or more lights present in the predetermined area, a target light present at a position capable of illuminating the target marker and increases a light intensity of the target light as compared with a case where the brightness is equal to or greater than the threshold.

Vehicle support system and vehicle support method for marker recognition and illumination adjustment

The present disclosure proposes a parking management system for managing parking of vehicles in a parking lot of a specific facility including a pick-up and drop-off area. The parking management system comprises one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute, when a vehicle enters the parking lot, acquiring a scheduled usage time at which a passenger of the vehicle is scheduled to use the specific facility. And the one or more processors are configured to execute the following first and second processes. The first process is parking the vehicle in the parking lot when the scheduled usage time is more than a predetermined time after a current time. The second process is moving the vehicle to the pick-up and drop-off area in response to the current time becoming the predetermined time before the scheduled usage time after the vehicle is parked.

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Hiroya Chiba