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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2021
Applicant:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Inventors:
Yuko Mizuno, Nagoya, JP;
Misa Ejiri, Nagoya, JP;
Kazuyuki Kagawa, Nisshin, JP;
Yuta Oshiro, Nagoya, JP;
Katsuhito Kito, Kasugai, JP;
Assignee:
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/06 (2006.01); G08G 1/017 (2006.01); G08G 1/14 (2006.01); G07B 15/02 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/06 (2013.01); G08G 1/017 (2013.01); G08G 1/143 (2013.01); G08G 1/146 (2013.01);
Abstract
A controller of an information processing apparatus is programmed to obtain a size of a vehicle to be parked in a parking lot, obtain information of a current free space of the parking lot, secure from the current free space of the parking lot a parking space that the obtained size matches; and provide the vehicle with guidance information indicating the secured parking space for driving the vehicle.