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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
May. 24, 2023
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Hiroya Chiba, Fuji, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
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.