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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
May. 24, 2023
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Tatsuya Sugano, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A method for assisting parking of a vehicle in a parking lot is proposed. The method comprises the steps of generating node information from a start position to an end position of a leaving operation of the vehicle, calculating a reference distance between a start node and a reference node which is a node located in front of the vehicle among nodes located on a drive aisle of the parking lot, calculating, for respective target nodes, an aisle distance which is a distance from the reference node, the target nodes being nodes from the reference node to an end node, identifying a specific node which is a node whose the aisle distance is most approximate to the reference distance among the target nodes, and transmitting, to the vehicle, the node information regarding the start node and regarding the target nodes from the specific node to the end node.