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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
May. 24, 2023
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Tatsuya Sugano, Sunto-gun Shizuoka-ken, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a parking support method for supporting parking of a vehicle in a parking place, the vehicle capable of autonomous driving at least in the parking place. The parking support method comprises the following three steps. The first step is a step of setting an exclusive area in which other vehicles are prohibited from traveling in order to secure an area in which the vehicle entering the parking place travels, the exclusive area being determined uniformly according to a position of a parking frame. The second step is a step of at least when the vehicle begins a parking motion to park the vehicle in the parking frame, acquiring a parking motion area required for the parking motion and generated by the vehicle The third step is a step of changing the exclusive area so as to secure at least the parking motion area.