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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2026
Filed:
May. 06, 2024
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Tomohito Higuma, Toyota, JP;
Toshihiro Takagi, Nisshin, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A parking assistance apparatus executes an automatic parking control of automatically moving an own vehicle along a registered parking route to park the own vehicle in a registered parking space. When the own vehicle reaches a registered notification start point on the registered parking route or reaches a point within a predetermined distance from the registered notification start point, the parking assistance apparatus performs an assistance availability notification which notifies an operator of the own vehicle that the operator can park the own vehicle in the registered parking space by the automatic parking control. When an update condition that the operator requests an execution of the automatic parking control, becomes satisfied after starting to perform the assistance availability notification, the parking assistance apparatus newly registers a point where the update condition becomes satisfied as the notification start point.