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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2015
Nissan North America, Inc., Franklin, TN (US);
Daisuke Saito, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Naoki Kojo, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Siddharth Kumar Thakur, Milpitas, CA (US);
Nikhil Lele, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
NISSAN NORTH AMERICA, INC., Franklin, TN (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for associating parking areas with destinations may include a vehicle identifying transportation network information including a primary destination and parking area information representing a plurality of parking areas, such that the parking area information includes automatically generated parking area association information describing an association between at least one parking area and the primary destination. The vehicle may determine a target parking area from the plurality of parking areas for the primary destination based on the transportation network information, and identify a route from an origin to the target parking area in the vehicle transportation network using the transportation network information. The vehicle may include a trajectory controller configured to operate the vehicle to travel from the origin to the target parking area using the route.