Automatic parking management apparatus
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorIssei Matsunaga
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Abstract
An automatic parking management apparatus is applied to a parking lot that allows an automatic parking control of automatically parking a vehicle, which is stopped at a start position, into a parking space. The automatic parking management apparatus is provided with: a determinator configured to determine whether or not the vehicle is stopped in a predetermined range for defining the start position, when the automatic parking control is intended to be started; and an instructor configured to output an instruction to move into the predetermined range, to the vehicle, if it is determined that the vehicle is not stopped in the predetermined range.
Claims6
An automatic parking management apparatus, which is applied to a parking lot and performing an automatic parking control to automatically park a vehicle, which is stopped at a start position where a camera is placed in the parking lot configured to image, into a parking space, said automatic parking management apparatus configured to:
- determine whether or not the vehicle is stopped in the start position, when the automatic parking control is intended to be started;
- determine whether or not the vehicle is stopped in an angle of view of the camera;
- output an instruction to move the vehicle into the start position by automatic travel, if it is determined that the vehicle is not stopped at the start position, and the vehicle is stopped in the angle of view of the camera, when the automatic parking control is intended to be started;
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- cause the vehicle to move into the start position by automatic travel if it is determined that the vehicle is not stopped at the start position, and the vehicle is stopped in the angle of view of the camera, when the automatic parking control is intended to be started.
An automatic parking management apparatus, which is applied to a parking lot and performing an automatic parking control to automatically park a vehicle, which is stopped at a start position where a camera is placed in the parking lot configured to image, into a parking space, said automatic parking management apparatus configured to:
- determine whether or not the vehicle is stopped in an angle of view of the camera when the automatic parking control is intended to be started;
- output an instruction to move the vehicle into the start position by manual travel, if it is determined that the vehicle is not stopped in the angle of view of the camera, when the automatic parking control is intended to be started;
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- cause the vehicle to move into the start position by automatic travel if it is determined that the vehicle is not stopped at the start position, and the vehicle is stopped in the angle of view of the camera, when the automatic parking control is intended to be started.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.