Information processing apparatus, information processing method and system
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYuko Mizuno, Misa Ejiri, Kazuyuki Kagawa, Yuta Oshiro, Katsuhito Kito
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Abstract
A controller of an information processing apparatus is programmed to obtain a size of a vehicle to be parked in a parking lot, obtain information of a current free space of the parking lot, secure from the current free space of the parking lot a parking space that the obtained size matches; and provide the vehicle with guidance information indicating the secured parking space for driving the vehicle.
Claims20
An information processing apparatus comprising a controller, wherein the controller performs:
- obtaining a size of a vehicle to be parked in a parking lot;
- obtaining information of a current free space of the parking lot;
- securing from the current free space of the parking lot a parking space that the obtained size matches;
- and
- providing the vehicle with guidance information for driving the vehicle to the secured parking space.
An information processing method executed by at least one computer, the information processing method comprising:
- obtaining a size of a vehicle to be parked in a parking lot;
- obtaining information of a current free space of the parking lot;
- securing a parking space in the current free space of the parking lot that the obtained size matches;
- and
- providing the vehicle with guidance information for driving the vehicle to the secured parking space.
A system comprising an input device and an information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising a controller, the controller executing:
- obtaining a size of a vehicle to be parked in a parking lot by the input device;
- obtaining information of a current free space of the parking lot;
- securing a parking space that the obtained size matches from the current free space of the parking lot;
- and
- providing the vehicle with guidance information for driving the vehicle the secured parking space.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.