Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and system
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakaharu UENO, Kenichi YAMADA, Ryosuke KOBAYASHI, Shintaro MATSUTANI
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Abstract
A vehicle waiting to park is guided to a parking slot having a sign of movement of a parked vehicle. A controller is provided that performs: obtaining information for associating a parking slot in which a user has parked with the user; obtaining information about a sign of the user returning to the parking slot; and making another user waiting to park aware of a position of the parking slot when the user obtains the information about the sign of the user returning to the parking slot.
Claims20
An information processing apparatus including a controller configured to perform:
- obtaining information for associating a parking slot in which a user has parked with the user;
- obtaining information about a sign of the user returning to the parking slot;
- and
- making another user waiting to park aware of a position of the parking slot when the user obtains the information about the sign of the user returning to the parking slot.
An information processing method for causing a computer to perform:
- obtaining information for associating a parking slot in which a user has parked with the user;
- obtaining information about a sign of the user returning to the parking slot;
- and
- making another user waiting to park aware of a position of the parking slot when the user obtains the information about the sign of the user returning to the parking slot.
A system comprising:
- a first transmission unit configured to transmit a parking slot in which a user has parked and the user in association with each other;
- a second transmission unit configured to transmit information about a sign of the user returning to the parking slot;
- and
- a controller configured to make another user waiting to park aware of a position of the parking slot based on information received from the first transmission unit and the second transmission unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.