Patent ID: 11881107
Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 8:
9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions for improving identification of available parking spaces and that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
responsive to acquiring sensor data about a surrounding environment including at least one parked vehicle, extract a feature from at least an image in the sensor data about a context of the parked vehicle;
analyze the feature to determine a status of the parked vehicle in relation to whether the parked vehicle is remaining parked, including instructions to analyze the feature for whether the feature is an object proximate to the parked vehicle, an action of a person proximate to the parked vehicle, and a characteristic of the parked vehicle, wherein the action includes placing an item into the parked vehicle or removing an item from the vehicle; and
provide the status to inform additional vehicles about an availability of a parking spot of the parked vehicle.