Patent ID: 11926313
Assignee: FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. An in-vehicle device comprising:
a processor and a memory,
wherein the memory includes an empty stall storing section storing information regarding a location of an empty stall determined by an empty stall determiner in association with a passing route of a vehicle,
wherein the processor includes
an entry determiner determining whether or not the vehicle enters a parking lot;
a location estimator estimating a current location of the vehicle;
a map generator sequentially obtaining the passing route, which is a route where the vehicle has passed from an entry of the parking lot to a getting-out location where an occupant gets out from the vehicle, by tracing the current location estimated by the location estimator while the vehicle is in the parking lot;
the empty stall determiner determining, based on sensing of surroundings by a sensor section provided in the vehicle, along the passing route, whether or not a parking stall present in surroundings of the vehicle is the empty stall;
a notification controller outputting a notification to the occupant regarding the getting-out location and the location of a target parking stall which is the empty stall where the vehicle is to be parked;
an automatic travel controller, based on the sensing of the surroundings by the sensor section, generating an automatic travel route which travels the vehicle along the passing route from the getting-out location, wherein the automatic travel controller controls the vehicle to travel along the automatic travel route, and when the vehicle reaches at a position where the vehicle starts performing a loading operation into the empty stall, the vehicle is loaded merely by a forward motion without a turning operation to perform a direction change from a reverse motion to the forward motion, and the automatic travel controller performs control to cause the vehicle to be parked; and
a target parking stall setting section setting a new target parking stall which is a new empty stall, when the vehicle reaches the target parking stall, another vehicle is already parked in the target parking stall, from among other empty stalls wherein the new empty stall has a distance to travel to which from the current location is the shortest or the new empty stall is determined to be an empty stall at the latest timing.