VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20190308616A1
• Filed: 06/10/2019
• Published: 10/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Jie, Zongchang, Chen, Menglin
• Granted Patent: US 11,225,246 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/06 including control of combustion engines
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2400/00 Indexing codes relating to detected, measured or calculated conditions or factors
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2420/403 Image sensing, e.g. optical camera
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2554/00 Input parameters relating to objects
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/06 Automatic manoeuvring for parking
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/0097 Predicting future conditions
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 15/0285 Parking performed automatically
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/56 exterior to a vehicle by using sensors mounted on the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/586 of parking space
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/161 Detection; Localisation; Normalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/14 indicating individual free spaces in parking areas
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/143 inside the vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/146 where the parking area is a limited parking space, e.g. parking garage, restricted space

Abstract

A vehicle control method can include enabling a temporary parking mode of a first vehicle parked at a first temporary parking location, in which a first detection sensor of the first vehicle is in an enabled mode. A trigger feature within a preset range of the first vehicle can be detected based on the first detection sensor. The trigger feature can indicate occurrence of an event associated with a second vehicle or a human appears within the preset range. The first vehicle can be moved to a second parking location in the parking area.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

enabling a temporary parking mode of a first vehicle parked at a first temporary parking location, in which a first detection sensor of the first vehicle is in an enabled mode;

detecting a trigger feature based on the first detection sensor, the trigger feature indicating occurrence of an event associated with a second vehicle or a human appears within a preset range of the first vehicle; and

moving the first vehicle to a second parking location in the parking area in response to the detected trigger feature.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the enabling the temporary mode comprises:

changing an active mode of an engine of the first vehicle to a sleep mode.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

enabling an autonomous driving mode of the first vehicle when the trigger feature is detected.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

detecting, when the first vehicle arrives at a parking lot, whether there is a vacant vehicle parking space in the parking lot;

obtaining vacant places in the parking lot, when no vacant vehicle parking space is detected in the parking lot; and

selecting, according to a size of the first vehicle, the first temporary parking location from the vacant places.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the trigger feature is at least one of:

a startup of the second vehicle within the preset range;

movement of the second vehicle that is approaching the first vehicle within the preset range;

or

a flashing light of the second vehicle within the preset range.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the moving the first vehicle comprises:

determining whether the first vehicle is on a driving path of the second vehicle; and

determining the second parking location based on a size of the second vehicle, a width of the first vehicle, and a width of the driving path.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

predicting a movement path of the second vehicle according to a flashing light of the second vehicle, the flashing light corresponding to a turn signal of the second vehicle,

wherein the moving the first vehicle includes moving the first vehicle according to the movement path to avoid the second vehicle.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

detecting whether there is a vacant vehicle parking space in the parking lot;

when the vacant vehicle parking space is detected,

planning a path from a current location of the first vehicle to the vacant vehicle parking space, and

moving the first vehicle to the vacant vehicle parking space according to the path; and

when no vacant vehicle parking space is detected,

re-entering the temporary parking mode of the first vehicle.

9. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

outputting a notification that the first vehicle is capable of moving away autonomously in response to the trigger feature, when a person is detected within the preset range.

10. The method according to claim 6, further comprising:

capturing an image of a current environment of the first vehicle; and

determining whether the first vehicle blocks the driving path of the second vehicle based on the captured image.

11. The method according to claim 6, further comprising:

determining a width of a vacant space around the first vehicle; and

determining, according to a width of the second vehicle and the width of the vacant space around the first vehicle, whether the first vehicle blocks the driving path of the second vehicle.

12. The method according to claim 8, wherein the detecting whether there is the vacant vehicle parking space in the parking lot comprises:

capturing an image of a current environment of the first vehicle; and

determining whether there is a feature of the vacant vehicle parking space in the current environment based on the captured image.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the detecting whether there is the vacant vehicle parking place in the parking lot further comprises:

detecting whether there is an obstacle in the vacant vehicle parking space, when the feature of the vacant vehicle parking place is determined to be in the current environment.

14. The method according to claim 8, wherein the detecting whether there is the vacant vehicle parking space in the parking lot comprises:

determining whether a vehicle has left the parking area based on an image of an exit of the parking lot

15. The method according to claim 8, wherein the planning the path from the current location of the first vehicle to the vacant vehicle parking space comprises:

sending an identifier of the vacant vehicle parking space and the current location of the first vehicle to a server, so that the server plans the path from the first vehicle to the vacant vehicle parking space; and

receiving the path from the server.

16. The method according to claim 1, wherein the detecting the trigger feature comprises:

enabling a second detection sensor, when an object approaching the first vehicle is detected by using the first detection sensor; and

detecting movement or a biological feature of the object by using the second detection sensor.

17. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

sending, when an abnormal condition in the first vehicle is detected, a notification message indicating the abnormal condition to a terminal device associated with the first vehicle.

18. An apparatus, comprising:

processing circuitry configured to

enable a temporary parking mode of a first vehicle parked at a first temporary parking location, in which a first detection sensor of the first vehicle is in an enabled mode;

detect a trigger feature within a preset range of the first vehicle based on the first detection sensor, the trigger feature indicating occurrence of an event associated with a second vehicle or a human appears within the preset range; and

move the first vehicle to a second parking location in the parking area.

19. The apparatus according to claim 18, wherein the trigger feature is at least one of:

a startup of the second vehicle within the preset range;

movement of the second vehicle that is approaching the first vehicle within the preset range;

or

a flashing light of the second vehicle within the preset range.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program executable by a processor to perform a method, the method comprising:

enabling a temporary parking mode of a first vehicle parked at a first temporary parking location, in which a first detection sensor of the first vehicle is in an enabled mode;

detecting a trigger feature within a preset range of the first vehicle based on the first detection sensor, the trigger feature indicating occurrence of an event associated with a second vehicle or a human appears within the preset range; and

moving the first vehicle to a second parking location in the parking area.