INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM

• US 20190331498A1
• Filed: 11/28/2017
• Published: 10/31/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: KAMADA, Takahiro
• Granted Patent: US 11,371,853 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3685 the POI's being parking facilities
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3841 Data obtained from two or more sources, e.g. probe vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/00 Traffic control systems for road vehicles arrangement of road signs or traffic signals E01F9/00 ; automatic vehicle control B62D
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/01 Detecting movement of traffic to be counted or controlled G08G1/07 - G08G1/14 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0112 from the vehicle, e.g. floating car data [FCD]
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0129 for creating historical data or processing based on historical data
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0133 for classifying traffic situation
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0141 for traffic information dissemination
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096811 where the route is computed offboard
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/143 inside the vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/147 where the parking area is within an open public zone, e.g. city centre

Abstract

The parking lot area is estimated based on the information acquired by driving vehicles. The information processing device acquires position information including a parking position from a movable body, and estimates parking lot information related to a parking lot existing in an out-of-road area based on the position information of plural movable bodies entered the out-of-road area. By analyzing movements and/or parking positions of the movable bodies in the out-of-road area, information related to the parking lot can be estimated.

Claims

1-10. -10. (canceled)

11. An information processing device comprising:

an acquirement unit configured to acquire position information including a parking position from a movable body; and

an estimation unit configured to estimate parking lot information related to a parking lot existing in an out-of-road area based on the position information of plural movable bodies entered the out-of-road area.

12. The information processing device according to claim 11, wherein the estimation unit estimates a whole area of the parking lot based on the parking positions of the plural movable bodies.

13. The information processing device according to claim 11, wherein the estimation unit estimates a parking area and a running area in the parking lot based on the position information of the movable body after entering the out-of-road area until parking.

14. The information processing device according to claim 11, wherein the estimation unit estimates the parking position of high utilization rate based on density of the parking positions.

15. The information processing device according to claim 11, wherein the estimation unit estimates the parking position of high utilization rate based on parking time of the movable bodies.

16. The information processing device according to claim 11, further comprising a storage unit configured to store the parking lot information,

wherein the estimation unit estimates the parking lot information based on the position information recently acquired in a predetermined time period or from a predetermined number of the movable bodies, and compares the estimated parking lot information with past parking lot information stored in the storage unit to detect a difference.

17. The information processing device according to claim 11, further comprising an output unit configured to output the parking lot information to an outside,

wherein the parking lot information includes caution information related to the parking lot.

18. An information processing method executed by an information processing device, comprising:

an acquirement process of acquiring position information including a parking position from a movable body; and

an estimation process of estimating parking lot information related to a parking lot existing in an out-of-road area based on the position information of plural movable bodies entered the out-of-road area.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program executed by an information processing device comprising a computer, the program causing the computer to function as:

an acquirement unit configured to acquire position information including a parking position from a movable body; and

an estimation unit configured to estimate parking lot information related to a parking lot existing in an out-of-road area based on the position information of plural movable bodies entered the out-of-road area.