An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller determines, based on a preference of a user of a vehicle that enters a parking lot adjacent to a complex facility having a plurality of shops and a plurality of facility entrances, a shop to be used by the user from among the plurality of shops. The controller determines an entrance to be used by the user from among the plurality of facility entrances based on a position of the shop to be used, and outputs a position of the entrance to be used to the vehicle.

Route planning for a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) includes obtaining a route between an origin and a destination, where the route is optimized for at least one of a noise level or energy consumption of an engine of the HEV that is used to charge a battery of the HEV, and where the route comprises respective engine activation actions for at least some segments of the route; and controlling the HEV to follow the segments of the route and to activate the engine according to the respective engine activation actions.

A vehicle includes: a communication device configured to obtain traffic information from a server; an input device configured to receive departure information and destination information from a user; a display device; a storage configured to store driving record information; and a controller configured to obtain movement route information by searching for at least one movement route based on the departure information and the destination information, calculate a congestion level of the movement route based on the movement route information and the traffic information, if the congestion level is less than a predetermined reference value, determine a first urgency level in response to a destination based on at least one of the driving record information or the destination information, determine a final movement route based on the first urgency level, and display the final movement route on the display device.

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.

A controller determines a travel route from a starting position to a target position in a parking lot and transmits information on at least a section in the travel route to a vehicle, and a monitor monitors the vehicle for a deviation from the travel route during autonomous travel of the vehicle in the section by using a vehicle monitoring system outside the vehicle. When a deviation is detected in the monitoring, the controller determines a correction route for correcting the deviation, and transmits the correction route to the vehicle. When the controller determines that the vehicle cannot travel along the correction route, the controller determines an evacuation route with the current position of the vehicle set to the starting position and a predetermined location set to the target position, and transits the evacuation route to the vehicle such that the vehicle travels along the evacuation route.

An embodiment vehicle includes a user interface configured to guide a route to a destination and receive a user input and a controller configured to determine whether a highlight mark for a point of interest corresponding to the destination is set, control the user interface to display a pop-up message according to the determination result, receive the user input in response to the pop-up message, and set the highlight mark for the point of interest based on the user input.

Automated parking lot digital map generation and use thereof is disclosed. Imagery of a parking lot is received from a video camera, the imagery depicting lines that define a plurality of parking spots. A parking lot digital map comprising data that defines a location and dimensions of each parking spot is generated.

The parking lot digital map is stored in a memory.

An in-vehicle processing apparatus that executes control of causing a vehicle to perform automated traveling from a predetermined position to a parking space and causing the vehicle to perform automated entry into the parking space, is configured to include a notification control section that causes a portable electronic device carried by a user to display a parking position notification display in which a position of the parking space entered by the vehicle through the automated entry and the predetermined position are superimposed on an image.

An embodiment method of controlling a vehicle including receiving a schedule including an appointment time and an appointment place, selecting a guide route having the appointment place as a destination, and changing the schedule or the guide route based on whether the appointment place is reachable within the appointment time, whether the appointment place is changeable, or a vehicle driving condition.

The present invention aims at obtaining an in-vehicle processing apparatus for automatically selecting modes. An in-vehicle processing apparatus 120 according to the present invention includes a mode switching unit 121D that makes a transition, based on latitude-longitude positioning information of a vehicle, between: a map storage mode 202 to acquire and store point group data in a storage unit when a vehicle 1 approaches a preset registered spot and point group data of surroundings of the vehicle is not stored in the storage unit 124; and a position estimation mode 203 to have a position estimation unit 121C estimate a position of the vehicle when the vehicle approaches the registered spot and the point group data of surroundings of the vehicle is stored in the storage unit.