An information processing device 100 according to the present disclosure includes a reception unit 133 that receives private map information including a private land area and a generation unit 134 that generates connection map information in which the private map information and public road map information are connected to each other, based on a reference point, the public road map information including information regarding a public road, and the reference point indicating a common position between the private map information received by the reception unit 133 and the public road map information.

Contemporary navigation systems are often tasked with routing a vehicle to a destination, but are poorly equipped to assist with finding a vacancy of a parking opportunity in which the vehicle may be parked. Static information, such as enumeration of parking garages and curbside parking meters, may be frustrating if such parking opportunities have no vacancies. The determination of vacancies with certainty may be difficult to achieve due to the characteristic volatility of parking, in which vacancies may be taken in seconds. Presented herein are navigation device configurations involving probabilistic evaluation of parking routes in a vicinity of a destination that may be generated and compared, optionally weighted by various factors, to identify a parking route with parking opportunities that collectively present a high probability of vacancy as compared with other parking routes, which may be presented to the user and/or appended to a current route of an autonomous vehicle.

A mobile apparatus receives a route response including information identifying a starting location and a target location of a route and an encoding data structure encoding the route. The encoding data structure is a probabilistic data structure configured to not provide false negatives. The mobile apparatus uses the information identifying the starting and target locations to identify a decoded origin traversable map element (TME) and a decoded target TME of the mobile version of the digital map for the route; accesses map information for determining a cost value for TMEs of the digital map, wherein a TME that satisfies the encoding data structure is assigned a minimal cost value; determines a decoded route from the decoded starting TME to the decoded target TME based on the cost value assigned to the TMEs using a cost minimization route determination algorithm; and performs at least one navigation function using the decoded route.

A navigation device for guiding a moving body to a destination is provided. The navigation device includes: a position detecting unit configured to detect a position of the moving body; a first determining unit configured to determine whether or not the moving body has arrived at the destination based on the position detected by the position detecting unit; a second determining unit configured to determine whether or not the destination can be entered when it is determined that the moving body has arrived at the destination; and a destination setting unit configured to choose an alternate destination when it is determined by the second determining unit that the destination cannot be entered.

Signals usable to determine a path of a vehicle towards a particular stopping point in a vicinity of a destination are detected from an individual authorized to provide guidance with respect to movements of the vehicle. Based at least in part on the signals and a data set pertaining to the external environment of the vehicle, one or more vehicular movements to be implemented to proceed along the path are identified. A directive is transmitted to a motion control subsystem of the vehicle to initiate one of the vehicular movements.

A method can be used for adaptive parking of a vehicle. A parking area is determined around a programmed destination of the vehicle. The parking area has more than one available parking spot for the vehicle. Parking data is acquired via a wireless communication network. The parking data for each parked vehicle includes a parking position and an individual sensing coverage of an environment sensor system of the respective parked vehicle scanning the traffic environment within the parking area. Available parking spots are ranked based on a calculated overall sensing coverage and a recommended parking spot is determined among the available parking spots based on overall sensing coverage of the traffic environment in the parking area.

An information processing device includes one or more processors configured to: acquire an indoor distance and an outdoor distance of a transfer route from each of a plurality of parking lots as recommendation candidates to a specific location; acquire weather information on weather around the specific location; calculate an evaluation value based on the indoor distance and the outdoor distance for each of the parking lots, the evaluation value being a value varying depending on the weather information; and generate recommendation information for a parking lot based on the evaluation value.

An information processing device includes a processor. The processor is configured to: determine a select tendency of a user in selecting a facility, based on a history of the user's designations of the facility that belongs to a predetermined category; determine whether the positions of a plurality of facilities are concentrated on a map; and select, when the positions of the facilities are concentrated on the map, a Point-of-Interest icon to be displayed as a representative in accordance with the select tendency, from among Point-of-Interest icons for the facilities.

A navigation method, an electronic device, and a storage medium, which are related to a field of artificial intelligence, such as depth learning, maps, and navigation. The specific implementation scheme includes: obtaining a parking space located in an indoor parking lot in response to an operation acquired based on a map application, generating an indoor-outdoor navigation route in the map application by taking the parking space as a destination address in the indoor-outdoor navigation route, and navigating a vehicle driven by a user to the parking space according to the indoor-outdoor navigation route.

A method for guiding a vehicle occupant to an available vehicle parking. The method includes determining a location of a first vehicle parking area in relation to a location of the vehicle; obtaining a first vehicle parking status data of the first vehicle parking area; determining a location of a second vehicle parking area in relation to the location of the vehicle; obtaining a second vehicle parking status data of the second vehicle parking area; and determining a recommended vehicle parking area out of the first vehicle parking area or the second vehicle parking area based on the location of the first vehicle parking area and the first vehicle parking status data, and the second location of the second vehicle parking area and the second vehicle parking status data.