A device for searching a parking space includes at least one space detection sensor mounted on a vehicle, and a controller that analyzes sensed information obtained through the space detection sensor to recognize space and object information within a parking lot, predicts a distribution of available parking spaces in the parking lot based on the recognized space and object information, and determines an optimal available parking space based on the distribution of the available parking spaces and characteristics of a driver.

A method includes receiving a request from a requesting vehicle to locate a parking spot having capacity to receive solar power, determining a parking location having the capacity to receive solar power, based on a location of the requesting vehicle, the request, and a parking map that indicates an expected charging rate at each of a plurality of parking locations, and transmitting the determined parking location to the requesting vehicle.

A method for displaying points of interest on a digital map on a display, each point of interest being assigned at least one category and the space in front of the display being segmented into spatial regions where each spatial region is assigned a category. The method includes detecting the position of a hand of a user or part of the hand of the user by sensors, more particularly by cameras, identifying the spatial region in which the position of the hand or the part of the hand lies, identifying the category assigned to the identified spatial region, and displaying or highlighting the points of interest that have been assigned to the identified category.

A method includes: selecting a set of access points in a focus zone that identifies an area around the travel destination; determining access paths through one or more access points in the set of selected access points; listing crossings that the access paths pass through; for each of the listed crossings: determining a probability that the listed crossing is passed through by an access path; determining at least one complexity score of the listed crossing; determining a set of points of interest (POIs) along access paths passing through the listed crossing; and determining quality scores for the POIs, respectively, the quality score of one of the POIs reflecting a utility of that one of the POIs to facilitate orientation; selecting POIs from the set of POIs based on the quality scores; generating the access map including the access paths and the selected POIs; and outputting the access map.

The invention relates to a vehicle positioning method and system for a fixed parking scenario. The method includes: a map obtaining step of obtaining, by a vehicle, a parking scenario map from a cloud according to a preset trigger condition; a first positioning step of obtaining first geographical position information of the vehicle based on a first marker in a fixed parking scenario, and matching the first geographic position information with the parking scenario map, so as to obtain a first vehicle pose of the vehicle in the parking scenario map; and a second positioning step of obtaining second geographical position information of the vehicle based on a second marker in the fixed parking scenario, and matching the second geographical position information with the parking scenario map, so as to obtain a second vehicle pose of the vehicle in the parking scenario map. According to the invention, planar and spatial positioning of the vehicle can be implemented, and accurate positioning and accurate navigation in a fixed parking scenario can be implemented.

A method and an apparatus for road guidance are provided. The method includes: acquiring driving data and navigation data of a vehicle; determining a road guidance type of the vehicle based on the driving data and the navigation data, and generating road guidance data corresponding to the road guidance type; and performing 3D rendering on the road guidance data, and visually displaying the road guidance data in an image collected by the vehicle for road guidance.

The disclosed technology provides solutions for facilitating the selection of a parking space by a user of a parking application. A process of the disclosed technology can include steps for monitoring sensor data and location data associated with a user device, retrieving, based on the location data associated with a user device, listing data associated with one or more parking spaces in a vicinity of the user device, and capturing image data that includes at least a portion of the one or more parking spaces. In some aspects, the process may further include steps for overlaying one or more graphical objects onto the image data, wherein the one or more graphical objects are based on the listing data associated with the one or more parking spaces. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.

A system for providing information to navigate to a parking space preferred by an operator of a vehicle can include a processor and a memory. The memory can store a preliminary operations module and a communications module. The preliminary operations module can include instructions that cause the processor to obtain, for the operator: (1) a first model for a first duration between a commencement of a parking space identification process and a first threshold and (2) a second model for a second duration between the first threshold and a second threshold. The communications module can include instructions that cause the processor to communicate, to a component of the vehicle for an action, information to navigate to the parking space. The parking space can be identified, in response to a current time being within: (1) the first duration, by the first model and (2) the second duration, by the second model.

A vehicular parking system includes vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication system disposed at a first vehicle. The vehicular parking system, as the first vehicle navigates a parking facility in search of an available parking space, receives a parking space availability communication via the V2V communication system. The parking space availability communication originates from a second vehicle that is also navigating the parking facility. The parking space availability communication indicates multiple available parking spaces within the parking facility and the multiple available parking spaces are determined by the second vehicle as the second vehicle navigates the parking facility and passes available parking spaces. The vehicular parking system, responsive to receiving the parking space availability communication, reserves one of the multiple available parking spaces of the parking space availability communication for the first vehicle.

A method executed by an information processing device includes acquiring a score indicating a driving skill of a user who drives a vehicle and executing traffic assistance processing based on the score at the time when the vehicle is parked. An information processing device comprises a controller that acquires a score indicating a driving skill of a user who drives a vehicle, and executes traffic assistance processing based on the score, at a time when the vehicle is parked. A non-transitory storage medium stores instructions that are executable by one or more processors and causes the one or more processors to acquire a score indicating a driving skill of a user who drives a vehicle, and execute traffic assistance processing based on the score, at a time when the vehicle is parked.