Abstract: Provided is an automated valet parking system that automatically moves an autonomous driving vehicle to a pick-up space of a parking place by issuing an instruction to the autonomous driving vehicle parked in the parking place according to a pick-up request from a user. The system includes a user position determination unit configured to determine whether or not a user frontend of the user is located in a preset pick-up area or a preset near-pick-up area including the pick-up space, a pick-up request reception unit configured to receive the pick-up request when the user position determination unit determines that the user frontend is located in the pick-up area or the near-pick-up area, and a vehicle instruction unit configured to instruct the autonomous driving vehicle that is a target of the pick-up request to move to the pick-up space when the pick-up request reception unit receives the pick-up request.

Abstract: Provided is an automated valet parking system that automatically moves an autonomous driving vehicle to a pick-up space of a parking place by issuing an instruction to the autonomous driving vehicle parked in the parking place according to a pick-up request from a user. The system includes a user position determination unit configured to determine whether or not a user frontend of the user is located in a preset pick-up area or a preset near-pick-up area including the pick-up space, a pick-up request reception unit configured to receive the pick-up request when the user position determination unit determines that the user frontend is located in the pick-up area or the near-pick-up area, and a vehicle instruction unit configured to instruct the autonomous driving vehicle that is a target of the pick-up request to move to the pick-up space when the pick-up request reception unit receives the pick-up request.

Abstract: A vehicle identification method for identifying a target vehicle includes the following first to sixth steps. The first step is, in a management system, generating information indicating a second action from information indicating a first action using a first key. The second step is transmitting the information indicating the second action from the management system to the target vehicle. The third step is, in the target vehicle, restoring the information indicating the first action from the information indicating the second action using a second key. The fourth step is causing the target vehicle to perform the first action. The fifth step is, in the management system, detecting an action performed by a vehicle. The sixth step is, in the management system, identifying the vehicle performing the first action as the target vehicle and not identifying the vehicle performing the second action as the target vehicle.

Abstract: A management system includes a management server capable of wirelessly communicating with a vehicle in a parking lot, and an alarm provided on or near the vehicle and configured to emit sound or light or both in response to an instruction from the management server. The management server executes control for operating the alarm corresponding to the vehicle when detecting occurrence of an event requiring confirmation of a state of the vehicle via wireless communication with the vehicle.

Abstract: The identification system includes a vehicle and an infrastructure device installed in a predetermined area. A first device that is one of the vehicle and the infrastructure device includes an output device configured to output an electromagnetic wave or a sound wave that is not for wireless communication. The second device that is another of the vehicle and the infrastructure device, includes a receiving device configured to receive the electromagnetic wave or the sound wave output from the output device of the first device. The first device is configured to output the electromagnetic wave or the sound wave modulated to indicate an identification code of the first device from the output device. The second device is configured to identify the first device based on the identification code indicated by the electromagnetic wave or the sound wave received via the receiving device.

Abstract: In a system, a parallel-parking number that is the number of the parking spaces aligned in the parallel-parking direction is acquired for each parking area. A vacancy number that is the number of vacant parking spaces is acquired for each parking area. Based on the parallel-parking number, a vacancy number threshold value is calculated that is a threshold value of the vacancy number for calculating a priority of each parking area, in one of which an automated-parking-target vehicle is to be parked. The priorities are calculated such that the priority of a parking area with the vacancy number equal to or larger than the vacancy number threshold value is higher than the priority of a parking area with the vacancy number smaller than the vacancy number threshold value. The automated-parking-target vehicle is caused to park preferentially in a parking space in the parking area with the higher priority.

Abstract: An automated valet parking system enables a plurality of charging parking frames in a parking place to be utilized and reduces inconvenience to an EV user using an automated valet parking service. The management device acquires a vehicle usage schedule and a remaining charge amount of each EV and determines a parking frame usage schedule of a charging parking frame. Specifically, with respect to an EV scheduled to be used on the next day, the management device assigns a charging parking frame closer to the departure/arrival place to an EV having earlier use start time on the next day. With respect to an EV not scheduled to be used on the next day and an EV whose usage schedule is unknown, the management device assigns a charging parking frame farther from the departure/arrival place to an EV with smaller remaining charge amount.

Abstract: An automated valet parking (AVP) management system manages an AVP service delivered in a predetermined area. A pick-up or drop-off point is away from a parking facility in which a vehicle is parked. When it is not possible to deliver the AVP service to a user in accordance with a user request, notification information is delivered to the user. The notification information includes at least one of: a congestion situation on a route from a current position of the vehicle to a specified pick-up or drop-off point; a congestion situation at the specified pick-up or drop-off point; a waiting time for the user to get on or off the vehicle at the specified pick-up or drop-off point; a recommended time of day of use at the specified pick-up or drop-off point; and a substitute pick-up or drop-off point being a substitute for the specified pick-up or drop-off point.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a hybrid vehicle control system for controlling a vehicle having a motor and an engine. The system executes the following processes. The first process is determining whether a situation which the vehicle is currently facing is a situation in which high accuracy is required for control of driving of the vehicle or not. The second process is selecting only an EV mode under a situation in which high accuracy is required for the control. The third process is selecting an engine activation mode only under a situation in which high accuracy is not required for the control. The EV mode is a mode in which the engine is stopped and the vehicle is driven by the motor. The engine activation mode is a mode in which the engine is activated for at least one of power generation for charging a battery and driving the vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle unloading management device includes a processor. When an unload request for unloading a vehicle being loaded in an airport parking lot is received from a passenger of an airplane whose arrival destination is an airport, the processor sets a time period for performing automated unload of the passenger's vehicle. In the process of setting the time period, when at least two unload requests are received from at least two vehicles and time periods for performing automated unload of the at least two vehicles overlap, the processor predicts an arrival order at the airport parking lot of a passengers corresponding to the at least two unload requests with overlapping the time periods. And the processor determines an order for automated unload of the at least two vehicles according to the arrival order.

Abstract: The present disclosure proposes a system for managing movement of vehicles in a predetermined area including a parking lot, a pick-up and drop-off area, and a baggage delivery area. The system comprises one or more processors configured to execute a parking process of parking a vehicle stopping at the pick-up and drop-off area in the parking lot. The parking process includes the following first to third processes. The first process is checking whether or not there is a checked baggage scheduled to be collected from the vehicle at the baggage delivery area. The second process is moving the vehicle from the pick-up and drop-off area to the baggage delivery area when there is the checked baggage. The third process is parking the vehicle in the parking lot in response to the checked baggage being collected from the vehicle after the vehicle is moved to the baggage delivery area.

Abstract: An automated parking management device includes a storage device and a processor that performs an organization processing for organizing an automated parking location of a vehicle in a parking lot. In the organization processing, the processor calculates a degree of anti-theft necessity for a loaded vehicle and a load scheduled vehicle for each vehicle. The processor calculates a degree of theft resistance for each parking spot based on a map information of the parking lot, a location information of the loaded vehicle, and a location information of the load scheduled vehicle. The processor determines an automated parking location of the loaded vehicle and the load scheduled vehicle based on the degree of anti-theft necessity and degree of theft resistance such that a vehicle with a higher degree of anti-theft necessity is parked in the parking spot with a higher degree of theft resistance.

Abstract: A management device of an automated valet parking system predicts a usage schedule of an automated valet parking service used by a user from usage history information about a usage history of the automated valet parking service used by the user. Then, the management device determines a parking position of a vehicle of the user among multiple parking lots with reference to the predicted usage schedule.

Abstract: A vehicle is autonomously driven in an environment where a first road for vehicles running in a first direction and a second road for vehicles running in a second direction, different from the first direction, are provided alongside each other, and where a first parking space that is entered from the first road and exited to the first road is set and a second parking space that is entered from the second road and exited to the second road is set. When the vehicle is temporarily parked in the first parking space and a running direction of the vehicle heading for the next destination after being parked is the second direction, the vehicle is transferred from the first parking space to the second parking space by autonomous driving after a user of the vehicle gets out of the vehicle.

Abstract: Whether a vehicle is parked inside parking lines in a parking lot is detected. When the vehicle is detected not parked inside the parking lines, either the vehicle or the parking lines are moved in such a manner that the vehicle is parked inside the parking lines.

Abstract: Provided is an automated valet parking system that automatically moves an autonomous driving vehicle to a pick-up space of a parking place by issuing an instruction to the autonomous driving vehicle parked in the parking place according to a pick-up request from a user. The system includes a user position determination unit configured to determine whether or not a user frontend of the user is located in a preset pick-up area or a preset near-pick-up area including the pick-up space, a pick-up request reception unit configured to receive the pick-up request when the user position determination unit determines that the user frontend is located in the pick-up area or the near-pick-up area, and a vehicle instruction unit configured to instruct the autonomous driving vehicle that is a target of the pick-up request to move to the pick-up space when the pick-up request reception unit receives the pick-up request.

Abstract: Provided is a toner that expresses all of low-temperature fixability, transferability, and scratch resistance at high levels. The toner is a toner including a toner particle containing a binder resin, a wax, and an inorganic fine particle, wherein when an outflow start temperature measured with the toner is represented by T1 (° C.), the inorganic fine particle always has a thermal expansion coefficient of ?0.1×10?6 (/K) or less in a temperature range of from 30° C. or more to T1° C. or less, the thermal expansion coefficient being determined by X-ray diffraction and wherein a content of the wax is 3.0 mass % or more and 20.0 mass % or less with respect to a mass of the toner particle.

Abstract: Provided is an automated valet parking system that automatically moves an autonomous driving vehicle to a pick-up space of a parking place by issuing an instruction to the autonomous driving vehicle parked in the parking place according to a pick-up request from a user. The system includes a user position determination unit configured to determine whether or not a user frontend of the user is located in a preset pick-up area or a preset near-pick-up area including the pick-up space, a pick-up request reception unit configured to receive the pick-up request when the user position determination unit determines that the user frontend is located in the pick-up area or the near-pick-up area, and a vehicle instruction unit configured to instruct the autonomous driving vehicle that is a target of the pick-up request to move to the pick-up space when the pick-up request reception unit receives the pick-up request.

Abstract: A parking action notification device includes an information notification unit configured to give a notice of information to an exterior of a vehicle. The information notification unit displays parking information to the exterior of the vehicle, the parking information being relevant to a parking action of the vehicle when the vehicle performs automatic parking.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a toner including supplying powder particles containing a binder resin via a plurality of powder-particle supplying units to a treating chamber, the treating chamber having a cylindrical inner peripheral surface, heat treating the powder particles in the treating chamber by supplying hot air into the treating chamber, wherein a temperature of the hot air supplied into the treating chamber is 100.0° C. or higher and 200.0° C. or lower, and adjusting a humidity of the hot air so that a relative humidity of the hot air supplied into the treating chamber is 3.0% or more and 80.0% or less.