GUIDANCE SYSTEM IN PARKING LOT, GUIDANCE DEVICE ON PARKING LOT SIDE, GUIDANCE DEVICE ON CAR SIDE AND GUIDANCE METHOD IN PARKING LOT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To appropriately display a map information image of the inside of a parking lot and a guidance route to vacant parking places, to an exit, etc., by superimposing thereon on an on-vehicle display, especially in a multilevel parking lot and a large scale plane parking lot.;SOLUTION: A guide device on a car side receives overall information by a DSRC27 at an entrance 12, and also receives divided images 28n, a divided section view 30n, etc., regarding divided parking lot areas 10n of the corresponding-parking lot 10 at the entrance 12 and each communication unit 14. The overall information is necessary for connecting each divided image and each divided section view in searching the guidance route of the parking lot 10 as a whole, and appropriately includes the information of vacant squares and an exit square. The guide device searches a guide route from a current place square to the vacant squares or exit square, on the basis of the received information. A display displays an image in which the guide route is superimposed on the divided image in the divided parking lot area to which a current place belongs.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT