JP2010176500A - Parking lot information providing system, server and navigation apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a parking lot information providing system, a server and a navigation apparatus by which parking lot information corresponding to a destination is provided to the navigation apparatus by estimating the position of a parking lot near the destination in the server on the basis of information transmitted to the server by the navigation apparatus. <P>SOLUTION: The navigation apparatus 1 includes a parking detection part 8 for detecting that a present vehicle is parked within a prescribed range from the destination, and a parking position information acquisition part 9 for acquiring the position information of a parking place at a time as parking position information near the destination. The server 21 includes a parking lot determination part 13 for considering that it is the parking lot corresponding to the destination, and a facility information database 16 for preserving the position information of the parking lot determined by the parking lot determination part 13 corresponding to the facility information. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a technology for providing parking information to a navigation device from a server that manages facility information, and in particular, builds parking information that has not been registered in the server based on information uploaded to the server by the navigation device. The present invention relates to a parking lot information providing system, a server, and a navigation device.

  In recent years, systems that provide various information from a server for information management to a navigation device using a network environment are known. According to this information providing system, even if a large amount of information is not stored in the storage means in the navigation device, it can be acquired from the server by making a distribution request to the server regarding the information desired by the user. is there.

  By the way, if a vehicle that has arrived at a destination according to the navigation device stays at the destination, a parking lot is indispensable. Therefore, the problem of whether there is a parking lot at the destination or whether a parking lot can be easily found near the destination is very important for the driver who is the user of the navigation device. Therefore, as one of information providing systems, a parking lot information providing system that provides parking lot information from a server to a navigation device has attracted attention.

  However, the parking lot information desired by the user is not always registered in advance in the server. In particular, in facilities such as small stores, the attached parking lot is often unregistered on the server. In this case, after the user arrives at the destination facility such as a store, the user has to bother to get off the vehicle and ask the facility clerk about the parking place.

  Moreover, in stores located in residential areas, etc., there are cases where the parking lot is far from the store or the route to the store may be turned back, so it is not uncommon to require a considerable amount of time to park. . For this reason, if there is a toll parking lot near the destination, it may be parked there, which would cause an unexpected expense.

  Therefore, as in Patent Document 1, a technology has been proposed in which a detection device is laid on a road surface of a road, information on parking is collected from the detection device to a server, and a parking space is specified by the server based on the collected information. ing.

Japanese Patent No. 3891490

  However, the above prior art has the following problems. That is, in Patent Document 1, in order to grasp and specify a parking space by a server, it is necessary to detect the presence of a vehicle by a detection device having a sensor by a pressure receiving element and send the detection result to the server by a wireless communication device. .

  Therefore, it is necessary to lay a detection device on the road surface and install wireless communication devices at predetermined intervals along the road. Although such a technique is effective in an urban area where the facility cost is high and the destination facilities are densely populated, it is difficult to realize in a region where the destination facilities are scattered. Therefore, conventionally, there has been a demand for a technique for acquiring parking information unregistered in a server using only a navigation device and a server having a communication function without using special equipment such as laying a detection device on a road surface.

  The present invention has been proposed in order to solve the above problems, and its purpose is to estimate the position of the parking lot near the destination at the server based on the information transmitted from the navigation device to the server. The object is to obtain a parking lot information providing system, a server, and a navigation device that provide parking information corresponding to a destination to a navigation device.

  In order to achieve the above object, the invention of claim 1 comprises a server that collectively manages facility information including parking lot information, and a navigation device that transmits and receives various types of information to and from the server. The parking lot information providing system configured to provide the parking lot information from the server to the navigation device has the following characteristics.

  The navigation device includes an information storage unit that stores the facility information and map information, a vehicle position detection unit that detects a vehicle position, a departure point setting unit that sets a departure point, and an arbitrary one on the map information. Destination setting means for setting a point as a destination, route search means for searching for a route from the departure point to the destination, and route guidance control means for controlling route guidance for the route searched by the route search means ,have.

  Further, as a characteristic part of the present invention, the navigation device includes a parking detection unit that detects that the host vehicle is parked within a predetermined range from the destination set by the destination setting unit, and the parking detection unit. And parking position information acquisition means for acquiring the position information of the place where the host vehicle is parked as parking position information near the destination based on the detection result of the own vehicle position detection means.

  The configuration of the server is as follows. That is, the server is configured to acquire parking position information near the destination from the navigation device side. When the number of acquisitions of the parking position information having the same content exceeds a predetermined number, the parking position information The parking lot judging means that regards the parking place indicated by the vehicle as the parking lot corresponding to the destination, and the parking position information of the parking place regarded as the parking lot by the parking lot judging means are stored as parking lot information. It is characterized by having an information storage means.

  The present invention as described above is a parking lot information providing system in which a server provides parking lot information to a navigation device, but the navigation device constituting the system not only downloads facility information from the server, Parking location information near the ground is uploaded to the server.

  For this reason, even if the parking lot information was not stored in the server at the beginning of the establishment of the parking lot information provision system, the parking location information near the destination uploaded to the server was used as a judgment material. The place can be regarded as a parking lot, and information on this parking lot can be stored.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the parking lot information providing system according to the first aspect, the navigation device detects that the own vehicle that has been detected as parked by the parking detection means has departed from the parking state. The server obtains detection results of the parking detection means and the departure detection means from the navigation device, and the parking lot determination means regards the parking lot as a parking lot based on these results. Parking is possible by calculating the maximum number of parking at the parking location and the number of parking at any time from the overlap of the parking situation date and time at the completed parking location, and calculating the number of parking available at the parking location from the difference between the two The present invention is characterized by comprising a number calculation means.

  In the second aspect of the invention, since the number of parking units calculating means calculates the remaining number of parking units in the parking lot in the server, this information is included in the parking lot information by the information transmitting / receiving unit, and the navigation apparatus acquires can do. Therefore, the user of the navigation device can know whether or not parking is possible in the parking lot before arriving at the parking lot, and does not waste time.

  The inventions of claims 3 to 7 relate to a facility information management server used in the parking lot information providing system according to claim 1 or 2. The invention of claim 3 is characterized by comprising reception count measuring means for measuring the number of receptions of the same parking position information for the parking position information near the destination acquired by the parking lot determination means. .

  In the server according to claim 3, since the reception frequency measuring means measures the reception frequency of the parking position information having the same content, the information transmitting / receiving means of the server sends information about the reception frequency to the navigation device. In consideration, parking information can be transmitted. For this reason, the user can estimate the size of the parking lot based on the number of receptions.

  The server according to claim 4, wherein the information storage unit stores information related to an event having a limited holding period in advance, and the parking lot determination unit is configured to store the object close to the parking position that is a determination target. When the place coincides with the event holding position, the parking lot corresponding to the destination is determined as a temporary parking lot.

  In the invention of claim 4, when the information storage means of the server stores the information of the event, when the parking position information near the destination is acquired, the original destination is the event holding position. If it matches, the parking lot determination means can determine a parking place regarded as a parking lot as a temporary parking lot. Thereby, determination according to the present condition is possible.

  In the invention of claim 5, the information storage means stores the location information of the paid parking lot as facility information in advance, and the parking lot determination means regards it as a parking lot corresponding to the destination. When the parking place matches the pay parking lot, the parking lot corresponding to the destination is determined as the pay parking lot.

  In the invention of claim 5 above, if the parking location information sent from the navigation device to the server matches the location information of the pay parking lot stored in the server, the parking lot judging means is regarded as a parking lot. The completed parking place is determined as a paid parking lot.

  Therefore, although the parking place regarded as the parking lot based on the information uploaded from the navigation device and the paid parking lot registered in the server in advance are the same, it is a separate parking lot. So you don't have to worry about confusing users.

  In a sixth aspect of the present invention, when it is determined by the parking lot determination means that there are a plurality of parking locations that are regarded as parking lots for one destination, a list of the parking locations is listed and a parking lot list is provided. It is characterized by comprising a parking lot list creating means for creating

  In the invention of claim 6 as described above, when the parking lot determining means determines that there are a plurality of the parking lots at the same destination, the parking lot list creating means obtains the position information of the parking place. You can make a list and create a parking lot list. Therefore, the information transmitting / receiving means can distribute the parking lot list together with the facility information to the navigation device. Therefore, the user can select a desired parking lot from the parking lot list, and usability is improved.

  Invention of Claim 7 is a navigation apparatus used for the parking lot information provision system of Claim 1 or 2, Comprising: It inquires about the parking lot of arbitrary facilities with respect to the said server, It is related with the parking lot of the said facility When the parking position information is acquired, the route search means is configured to search for a route from the departure place to the parking lot based on the parking lot information.

  In the navigation device according to the invention of claim 7, when inquiring about the parking lot of an arbitrary facility to the server, the route search means obtains the parking position information regarding the parking lot of the facility, and the route search means from the departure location to the destination The route to the parking lot corresponding to the destination is searched instead of searching the route to the destination. Therefore, the user can go directly to the parking lot corresponding to the destination instead of going to the parking lot after passing through the destination.

  As described above, according to the present invention, the location of the parking lot near the destination is estimated by the server based on the information transmitted from the navigation device to the server. A parking lot information providing system, a server, and a navigation device that provide parking lot information can be obtained.

  Hereinafter, an example of a typical embodiment according to the present invention will be specifically described with reference to FIGS. The present embodiment is a parking lot information providing system used in a network environment, and is a system that provides parking lot information to a navigation device from a server that manages facility information. FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram of the present embodiment, FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram of the present embodiment, and FIGS. 3 and 4 are flowcharts showing the operation of the present embodiment.

(1) Configuration of the present embodiment As shown in FIG. 1, the parking lot information providing system according to the present embodiment includes a navigation device 1 and a server 21 connected to a network N via a communication terminal 20. .

  Each of the navigation device 1 and the server 21 is provided with information transmission / reception units 2 and 12, and the information transmission / reception units 2 and 12 are connected to the network N by the communication terminal 20, whereby information is transmitted from the navigation device 1 to the server 21. Uploading is performed, and information is downloaded from the server 21 to the navigation device 1.

  Information that the information transmitting / receiving unit 2 on the navigation device 1 side uploads to the server 21 via the communication terminal 20 includes facility location information acquired by the facility location information acquisition unit 11 described later, and a parking position corresponding to this. There is parking position information acquired by the information acquisition unit 9. The information downloaded from the server 21 by the information transmission / reception unit 2 on the navigation device 1 side includes facility information including location information of neighboring parking lots.

[Configuration of Navigation Device 1]
The navigation device 1 is provided with an information storage unit 3, a destination setting unit 4, a vehicle position detection unit 5, a route search unit 6, and a route guidance control unit 7 as a basic configuration for realizing a navigation function. ing.

  Among these, the information storage unit 3 is a storage area that captures and stores facility information and map information sent from the server 21 side. The facility information includes facility name information, facility location information indicated by longitude and latitude coordinates, facility address, telephone number, and the like.

  The destination setting unit 4 is a part for setting an arbitrary point on the map information as a destination by a user operation. The own vehicle position detection unit 5 is a part that detects the own vehicle position based on GPS radio waves from GPS satellites, vehicle speed pulses from a vehicle speed sensor, and the like. The own vehicle position detection unit 5 also serves as a departure place setting unit, and the own vehicle position detected by the own vehicle position detection unit 5 is set as the departure place.

  The route search unit 6 uses the own vehicle position detected by the own vehicle position detection unit 5 as a departure point, and determines a route from this departure point to the destination set by the destination setting unit 4 as an information storage unit. 3 is a part to be searched based on the map information stored in 3. The route guidance control unit 7 is a part that performs route guidance for the route searched by the route search unit 6 by controlling image output and audio output.

  In addition, the navigation device 1 is provided with a parking detection unit 8, a parking position information acquisition unit 9, a departure detection unit 10, and a facility position information acquisition unit 11 as characteristic parts that contribute to the construction of a parking lot information providing system. ing. Among these, the parking detection unit 8 starts the engine of the host vehicle at a position within a predetermined range from the destination set by the destination setting unit 4, specifically, within a radius of 500 m centering on the destination. It is a part which detects that it turned into a parking state by turning off ACC power.

  The parking position information acquisition unit 9 is a part that acquires position information of the own vehicle position at the time when the parking detection unit 8 detects the parking state of the own vehicle as parking position information from the own vehicle position detection unit 5. The departure detection unit 10 is a part that detects that the ACC power supply of the host vehicle in the parked state is turned on and the engine is started at a position within a radius of 500 m centering on the destination.

  The facility location information acquisition unit 11 is a part that acquires location information of the facility from the information storage unit 3 when an arbitrary facility is set as the destination by the destination setting unit 4. Further, the information transmission / reception unit 2 transmits the facility position information acquired by the facility position information acquisition unit 11 and the parking position information acquired by the parking position information acquisition unit 9 to the server 21 in association with each other. Is to receive facility information distributed.

[Configuration of Server 21]
The server 21 collectively manages facility information including parking lot information. The information transmission / reception unit 12 in the server 21 receives from the information transmission / reception unit 2 of the navigation device 1 the location information of the facilities and parking places acquired by the parking position information acquisition unit 9 and the facility position information acquisition unit 11, and further the parking detection unit 8 and While receiving the detection result of the departure detection part 10, it is the part comprised so that the facility information containing the positional information on the parking lot of a facility near to the information transmission / reception part 2 of the navigation apparatus 1 might be delivered.

  Further, the server 21 is provided with a parking lot determination unit 13, a parkingable number calculation unit 14, a parking lot list creation unit 15, and a facility information database 16. The facility information database 16 includes the following three databases: a parking lot information database 17, an event information database 18, and a pay parking lot information database 19.

  Among these, the parking lot determination unit 13 is a main part of the present embodiment, and the facility location information indicates the parking location indicated by the parking location information based on the facility location information and the parking location information received by the information transmission / reception unit 12. It is a part considered as a parking lot located in the vicinity of the facility indicated by.

  More specifically, when there is a predetermined number or more of the same combination of facility position information and parking position information corresponding to each other among the facility position information and the parking position information received by the information transmitting / receiving unit 12, parking is performed. The parking lot determination unit 13 regards the parking place indicated by the parking position information as a parking lot located in the vicinity of the facility indicated by the facility position information.

  Here, assuming that the facility is a small restaurant and the parking lot of the facility has two parking spaces, the parking lot determination unit 13 regards the parking place as a parking lot. The number of acquisitions of the position information is set to 2 times.

  Specifically, when the navigation apparatus 1 performs route guidance with an arbitrary facility A as a destination, if there are positions B and C where the host vehicle is parked within a radius of 500 m centering on the facility A, the facility When the position information a of A and the position information b of the position B where the host vehicle is parked are acquired twice (when the information transmission / reception unit 12 receives the combination of the position information a and b twice), The parking lot determination unit 13 determines that the parking position B is a nearby parking lot of the facility A.

  Further, when the position where the host vehicle is parked is a position C different from the parking position B, the parking position C is within a radius of 500 m centering on the facility A, and the position information a of the facility A and the parking position If the location information c of C is acquired twice (if the information transmission / reception unit 12 receives the combination of location information a and c twice), the parking lot determination unit 13 is also in the vicinity of the facility A for the parking location C. Consider it as a parking lot.

  As described above, for the same facility A, the parking lot determination unit 13 determines the parking position B associated with the facility position information a and the other parking position C from the navigation device 1 side. If it acquires more than once, it will determine with multiple parking lots existing.

  Moreover, the parking lot determination part 13 is a part which determines whether the parking place which parking position information shows is a temporary parking lot, and also whether it is a pay parking lot. Whether it is a temporary parking lot is determined based on the event information in the event information database 18, and whether it is a paid parking lot is determined based on the paid parking information in the paid parking information database 19.

  The number-of-parking-number calculating unit 14 acquires the detection results of the parking detection unit 8 and the departure detection unit 10 of the navigation device 1, and based on these results, the parking lot determination unit 13 considers the parking lot as a parking lot. This is a part for obtaining the maximum number of parked vehicles at the parking location and the number of parked vehicles at an arbitrary point of time from the overlap of the date and time of the parking situation, and further calculating the number of cars that can be parked at this parking location from the difference between them.

  When the parking lot determination unit 13 determines that there are a plurality of parking lots corresponding to the same facility, the parking lot list creation unit 15 creates a parking lot list by listing the location information of the parking places. It is configured.

  Of the databases included in the facility information database 16, the parking lot information database 17 is a part that stores location information in the parking lot in association with the facility information based on the determination result of the parking lot determination unit 13.

  Further, the event information database 18 is a part for storing information on events having a limited holding period, and the event information includes the holding period and the location information of the event facility, the fee if charged, and the like. Further, the pay parking information database 19 is a part for storing pay parking information, and stores position information, fees, business hours, and the like.

(2) Control process of this embodiment The control process in this embodiment as mentioned above is demonstrated with reference to the conceptual diagram of FIG. 2, and the flowchart of FIG. 3, FIG. The present embodiment is a system in which the server 21 provides the parking lot information 1 to the navigation device 1, but the server 21 collects information for constructing the parking lot information from the navigation device 1 as the previous stage. Furthermore, in the server 21, it is determined whether the parking place indicating the parking lot information is a parking lot adjacent to any facility based on the collected information, so that the server 21 acquires the parking lot information. ing.

  In the conceptual diagram shown in FIG. 2, it shows about the motion of the vehicle carrying the navigation apparatus 1 which bears the information collection for constructing | assembling this parking lot information. That is, the vehicle V sets a destination and departs and arrives at the destination. However, because there is no parking lot at the destination, ask the person at the destination facility for the parking location, or rely on information such as signboards, to the parking lot near the destination (within 500m from the destination) Suppose you arrive. Here, the parking state of the host vehicle is detected by turning off the engine and turning off the ACC power, and the host vehicle position information of the parking place is transmitted to the server 21 as the parking position information.

[Navigation device 1 side]
From the information collection in the navigation device 1 to the transmission of the parking position information to the server 21 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. That is, like the normal navigation device 1, the navigation device 1 according to the present invention also sets the own vehicle position detected by the own vehicle position detection unit 5 as the departure place (S101), and the destination setting unit 4 arbitrarily Is set as a destination (S102), the route search unit 6 searches for a route from the departure point to the destination (S103), and the route guidance control unit 7 performs the route guidance searched (S104). ).

  It is assumed that after the host vehicle arrives at the destination according to the route guidance by the route guidance control unit 7, the user searches for a parking lot and finds a parking lot near the destination. At this time, it is confirmed whether or not the vehicle is parked within a range of 500 m from the destination facility (S105).

  And if the parking detection part 8 detects that the own vehicle was in a parking state at a position within a range of 500 m from the facility (Yes in S105), the parking position information acquisition part 9 will indicate that the parking detection part 8 is in the parking state. The own vehicle position by the own vehicle position detection unit 5 at the time when the vehicle is detected is acquired as parking position information (S106).

  Further, the facility location information acquisition unit 11 acquires the location information of the facility set as the destination by the destination setting unit 4 from the information storage unit 3 (S107). Then, the information transmitting / receiving unit 2 associates the parking position information with the facility position information and transmits it to the server 21 side (S108).

  Furthermore, if the own vehicle parked within the range of 500 m from the facility as the destination has departed from the parked state (S109), the departure detection unit 10 detects that the own vehicle has departed. (Yes in S109), the information transmitting / receiving unit 2 also transmits the detection results of the parking detection unit 8 and the departure detection unit 10 to the server 21 side (S110).

[Server 21 side]
Next, the operation on the server 21 side will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. The server 21 that has received various types of information from the information transmitting / receiving unit 2 on the navigation device 1 side via the communication terminal 20 performs parking lot determination in the parking lot determination unit 13 based on the received information.

  That is, the number of acquisitions in the parking lot determination unit 13 is counted for the same parking position information regarding the same facility position information (S201), and the parking lot determination unit 13 determines the same parking position information regarding the same facility position information. When two or more times are acquired from the navigation device 1 side (Yes in S201), it means that two or more vehicles are parked at the parking position. At this time, the parking lot determination unit 13 regards the parking location indicated by the parking position information as a parking lot adjacent to the destination facility (S202).

  As described above, there may be a plurality of parking places regarded as parking lots. This corresponds to a case where parking lots of facilities are scattered at a plurality of locations. Therefore, the parking lot determination unit 13 confirms whether there is only one parking place to be regarded as a parking lot (S203). If there are a plurality of parking places (No in S203), a parking lot list creation unit 15 creates a parking lot list by listing the location information of parking places (S204).

  If the parking location indicated by the parking location information near the destination matches the event holding location stored in the event information database 18 (Yes in S205), the parking lot determination unit 13 determines a parking place regarded as a parking lot adjacent to the destination as a temporary parking lot (S206).

  Furthermore, when the parking location indicated by the parking location information near the destination matches the location information of the paid parking lot stored in the paid parking lot information database 19 (Yes in S207), A parking place regarded as a parking lot is determined as a pay parking lot (S208). And based on the determination result of the above parking lot determination part 13, the positional information on a parking lot is matched with facility information, and it preserve | saves in the parking lot information database 17 (S209).

[Distribution of parking lot information]
When the server 21 receives a distribution request for arbitrary facility information from the navigation device 1, if the parking lot information associated with the facility information exists in the parking lot information database 17, the information transmitting / receiving unit 12 The parking lot information is transmitted to the navigation device 1 together with the information.

(3) Effect of this embodiment According to this embodiment described above, it is possible to construct the parking lot information existing in the vicinity of an arbitrary facility based on the parking position information collected from the navigation device 1 side. Therefore, a large-scale facility such as a detection device laid on the road surface is unnecessary, and it is possible to provide the navigation device 1 with parking information that has not been registered in the server 21 at low cost.

  Moreover, in this embodiment, since the parking number calculation part 14 calculates the parking number at the parking place at an arbitrary time point, whether or not parking is possible in the parking lot in the navigation device 1 provided with this information. Can be grasped in advance. Therefore, the user does not go to the parking lot that cannot be parked when the vehicle is full, and a good feeling of use can be obtained.

  Furthermore, in the server 21 of this embodiment, since the parking lot determination unit 13 determines that the parking lot is a temporary parking lot or a paid parking lot, the information is included in the parking lot information. And can be distributed to the navigation device 1. Among these, the following effects can be obtained by distributing information about the temporary parking lot.

  In general, in the event where the period and time are limited such as a fireworks display, the surrounding situation is difficult to understand, so the temporary parking information is more important than the normal parking information. However, even if the event location indicating the event venue is registered in the server 21, the temporary parking lot at the time of the event may be changed or changed due to the congestion of the day, etc. It was not registered.

  Therefore, according to the system according to the present embodiment, it is possible to improve the situation in which there is no information on the temporary parking lot in the server 21, and it is possible to accurately respond to the user's request. Moreover, since the parking lot information can be provided by combining the calculation results of the number-of-parking-number calculating section 14, it is possible to flexibly cope with increase / decrease or change of the parking space, and it is possible to improve the quality as parking lot information. is there.

  Moreover, the following effects are acquired by information distribution about a pay parking lot. Unlike the temporary parking lot, the location information of the paid parking lot is often stored in advance on the server 21 side as facility information. Therefore, if the parking place regarded as the parking lot by the parking lot determination unit 13 matches the paid parking lot, priority is given to the determination that the parking lot is a paid parking lot. Thereby, even though the parking place and the pay parking lot are the same, it can be avoided that the parking place is a separate parking lot, and the user is not confused.

  Furthermore, in this embodiment, when the parking lot determination unit 13 determines that there are a plurality of parking lots corresponding to the same facility, the parking lot list creation unit 15 forms a list of the location information of the parking places and the parking lot list Have created. Therefore, parking information including this parking lot list can be provided to the navigation device 1 from the information transmitting / receiving unit 12 of the server 21. Therefore, the user can select a desired parking lot from the received parking lot list on the navigation device 1 side, and can obtain high usability.

(4) Other Embodiments The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and the configuration of each part can be appropriately changed. For example, the parking detection unit 8 of the navigation device 1 includes parking information. You may make it install the operation button only for uploading in a vehicle.

  As another form on the server 21 side, a means for measuring the number of receptions of the same parking position information received by the information transmitting / receiving unit 12 may be provided, and this measurement result may be added to the parking lot information. . The number of receptions of the parking position information in the server 21 can be an index for determining whether or not the parking position is surely related to the parking position regarded as the parking lot by the parking lot determination unit 13. That is, the user can estimate the accuracy of the parking lot determination by the parking lot determination unit 13 of the server 21 and the size of the parking lot based on the number of times the parking position information is received.

  Further, as the navigation device 1 according to the present invention, when the parking location information that the parking lot determination unit 13 regards as a parking lot is received from the server 21 as parking lot information, the route incorporated in the navigation device 1 You may comprise so that the search part 6 may search the path | route from a departure place to a parking lot based on parking lot information (refer FIG. 5).

  In such an embodiment, if the server 21 side makes a distribution request regarding arbitrary facility information, and there is parking lot information associated with the facility information on the server 21 side, this parking lot information is on the server 21 side. To receive and receive this.

  At this time, the route search unit 6 does not use the facility requested by the user for delivery to the server 21 side as a destination, but searches the route corresponding to the parking lot corresponding to this facility as the destination. For this reason, the user can go directly to the parking lot corresponding to the facility (more precisely, the parking place regarded as the parking lot near the facility by the server 21) without going through the facility.

1 is an overall configuration diagram of a representative embodiment according to the present invention. The conceptual diagram of this embodiment. The flowchart for demonstrating the operation | movement of this embodiment. The flowchart for demonstrating the operation | movement of this embodiment. The conceptual diagram of other embodiment which concerns on this invention.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Navigation apparatus 2, 12 ... Information transmission-and-reception part 3 ... Information storage part 4 ... Destination setting part 5 ... Own-vehicle position detection part 6 ... Route search part 7 ... Route guidance control part 8 ... Parking detection part 9 ... Parking position information Acquisition unit 10 ... departure detection unit 11 ... facility position information acquisition unit 13 ... parking lot determination unit 14 ... parking number calculation unit 15 ... parking lot list creation unit 16 ... facility information database 17 ... parking lot information database 18 ... event information database 19 ... Paid parking information database 20 ... Communication terminal 21 ... Server

Claims (7)

A server that collectively manages facility information including parking lot information and a navigation device that transmits and receives various types of information to and from the server, and provides the parking lot information from the server to the navigation device. In the parking lot information provision system configured in
The navigation device
Information storage means for storing the facility information and map information;
Own vehicle position detecting means for detecting the own vehicle position;
A departure point setting means for setting a departure point;
Destination setting means for setting any point on the map information as a destination;
Route search means for searching for a route from the departure place to the destination;
Route guidance control means for controlling route guidance for the route searched by the route search means;
Parking detection means for detecting that the vehicle is parked within a predetermined range from the destination set by the destination setting means;
Based on the detection results of the parking detection means and the vehicle position detection means, the vehicle has a parking position information acquisition means for acquiring the position information of the place where the vehicle is parked as parking position information near the destination. ,
The server
From the navigation device side, the parking position information near the destination is acquired, and when the number of acquisitions of the parking position information of the same content exceeds a predetermined number, the parking location indicated by the parking position information, A parking lot judging means that considers the parking lot corresponding to the destination;
A parking lot information providing system comprising: information storage means for saving parking position information of a parking place regarded as a parking lot by the parking lot judging means as parking lot information. The navigation device has departure detection means for detecting that the vehicle detected by the parking detection means has started from a parking state,
The server
The detection results of the parking detection means and the departure detection means are acquired from the navigation device, and based on the overlap of the date and time of the parking situation at the parking place that the parking lot determination means regards as a parking lot based on these results A parking number calculating means is provided for calculating the maximum number of parking spaces at the parking location and the number of parking spaces at an arbitrary time, and calculating the number of parking spaces at the parking location from the difference between the two. Parking information provision system described in 1. A facility information management server used in the parking lot information providing system according to claim 1 or 2,
A server, comprising: a reception frequency measuring unit that measures the number of receptions of the same parking position information for the parking position information near the destination acquired by the parking lot determination unit. A facility information management server used in the parking lot information providing system according to claim 1 or 2,
The information storage means stores information related to an event having a limited holding period in advance,
The parking lot determination means is configured to determine a parking lot corresponding to the destination as a temporary parking lot when the destination close to the parking position as a determination target matches the event holding position. A server characterized by that. A facility information management server used in the parking lot information providing system according to claim 1 or 2,
The information storage means stores the location information of the paid parking lot as facility information in advance,
The parking lot determining means determines that the parking lot corresponding to the destination is a toll parking lot when a parking place regarded as a parking lot corresponding to the destination matches the toll parking lot. A server characterized in that it is configured. A facility information management server used in the parking lot information providing system according to claim 1 or 2,
When the parking lot judging means judges that there are a plurality of parking places that are regarded as parking lots for one destination, a parking lot list creation that creates a parking lot list by listing position information of the parking places A server characterized by comprising means. A navigation device used in the parking lot information providing system according to claim 1 or 2,
When inquiring about the parking lot of an arbitrary facility to the server and obtaining the parking position information related to the parking lot of the facility, the route search means, based on the parking lot information, from the departure location to the parking lot A navigation device configured to search for a route up to.

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