US Patent 11267460 Automatic parking management apparatus

An automatic parking management apparatus is configured to manage an automatic parking control of automatically parking a vehicle in an empty parking space. The automatic parking management apparatus is provided with: an acquirer configured to obtain a common route, which is a common part of a plurality of routes on which the vehicle, which is about to start the automatic parking control, possibly travels in the automatic parking control; a first transmitter configured to transmit information associated with the common route to the vehicle, before a travel route on which the vehicle travels in the automatic parking control is determined; and a second transmitter configured to transmit information associated with a non-common route, which excludes the common route from the travel route, to the vehicle, after the travel route on which the vehicle travels in the automatic parking control is determined.