Parking spot detection reinforced by scene classification
AssigneeContinental Automotive Systems, Inc.
InventorsJulien Ip, Eduardo Jose Ramirez Llanos, Xin Yu, Kyle Carpenter
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Abstract
An automated parking system for a vehicle includes a camera configured to obtain images of objects proximate the vehicle, and a controller configured to review the obtained images of objects proximate the vehicle to classify an environment proximate the vehicle, determine a type of parking lot associated with the classified location and initiate an automated parking function of the vehicle corresponding to the determined type of parking lot.
Claims17
An automated parking system for a vehicle, the automated parking system comprising:
- a camera mounted to the vehicle configured to obtain the images of an environment surrounding the vehicle;
- and a processor configured to execute an artificial intelligence algorithm configured to detect a parking lot comprising unmarked parking areas based on input images, determine the environment surrounding the vehicle is the parking lot comprising unmarked parking areas based on the images of the environment surrounding the vehicle thorough execution of the artificial intelligence algorithm, determine an unmarked parking area from among the unmarked parking areas within the parking lot to park the vehicle, and control an automated parking function of the vehicle to park the vehicle in the unmarked parking area, wherein the environment surrounding the vehicle comprises structures, and wherein the artificial intelligence algorithm is configured to classify the environment surrounding the vehicle as the parking lot based on types of the structures.
A method of automated parking of a vehicle, the method comprising:
- obtaining, by a camera mounted to the vehicle, images of an environment surrounding the vehicle;
- executing an artificial intelligence algorithm configured to detect a parking lot comprising unmarked parking areas based on input images;
- classifying the environment surrounding the vehicle as the parking lot comprising unmarked parking areas based on the images of the environment surrounding the vehicle through execution of the artificial intelligence algorithm;
- determining an unmarked parking area from among the unmarked parking areas within the parking lot to park the vehicle;
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- controlling an automated parking function of the vehicle to park the vehicle in the unmarked parking area,
- wherein the environment surrounding the vehicle comprises structures, and
- wherein the classifying comprises the artificial intelligence algorithm classifying the environment surrounding the vehicle as the parking lot based on types of the structures.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a processor causes the processor to control a method of automated parking of a vehicle, the method comprising:
- obtaining, by a camera mounted to the vehicle, images of an environment surrounding the vehicle;
- executing an artificial intelligence algorithm configured to detect a parking lot comprising unmarked parking areas based on input images;
- determining the environment surrounding the vehicle as a parking lot comprising unmarked parking areas based on the images of the environment surrounding the vehicle through execution of the artificial intelligence;
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- controlling an automated parking function of the vehicle to park the vehicle in the unmarked parking area, wherein the environment surrounding the vehicle comprises structures, and
- wherein the classifying comprises the artificial intelligence algorithm classifying the environment surrounding the vehicle as the parking lot based on types of the structures.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.