Backing assistance apparatus and vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYuki Tatsumoto, Josuke Yamane, Hirotaka Nogami, Kazuya Nishimura, Takumi Fukunaga
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Abstract
A backing assistance apparatus includes a controller configured to monitor a usage of each seat on a driver side and a passenger side of a vehicle, set a reference distance on each of the driver side and the passenger side according to the usage, and upon detecting an obstacle on a side of a space to which the vehicle is predicted to proceed when the vehicle is backing, display, on a screen that shows an image of a rear of the vehicle to assist in backing the vehicle, a guide element indicating a position that is distant from the detected obstacle by the reference distance.
Claims5
A backing assistance apparatus comprising a controller configured to:
- monitor a usage of each seat on a driver side and a passenger side of a vehicle;
- set a reference distance on each of the driver side and the passenger side according to the usage;
- upon detecting an obstacle on a side of a space to which the vehicle is predicted to proceed when the vehicle is backing, display, on a screen that shows an image of a rear of the vehicle to assist in backing the vehicle, a guide element indicating a position that is distant from the detected obstacle by the reference distance;
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- upon detecting as the usage a situation in which a child is seated in a rear seat on the driver side of the vehicle, set a reference distance on the driver side based on a protruding length of a door of a driver seat of the vehicle when having a minimum opening degree required for a driver to get out and a protruding length of a door of the rear seat on the driver side when having a maximum opening degree.
A backing assistance apparatus comprising a controller configured to:
- monitor a usage of each seat on a driver side and a passenger side of a vehicle;
- set a reference distance on each of the driver side and the passenger side according to the usage;
- upon detecting an obstacle on a side of a space to which the vehicle is predicted to proceed when the vehicle is backing, display, on a screen that shows an image of a rear of the vehicle to assist in backing the vehicle, a guide element indicating a position that is distant from the detected obstacle by the reference distance;
- upon detecting as the usage a situation in which an occupant is seated in a rear seat on the passenger side of the vehicle, set a reference distance on the passenger side based on a protruding length of a door of the rear seat on the passenger side when having a minimum opening degree required for the occupant to get out;
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- upon detecting the obstacle on a side of the space corresponding to the passenger side when the vehicle is backing and determining that a distance from the obstacle to the space is shorter than the reference distance on the passenger side, output a message urging the occupant to get out of a rear seat on the driver side of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.