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US 12,728,837 B2Granted
Parking assistance apparatus and parking assistance method
AssigneePanasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
InventorRyutaro Seno
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Abstract
A parking assistance apparatus includes: a processor; and a designated parking slot storage circuit that stores an area in a range based on a position away from a vehicle position by a preset distance as a designated parking slot corresponding to a parking instruction of an occupant, in which the processor detects a parking slot corresponding to the designated parking slot, and performs automatic parking of the vehicle based on information on the corresponding parking slot.
Claims19
A parking assistance apparatus for a vehicle, the parking assistance apparatus comprising:
- an input configured to be coupled with a camera and a human-machine interface device, the camera being configured to capture an ambient image of ambient area of the vehicle, the human-machine interface device being configured to receive at least a parking instruction of an occupant of the vehicle;
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- an output configured to be coupled with the human-machine interface device and a vehicle control device, the human-machine interface device being configured to output at least one of an image or a sound, the vehicle control device being configured to control at least a steering angle and a speed of the vehicle, wherein
- while the parking assistance apparatus does not detect a parking slot based on the ambient image, the parking assistance apparatus outputs a guide image overlapping the ambient image using the human-machine interface device, the guide image including an indicator,
- the parking assistance apparatus stores
- a target parking slot corresponding to the indicator on the ambient image in response to receiving the parking instruction of the occupant using the human-machine interface device, and
- the parking assistance apparatus sets the vehicle control device to perform an automatic parking of the vehicle to the target parking slot after the parking assistance apparatus detects the target parking slot based on the ambient image.
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A parking assistance apparatus for a vehicle, the parking assistance apparatus comprising:
- an input configured to be coupled with a camera and a human-machine interface device, the camera being configured to capture an ambient image of ambient area of the vehicle, the human-machine interface device being configured to receive at least a parking instruction of an occupant of the vehicle;
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- an output configured to be coupled with the human-machine interface device and a vehicle control device, the human-machine interface device being configured to output at least one of an image or a sound, the vehicle control device being configured to control at least a steering angle and a speed of the vehicle, wherein
- while the parking assistance apparatus does not detect a parking slot based on the ambient image, the parking assistance apparatus outputs a guide image using the human-machine interface device, the guide image including an indicator,
- the parking assistance apparatus stores a target parking slot corresponding to the indicator in response to receiving the parking instruction of the occupant using the human-machine interface device, and
- the parking assistance apparatus sets the vehicle control device to perform an automatic parking of the vehicle to the target parking slot after the parking assistance apparatus detects the target parking slot based on the ambient image.
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A parking assistance apparatus for a vehicle, the parking assistance apparatus comprising:
- an input configured to be coupled with a camera and a human-machine interface device, the camera being configured to capture an ambient image of ambient area of the vehicle, the human-machine interface device being configured to receive at least a parking instruction of an occupant of the vehicle;
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- an output configured to be coupled with a vehicle control device, the vehicle control device being configured to control at least a steering angle and a speed of the vehicle, wherein
- while the parking assistance apparatus does not detect a parking slot based on the ambient image, the parking assistance apparatus stores a target parking slot corresponding to an indicator in response to receiving the parking instruction of the occupant using the human-machine interface device, and
- the parking assistance apparatus sets the vehicle control device to perform an automatic parking of the vehicle to the target parking slot after the parking assistance apparatus detects the target parking slot based on the ambient image.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.