Optical parking guide
AssigneeTracker Oy
InventorSudip Ghatak
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Abstract
An optical sensor based parking guidance system using visual indicators to guide a driver into an optimal position to park a vehicle. The optical sensors create a safe parking envelope and provide visual indicators to the driver in the event the vehicle leaves the established safe area. The invention also indicates the appropriate stopping position within a parking space.
Claims18
A vehicle parking system comprising:
- two guide sets comprising an optical sensor module and a reflector module, wherein the modules have a low profile allowing them to be run over by the vehicle, the guides adapted provide an optical pathway defining a lateral outer boundary for vehicle movement;
- a sided indicator of left or right lateral straying of the vehicle;
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- a controller adapted to communicate with the sensor modules and with the sided indicator;
- wherein the controller is adapted to communicate a breach of either of the two lateral outer boundaries indicated by the respective guides to the sided indicator to provide the respective lateral stray indicator.
A guide set comprising an optical sensor (an emitter and receiver combination) module and a reflector module, wherein the modules have a low profile allowing them to be run over by the vehicle, the guide adapted provide an optical pathway defining a outer boundary for vehicle movement, wherein the modules have an upper trough for the optical pathways such that the optical features can sit within the modules protected from a straying vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.