Parking assistance system

Abstract

A parking assistance system may include: an image obtaining unit including a plurality of cameras, and configured to obtain images at front, rear, left, and right sides of the vehicle; an image composing unit configured to compose the image and generate a composed image in a form of an around view; an image processing unit configured to generate a contour line image from the composed image; a parking line recognizer configured to extract parking lines from the contour line image and calculate a parking space through the detected parking lines; and a parking path generating unit configured to generate a parking path or a guide line of the vehicle based on the parking lines or the detected parking space, and provide the parking path or the guide line to a steering wheel controller for automatically controlling a steering wheel or a display unit for displaying the composed image.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.