Vehicle parking assistance
AssigneeToyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
InventorsTakamasa Higuchi, Kentaro Oguchi
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Abstract
An ego vehicle can be assisted when parking in a parking area. One or more sensors can be configured to acquire environment data of at least a portion of an external environment of the ego vehicle. The environment data can include at least a portion of the parking area. Parking availability data can be acquired for at least a portion of the parking area. The parking availability data can include a plurality of parking spaces and one or more vehicles parked in one or more of the parking spaces. The parking availability data can further include one or more attributes of the vehicles parked in the parking spaces. A current location of the ego vehicle within the parking area can be determined based on at least the parking availability data and the environment data.
Claims20
A parking assistance method, the method comprising:
- acquiring parking availability data for at least a portion of a parking area, the parking availability data including data about a plurality of parking spaces and data about one or more vehicles parked in one or more of the plurality of parking spaces, the parking availability data further including one or more attributes of the one or more vehicles parked in the one or more of the plurality of parking spaces;
- acquiring, using one or more sensors, environment data of at least a portion of an external environment of an ego vehicle, the external environment including at least a portion of the parking area;
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- determining a current location of the ego vehicle within the parking area based on at least the parking availability data and the environment data.
A parking assistance system, the system comprising:
- one or more sensors, the one or more sensors being configured to acquire environment data of at least a portion of an external environment of an ego vehicle, the environment data including at least a portion of a parking area;
- one or more processors, the one or more processors being programmed to initiate executable operations comprising:
- acquiring parking availability data for at least a portion of the parking area, the parking availability data including data about a plurality of parking spaces and data about one or more vehicles parked in one or more of the plurality of parking spaces, the parking availability data further including one or more attributes of the one or more vehicles parked in the one or more of the plurality of parking spaces;
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- determining a current location of the ego vehicle within the parking area based on at least the parking availability data and the environment data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.