Parking assisting device
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki
InventorsTomio Kimura, Kazunori Shimazaki
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Abstract
Disclosed is a parking assisting device, including: a camera for capturing an image behind a vehicle; a display provided to a dashboard of the vehicle; passage width measurement device that measures a width of a passage; and a controller for displaying the image captured with the camera on the display. Also disclosed is a device for calculating an initial stopping position required for parking the vehicle in-parallel into a target parking space perpendicular to the passage on the basis of the passage width measured, with the passage width measurement device, to superimpose on a screen of the display a displayed image for guidance used for guiding the vehicle to the initial stopping position.
Claims18
A parking assisting device comprising:
- a camera for capturing an image behind a vehicle;
- a display provided to a dashboard of the vehicle;
- passage width measurement means for measuring a width of a passage;
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- a controller for displaying the image captured with the camera on the display, and for calculating an initial stopping position required for parking the vehicle in-parallel into a target parking space perpendicular to the passage on the basis of the passage width measured with the passage width measurement means, to superimpose on a screen of the display a displayed image for guidance used for guiding the vehicle to the initial stopping position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.