Parking assisting system
AssigneeLG Innotek Co., Ltd.
InventorsJunseok Oh, Daeseung Kim, Bumsig Cho
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AssigneeLG Innotek Co., Ltd.
InventorsJunseok Oh, Daeseung Kim, Bumsig Cho
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Disclosed is a parking assist system including a camera unit for photographing front or rear view of a vehicle, and a display unit for displaying a front or rear view image of the vehicle photographed by the camera unit, the system characterized by: a processor unit generating a first and second parking guide line, one being perpendicular to the other, at an area which is apart from the vehicle by a predetermined distance, and generating an estimated travel trajectory line based on steering angle information obtained from a steering angle sensor of the vehicle; and an overlay unit for overlaying the photographed front or rear view image of the vehicle on the first and second parking guide lines and the estimated travel trajectory line.
A parking assist system, the system comprising:
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Exterior to a vehicle by using sensors mounted on the vehicle: recognition of the road, e.g. of lane markings; Recognition of the vehicle driving…
For viewing an area outside the vehicle, e.g. the exterior of the vehicle: with a predetermined field of view
Steering position indicators ; Steering position determination; Steering aids: parking aids, e.g. instruction means
Parking aids, e.g. instruction means: by overlaying a vehicle path based on present steering angle over an image without processing that image
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This application is the U.S. national stage application of International Patent Application No. PCT/KR2012/006236, filed Aug. 6, 2012, which claims priority to Korean Application No. 10-2011-0115994, filed Nov. 8, 2011, the disclosures of each of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.
The teachings in accordance with exemplary embodiments of this invention generally relate to a parking assisting system, and more particularly to a parking assisting system (hereinafter ‘parking assisting system’ and ‘parking assist system’ may be interchangeably used) configured to assist parking using a front view camera or a rear view camera mounted on a vehicle.
Recently, modern vehicles provide sophisticated functionalities, satisfactions and conveniences to drivers through increased power performance and other handy devices.
The teachings of the present invention can be readily understood by considering the following detailed description in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram illustrating configuration of a parking assisting system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a schematic view illustrating a concept of a parking assist according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention;
The following description is not intended to limit the invention to the form disclosed herein. Consequently, variations and modifications commensurate with the following teachings, and skill and knowledge of the relevant art are within the scope of the present invention. The embodiments described herein are further intended to explain modes known of practicing the invention and to enable others skilled in the art to utilize the invention in such, or other embodiments and with various modifications required by the particular application(s) or use(s) of the present invention.
The disclosed embodiments and advantages thereof are best understood by referring to FIGS. 1-7 of the drawings, like numerals being used for like and corresponding parts of the various drawings. Other features and advantages of the disclosed embodiments will be or will become apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art upon examination of the following figures and detailed description.
It is intended that all such additional features and advantages be included within the scope of the disclosed embodiments, and protected by the accompanying drawings. Further, the illustrated figures are only exemplary and not intended to assert or imply any limitation with regard to the environment, architecture, or process in which different embodiments may be implemented. Accordingly, the described aspect is intended to embrace all such alterations, modifications, and variations that fall within the scope and novel idea of the present invention.