Parking assistance device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10068483-B2
Application number	US-201414502304-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 30, 2014
Priority date	Oct 4, 2013
Publication date	Sep 4, 2018
Grant date	Sep 4, 2018

Abstract

A parking assistance device includes: a ground object detection unit configured to, in a predetermined detection region set in advance in at least a portion of the vehicle periphery, perform detection of a ground object defining a parking stall in which garage parking is to be performed; an end portion specification unit configured to specify an end portion of the ground object detected by the ground object detection unit, the end portion being located on an entrance side of the parking stall; and a target parking stall setting unit configured to set, based on the end portion on the entrance side specified by the end portion specification unit, a corner portion of a rectangular parking frame that defines a target parking stall in which the vehicle is to be parked, and set the parking frame to extend from the corner portion in the depth direction of the parking stall.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A parking assistance device comprising:
a ground object detection unit configured to, in a predetermined detection region set in advance in at least a portion of a periphery of a vehicle, perform detection of a pair of ground objects, from an image taken by a camera mounted to the vehicle, defining a parking stall in which garage parking is to be performed;
an end portion specification unit configured to:
determine whether or not the end portions of the respective pair of ground objects are shifted in the depth direction of the parking stall, and
when it is determined that the end portions of the respective pair of ground objects are shifted in the depth direction of the parking stall, specify one end portion, from the end portions of the respective pair of ground objects, that is shifted further to the entrance side in the depth direction of the parking stall, as one of the end portions located on the entrance side of the parking stall;

a target parking stall setting unit configured to:
when the end portion specification unit determines that the end portions of the respective pair of ground objects are not shifted in the depth direction of the parking stall, set the parking frame with reference to a central point between the two end portions in a direction perpendicular to the depth direction, and
when the end portion specification unit determines that the end portions of the respective pair of ground objects are shifted in the depth direction of the parking stall, set, based on the one of the end portions located on the entrance side of the parking stall specified by the end portion specification unit, two of corner portions of a rectangular parking frame that define a target parking stall in which the vehicle is to be parked, and set the parking frame in reference to the two of the corner portions and an extending direction of the pair of ground objects such that the parking frame extends in the depth direction of the parking stall; and

a display unit configured to indicate a captured image on which the parking frame, set by the target stall setting unit, is superimposed.

2. A parking assistance device according to claim 1 , wherein
the target parking stall setting unit re-sets the parking frame according to movement of the detection region accompanying movement of the vehicle.

3. A parking assistance device according to claim 1 , wherein
the target parking stall setting unit sets the parking frame such that the one of the end portions located on the entrance side of the parking stall specified by the end portion specification unit and the two of the corner portions match in the short side direction of the parking frame.

4. A parking assistance device according to claim 2 , wherein
the target parking stall setting unit sets the parking frame such that the one of the end portions located on the entrance side of the parking stall specified by the end portion specification unit and the two of the corner portions match in the short side direction of the parking frame.

5. A parking assistance device according to claim 1 , wherein, when the end portion specification unit determines that the end portions of the respective pair of ground objects are shifted in the depth direction of the parking stall and a gap between the respective end portions is wider than a predetermined width, the target parking stall setting unit sets the corner portions so that a central portion in a gap direction of the respective end portions and a central portion in the short side direction of the parking frame match.

Assignees

• Aisin Seiki
• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Torii Masanori
• Kadowaki Jun
• Inagaki Hiroki
• Sakai Katsuhiro

Classifications

• G08G1/168 Primary

  Driving aids for parking, e.g. acoustic or visual feedback on parking space · CPC title

• G06K9/00812

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06V20/586

  of parking space · CPC title