Parking assistance for a motor vehicle for parking on public and private land

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11052908-B2
Application number	US-201816760717-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 25, 2018
Priority date	Nov 3, 2017
Publication date	Jul 6, 2021
Grant date	Jul 6, 2021

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for operating a parking assistance device ( 2 ) of a motor vehicle ( 1 ), comprising a) learning a parking trajectory ( 4 ) between an initial position ( 5 ) and a parked position ( 6 ) of the motor vehicle ( 1 ) by means of a computing unit ( 3 ) of the parking assistance device ( 2 ) in the case of parking which is controlled by a driver of the motor vehicle ( 1 ); b) checking whether the learnt parking trajectory ( 4 ) runs over public land ( 11 ) or over private land ( 12 ) in at least one respective section ( 13, 14 ); c) driverless parking of the motor vehicle ( 1 ) along the parking trajectory ( 4 ) exclusively in a section ( 14 ) of the checked parking trajectory ( 4 ) which runs over private land ( 12 ), in order to increase safety during a parking process which is assisted or carried out by the parking assistance device ( 2 ).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for operating a parking assistance device of a motor vehicle, comprising:
learning a parking trajectory between an initial position and a parked position of the motor vehicle by a computing unit of the parking assistance device in a case of parking which is controlled by a driver of the motor vehicle;
checking whether the learnt parking trajectory runs over public land or over private land in at least one respective section; and
driverless parking of the motor vehicle along the parking trajectory exclusively in a section of the checked parking trajectory which runs over private land,
wherein when the driver interrupts the driverless parking, a current position of the motor vehicle on the parking trajectory is stored as a new final position of the parking trajectory.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:
during the checking on a basis of map information of a navigation unit and/or on a basis of surroundings information of a surroundings sensor unit comprising camera information of a camera unit and/or position information of a position-detection unit and/or a user input of an input unit, detecting whether the parking trajectory runs over public or private land in the respective section.

3. The method as claimed in claim 2 , further comprising: during the checking the computing unit determines, from the surroundings information, a traffic volume for the respective section, and a section is detected as running over public land when the traffic volume is higher than a predefined limiting traffic volume.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3 , further comprising: during the learning process the traffic volume in the respective section of the parking trajectory is determined and the limit traffic volume is predefined as a function of the traffic volume detected during the learning process.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein partially autonomous parking which is monitored by the driver is carried out in a section of the checked parking trajectory which runs over public land.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the checking is carried out during the learning process, and it is signaled to the driver whether that section of the parking trajectory which is currently being traveled along runs over public or private land.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the driver is not in the motor vehicle during the driverless parking.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the public land comprises a public roadway, a road and/or a car park, and the private land comprises a private roadway.

9. A parking assistance device for a motor vehicle, the parking assistance device comprising:
a computing unit for learning a parking trajectory between an initial position and a parked position of the motor vehicle in the case of parking controlled by a driver of the motor vehicle,
wherein the computing unit is configured to check whether the learnt parking trajectory runs over public land or over private land in a respective section, and to enable driverless parking of the motor vehicle along the parking trajectory exclusively in a section of the checked parking trajectory which runs over private land, and
wherein the driver interrupts the driverless parking, and in the event of an interruption the current position of the motor vehicle on the parking trajectory is stored as a new final position of the parking trajectory.

10. A motor vehicle with a parking assistance device as claimed in claim 9 .

Assignees

• Valeo Schalter & Sensoren Gmbh

Inventors

• Tzempetzis Dimitrios
• Heimberger Markus
• Prinzhausen Stefanie

Classifications

• G08G1/09623 Primary

  Systems involving the acquisition of information from passive traffic signs by means mounted on the vehicle (G08G1/0967 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G08G1/09626

  where the origin of the information is within the own vehicle, e.g. a local storage device, digital map · CPC title

• B62D15/0285

  Parking performed automatically · CPC title

• G08G1/0145

  for active traffic flow control · CPC title

• B60W30/06 Primary

  Automatic manoeuvring for parking · CPC title