Parking assistance device and parking assistance method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9975488-B2
Application number	US-201415114313-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 30, 2014
Priority date	Jan 30, 2014
Publication date	May 22, 2018
Grant date	May 22, 2018

Abstract

A parking assistance device includes: imaging means mounted on a vehicle to image a periphery of the vehicle; a coil for a vehicle installed on a bottom surface of the vehicle; a displaying means that displays an image; and a controlling means that performs a display control on the displaying means. The controlling means stores a parking initial image, simultaneously showing a power transmission coil installed on a road surface in a parking space and ground marks provided at a predetermined distance from the power transmission coil, displays the power transmission coil on the displaying means with reference to the ground marks imaged by the imaging means and the parking initial image when a distance between the vehicle and a target parking position falls below a predetermined value, and superposes and displays an image indicating the coil for a vehicle on the displaying means.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A parking assistance device comprising:
an image sensor mounted on a vehicle to image a periphery of the vehicle;
a coil for a vehicle installed on a bottom surface of the vehicle;
a display configured to display an image imaged by the image sensor; and
a control circuit configured to perform a display control on the display,
wherein the control circuit stores a parking initial image imaged by the image sensor and simultaneously showing a power transmission coil installed on a road surface in a parking space and a ground mark provided at a predetermined distance from the power transmission coil, and estimates a position of the power transmission coil according to a parking final image indicating the ground mark imaged by the image sensor and the parking initial image when a distance between the vehicle and a target parking position falls below a predetermined value and the power transmission coil disappears from the image sensor, and displays an image showing the power transmission coil on the display according to the estimated position of the power transmission coil, and superposes and displays an image indicating the coil for a vehicle on the display.

2. The parking assistance device according to claim 1 , wherein the control circuit superposes and displays, on the display, a center line of the coil for a vehicle to a vehicle width direction.

3. A parking assistance method comprising:
imaging a parking initial image simultaneously showing a power transmission coil installed on a road surface in a parking space and a ground mark provided at a predetermined distance from the power transmission coil;
estimating a position of the power transmission coil according to a parking final image indicating the ground mark imaged and the parking initial image when a distance between a vehicle and a target parking position falls below a predetermined value and the power transmission coil disappears from an image sensor;
displaying an image indicating the power transmission coil according to the estimated position of the power transmission coil;
superposing and displaying an image indicating a coil for a vehicle installed on a bottom surface of the vehicle.

Assignees

• Nissan Motor

Inventors

• Fukushima Yoshitake

Classifications

• B60R2300/806

  for aiding parking · CPC title

• H02J50/90

  involving detection or optimisation of position, e.g. alignment · CPC title

• B60L2250/16

  by display · CPC title

• G01R31/00

  Arrangements for testing electric properties; Arrangements for locating electric faults; Arrangements for electrical testing characterised by what is being tested not provided for elsewhere ({measuring superconductive properties G01R33/1238;} testing line transmission systems H04B3/46; testing or measuring semiconductors or solid state devices during manufacture {H10P74/00}) · CPC title

• B60L53/122

  Circuits or methods for driving the primary coil, e.g. supplying electric power to the coil · CPC title