PARKING ASSISTING SYSTEM

• US 20090251334A1
• Filed: 10/24/2006
• Published: 10/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Ohira, Takashi, Ikari, Keisuke, Yoshihashi, Akio, Nonoyama, Takashi, Makino, Yasushi, Endo, Tomohiko, Ito, Takuya, Kubota, Yuuichi, Kawabata, Yukiko
• Granted Patent: US 8,035,531 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/932.200
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/146 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/14 Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 15/0285 Parking performed automatically

Abstract

To provide a parking support device for easily and quickly moving or rotating a target parking frame to an appropriate position. The parking support device includes a target parking position setting unit configured to set a target parking position at which a vehicle is to be parked with a target parking frame superimposed on an actual image displaying an area surrounding the vehicle. The parking support device guides the vehicle to the target parking position set by the target parking position setting unit. The target parking position setting unit moves the target parking frame initially displayed on a touch display to a position indicated by a coordinate point determined by a touch operation.

Claims

1. A parking support device comprising:

a target parking position setting unit configured to set a target parking position at which a vehicle is to be parked by superimposing a predetermined target parking frame on an actual image displaying an area surrounding the vehicle, wherein;

the parking support device guides the vehicle to the target parking position set by the target parking position setting unit; and

the target parking position setting unit moves the target parking frame initially displayed on a touch display to a position indicated by one coordinate point determined by a touch operation.

2. The parking support device according to claim 1, wherein:

the target parking frame has a rectangular shape representing the vehicle; and

one of four corners of the target parking frame is moved to coincide with said one coordinate point.

3. The parking support device according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising:

a feature point recognition unit configured to recognize a feature point from the actual image displaying the area surrounding the vehicle, wherein;

the target parking position setting unit moves said one coordinate point to one feature point that is recognized by the feature point recognition unit and that is nearest to said one coordinate point, and moves the target parking frame to a position indicated by said one feature point.

4. The parking support device according to claim 3, wherein:

said one feature point comprises one point along a parking section line marked on the ground; and

the target parking position setting unit moves the target parking frame to a position indicated by said one point along the parking section line to arrange the target parking frame in such a manner as to substantially correspond to the parking section line.

5. A parking support device comprising:

a target parking position setting unit configured to set, based on a position of a predetermined target parking frame, a target parking position at which a vehicle is to be parked by superimposing the target parking frame on an actual image displaying an area surrounding the vehicle, wherein;

the parking support device guides the vehicle to the target parking position set by the target parking position setting unit; and

the target parking position setting unit moves the target parking frame to a position determined by one coordinate point, and uses said one coordinate point as a rotation center of the target parking frame.

6. The parking support device according to claim 5, wherein:

the target parking frame has a rectangular shape representing the vehicle; and

one of four corners of the target parking frame is moved to coincide with the position determined by said one coordinate point.

7. The parking support device according to claim 5 or 6, further comprising:

a rotation center highlighting unit configured to highlight the rotation center in such a manner that the rotation center can be identified.

8. The parking support device according to any one of claims 5 through 7, further comprising:

a translucent display unit configured to display, in a translucent manner, the target parking frame to be superimposed on the actual image displaying the area surrounding the vehicle.