PARKING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS AND PARKING ASSISTANCE METHOD
First Claim
1. A parking assistance apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of on-board cameras which take images around a vehicle;
a bird'"'"'s eye image creation unit that synthesizes a plurality of the images taken by the plurality of on-board cameras to thereby create a bird'"'"'s eye image looking down on the vehicle from above the vehicle; and
a display device that displays the created bird'"'"'s eye image, a target parking frame corresponding to a target parking position, and a parking start frame corresponding to a parking start position of a time when the vehicle is parked at the target parking position,wherein a display position and drawing mode of the parking start frame are changed in response to a change of a steering angle of the vehicle.
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Abstract
A target parking position serving as a parking target of a vehicle is set, and a parking start position from which the vehicle can start to reach the target parking position while maintaining a predetermined steering angle is set. Then, a vehicle mark V indicating a current position, a target parking frame F1 indicating the target parking position, and a parking start frame F2 indicating the parking start position are drawn on a bird'"'"'s eye image of a periphery of the vehicle, and a display device 5 is allowed to display an image in which the vehicle mark V, the target parking frame F1 and the parking start frame F2 are drawn on the bird'"'"'s eye image. At this time, the parking start frame F2 is drawn on the bird'"'"'s eye image so that a drawing mode thereof can be changed in response to a current steering angle of the vehicle.
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13 Claims
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1. A parking assistance apparatus comprising:
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a plurality of on-board cameras which take images around a vehicle; a bird'"'"'s eye image creation unit that synthesizes a plurality of the images taken by the plurality of on-board cameras to thereby create a bird'"'"'s eye image looking down on the vehicle from above the vehicle; and a display device that displays the created bird'"'"'s eye image, a target parking frame corresponding to a target parking position, and a parking start frame corresponding to a parking start position of a time when the vehicle is parked at the target parking position, wherein a display position and drawing mode of the parking start frame are changed in response to a change of a steering angle of the vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A parking assistance apparatus comprising:
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means for taking images around a vehicle; means for synthesizing a plurality of the images around a vehicle to thereby create a bird'"'"'s eye image looking down on the vehicle from above the vehicle; and means for displaying the created bird'"'"'s eye image, a target parking frame corresponding to a target parking position, and a parking start frame corresponding to a parking start position of a time when the vehicle is parked at the target parking position, wherein a display position and drawing mode of the parking start frame are changed in response to a change of a steering angle of the vehicle.
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13. A parking assistance method comprising:
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synthesizing a plurality of images around a vehicle, the images being taken by a plurality of on-board cameras, to thereby create a bird'"'"'s eye image looking down on the vehicle from above the vehicle; displaying, on a display device, the created bird'"'"'s eye image, a target parking frame corresponding to a target parking position, and a parking start frame corresponding to a parking start position of a time when the vehicle is parked at the target parking position; and changing a display position and drawing mode of the parking start frame in response to a change of a steering angle of the vehicle.
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