APPARATUS AND METHOD OF SETTING PARKING POSITION BASED ON AV IMAGE

• US 20130265428A1
• Filed: 11/28/2012
• Published: 10/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Yoon, Dae Joong, Choi, Jae Seob, Chang, Eu Gene
• Granted Patent: US 9,113,049 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/148
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/586 of parking space
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source

Abstract

Disclosed herein are an apparatus and a method of setting a parking position based on an around-view (AV) image. After the continuous AV images of the parking space are obtained in cooperation with an around-view monitoring (AVM) system, a parking space, designated by a driver in various designating schemes, is set to a parking position, allowing the driver to select the parking space and easily identify a surrounding space limitations of the selected parking space.

Claims

1. An apparatus for setting a parking position based on an around-view (AV) image, the apparatus comprising:

an AV image collecting unit configured to collect a plurality of AV images;

a parking space recognizing unit configured to identify a plurality of parking spaces in the plurality of AV images;

a designation region inputting unit configured to receive a designated parking space from a driver;

a designation region recognizing unit configured to identify the designated parking space received in the designation region inputting unit in cooperation with the parking space recognizing unit to determine whether the designated parking space is effective wherein the designated parking space is effective when the parking space is substantially large to accommodate a vehicle;

a display unit configured to display together the plurality of AV images; and

a parking position setting unit configured to set the designated parking space to a parking position when the designated parking space is effective.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the designation region inputting unit receives any region in which a parking line is not present in the displayed AV image as the designated parking space.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the designation region inputting unit receives a region of a quadrangle drawn by the driver in the displayed AV image as the designated parking space.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the designation region recognizing unit corrects the quadrangle received through the designation region inputting unit to a rectangle.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the display unit displays the rectangle instead of the quadrangle.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the designation region recognizing unit compares an actual size of the designated parking space received in the designation region inputting unit with a reference size to determine an effective designated parking space.

7. A method of setting a parking position based on an around-view (AV) image, the method comprising:

collecting, in an AV image collecting unit, a plurality of AV images;

recognizing, in a parking space recognizing unit, a plurality of parking spaces in the plurality of AV images;

receiving, in a designation region inputting unit, a designated parking space from a driver;

displaying together in a display unit, the plurality of AV images and the designated parking space;

recognizing, in a designation region recognizing unit, the designated parking space received in the designation region inputting unit in cooperation with the parking space recognizing unit to determine an effective designated parking space, wherein the designated parking space is effective when the parking space is substantially large to accommodate a vehicle; and

setting, in a parking position setting unit, the designated parking space to a parking position.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein receiving the designated parking space further includes receiving as the designated parking space any region in which a parking line is not present in the displayed AV image.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein receiving the designated parking space further includes receiving as the designated parking space a region of a quadrangle drawn by the driver in the displayed.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein determining whether the designated parking space is effective further includes correcting the received quadrangle to a rectangle.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the rectangle is displayed by the display unit.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein determining whether the designated parking space is effective further includes comparing an actual size of the designated parking space is with a reference size to determine an effective designated parking space.

13. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing program instructions executed by a processor, the computer readable medium comprising:

program instructions configured to collect a plurality of around-view (AV) images;

program instructions configured to identify a plurality of parking spaces in the plurality of AV images;

program instructions configured to receive a designated parking space from a driver;

program instructions configured to display the plurality of AV images and the designated parking space;

program instructions configured to identify the designated parking space received in the designation region inputting unit in cooperation with the parking space recognizing unit to determine an effective designated parking space, wherein the designated parking space is effective when the parking space is substantially large to accommodate a vehicle; and

program instructions configured to set the designated parking space to a parking position.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 13, wherein the program instructions that receive the designated parking space further receive, as the designated parking space, any region in which a parking line is not present in the displayed AV image.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the program instructions that determine whether the designated parking space is effective further includes program instructions that compare an actual size of the designated parking space with a reference size to determine an effective designated parking space.