PARKING-LOT-LEAVING SUPPORT APPARATUS AND VEHICLE

• US 20160339911A1
• Filed: 05/11/2016
• Published: 11/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.), DENSO Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.), DENSO Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: OBAYASHI, Motonari, ISHIJIMA, Hironobu, KINOSHITA, Masaki, KATO, Masaya, HAMAMOTO, Yutaka, KIYOKAWA, Yusuke
• Granted Patent: US 10,232,850 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2554/00 Input parameters relating to objects
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/0956 the prediction being responsive to traffic or environmental parameters
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 15/027 Parking aids, e.g. instruction means
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 15/028 Guided parking by providing commands to the driver, e.g. acoustically or optically

Abstract

A parking-lot-leaving support apparatus, to execute parking-lot-leaving support to support a vehicle leaving a parking lot, based on a positional relationship between the vehicle and an obstacle in a back-and-forth direction of the vehicle, includes a determination unit configured to determine whether an obstacle exists in a side direction of the vehicle, based on a detection result of a detection unit that detects an obstacle in the side direction of the vehicle; and an inhibition unit configured to, when the determination unit has determined that the obstacle exists in the side direction of the vehicle, inhibit the parking-lot-leaving support in a direction that coincides with the side direction.

Claims

1. A parking-lot-leaving support apparatus, to execute a parking-lot-leaving support to support a vehicle leaving a parking lot, based on a positional relationship between the vehicle and an obstacle in a back-and-forth direction of the vehicle, comprising:

a determination unit configured to determine whether an obstacle exists in a side direction of the vehicle, based on a detection result of a detection unit that detects an obstacle in the side direction of the vehicle; and

an inhibition unit configured to, when the determination unit has determined that the obstacle exists in the side direction of the vehicle, inhibit the parking-lot-leaving support in a direction that coincides with the side direction in which the obstacle exists.

2. The parking-lot-leaving support apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the inhibition unit is further configured to, when the determination unit has determined that an obstacle exists in a leftward direction of the vehicle, and another obstacle exists in a rightward direction of the vehicle, inhibit the parking-lot-leaving support.

3. The parking-lot-leaving support apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the inhibition unit is further configured to, when the determination unit has determined that an obstacle exists in one of a leftward direction and a rightward direction of the vehicle, inhibit the parking-lot-leaving support, based on a relative positional relationship between the obstacle and a parking-lot-leaving direction of the vehicle selected by an occupant of the vehicle.

4. The parking-lot-leaving support apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the inhibition unit is further configured to determine whether a distance between the vehicle and the obstacle detected in the side direction of the vehicle is within a predetermined distance, for determining whether the obstacle exists in the side direction of the vehicle.

5. A vehicle, comprising:

a first detection unit configured to detect an obstacle in a back-and-forth direction of the vehicle;

a second detection unit configured to detect an obstacle in a side direction of the vehicle; and

a parking-lot-leaving support apparatus configured to execute a parking-lot-leaving support to support the vehicle leaving a parking lot, based on a positional relationship between the vehicle and the obstacle in the back-and-forth direction detected by the first detection unit,

wherein the parking-lot-leaving support apparatus includes

a determination unit configured to determine whether an obstacle exists in the side direction of the vehicle, based on a detection result of the second detection unit; and

an inhibition unit configured to, when the determination unit has determined that the obstacle exists in the side direction of the vehicle, inhibit the parking-lot-leaving support in a direction that coincides with the side direction in which the obstacle exists.