Parking assisting apparatus
First Claim
1. A parking assisting apparatus, comprising:
- image pickup means for picking up an image of an area behind a vehicle;
display means for displaying said image picked up by said image pickup means; and
image processing means for having said display means display a parking assisting guide for assisting a vehicle driver in parking said vehicle superposed on said image picked up by said image pickup means; and
in whichsaid parking assisting guide includes a steering start marker for notifying said vehicle driver of start of steering of said vehicle;
said steering start marker is constituted by an intersection of tangential lines respectively tangent to a predetermined track at two different points;
said predetermined track is a track expected to be drawn by a predetermined fixed point fixed with respect to said vehicle while said vehicle is driven backwardly at a maximum steering angle, andsaid fixed point is located on a side opposite to a center of a rotation of said vehicle while said vehicle is driven backwardly at a maximum steering angle, with respect to said vehicle.
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Abstract
It is an object of the present invention to provide a parking assisting apparatus for assisting a vehicle driver in parking a vehicle more easily than the conventional apparatuses. The parking assisting apparatus comprises an image pickup unit for picking up the image of the area behind a vehicle (80), display means for displaying the image picked up by the image pickup means; and image processing means for having the display means display a parking assisting guide for assisting a vehicle driver in parking the vehicle (80) superposed on the image picked up by the image pickup means; and in which the parking assisting guide includes a steering start marker (31) for notifying the vehicle driver of start of steering of the vehicle (80); the steering start marker (31) is constituted by an intersection of tangential lines (33, 34) respectively tangent to a predetermined track (32) at two different points; the predetermined track (32) is a track expected to be drawn by a predetermined fixed point (35) fixed with respect to the vehicle (80) while the vehicle (80) is driven backwardly at a maximum steering angle, and the fixed point (35) is located on a side opposite to a center (36) of a rotation of the vehicle (80) around which the vehicle (80) is expected to rotate while the vehicle (80) is driven backwardly at a maximum steering angle, with respect to the vehicle (80).
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7 Claims
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1. A parking assisting apparatus, comprising:
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image pickup means for picking up an image of an area behind a vehicle; display means for displaying said image picked up by said image pickup means; and image processing means for having said display means display a parking assisting guide for assisting a vehicle driver in parking said vehicle superposed on said image picked up by said image pickup means; and
in whichsaid parking assisting guide includes a steering start marker for notifying said vehicle driver of start of steering of said vehicle; said steering start marker is constituted by an intersection of tangential lines respectively tangent to a predetermined track at two different points; said predetermined track is a track expected to be drawn by a predetermined fixed point fixed with respect to said vehicle while said vehicle is driven backwardly at a maximum steering angle, and said fixed point is located on a side opposite to a center of a rotation of said vehicle while said vehicle is driven backwardly at a maximum steering angle, with respect to said vehicle. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 7)
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6. A parking assisting method, comprising the steps of:
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an image pickup step of picking up an image of an area behind a vehicle; a display step of displaying said image picked up in said image pickup step; and an image processing step of having said display step display a parking assisting guide for assisting a vehicle driver in parking said vehicle superposed on said image picked up in said image pickup step; and
in whichsaid parking assisting guide includes a steering start marker for notifying said vehicle driver of start of steering of said vehicle; said steering start marker is constituted by an intersection of tangential lines respectively tangent to a predetermined track at two different points; said predetermined track is a track expected to be drawn by a predetermined fixed point fixed with respect to said vehicle while said vehicle is driven backwardly at a maximum steering angle, and said fixed point is located on a side opposite to a center of a rotation of said vehicle while said vehicle is driven backwardly at a maximum steering angle with respect to said vehicle.
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Specification