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Parking assistance system and parking assistance method

  • US 7,786,896 B2
  • Filed: 10/23/2006
  • Issued: 08/31/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A parking assistance system of a motor vehicle for outputting parking instructions, comprising:

  • a sensor device that performs a parking space measurement on the basis of parking space limits and generates parking space information as a function of the parking space measurement;

    a program-controlled device which calculates a driving trajectory to be traveled by the vehicle for a parking maneuver on the basis of the parking space information generated and calculates a time to collision and/or a distance to collision within which the vehicle will presumably collide with one of the parking space limits, basing this calculation on the parking space information generated as well as on the calculated driving trajectory;

    a warning signal transducer that generates a warning signal if the calculated time to collision is less than a first limit value and/or the calculated distance to collision is less than a second limit value; and

    a second sensor device for measuring an actual distance from the vehicle to at least one of the parking space limits;

    wherein the program-controlled device includes a comparator device to compare the parking space information generated with information measured by the second sensor device for measuring the actual distance of the vehicle from a parking space limit and, as a function thereof, output a comparative signal indicating whether the second sensor device for measuring the actual distance from a parking space limit is active,wherein the warning signal transducer contains a display which outputs a visual warning signal having at least two urgency levels and/or a loudspeaker that outputs an acoustic warning signal having at least two urgency levels,wherein the program-controlled device includes;

    a first calculation unit to calculate the time to collision on the basis of the parking space information generated by the sensor device for implementing a parking space measurement,a second calculation device to calculate the distance to collision on the basis of the actual distance measured by the second sensor device for measuring the actual distance from the parking space limit, andan evaluation device to evaluate the time to collision and the distance to collision and outputs an urgency signal that corresponds to the time to collision and the distance to collision and has the corresponding urgency level.

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