Parking support device

• US 8,487,783 B2
• Filed: 08/24/2011
• Issued: 07/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoshihashi, Akio, Kubota, Yuuichi, Endo, Tomohiko, Kawabata, Yukiko, Nonoyama, Takashi, Ohira, Takashi, Ikari, Keisuke, Makino, Yasushi, Ito, Takuya
• Primary Examiner(s): Bugg, George
• Assistant Examiner(s): SMALL, NAOMI J
• Application Number:
  US13/216,332
• Publication Number:
  US 20110304477A1
• Time in Patent Office: 692 Days
• Field of Search: 340/932.2, 340/425.5, 345/173
• US Class Current: 340/932.2
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/146 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/14 Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 15/0285 Parking performed automatically

Abstract

To provide a parking support device for easily and quickly moving or rotating a target parking frame to an appropriate position. The parking support device includes a target parking position setting unit configured to set a target parking position at which a vehicle is to be parked with a target parking frame superimposed on an actual image displaying an area surrounding the vehicle. The parking support device guides the vehicle to the target parking position set by the target parking position setting unit. The target parking position setting unit moves the target parking frame initially displayed on a touch display to a position indicated by a coordinate point determined by a touch operation.

Claims

1. A parking support device comprising:

a target parking position setting unit configured to set, based on a position of a target parking frame, a target parking position at which a vehicle is to be parked by superimposing the target parking frame on an actual image on a touch display displaying an area surrounding the vehicle, the target parking frame being rotatable relative to the actual image, wherein;

the parking support device guides the vehicle to the target parking position set by the target parking position setting unit; and

the target parking position setting unit moves the target parking frame to a position including a coordinate point on the touch display, wherein the coordinate point is determined by a touch operation performed on the touch display, said coordinate point being located at a part other than a button switch superimposed on the actual image displayed on the touch display.

2. The parking support device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a rotation center highlighting unit configured to highlight a rotation center of the target parking frame in such a manner that the rotation center can be identified.

3. The parking support device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a translucent display unit configured to display, in a translucent manner, the target parking frame to be displayed on the actual image displaying the area surrounding the vehicle.

4. The parking support device according to claim 1, wherein:

the target parking position setting unit causes a line connecting said coordinate point and another coordinate point determined by the touch operation performed on the touch display to correspond to a frame border of the target parking frame.

5. The parking support device according to claim 2, wherein:

the target parking position setting unit moves the rotation center of the target parking frame to said coordinate point on the touch display determined by the touch operation performed on the touch display, said coordinate point being located at the part other than the button switch superimposed on the actual image displayed on the touch display.

6. The parking support device according to claim 2, wherein:

the rotation center of the target parking frame is located at a point along a frame border of the target parking frame.

7. The parking support device according to claim 2, wherein:

the rotation center of the target parking frame is located at one of four corners of the target parking frame.

8. A parking support device comprising:

a target parking position setting unit configured to set, based on a position of a target parking frame, a target parking position at which a vehicle is to be parked by superimposing the target parking frame on an actual image on a touch display displaying an area surrounding the vehicle, the target parking frame being rotatable relative to the actual image, wherein;

the parking support device guides the vehicle to the target parking position set by the target parking position setting unit; and

the target parking position setting unit moves the target parking frame to a position including a coordinate point on the touch display, wherein the coordinate point is determined by a touch operation performed on the touch display, said coordinate point being located at a part other than a graphical icon displayed on the touch display.

9. The parking support device according to claim 8, wherein:

by touching the graphical icon, the position of the target parking frame is finely adjusted.

10. The parking support device according to claim 9, wherein:

the graphical icon includes at least one of an upward icon for moving the target parking frame upward, a downward icon for moving the target parking frame downward, a leftward icon for moving the target parking frame toward the left, a rightward icon for moving the target parking frame toward the right, a counter clockwise icon for rotating the target parking frame in a counter clockwise direction, and a clockwise icon for rotating the target parking frame in a clockwise direction.