Park-assisting apparatus

• US 20030030724A1
• Filed: 07/08/2002
• Published: 02/13/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
• Inventors: Okamoto, Shinichi
• Application Number:
  US10/189,564
• Publication Number:
  US 20030030724A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/148
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 2201/10 Automatic or semi-automatic parking aid systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast

Abstract

Assisting a vehicle driver to place a vehicle securely to a parking space by driving a vehicle backward to maintain the maximum steering angle set at a position to start driving a vehicle backward, a park-assisting apparatus includes a display device 3 for displaying a predetermined rear area view of a vehicle; an image of intended course storing device 4 for storing beforehand an intended course to be driven in the predetermined rear area view when the vehicle is driven backward with the maximum steering angle; and a superimposing display device 2 for displaying the intended course by superimposing on the rear area view of the vehicle taken by the image pick-up device 1 in the display device 3.

Claims

1. A park-assisting apparatus comprising:

a display device for displaying an image of a predetermined rear area view of a vehicle, a relative position of which is fixed against the vehicle;

an image of intended course storing device for storing beforehand an image of an intended course in order to display the intended course of the vehicle by superimposing on the rear area view of the display device, the intended course being a course to be driven in the predetermined rear area view corresponding to the vehicle in a current position when the vehicle is driven backward with the maximum steering angle;

an image pick-up device for taking a picture of the rear area view of the vehicle; and

a superimposing display device for displaying the image of the intended course, the intended course being stored in the image of intended course storing device, by superimposing on the image of the rear area view of a vehicle being taken by the image pick-up device, upon receiving a display command from outside.

2. The park-assisting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the image of intended course storing device stores images of intended courses of the maximum steering angle to the right and the maximum steering angle to the left and outputs one of the stored images to the superimposing display device selectively by control of a display control device in compliance with operating an image switching device.