IP Library Granted Patent US 10,974,735
Granted Patent B2
US 10,974,735 · App. 16/622,740 · Granted Apr 13, 2021

Parking assistance device

Inventor: Koji Takahashi (Hitachinaka, JP)
Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
B60W50/14B60W30/06B60W40/06G06K9/00805B60W2050/146B60W2554/00
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Patent No.
US 10,974,735
App. No.
16/622,740
Granted
Apr 13, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

Parking a vehicle at a location where parking is possible even when an obstacle is falsely detected. In a parking assistance device 1 , an external environment recognition unit 11 recognizes road surface environment around an own vehicle on the basis of information detected by an external environment sensor 4 installed in the own vehicle. The display control unit 17 performs screen display using the HMI device 2 to present, to an occupant of the own vehicle, road surface information indicating the presence of an obstacle on the road surface around the own vehicle on the basis of the road surface environment recognized by the external environment recognition unit 11 . The road surface information correction unit 16 corrects the road surface information and invalidates the obstacle. The parking route calculation unit 14 calculates a parking route for parking the own vehicle on the basis of the road surface information corrected by the road surface information correction unit 16.

Claims (20)

1. A parking assistance device comprising:

at least one processor configured to:

recognize a road surface environment around a vehicle on the basis of information detected by an external environment sensor installed in the vehicle;

present, to an occupant of the vehicle, road surface information indicating a presence of an obstacle on a road surface around the vehicle on the basis of the recognized road surface environment;

correct the road surface information and invalidate the obstacle; and

calculate a parking route for parking the vehicle on the basis of the corrected road surface information,

wherein the external environment sensor includes a first sensor configured for two-dimensional detection around the vehicle, and a second sensor configured for three-dimensional detection around the vehicle,

the at least one processor is configured to:

permit a correction of the road surface information for the obstacle detected by the first sensor and not detected by the second sensor, and

prohibit the correction of the road surface information for the obstacle detected by the second sensor.

2. The parking assistance device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the at least one processor is configured to cancel the prohibition of correction of the road surface information in a case where a predetermined operation is performed by the occupant.

3. The parking assistance device according to claim 1 , further comprising a memory configured to store correction history of the road surface information.

4. The parking assistance device according to claim 1 ,

wherein in a case where a plurality of obstacles has been detected, the at least one processor is configured to cause a display device to display a road surface information correction screen listing the plurality of obstacles, and

the at least one processor is configured to correct the road surface information for the obstacle selected by the occupant on the road surface information correction screen.

5. The parking assistance device according to claim 1 ,

wherein in a case where the obstacle has been detected by the second sensor and has been selected to be invalidated by the occupant, the at least one processor is configured to cause a display device to:

display a notification to the occupant that the obstacle has been detected by the second sensor, and

prompt the occupant to choose whether or not to invalidate the object.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Sep 2, 2021
From: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
To: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
Reel/Frame 057655/0824 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 13, 2019
From: TAKAHASHI, KOJI
To: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 051280/0180 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2017-124021 · Jun 26, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
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