IP Library Granted Patent US 11,904,840
Granted Patent B2
US 11,904,840 · App. 17/065,994 · Granted Feb 20, 2024

Parking assistance device, parking assistance method, and parking assistance program

Inventors: Kazuma Iwazawa (Kariya, JP); Hiroki Inagaki (Kariya, JP); Hiroyuki Tachibana (Kariya, JP); Yuichi Mizutani (Kariya, JP); Yusuke Kiyokawa (Kariya, JP); Motokatsu Tomozawa (Kariya, JP); Yoshihiko Kosegaki (Kariya, JP); Akihiro Omura (Kariya, JP)
Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
B60W30/00B60W30/143B60W40/105G08G1/143B60W2540/12
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Patent No.
US 11,904,840
App. No.
17/065,994
Granted
Feb 20, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A parking assistance device includes: a calculation unit that calculates a target speed with passage of time until a vehicle is moved to a parking target position; an event detection unit that detects an event that is a predetermined event indicating a timing of recalculation of the target speed; and an acquisition unit that acquires a current actual speed of the vehicle. Then, when the event is detected, the calculation unit recalculates the target speed to match the target speed with the current actual speed of the vehicle.

Claims (21)

1. A parking assistance device comprising:

a calculator that calculates a target speed with passage of time until a vehicle is moved to a parking target position;

an event detector that detects an event that is a predetermined event indicating a timing of recalculation of the target speed; and

an acquirer that acquires a current actual speed of the vehicle, wherein

when the event is detected, the calculator recalculates the target speed to match the target speed with the current actual speed of the vehicle, and

wherein the event detector detects, as the event, any one event or a plurality of events among: an event that parking assistance operation is started and the vehicle is moved by a predetermined distance; an event that a remaining distance that is a distance between the vehicle and the parking target position is less than a distance that is required until the vehicle stops and that is calculated first by the calculator; or an event that braking operation is detected.

2. The parking assistance device according to claim 1 , wherein

the calculator

calculates the target speed by using a plurality of decelerations in which a small deceleration is set when a remaining distance that is a distance between the vehicle and the parking target position is large and a large deceleration is set when the remaining distance is small.

3. A parking assistance method comprising:

a calculation step in which a calculator calculates a target speed with passage of time until a vehicle is moved to a parking target position;

an event detection step in which an event detector detects an event that is a predetermined event indicating a timing of recalculation of the target speed; and

an acquisition step in which an acquirer acquires a current actual speed of the vehicle, wherein

in the calculation step, when the event is detected, the calculator recalculates the target speed to match the target speed with the current actual speed of the vehicle, and

wherein the event detector detects, as the event, any one event or a plurality of events among: an event that parking assistance operation is started and the vehicle is moved by a predetermined distance; an event that a remaining distance that is a distance between the vehicle and the parking target position is less than a distance that is required until the vehicle stops and that is calculated first by the calculator; or an event that braking operation is detected.

4. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a parking assistance program that causes a computer to function as:

a calculator that calculates a target speed with passage of time until a vehicle is moved to a parking target position;

an event detector that detects an event that is a predetermined event indicating a timing of recalculation of the target speed; and

an acquirer that acquires a current actual speed of the vehicle, wherein

when the event is detected, the calculator recalculates the target speed to match the target speed with the current actual speed of the vehicle, and

wherein the event detector detects, as the event, any one event or a plurality of events among: an event that parking assistance operation is started and the vehicle is moved by a predetermined distance; an event that a remaining distance that is a distance between the vehicle and the parking target position is less than a distance that is required until the vehicle stops and that is calculated first by the calculator; or an event that braking operation is detected.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 23, 2021
From: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
To: AISIN CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 058575/0964 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 18, 2021
From: IWAZAWA, KAZUMA; INAGAKI, HIROKI; TACHIBANA, HIROYUKI; MIZUTANI, YUICHI; KIYOKAWA, YUSUKE; TOMOZAWA, MOTOKATSU; KOSEGAKI, YOSHIHIKO; OMURA, AKIHIRO
To: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 055636/0033 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-188118 · Oct 11, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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