US 11,875,542 B2
Parking assist system
Otoki Yagi, Tokyo (JP); Masayoshi Koiji, Tokyo (JP); Reo Harada, Tokyo (JP); Tomomi Heta, Tokyo (JP); and Cong Kien Nguyen, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/866,226.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-121761 (JP), filed on Jul. 26, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0028489 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 5/44 (2011.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01); B60W 30/06 (2006.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06V 20/586 (2022.01) [B60W 30/06 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0083 (2013.01); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01); B60W 2420/42 (2013.01); B60W 2540/215 (2020.02)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A parking assist system configured to assist a vehicle in parking in a parking space of a parking lot, the parking assist system comprising:
an environment information obtainer configured to obtain environment information on an environment around the vehicle;
a sufficient parking space setter configured to set a sufficient parking space for the vehicle by including a parking allowance width on each of left and right sides of the vehicle;
a parked-vehicle inter-space calculator configured to calculate a space between parked vehicles, based on the environment information obtained by the environment information obtainer;
a parking capable space setter configured to compare the space between the parked vehicles with the sufficient parking space, determine whether the space between the parked vehicles is greater than or equal to the sufficient parking space, and, upon determining that the space between the parked vehicles is greater than or equal to the sufficient parking space, set the space between the parked vehicles to be a parking capable space; and
a parking assister configured to guide the vehicle to the parking capable space.