US 12,332,072 B2
Visual guidance system for parking assistance
Artashes Michitarian, Oberschleissheim (DE); and Andreas Koehnlechner, Munich (DE)
Assigned to HARMAN BECKER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GMBH, Karlsbad (DE)
Filed by Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH, Karlsbad (DE)
Filed on Aug. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/816,670.
Claims priority of application No. 21191649 (EP), filed on Aug. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0059075 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. G01C 21/36 (2006.01); B60K 35/00 (2024.01); B60K 35/28 (2024.01)
CPC G01C 21/3632 (2013.01) [G01C 21/3635 (2013.01); G01C 21/3647 (2013.01); G01C 21/3697 (2013.01); B60K 35/00 (2013.01); B60K 35/28 (2024.01); B60K 2360/161 (2024.01); B60K 2360/166 (2024.01)] 19 Claims
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1. A method for providing visual guidance to a driver of a vehicle, the method comprising:
detecting, by a plurality of sensors of the vehicle positioned around the vehicle, sensor data representing a vehicle environment, wherein the plurality of sensors comprises ultrasonic sensors, cameras, LIDAR, or laser scanners;
stitching together images from the plurality of sensors of the vehicle to create a visual representation of the vehicle environment;
dynamically displaying, on a display of the vehicle that provides the driver with an improved overview of vehicle surroundings, the visual representation of the vehicle environment; and
overlaying the visual representation of the vehicle environment on the display of the vehicle with one or more first visual elements representing a proposed trajectory of a maneuver of the vehicle within the vehicle environment; and
overlaying, simultaneously with the first visual elements, second visual elements, wherein the second visual elements are based on an accumulated driver performance, wherein the accumulated driver performance is determined from stored deviations between proposed trajectories and actual trajectories for a plurality of prior maneuvers of the vehicle;
wherein the visual representation of the vehicle environment includes at least one of: a top view of the vehicle within the vehicle environment, and a three-dimensional view of the vehicle within the vehicle environment, a movement of the vehicle being shown within the displayed visual representation of the vehicle environment by changing a position of a visual representation of the vehicle within the environment; and
wherein a visual representation of one or more objects of the vehicle environment external to the vehicle remains static within the visual representation of the vehicle environment on the display of the vehicle when updating the visual representation of the vehicle environment on the display of the vehicle during the movement of the vehicle.