US 11,735,049 B2
Park assist system
Toshihiro Takagi, Nisshin (JP); Yu Hiei, Chiryu (JP); Chenyang Wang, Toyota (JP); Motonari Obayashi, Nagakute (JP); and Tsutomu Mochida, Shizuoka-ken (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Apr. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/713,400.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-088145 (JP), filed on May 26, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0383746 A1, Dec. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. G08G 1/14 (2006.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 30/06 (2006.01)
CPC G08G 1/143 (2013.01) [B60W 30/06 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A park assist system that includes a controller configured to execute park assist control with which a vehicle is automatically parked in a parking spot designated by a driver of the vehicle, the park assist system comprising:
a display device configured to display a parking spot image such that the driver is able to visually recognize the parking spot image, the parking spot image showing a parking spot in which the vehicle is allowed to be parked with the park assist control, wherein:
the controller is configured to
set a point at a position higher than the vehicle and across the vehicle from the parking spot as a viewpoint used to generate the parking spot image,
set an angle according to a parking spot distance that is an actual distance between the vehicle and a parking spot shown by the parking spot image as a depression angle used to generate the parking spot image,
generate the parking spot image by using the viewpoint and the depression angle,
cause the display device to display the generated parking spot image, and
park the vehicle with the park assist control in a parking spot set by the driver as a target parking spot by way of viewing the parking spot image.