A system, method, infrastructure, and vehicle for supporting automated valet parking are provided. The automated valet parking method may include: establishing, by a vehicle, a communication with an infrastructure facility; receiving, by the vehicle, a target position and a guide route from the infrastructure facility after the communication is established; performing, by the vehicle, an autonomous driving based on the guide route; and parking, by the vehicle, at the target position.

An apparatus and method for providing a top view image of a parking space are provided. The apparatus includes a steering angle sensor that measures a steering angle of a vehicle, a top view image generator that generates a top view image of a parking space depending on travel of the vehicle, a display that displays the top view image generated by the top view image generator, and a controller that captures the top view image displayed by the display and generates a panorama top view image by connecting the current top view image generated by the top view image generator and the captured previous top view image, based on the steering angle measured by the steering angle sensor.

A parking assist apparatus includes an ECU. The ECU displays a first left support image on a predetermined display area of a touch panel display section so that an entire area of a tentative target parking space is displayed within the predetermined display area, based on a relative position of the tentative target parking space with respect to a vehicle.

A driving assistance system for a vehicle, comprising: a detection unit configured to detect information regarding surroundings of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to perform driving assistance control based on information detected by the detection unit, wherein, when the control unit performs an operation of stopping movement due to an object detected by the detection unit during the driving assistance control, the control unit restarts the movement after a predetermined time elapses from when the stop operation is started.

An extraction unit (101) extracts as a stationary object-detection point, a detection point on a stationary object among a plurality of detection points around a vehicle (200), the plurality of detection points being detected by an outside-detection sensor (501) at a plurality of detection timings. A grouping unit (105) groups two or more stationary object-detection points deduced as detection points on a same stationary object, among a plurality of stationary object-detection points extracted by the extraction unit (101) at the plurality of detection timings.

A device for searching a parking space includes at least one space detection sensor mounted on a vehicle, and a controller that analyzes sensed information obtained through the space detection sensor to recognize space and object information within a parking lot, predicts a distribution of available parking spaces in the parking lot based on the recognized space and object information, and determines an optimal available parking space based on the distribution of the available parking spaces and characteristics of a driver.

A method for reducing parking violations includes: searching for an empty parking spot in an area surrounding a vehicle; receiving, by a controller of the vehicle, parking restriction information in the area surrounding the vehicle, wherein the controller receives the parking restriction information from sensors of the vehicle; determining, by the controller of the vehicle, that the empty parking spot is invalid; and activating, by the controller of the vehicle, an alarm to alert a vehicle operator of the vehicle that the empty parking spot is invalid.

An apparatus for controlling autonomous parking and method thereof are provided. The apparatus for controlling autonomous parking according to embodiments of the present disclosure includes a sensor to detect surrounding information of a host vehicle; a transceiver to communicate with a control server to receive space information in a parking lot; a display to display a parking situation; and a controller communicatively connected to the sensor, the transceiver, and the display and configured to detect available parking spaces based on a detection result from the sensor and space information from the control server and perform autonomous parking by setting a position selected by a user's drag operation to a target parking space among the detected available parking spaces.

An apparatus for controlling autonomous parking and method thereof are provided. The apparatus for controlling autonomous parking according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure a sensor unit for acquiring information around a host vehicle, a storage for storing driver's tendency information upon autonomous parking, and a controller communicatively connected to the sensor unit. Here, the controller is configured to: search for an available parking space based on the acquired information around the vehicle, determine whether the available parking space is next to a pillar, determine whether a passenger exists on the side of the pillar when parking in the available parking space, set a parking target position based on the driver's tendency information when the passenger gets off and set a parking longitudinal offset so that a door and a side mirror of the vehicle do not interfere with the pillar, and perform autonomous parking by varying the parking target position according to the offset set above.

One embodiment of the present invention predicts a vehicular event relating to machinal performance using information obtained from interior and exterior sensors, vehicle onboard computer (“VOC”), and cloud data. The process of predication is able to activate interior and exterior sensors mounted on a vehicle operated by a driver for obtaining current data relating to external surroundings, interior settings, and internal mechanical conditions of the vehicle. After forwarding the current data to VOC to generate a current vehicle status representing real-time vehicle performance in accordance with the current data, retrieving a historical data associated with the vehicle including mechanical condition is retrieved. In one aspect, a normal condition signal is issued when the current vehicle status does not satisfy with the optimal condition based on the historical data. Alternatively, a race car condition is issued when the current vehicle status meets with the optimal condition.