A parking assist system includes a control device configured to control screen display of a display device, to set the parking position candidate selected by an occupant as a target parking position, and to control an autonomous parking operation to autonomously move the vehicle to the target parking position. When multiple parking position candidates partially overlapping with each other are detected by a parking position candidate detector, the control device causes the display device to display the multiple parking position candidates so as to partially overlap with each other and to be selectable.

A method for recognizing a parking space for a vehicle and a parking assistance system are disclosed. An obstacle is identified from successive image frames captured when the vehicle is moving and a first boundary for the obstacle is generated by a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) algorithm based on a position of the obstacle shown in each of the successive image frames. Distances between the moving vehicle and the obstacle are detected by ultrasonic sensors. A second boundary for the obstacle is generated by a distance modification module based on the distances between the vehicle and the obstacle. A periphery of the obstacle is defined by a periphery definition module. In view of the periphery of the obstacle, a parking space is thus recognized by a parking space recognition module. The parking process can be changed to a self-drive mode, and remotely controlled by a mobile device.

An information processing apparatus communicable with the vehicle includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: detect the vehicle before parking; determine the characteristic of the detected vehicle or the characteristic of a driver of the vehicle; set a parking frame for the vehicle in accordance with the characteristic; and transmit information indicating the parking frame to the vehicle.

A method carries out a remote-controlled parking maneuver with a vehicle. A user with a mobile terminal is located outside the vehicle. The method plans a trajectory for the parking maneuver by way of a driver assistance system of the vehicle, maneuvers the vehicle along the planned trajectory by the driver assistance system, detects image data which describes the vehicle and the surroundings of the vehicle by a camera of the mobile terminal, and provides a display on a display device of the mobile terminal using the image data. The maneuvering process along the planned trajectory is carried out as long as an operating input which is carried out by the user on the mobile terminal and which describes a movement of the vehicle during the maneuvering process along the planned trajectory is detected by way of the mobile terminal, otherwise the maneuvering process is interrupted.

In various embodiments, a system and method for a light sensor network that provides an application framework for interactive applications are presented. The light sensor network includes a plurality of lighting nodes and a plurality of sensor controller nodes (SCNs) positioned within wireless communications range of one or more of the plurality of LNs. A LN within the light sensor network includes a communication interface having a first transceiver and a second transceiver. The first transceiver being configured to exchange communication signals to and from a service platform over a wide area network (WAN) via a lighting gateway node. The second transceiver being configured to receive beacon signals from a beacon transmitting device within a beacon communications range and further configured to transmit beacon signals to be received by a beacon-enabled device within the beacon communications range. Sensor data and beacon data are used by the interactive applications.

An automated valet parking system that performs automated valet parking includes an attention target space setter configured to set, based on a target parking space of an entry vehicle and parking place map information including entrance position information of a parking place, attention target spaces that are parking spaces that affect entry of the entry vehicle when any other vehicle is entering or exiting the attention target spaces among parking spaces around the target parking space, and a vehicle instructor configured to, when determination is made that attention target vehicles that are autonomous driving vehicles entering or exiting the attention target spaces are present, give an entry start instruction to the entry vehicle after determination is made that all the attention target vehicles have completed entry or exit from the parking spaces.

A reversing-assistance system for a vehicle, in particular for a utility vehicle, that exhibits a vehicle wiring harness, including: at least one sensor with a first wireless interface, to register a rear region of the vehicle and to transmit corresponding sensor signals in wireless manner; and a control unit, which is connected to the vehicle wiring harness and which includes a second wireless interface, to receive the sensor signals from the at least one sensor in wireless manner, to evaluate the sensor signals and to make them available; in which the control unit is configured to evaluate vehicle-related data independently of the sensor signals and, based on the data, to carry out a control of at least one component of the vehicle so as to perform a control function that is independent of the reversing assistant. Also described are a related method, a computer readable medium, and a utility vehicle.

A parking assistance device includes a parking region detection unit configured to periodically detect a parking-possible space in which the own-vehicle can be parked based on a result of detection by an external image capturing camera and a sonar configured to periodically detect the status of surroundings of the own-vehicle, a candidate region selection unit configured to select a parking candidate space as a parking candidate for the own-vehicle among the parking-possible spaces detected by the parking region detection unit, and a display control unit configured to cause a touch panel to display a surrounding image in which a parking position image illustrating a parking position is superimposed on the parking candidate space selected by the candidate region selection unit, and the candidate region selection unit continuously selects, as the parking candidate space, the parking-possible space corresponding to the selected parking candidate space for a predetermined duration.

A parking assistance apparatus includes: a parking space searching unit for searching for a parking-allowable parking space in which a user's vehicle can be parked; a target parking space selection unit for selecting a target parking space in which the user's vehicle is to be parked, based on an user setting information, when a plurality of parking-allowable parking spaces are detected; a parking operation assisting unit for assisting in a parking operation for parking the user's vehicle in the target parking space; and a parking operation assistance start determination unit for determining whether or not a determination condition for starting a parking operation is satisfied according to a state of the user's vehicle, and causing the parking operation assisting unit to start assisting in the parking operation when the determination condition is satisfied.

The invention relates to a method for determining a parking position for a motor vehicle, wherein a perpendicular parking space is detected by means of a sensor system of the motor vehicle, and a parking space data set characterizing the perpendicular parking space is provided to a control unit of the motor vehicle, and the parking position is determined by the control unit by using the parking space data set, as well as by using an access parameter of the motor vehicle that characterizes a possible opening of at least one folding element of the motor vehicle. The invention provides that the parking position is established using an additional access parameter of an additional motor vehicle that is parked adjacent to the parking position. Moreover the invention relates to a driver assistance system and a motor vehicle.