The parking assist apparatus comprises a first vehicle stop apparatus operated for a purpose of stopping a vehicle, a controller configured to be capable of performing parking assist control for parking a vehicle in a parking position and to finish the parking assist control by performing control for instructing a driver of the vehicle to operate the first vehicle stop apparatus or by controlling the first vehicle stop apparatus, and a second vehicle stop apparatus operated for a purpose of stopping the vehicle. When it is determined while the parking assist control is being performed that there is a malfunction in an apparatus for detecting whether or not operation of the first vehicle stop apparatus has been performed, the controller is configured to finish the parking assist control by performing control for instructing the driver to operate the second vehicle stop apparatus or by controlling the second vehicle stop apparatus.

Embodiments relate to systems, methods and computer readable media for parking monitoring in an urban area by image processing operations. Embodiments perform parking monitoring by capturing images of an urban area, comparing captured images with reference images to determine location and parking conditions. Embodiments processes captured images to detect licence plates, vehicles or parking signs to determine compliance of vehicles with parking conditions.

Provided are an automatic parking control method and apparatus, relating to the industrial field of vehicles. The method comprises: when a speed of a vehicle is in a preset speed range and a time that the speed of the vehicle is in the preset speed range is greater than or equal to a preset time, collecting image data and radar data around the vehicle; inputting the image data and the radar data into a preset convolutional neural network model, and outputting at least one parking slot information; selecting target parking slot information according to a received parking-in selection operation; and according to the target parking slot information, generating a vehicle parking-in track for the vehicle to automatically park according to the vehicle parking-in track.

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.

Provided are an intelligent parking method and apparatus, relating to the technical field of vehicles. The method comprises: determining a target parking route from at least one pre-stored parking route; determining a target position point in the target parking route closest to a vehicle; sending a prompt message for driving the vehicle to the target position point to a driver of the vehicle when a current position point of the vehicle and the target position point satisfy a proximity matching condition; and when the vehicle drives to the target position point, controlling the vehicle to park according to the target parking route from the target position point. Thus, the driver merely needs to drive the vehicle to a vicinity of the target parking route, and the vehicle may perform intelligent parking and may complete intelligent parking at a longer distance.

A vehicular parking assistance system includes a camera disposed at a vehicle and capturing image data. An electronic control unit (ECU) includes an image processor for processing image data captured by the camera. The parking assistance system, responsive to an input, determines a direction of travel for an automated parking maneuver. The parking assistance system, responsive to processing by the image processor of image data captured by the camera, determines a boundary of a free space in the direction of travel for the automated parking maneuver. The free space at least partially bounds an area where the vehicle can maneuver without colliding with a detected object. The parking assistance system, while driving the vehicle in the direction of travel, laterally adjusts a path of the vehicle based on the determined boundary of free space to avoid the detected object.

Aspects of the disclosure provide for the identification of parkable areas. In one instance, observations of parked vehicles may be identified from logged data. The observations may be used to determine whether a sub-portion of an edge of a roadgraph corresponds to a parkable area. In some examples, the edge may define a drivable area in the roadgraph. In addition, map information is generated based on the determination of whether the sub-portion of the edge corresponds to the parkable area.

An image processor includes an imaging device that captures an image of a road surface around a vehicle V, and a control portion that detects a marker drawn on the road surface from the captured image. The control portion connects a plurality of broken markers to create a single marker when the detected marker is broken into plural.

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.