A parking space detection apparatus detects a parking space of an own vehicle and includes: a vehicle determination section that determines whether an other vehicle is present on at least one of two sides of a parking space, based on search information acquired from an in-vehicle search section that searches for the parking space; a width calculation section that, it is determined that the other vehicle is present on at least one of the two sides of the parking space, calculate a width of the parking space on an entrance side and a width of the parking space on an inner side based on the search information; and a parking determination section that determines whether the own vehicle is able to park in the parking space based on the widths of the parking space on the entrance side and on the inner side and size of the own vehicle.

A vehicular camera monitoring system a driver-side camera, a driver-side video display screen disposed at a driver-side cabin region of an interior cabin of the vehicle, a passenger-side camera and a passenger-side video display screen disposed at a passenger-side cabin region of the interior cabin of the vehicle. During a parking maneuver or parking-space exit maneuver of the vehicle, the driver-side video display screen displays parking assist images derived from image data captured by the driver-side camera and the passenger-side video display screen displays parking assist images derived from image data captured by the passenger-side camera. Upon completion of the parking-space exit maneuver where the vehicle exits a parking space, the driver-side and passenger-side video display screens automatically operate to display driving assist video images derived from image data captured by the respective side camera, with the displayed driving assist video images being different from the displayed parking assist images.

A system for assisting parking a vehicle and a method for the same are provided. The method may include: receiving, by a user interface, a request signal for assisting the parking of the vehicle in the parking space from a user of the vehicle; activating, by a controller, a parking assist feature of the vehicle when the request signal is received; detecting, by a plurality of cameras, a plurality of predetermined locators in the parking space, wherein the plurality of predetermined locators are pre-selected before the parking assist feature is activated; calculating, by the controller, a driving distance and a driving maneuver from the vehicle to a predetermined location of the parking space; and providing, by the controller, a steering instruction to the predetermined location of the parking space to the user interface based on the calculated driving distance and the calculated driving maneuver.

A trailer reverse assist (TRA) system for a tow vehicle aids in reversing an attached trailer. The TRA system includes a processor circuit; at least one camera to obtain images of the trailer; and vehicle dynamic sensors to obtain vehicle dynamics data from the vehicle. The processor circuit, while the TRA system is in a standby, non-active state and while the vehicle is in Drive and traveling forward at a speed above a threshold speed: learns parameters and/or image features of an attached trailer based on data from the at least one camera and the vehicle dynamic sensors; causes the learned parameters and/or image features of the attached trailer to be stored in a database; and informs the driver via the infotainment system that the TRA system can be activated.

Disclosed is a surround view monitoring system for a vehicle, including a plurality of cameras included in the vehicle and configured to capture images of a region around the vehicle, an image synthesizer configured to form a synthesized image for monitoring the region around the vehicle by synthesizing the images captured by the plurality of cameras, a driving recognizer configured to recognize driving-state information of the vehicle, and a display controller configured to control a display device to selectively display a portion or an entirety of the synthesized image formed by the image synthesizer based on the driving-state information of the vehicle, recognized by the driving recognizer.

A parking assistance method provides parking assistance when parking a vehicle in a parking space equipped with a ground coil for supplying electric power via a wireless connection to a vehicle coil mounted on the vehicle, at least two ground marks indicating a position of the ground coil, and a parking frame. The parking assistance method switches from a bird's-eye image including the vehicle and a circumference of the vehicle as viewed from above the vehicle to an enlarged image showing a relative position between the ground coil and the vehicle coil on a larger scale than the bird's-eye image when an absolute value of a relative angle between a longitudinal direction of the parking frame and a front-rear direction of the vehicle is a predetermined value or smaller.

The present invention relates to a method for determining a turning radius of a trailer attached to a towing vehicle and moved by the latter, comprising a computing unit, which is connected to a measuring sensor system, which transmits sensor data about current movements of the trailer to the computing unit, and which sensor data is considered by the computing unit for the determination of the turning radius. The invention also relates to a trailer, which is equipped with a device, which uses a method of this type.

Disclosed is a parking assist device (100) including a parking assist control unit (5) that performs parking assist for a host vehicle (1) by using a first sensor (4) for parking assist disposed in the host vehicle (1), and a guide display control unit (25) that causes a display device (20) to display a guide display based on a first effective detection range (A.sub.L, A.sub.R) of the first sensor (4) in a state in which the guide display is superimposed on a front view with respect to the host vehicle (1).

A parking assistance apparatus capable of making a parking route shorter when providing parking assistance for parallel parking is obtained. The parking assistance apparatus according to the present invention is a parking assistance apparatus for assisting the parallel parking of a driver's own vehicle 21 and has a configuration that: calculates an escapable position where the driver's own vehicle 21 can be made to escape from a parking area Sp; calculates a parking-space leaving route E where the driver's own vehicle 21 can be moved from the escapable position to an initial position P0 in a passage area Sr; and sets a parking route based on the parking-space leaving route E. The parking-space leaving route E is calculated by using a first turning circle C1 when turning from the escapable position P2 to a passage side, a second turning circle C2 when turning in a direction of a target parking position P1 at the initial position P0 of the driver's own vehicle 21, and a third turning circle which is a locus of a turning center when the driver's own vehicle 21 has moved along the first turning circle C1 and turns in a direction different from the first turning circle C1.

A vehicle parking assist apparatus acquires a camera image when the vehicle stops by a non-determined parking lot and acquires feature points of a ground of an entrance of the non-determined parking lot as non-compared entrance feature points from the camera image. The vehicle parking assist apparatus determines whether the non-determined parking lot is a registered parking lot by comparing information on the non-compared entrance feature points with registered entrance feature point information. The vehicle parking assist apparatus executes a parking assist control with using the currently-acquired parking lot information and the registered parking lot information when the vehicle parking assist apparatus determines that the non-determined parking lot is the registered parking lot.