A vehicular trailer assist system includes a camera disposed at a rear portion of a vehicle and viewing a portion of a trailer hitched at a hitch of the vehicle. During a reversing maneuver of the vehicle and hitched trailer, the vehicular trailer assist system, responsive to processing at an electronic control unit (ECU) of image data captured by the camera, determines a trailer angle of the trailer relative to a longitudinal axis of the vehicle. Based at least in part on the determined trailer angle, the vehicular trailer assist system determines a trailer direction of movement of the trailer while the vehicle is reversing with the trailer hitched at the hitch of the vehicle. The vehicular trailer assist system determines a virtual destination location rearward of the trailer and in the determined trailer direction and controls steering of the vehicle to reverse the trailer towards the virtual destination location.

A parking assist system for a vehicle includes the following elements. A parking space width calculator is configured to calculate a parking space width between objects. A parking width comparator is configured to compare the parking space width with the width of a virtual parking region. A movement trace detector is configured to detect a movement trace within the virtual parking region. A target detector is configured to determine whether a target faces at least one side of the virtual parking region other than the side near the vehicle. A parking priority setter is configured to set a parking priority for the virtual parking region based on a movement trace and an object. A display selector is configured to display parking space candidates based on parking priority and instructs a driver to select a parking space candidate.

A vehicle having park assist includes a plurality of powered closure doors, each door having an actuator for moving the door between closed and open positions, a plurality of sensors located on the vehicle for sensing objects relative to the vehicle and generating sensed signals indicative of the sensed objects, and a transceiver for communicating with a parked vehicle. The vehicle also includes a controller processing the sensed signals, determining a distance and location of the sensed objects relative to the doors, and determining a parking location for the vehicle in a garage where the closure doors are free from contact with an object in the garage when in an open position and are free of contact with powered closure doors on the parked vehicle. An output is provided to assist a driver of the vehicle to park the vehicle in the garage in the determined parking location.

An embodiment driving assistance apparatus includes a sensor unit configured to search surroundings of a vehicle using one or more sensors, a steering device configured to control a traveling direction of the vehicle, a control unit configured to calculate a target trajectory of the vehicle using searching information received from the sensor unit and to calculate an expected trajectory of the vehicle based on a steering angle of the steering device, and an output unit configured to display the target trajectory and the expected trajectory for a driver, the display designed to assist a steering operation of the driver.

Methods and systems are provided for assisting a user with parking a vehicle in a parking space. In various embodiments a method includes: receiving, by a processor, user input indicating a position of a virtual line displayed on a display screen of the vehicle, wherein the virtual line is adjustable by a user; storing, by the processor and in a datastore, the position of the virtual line and a vehicle position associated with a parking space; and selectively displaying, by the processor, an appearance of the virtual line on the display screen when the vehicle is within a range of the vehicle position to assist a user in parking the vehicle in the parking space, wherein the selectively displaying is based on a comparison of a boundary within a scene associated with the parking space and the virtual line.

According to one embodiment, a vehicle guidance device is to be installed in a vehicle for providing path guidance to the vehicle. The device includes a plurality of receivers that receives a ranging information signal via a ultrasonic-wave ranging sensor, the ranging information signal including an ultrasonic-wave ranging signal on which path guidance information is superimposed, the ultrasonic-wave ranging signal being for measuring a distance to an object; an information extractor that extracts, for each of the receivers, the path guidance information from the ranging information signal; and a path guide that provides the path guidance on the basis of a distance corresponding to the ultrasonic-wave ranging signal and the path guidance information.

A vehicle system includes, a sensing device configured to detect vehicle status information including gear-stage information and steering information of a steering wheel, and a control device configured to determine a target parking spot among parking spots included in a parking lot based on the gear-stage information and the steering information when the vehicle maintains a stopped state for more than a predetermined period in the parking lot, and to execute an autonomous parking function for parking at the target parking spot.

The disclosure relates to a method and system for providing visual guidance to a driver of a vehicle. The method comprises detecting, by a plurality of sensors of the vehicle, sensor data representing a vehicle environment; dynamically displaying, by a display of the vehicle, a visual representation of the vehicle environment; overlaying the visual representation with one or more first visual elements representing a proposed trajectory of a maneuver of the vehicle within the vehicle environment.

A vehicular trailer guidance system includes an electronic control unit (ECU), a plurality of vehicle cameras and at least one trailer camera including a rear trailer camera disposed at a rear portion of a trailer hitched to the vehicle. A display screen is disposed in the vehicle and viewable by a driver of the vehicle. The display screen displays video images derived from captured image data, with the displayed video images including bird's-eye view images of a region at least partially surrounding the vehicle and trailer including an area rearward of the trailer hitched to the vehicle. During a reversing maneuver, and via processing of captured image data, an instruction for maneuvering the vehicle and trailer in reverse toward a target location is generated by the ECU. The generated instruction includes at least an instruction pertaining to steering of the vehicle during the reversing maneuver.

A parking assistance device includes a camera configured to capture a rear-view image of a vehicle, a plurality of sensors configured to sense an obstacle located around the vehicle, a controller configured to generate a parking guide line to guide the vehicle into a target parking space and assist a driver of the vehicle to park based on a separation distance between a predicted entrance trajectory corresponding to a steering angle of the vehicle and the parking guide line, and a display configured to match and display the rear-view image of the vehicle with the parking guide line.