METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING AUTOMATIC PARKING OF A VEHICLE

Abstract

A method for monitoring automatic parking of a vehicle, at least one video image of an execution of the automatic parking of the vehicle being captured and transmitted to a mobile terminal device. A corresponding apparatus, a corresponding system and a parking system, are also provided.

Claims

1-10. (canceled)

11. A method for monitoring automatic parking of a vehicle, comprising: capturing at least one video image of an execution of the automatic parking of the vehicle; and transmitting the at least one video image to a mobile terminal device.

12. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the at least one video image includes a video image of a parking area in which the vehicle is intended to be parked automatically.

13. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the at least one video image includes at least one of: i) a video image taken by a camera inside the vehicle, and ii) a video image taken by a camera external to the vehicle.

14. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the at least one video image includes a video image taken by a camera external to the vehicle, wherein the camera external to the vehicle is one of: i) an in-vehicle camera of a further vehicle, or ii) a monitoring camera of a monitoring system external to the vehicle.

15. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein a monitoring system external to the vehicle tracks the vehicle during the execution of the automatic parking, and during the tracking, communicates with the vehicle for the purpose of determining the position of the vehicle, a correspondingly determined vehicle position being transmitted to the mobile terminal device for position tracking.

16. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein in response to sensing of a stop wish, the mobile terminal device transmits a stop signal to the vehicle which, in reaction to the reception of the stop signal, stops the execution of the parking.

17. The method as recited in claim 16, wherein in the event the automatic parking is being carried out in a parking facility monitored by a parking-facility management system, in response to the sensing of the stop wish, a message is transmitted to the parking-facility management system to inform the parking-facility management system that a problem has occurred in the parking facility.

18. An apparatus for monitoring automatic parking of a vehicle, comprising: a video-capturing device for capturing a video image of an execution of the automatic parking; and a communication interface designed to transmit the captured video image to a mobile terminal device.

19. A system for monitoring automatic parking of a vehicle, comprising: an apparatus for monitoring automatic parking of a vehicle, the apparatus including a video-capturing device for capturing a video image of an execution of the automatic parking, and a communication interface designed to transmit the captured video image to a mobile terminal device; and a mobile terminal device having a respective communication interface which is designed to receive the captured video image.

20. A parking system for the parking of vehicles, comprising: one or more parking spaces for the parking of vehicles; and an apparatus for monitoring automatic parking of a vehicle, the apparatus including a video-capturing device for capturing a video image of an execution of the automatic parking, and a communication interface designed to transmit the captured video image to a mobile terminal device.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0039] FIG. 1 shows a flowchart of a method for monitoring automatic parking of a vehicle.

[0040] FIG. 2 shows an apparatus for monitoring automatic parking of a vehicle.

[0041] FIG. 3 shows a system for monitoring automatic parking of a vehicle.

[0042] FIG. 4 shows a parking system for the parking of vehicles.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EXAMPLE EMBODIMENTS

[0043] FIG. 1 shows a flowchart of a method for monitoring automatic parking of a vehicle.

[0044] According to a step 101, at least one video image is taken of an execution of the automatic parking of the vehicle. In a step 103, the captured video image is transmitted to a mobile terminal device. For example, the mobile terminal device is a smartphone. Specifically, the transmission is accomplished via a communication network. In particular, the mobile terminal device displays the recorded video image.

[0045] FIG. 2 shows an apparatus 201 for monitoring automatic parking of a vehicle.

[0046] Apparatus 201 includes a video-capturing device 203 for capturing a video image of an execution of the automatic parking. In addition, apparatus 201 includes a communication interface which is designed to transmit the recorded video image to a mobile terminal device.

[0047] According to one specific embodiment (not shown), video-capturing device 201 includes one or more video cameras. For instance, the video cameras are video cameras inside the vehicle and/or external to the vehicle. In particular, that is to say that during the automatic parking of the vehicle, video cameras inside the vehicle thus take video images of a vehicle environment and transmit these captured video images to the mobile terminal device. The video cameras external to the vehicle are especially in-vehicle video cameras of further vehicles and/or monitoring cameras of a monitoring system.

[0048] FIG. 3 shows a system 301 for monitoring automatic parking of a vehicle.

[0049] System 301 includes apparatus 201 of FIG. 2, as well as a mobile terminal device 303 which has a communication interface 305 that is designed to receive the captured video image. For example, mobile terminal device 303 is a smartphone. Mobile terminal device 303 includes a display unit, for instance, for displaying the received video image.

[0050] FIG. 4 shows a parking system 401 for the parking of vehicles.

[0051] Parking system 401 includes apparatus 201 of FIG. 2, as well as one or more parking spaces 403 for the parking of vehicles.

[0052] According to one specific embodiment, the plurality of parking spaces are assigned to a parking garage. In other words, the parking system thus includes a parking garage having a plurality of parking spaces for parking vehicles, as well as the apparatus according to the present invention.

[0053] Thus, the invention expressly includes the idea of expanding known automatic parking methods to the effect that vehicle tracking is made available as video image, and in particular, at the end of the parking maneuver, a video image at the parking position is also provided.

[0054] The features and specific embodiments cited hereinafter are provided individually or in combination in further specific embodiments: