Autonomous Parking Display Priority for Overlapping Space Selection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing autonomous parking systems struggle to effectively distinguish between normal and registered parking spaces when they overlap, leading to reduced visibility and interference in the display of normal parking spaces.

Innovation Solution

A control device and method that prioritizes the display of normal parking spaces over registered spaces when they overlap, using external environment recognition data to detect and display parking candidates, allowing users to easily select the normal space.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If both normal parking space and registered parking space are displayed when they overlap, then complete information is provided to the user, but the visibility of the normal parking space is reduced and selection becomes difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completenessVSAvoidselection ease
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of displaying both parking spaces equally or prioritizing the registered parking space, the system inverts the display priority to show the normal parking space preferentially when overlap is detected. This inversion resolves the contradiction by making the normally less prioritized element (normal parking space) the dominant display element, ensuring both information completeness and selection ease.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies different display qualities to different parking space types based on their location and overlap status. When a normal parking space overlaps with a registered parking space, the normal parking space is displayed with higher priority (different display quality) to ensure visibility and ease of selection, while still maintaining the registered parking space information in the system.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Measurement precision

If registered parking space is displayed over normal parking space, then registered location accuracy is maintained, but the normal parking space visibility is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveparking space detection accuracyVSAvoiddisplay visibility
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSIllumination intensity

Solution Approach 1:

The system inverts the display priority hierarchy by showing the normal parking space preferentially over the registered parking space when overlap occurs. This ensures that the detected normal parking space (which may be more accurate for current conditions) is visible, while the registered parking space data is retained for reference and future use.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Solution Approach 2:

The display priority is made dynamic rather than static. The system automatically adjusts which parking space type is displayed preferentially based on real-time detection results and overlap conditions. This dynamic adjustment ensures optimal visibility and accuracy for the current parking situation while maintaining the ability to access registered parking space information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS12503129B2Control device, control method, and computer-readable recording medium
Publication Date: 2025.12.23 HONDA MOTOR CO LTD
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AI summary

A control device includes circuitry configured to: detect a first parking candidate position based on external environment recognition data of a moving body and a second parking candidate position registered in advance by a user of the moving body; cause a display device to display detected parking candidate positions; receive, from a user of the moving body, selection of a target parking position from among the displayed parking candidate positions; and park the moving body at the selected target parking position. The circuitry causes to display the first parking candidate position preferentially over the second parking candidate position, when the first parking candidate position and the second parking candidate position are detected and the first parking candidate position and the second parking candidate position overlap each other.