Automated Parking Guidance via Around-View Image Input
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vehicle parking systems lack automated functionality and user convenience, particularly in selecting and controlling parking positions and directions, especially in the absence of visible parking lines or changing environmental conditions.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus equipped with multiple cameras generating an around-view image, a processor to interpret user inputs on a display for guiding parking, and the ability to control vehicle movements based on detected parking spaces and environmental changes, allowing for automated parking and re-parking in response to environmental shifts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If automated parking control is implemented, then parking convenience and precision are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables the vehicle to automatically detect parking spaces, calculate parking trajectories, and execute parking maneuvers without manual intervention. The processor autonomously processes camera images, determines parking regions, and controls vehicle movement, allowing the system to serve itself in the parking task.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical parking operations with an automated system using cameras for detection, processors for image processing and trajectory calculation, and electronic control systems for vehicle actuation. This substitution of mechanical manual control with automated sensing and control systems resolves the contradiction by improving convenience while managing complexity through integration.
2Measurement precision
If multiple cameras and processing units are added for automated parking, then parking precision and reliability are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the parking detection and control task into separate functional modules: multiple cameras capture images from different positions, the processor segmentally processes these images to detect parking spaces and calculate trajectories, and the control system executes specific movement commands. This segmentation allows high precision through coordinated multiple components while managing overall system complexity through modular architecture.
3Ease of operation
If the system provides detailed parking guidance and control, then user convenience is improved, but information processing requirements and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary image processing and parking space detection before the user needs to park. The processor pre-calculates parking trajectories and provides guidance information in advance, allowing the user to prepare for parking without being overwhelmed by real-time information processing demands during the actual parking maneuver.
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AI summary
An apparatus configured to park a vehicle includes a plurality of cameras configured to acquire images of surroundings of the vehicle; a display configured to display an around-view image showing a view around the vehicle that is generated by combining the images acquired by the plurality of cameras; and a processor. The processor is configured to determine a first input that is applied on the around-view image displayed on the display; display, according to the first input that has been applied on the around-view image, a parking guide image representing a user-specified parking region for the vehicle; determine whether there is an actual parking region that matches the displayed parking guide image representing the user-specified parking region; and based on a determination that there is an actual parking region that matches the displayed parking guide image, provide a signal that controls a parking operation of the vehicle.