Parking Space Highlighting Across Virtual and Real Parking Views
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Solution Overview
Problem
In the parking process, drivers face challenges comparing virtual reality (VR) images with real-world physical spaces, leading to reduced parking efficiency and reliability of automatic parking systems due to visual presentation differences.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that simultaneously display a virtual parking image and a corresponding real parking image, allowing drivers to select a target parking space in the virtual image and have it highlighted in both images, thereby eliminating the need for direct comparison between the virtual and real worlds.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a VR image is used for parking selection, then the automatic parking system can recognize obstacles and vacant parking spaces, but the driver needs to compare the VR image with the real physical world, taking more time and reducing parking efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the real parking environment using sensors and generates a VR image that replicates the physical parking scene. This virtual copy allows the driver to select parking spaces in the virtual environment without needing to continuously compare it with the real world, as the virtual image accurately represents the actual parking conditions including obstacles and vacant spaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The VR image serves as an intermediary between the real parking environment and the driver's decision-making process. Instead of directly observing the real world, the driver interacts with the virtual representation, which mediates the information flow and eliminates the need for direct comparison while maintaining accurate spatial relationships and parking space identification.
2Ease of operation
If a VR image is used for parking selection, then the system can provide virtual parking space identification, but the visual presentation differences between VR image and real physical world bring comparison anxiety to the driver, reducing the reliability of the automatic parking system
Solution Approach 1:
The patent aligns the visual presentation of the VR image with the real physical world by maintaining consistent perspectives, orientations, and spatial relationships. The virtual image is generated to match the driver's actual viewing angle and environmental conditions, creating an equipotential visual experience that eliminates disorientation and comparison anxiety, thereby enhancing driver confidence.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the parking environment into distinct recognizable elements such as parking space boundaries, obstacles, and vehicle positions within the VR image. By clearly delineating these segments with visual markers and maintaining their accurate spatial relationships, the system makes the virtual environment easily interpretable and comparable to the real world, reducing driver anxiety.
3Ease of operation
If manual parking is used with VR image comparison, then the driver has control over the parking process, but the visual presentation differences require more time to compare, reducing parking efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a faithful virtual copy of the parking environment that preserves all spatial relationships, obstacle positions, and vacant space configurations. This accurate copy allows drivers to perform manual parking selection in the virtual environment without needing to repeatedly reference the real world, maintaining full driver control while significantly reducing the time required for parking space identification and comparison.
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AI summary
The present disclosure provides a parking interaction method and apparatus, a storage medium, an electronic device and a vehicle, and belongs to the field of vehicle technologies. The method includes: outputting and displaying a currently-generated virtual parking image and a corresponding real parking image; receiving a parking space selection instruction for the virtual parking image, where the parking space selection instruction includes first position information of a to-be-parked target available parking space in the virtual parking image; according to a correspondence between the virtual parking image and the real parking image, determining second position information of the target available parking space in the real parking image; according to the first position information, highlighting the target available parking space in the virtual parking image, and according to the second position information, highlighting the target available parking space in the real parking image.