APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PARKING ASSISTANCE

摘要

An apparatus for providing parking assistance includes: a parking space searching unit that searches parking spaces around a vehicle by analyzing images and sensor-measuring values inputted from a camera and a sensor in the vehicle; a parking path range calculating unit that calculates a range available for generating parking paths for a target parking space selected from the searched parking spaces; a parking type determining unit that determines types of available parking in the calculated available range for generating parking paths and provides parking path ranges on the basis of parking paths estimated from the types of parking; and a parking assistance processing unit that provides parking assistance information for the vehicle in accordance with a target parking path range selected from the parking type-differentiated parking path ranges.

主权项

1. An apparatus for providing parking assistance, comprising:
a parking space searching unit that searches parking spaces around a vehicle by analyzing images and sensor-measuring values inputted from a camera and a sensor in the vehicle; a parking path range calculating unit that calculates available ranges for generating parking paths with respect to traveling directions according to a target parking space selected by a user from the searched parking spaces; a parking type determining unit that determines types of available parking in the calculated available range for generating parking paths and provides parking path ranges on the basis of parking paths estimated from the types of available parking in an image; and a parking assistance processing unit that provides parking assistance information for the current position of the vehicle in accordance with a target parking path range for a parking type which is selected by the user from the types of available parking differentiated parking path ranges.