Parking assisting apparatus

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2005-04-27

2009-10-06

Tran, Khoi (Department: 3664)

Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location

Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication

Vehicle subsystem or accessory control

C701S001000, C701S041000, C318S567000, C318S568100, C318S568250, C318S580000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07599771

ABSTRACT:
It is an object of the present invention to provide a parking assisting apparatus for assisting a vehicle driver in parking a vehicle more easily than the conventional apparatuses. The parking assisting apparatus comprises an image pickup unit for picking up the image of the area behind a vehicle (80), display means for displaying the image picked up by the image pickup means; and image processing means for having the display means display a parking assisting guide for assisting a vehicle driver in parking the vehicle (80) superposed on the image picked up by the image pickup means; and in which the parking assisting guide includes a steering start marker (31) for notifying the vehicle driver of start of steering of the vehicle (80); the steering start marker (31) is constituted by an intersection of tangential lines (33, 34) respectively tangent to a predetermined track (32) at two different points; the predetermined track (32) is a track expected to be drawn by a predetermined fixed point (35) fixed with respect to the vehicle (80) while the vehicle (80) is driven backwardly at a maximum steering angle, and the fixed point (35) is located on a side opposite to a center (36) of a rotation of the vehicle (80) around which the vehicle (80) is expected to rotate while the vehicle (80) is driven backwardly at a maximum steering angle, with respect to the vehicle (80).

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