Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.

Kenji Okano

Masayoshi Michiguchi

Tatsuto Ryugo

Yukiko Kanno

Yashio Kishi

Hirotaka Kamiyama

A driving assistance apparatus is provided in which the detection range of a left-front-corner sonar () located at the vehicle's left front corner is included in the field of view of a second imaging means () located at the vehicle's left front corner. When the left-front-corner sonar () detects a three-dimensional object at the vehicle's left front corner, an image processing means () synthesizes an image of the image created using a second imaging means () and the images created with four cameras (-) for imaging the complete periphery of the vehicle, and creates a bird's-eye-view image (). The detection range of the left-front-corner sonar () is included within a region of the bird's-eye image () on the basis of the image created with the second imaging means ().

Display apparatus

Driving assistance apparatus

A driving support device outputs, to a display means (), a superimposed image in which a pair of left and right planar predicted trajectory guide marks (), () corresponding to steering of the vehicle are superimposed onto a captured vehicle-rearview image including the tow vehicle connector () and the towed-vehicle connector (). An image superimposing unit () superimposes sides (), () of the predicted trajectory guide marks (), () that are on the vehicle-width-center side further towards the outer edge relative to the tow vehicle connector (), and superimposes sides (), () of the predicted trajectory guide marks (), () that are on the outer-edge side in the vehicle-width direction as predicted trajectories of the side edges of the vehicle.

Driving support apparatus for tow coupling

Driving assistance device and towing vehicle

Provided is a parking assist device such that, when a vehicle has reached an area corresponding to a backing start position, the angle of a current position with respect to a target parking position is placed in an appropriate range so as to facilitate subsequent guidance to the target parking position. In the parking assist device, when a vehicle () has reached any of a plurality of backing start positions (to), a state control unit () determines whether the angle of a current position with respect to a target parking position () is appropriate for guidance to a target parking position (), and, if not, displays an angle correction indicating icon () on an image display means () to provide an indication for correcting the angle.

Parking assist device

Disclosed is a parking assistance device such that it is easy to understand the process for aligning the vehicle with the guidance completion position of each stage of parking, specifically the parking start position, the steering wheel reversal position and the intended parking position. Specifically disclosed is a parking assistance device wherein a control device () switches to a first parking guidance indicator (A) during first parking guidance for guiding the vehicle to the parking start position, switches to a second parking guidance indicator (B) during second parking guidance for guiding the vehicle to the steering wheel reversal start position, and switches to a third parking guidance indicator (C) during third parking guidance for guiding the vehicle to the final parking position.

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