Clarion Co

Shuzo Kaneko

Takehito Ogata

Kohei Mandai

Daisuke Fukuda

Toshihisa Kuwahara

Hiroaki Andou

Ryosuke Umino

A parking assistance device includes a parking direction specification unit specifying a parking direction in a case where a subject vehicle is parked at a parking region, an obstacle detection unit detecting an obstacle, a detection range setting unit setting a detection range for detecting a bearing of the obstacle, a division unit dividing the detection range in a direction associated with the specified parking direction and generating plural divided ranges, a bearing calculation unit calculating a bearing of the detected obstacle, which is a bearing of a side surface of the obstacle which extends in the parking direction, for each of the divided ranges and calculating an average value of the bearings which are respectively calculated for the divided ranges, and a parking position setting unit setting a parking position where the subject vehicle is parked at the parking region based on the calculated average value.

Parking assistance device and control method of parking assistance device

An adhered-substance detecting apparatus capable of detecting adhered substances such as water droplets, mud, and dust, including those with ambiguous outlines, which adhere to, for example, a lens for an imaging apparatus, and a vehicle system equipped with the adhered-substance detecting apparatus are provided.

Adhered-substance detecting apparatus and vehicle system equipped with the same

An in-vehicle deviceincludes an image acquisition unitthat acquires an image photographed by a cameraincluding a lens, a storage unit, a dirt detection unitthat detects dirt on the lens on the basis of the image acquired by the image acquisition unitand that stores dirt region information indicating a region where the dirt exists in the image into the storage unit, a dirt removal information generation unitthat generates dirt removal information indicating a region where the dirt on the lens is removed, and a rewriting unitthat rewrites the dirt region information on the basis of the dirt removal information. Accordingly, it is possible to rewrite the dirt region information on the basis of the dirt removal information.

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Saitama, Japan

Shuzo Kaneko