Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Tatsuto Ryugo

Masayoshi Michiguchi

Kenji Okano

Yukiko Kanno

Koji Fujii

Akihisa Kawasaki

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 parking assistance system includes: a color/IR detector which detects, from a camera image captured with a camera, marker candidates that are areas in each of which an intensity of a color component or an infrared (IR) component exceeds a threshold; a marker position calculator which calculates positions of the marker candidates in the camera image; and a validity verifier which determines whether the marker candidates are valid as the markers, based on the positions of the marker candidates and a predetermined positional relationship of the markers.

Parking assistance system and parking assistance method

The device comprises: a first image capture means () for image capturing a host vehicle vicinity; a sonar () which senses an object in the host vehicle vicinity; a second image capture means () for image capturing the left front corner of the host vehicle; an image compositing means for forming a bird's-eye image on the basis of the images which are captured with the first image capture means () and the second image capture means (); and a control means () for controlling a switch of a display of a display means (). The control means () establishes the display switch condition of the display means () on the basis of the travel state of the host vehicle when the sonar () senses the object and the travel state of the host vehicle when the sonar () does not sense the object.

Drive assistance 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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Tokyo, Japan

Tatsuto Ryugo