Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Tomoyuki Matsuba

Yusuke Kiyokawa

Hironobu Ishijima

Masaya Kato

Noboru Nagamine

Tomohisa Yamashita

Kazuya Watanabe

Motonari Obayashi

Jun Kadowaki

Keisuke Oyama

Yuuichi Ooshita

Keigo Ikeda

Hiroyuki Tachibana

Takashi Kuwayama

A vehicle control apparatus includes: a clocking section which clocks time after an operation section is operated until a certain period of time elapses; and a vehicle control section which starts a first control in a case where a vehicle is stopped within the certain period of time after the operation section is operated, the first control corresponding to a control executed in a case where the operation section is operated in a state where the vehicle is stopped.

Vehicle control apparatus

A parking assist system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to detect an obstacle, detect a boundary of a parking space, determine a target position to which a vehicle moves, and, when the vehicle is allowed to be located in a third area in which a first area and a second area overlap with each other, be allowed to determine the target position in the third area. The first area is an area across a limit line from the obstacle. The limit line is set substantially along an outer periphery of the obstacle at a position spaced a predetermined distance from the obstacle outward of the obstacle. The second area is an area out of the boundary.

Parking assist system

A parking assist system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to detect an obstacle. The electronic control unit is configured to determine whether a vehicle is allowed to run over the obstacle. The electronic control unit is configured to, when it is determined that the vehicle is allowed to run over the obstacle, set a target position, to which the vehicle moves, to a position at which the vehicle overlaps with the obstacle.

A parking assist system includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to detect an obstacle. The electronic control unit is configured to determine a target position of a moving path of a vehicle. The electronic control unit is configured to determine the target position at a position at which the vehicle is spaced at least a predetermined distance from the obstacle higher than a first threshold and the vehicle overlaps with the obstacle lower than the first threshold.

Parking assist system and parking assist method

A vehicle periphery image generation apparatus for generating a vehicle periphery image with a wide view. The apparatus includes an image acquisition unit that acquires vehicle periphery images obtained by vehicle mounted photographic cameras, a display device, a viewing point position setting unit that sets the position to a viewing point from a perpendicular upward direction, a fish-eye image generation unit for generating a fish-eye image using the periphery images and a position set by the viewing point position setting unit, a self vehicle image generation unit that generates a self vehicle image as the fish-eye image with the position set by the viewing point position setting unit, and a display image generation unit for generating an image to be displayed on the display device using the fish-eye image and the self vehicle image, wherein the position of the viewing point of the fish-eye image can be changed.

Wide view vehicle periphery image generation apparatus

Provided is a vehicle surroundings awareness support device capable of providing a prompt for a driver to intuitively direct their attention, without the driver feeling hassled. Captured images comprising a plurality of frames taken sequentially by an onboard camera for imaging the surroundings of the vehicle are received; an optical flow is computed on the basis of feature points contained in the plurality of frames imaged at different times; moving objects in the surroundings of the vehicle are detected on the basis of the optical flow; and a display for showing movement trajectories for the moving objects is superimposed on the captured images on the basis of the optical flow.

Vehicle surroundings awareness support device

Disclosed is an image display device that allows intuitive guidance of a vehicle body based on an assisting image displaced in a screen. The image display device includes an image processing section for displaying a captured image of a rear camera on a monitor. This image processing section includes a synthesis processing unit for displaying a perspective image providing a perspective in superposition over the captured image being displayed on the monitor and a display mode setting unit that realizes selection between a viewing field-fixed mode for displaying the perspective image in superposition with the perspective image being fixed within a viewing field of the monitor and a road surface-fixed mode for displaying the perspective image in superposition with allowing scrolling thereof in unison with a road surface.

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Obu, Japan

Tomoyuki Matsuba