Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Yuuichi Kubota

Tomohiko Endo

Yasushi Makino

Yukiko Kawabata

Takuya Ito

Keisuke Ikari

Takashi Ohira

Akio Yoshihashi

Takashi Nonoyama

Hideyuki Iwakiri

Miyuki Omori

Kiyotaka Moriizumi

To provide a parking support device for easily and quickly moving or rotating a target parking frame to an appropriate position. The parking support device includes a target parking position setting unit configured to set a target parking position at which a vehicle is to be parked with a target parking frame superimposed on an actual image displaying an area surrounding the vehicle. The parking support device guides the vehicle to the target parking position set by the target parking position setting unit. The target parking position setting unit moves the target parking frame initially displayed on a touch display to a position indicated by a coordinate point determined by a touch operation.

Parking support device

A vehicle drive assist apparatus for assisting in driving a vehicle by varying drive torque of wheels that includes: a torque-up mechanism increasing the drive torque; a step detecting mechanism detecting a step that may exist on a road surface in a traveling direction of the vehicle; and a switching mechanism switching a status of control between a first status in which the torque-up mechanism is permitted to operate and a second status in which the torque-up mechanism is restricted to operate, wherein the switching mechanism forms the first status if the step is detected by the step detecting mechanism.

Vehicle drive assist apparatus and method

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Okazaki, Japan

Yuuichi Kubota