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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2019
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Yoshito Hirai, Kanagawa Ken, JP;
Abstract
A vacant parking space detection apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a memory and a hardware processor coupled to the memory. The hardware processor is configured to: generate, for each of divided regions in a region around a vehicle, map information representing a presence probability of an object based on a detection result of a sensor for detecting an object present around the vehicle; define on the map information a plurality of first straight lines, whose intercepts differ from each other, with one or more angles to a straight advancing direction of the vehicle; and detect whether a vacant parking space is present at the angle based on a presence probability of an object assigned to the divided region belonging to each of the plurality of first straight lines.