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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2018
Applicant:
Continental Automotive Gmbh, Hannover, DE;
Inventor:
Stefan Bieger, Nidda, DE;
Assignee:
Continental Automotive GmbH, Hannover, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/14 (2006.01); G08G 1/01 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/144 (2013.01); G08G 1/0108 (2013.01); G08G 1/142 (2013.01); G08G 1/148 (2013.01); G08G 1/149 (2013.01); G06K 9/00812 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for assisting in the parking of a vehicle in a vacant parking area, wherein the position of at least one vacant parking area is calculated on the basis of a vehicle-to-vehicle and/or a vehicle-to-infrastructure communication from the current position of the vehicle and is conveyed to a navigation apparatus of the vehicle, wherein a parking process is started by virtue of a radio key of the vehicle being placed onto a smartphone display, so that a lens in the vehicle key captures a flashing code and the radio key returns the flashing codes to the vehicle by radio.