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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2026
Filed:
May. 30, 2023
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Kohei Maejima, Nagakute, JP;
Daiki Maruki, Toyota, JP;
Yuki Minase, Toyota, JP;
Yu Hiei, Nagoya, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;
Abstract
A parking assist apparatus includes an image pickup device, a three-dimensional object information acquisition device, and a control unit which executes parking assist control. The control unit registers in a storage device a path along which the vehicle has traveled when the driver has driven the vehicle from a start position to a parking position as a registered path together with a feature point extracted from a surrounding of the path and a three-dimensional object included in the three-dimensional object information, calculates, when a feature point and a three-dimensional object are detected, the registered path based on the positions of the feature point and the three-dimensional object, and notifies the driver, by display or a sound, of a first section in which the parking assist control can be started when a start condition which is satisfied when it is determined that the parking assist control can be started is satisfied.