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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2002
Kazufumi Mizusawa, Kawasaki, JP;
Shusaku Okamoto, Hirakata, JP;
Takashi Yoshida, Ikoma, JP;
Ryosuke Iida, Yokohama, JP;
Yuichi Hirama, Yokohama, JP;
Kazufumi Mizusawa, Kawasaki, JP;
Shusaku Okamoto, Hirakata, JP;
Takashi Yoshida, Ikoma, JP;
Ryosuke Iida, Yokohama, JP;
Yuichi Hirama, Yokohama, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
Parking assistance apparatus that displays on a screen an image shot by image picking-up apparatus mounted on a vehicle. The parking assistance apparatus superimposes a guide line that is parallel to the line tangent to the predicted outer locus of the vehicle assumed when the vehicle is backed with the wheel at the maximum steering angle. This allows the driver to drive the vehicle so that the guide line will not overlap the image of another vehicle thus allowing parking that avoids any contact.