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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2008
Yukiko Kawabata, Toyota, JP;
Yasushi Makino, Mishima, JP;
Hideyuki Iwakiri, Tajimi, JP;
Yuichi Kubota, Okazaki, JP;
Tomohiko Endo, Toyota, JP;
Miyuki Omori, Toyota, JP;
Takuya Ito, Kuwana, JP;
Atsuko Nakanishi, Okazaki, JP;
Yukiko Kawabata, Toyota, JP;
Yasushi Makino, Mishima, JP;
Hideyuki Iwakiri, Tajimi, JP;
Yuichi Kubota, Okazaki, JP;
Tomohiko Endo, Toyota, JP;
Miyuki Omori, Toyota, JP;
Takuya Ito, Kuwana, JP;
Atsuko Nakanishi, Okazaki, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, JP;
Abstract
A parking assistance device includes a guiding unit to perform guidance of a vehicle to a parking initial position from which the vehicle can be parked into a parking space located adjacent to and on a far side of an object existing around the vehicle with respect to a running direction of the vehicle; an obstacle detecting unit to detect an obstacle around the vehicle in response to a reflected wave of a wave emitted from the vehicle in a predetermined direction; and a timing setting unit configured to set a timing to start the guidance in response to a detection result of the obstacle detecting unit, which is related to an obstacle existing in a predetermined distance from the object in the parking space.