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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 12, 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 assisting device includes an ambient area detecting unit that detects an obstacle or a parking frame in an ambient area surrounding a vehicle, and a guiding unit guides the vehicle to a parking initial position from which parking of the vehicle to a parking space, adjacent to the detected obstacle, or the detected parking frame is permissible. In the parking assisting device, a guidance mode in which the guiding unit guides the vehicle to the parking initial position is set up based on a distance between the vehicle and the detected obstacle or the detected parking frame in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle.