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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2012
Filed:
May. 11, 2009
Jan Becker, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Soeren Kammel, San Jose, CA (US);
Benjamin Pitzer, San Jose, CA (US);
Charles Duhadway, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jan Becker, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Soeren Kammel, San Jose, CA (US);
Benjamin Pitzer, San Jose, CA (US);
Charles DuHadway, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A method for assisting in parallel parking includes providing a vehicle with a forward-looking camera and/or a backward-looking camera. The camera is used to capture an image of a parking area including at least one unoccupied parking space and a plurality of parking spaces occupied by other vehicles. A homography of the captured image is created. The homography is used to estimate an image of the parking area from an overhead viewpoint. A portion of the overhead image including the unoccupied parking space is displayed on a display screen within a passenger compartment of the vehicle.