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Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2015

Filed:

Oct. 01, 2013
Applicants:

Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul, KR;

Kia Motors Corporation, Seoul, KR;

Industry-university Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University, Seoul, KR;

Inventors:

Jae Seob Choi, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Seong Sook Ryu, Seoul, KR;

Dae Joong Yoon, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Eu Gene Chang, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Ho Gi Jung, Seoul, KR;

Jae Kyu Suhr, Incheon, KR;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); B60Q 1/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00812 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus and a method for tracing a parking-lot is provided that includes a controller configured to recognize at least one parking-lot from a previous image frame which photographed a surrounding of a vehicle and extract a template according to a type of a parking-lot line of the recognized parking-lot. In addition, the controller is configured to generate a template transformed based on a position information of the parking-lot and calculate similarity by comparing a template generated from a previous image frame with a parking-lot line recognized from a current image frame. A position of a parking-lot is determined according to the calculated similarity and the controller is configured to correct the template based on an information of a parking-lot line extracted from the determined position.


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