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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2014
Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Kariya-shi, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Minato-ku, JP;
Masanori Torii, Kariya, JP;
Jun Kadowaki, Kariya, JP;
Hiroki Inagaki, Kariya, JP;
Katsuhiro Sakai, Wako, JP;
AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Kariya-Shi, Aichi, JP;
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Minato-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a parking assistance device capable of setting a parking target position without placing a burden on a driver. The parking assistance device includes: a ground object detection unit configured to detect a ground object that defines a parking stall in a predetermined detection region set in advance on a lateral side of a vehicle; a parking stall calculation unit configured to, based on the ground object detected by the ground object detection unit, calculate a parking stall that exists in the detection region; and a target parking stall setting unit configured to, among the parking stalls calculated by the parking stall calculation unit, sets a parking stall in a width direction of the vehicle in a view from a driver's seat of the vehicle as a target parking stall.