Patent ID: 11884263
Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A computer comprising a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to:
actuate movement of a vehicle at a first speed;
identify a potentially available parking space in a vehicle direction of travel based on first data received from at least one camera having a partially occluded view of the potentially available parking space by determining that criteria are satisfied by a region of an image frame received from the at least one camera, the criteria including that a pixel area occupied by the region within the image frame from the camera fits a size criterion, the criteria including that the shape of the region of the image frame received from the at least one camera is a trapezoidally shaped unoccluded portion of the parking space;
in response to determining that the criteria for identifying the potentially available parking space are satisfied, reduce a speed of the vehicle to a second speed that is less than the first speed while receiving second data from at least one proximity sensor having an unoccluded view of the parking space;
in response to determining that the criteria for identifying the potentially available parking space are not satisfied, actuate movement of the vehicle at the first speed; and
actuate movement of the vehicle to a parking position in the parking space upon determining that the parking space is available based on the second data from the at least one proximity sensor.