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

Claim 13:
14. A vehicle comprising:
a vehicle body;
a propulsion attached to the vehicle body;
a braking system attached to the vehicle body;
a steering system attached to the vehicle body;
at least one proximity sensor mounted to the vehicle body; and
a computer communicatively coupled to the propulsion, the braking system, the steering system, and the at least one proximity sensor;
wherein the computer is programmed to:
instruct the propulsion to move the 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, instruct at least one of the propulsion or the braking system to reduce a speed of the vehicle to a second speed that is less than the first speed while receiving second data from the 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, instruct the propulsion to move the vehicle at the first speed; and
instruct at least one of the propulsion, the braking system, or the steering system to move 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.