Patent ID: 11904939
Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A parking assistance apparatus, comprising:
at least one sensor mounted on a vehicle;
a control unit configured to: a) analyze sensing information obtained through the at least one sensor to recognize a space and an object in a parking lot by matching a detailed parking lot map to the object, b) search for an available parking space that is defined by at least one parking line based on the analyzed sensing information, and c) generate a parking path to the available parking space; and d) perform autonomous parking within the parking lot until the vehicle reaches the available parking space; and
a storage unit configured to store a parking lot map for recognizing the space and the object in the parking lot,
wherein the control unit is further configured to:
determine that there is no available parking space;
search for a first empty space that is a first space without parking lines and large enough to park the vehicle;
determine whether the vehicle obstructs a path of another vehicle when the vehicle is parked in the searched first empty space, based on the space and the object in a parking lot and the detailed parking lot map;
responsive to determining that the vehicle obstructs the path of another vehicle, recognize the searched first empty space as the available parking space; and
responsive to determining that the vehicle does not obstruct the path of another vehicle, search for another available parking space that is defined by at least one parking line or a second empty space that is a second space without parking lines and large enough to park the vehicle.