Patent ID: 9254843
Filing Date: 2016-02-09
CPC Classification: B60W,G06K

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus for assisting parking, comprising: an around view monitoring (AVM) system including a plurality of cameras mounted in a vehicle, and configured to combine images photographed by the respective cameras, and generate a combined image signal in a form of an around view; a controller configured to analyze the combined image signal and detect a parking guide line, calculate a distance between the detected parking guide line and the vehicle, and generate control information corresponding to the calculated distance; and a guide unit configured to convert the control information into a predetermined form, and output the converted control information, wherein the controller includes an image analyzing module configured to convert the combined image into an edge image, and set at least one of the edges of the edge image as a parking guide line, wherein the image analyzing module recognizes an edge having a predetermined brightness change pattern among the edges as the parking guide line, wherein the image analyzing module divides the edge image into a plurality of sections, detects a plurality of feature points positioned at a border of the brightness change pattern in each section, and sets a straight line, which passes through the largest number of feature points as a result of a rotation of the straight line passing through each feature point by 360 degrees, as the parking guide line.