Patent ID: 9656690
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: B62D

Claim:
1. A method of providing parking assistance in a vehicle comprising: identifying with a controller in a vehicle a plurality of available parking spaces for the vehicle; generating with a video output device operatively connected to the controller an interface with a graphical depiction of the vehicle and the plurality of available parking spaces; receiving a first input gesture with a gesture input device to select one parking space from the plurality of available parking spaces; receiving a second input gesture with the gesture input device corresponding to one of a first linear input gesture in a first direction or a second linear input gesture in a second direction in a location corresponding to the one parking space on the video output device; operating with the controller an autonomous parking system in the vehicle to move the vehicle into the one parking space in a parallel parking mode in response to the second input gesture being the first linear input gesture; and operating with the controller the autonomous parking system in the vehicle to move the vehicle into the one parking space in a perpendicular parking mode in response to the second input gesture being the second linear input gesture.