Patent ID: 8779939
Filing Date: 2014-07-15
Classification: B60Q,B60S,B62D,G08G

Abstract:
1. A method for assisting a driver of a vehicle when parking in a parking space the method comprising: measuring a possible parking space; calculating a parking trajectory on the basis of a current parking space geometry which is determined from the measurement of the parking space, and on the basis of a vehicle position relative to the parking space; and subsequently carrying out a parking process during which the vehicle is steered along the parking trajectory into the parking space; and continuously determining the current parking space geometry during the parking process using current sensor data acquired by a sensor system for measuring the parking space, and comparing the current parking space geometry with a previous parking space geometry determined before the start of the parking process, wherein, when the previous and current parking space geometries differ from one another, a deviation which is present is evaluated and the parking trajectory is corrected and/or re-calculated, and wherein the comparison between the previous parking space geometry determined before the parking process and the current parking space geometry determined during the parking process is carried out by sensing, during the entry into the parking space, the lateral distance, to the left and right of the vehicle, from objects which bound the parking space and by comparing said lateral distance with the distances which are expected on the basis of the originally sensed parking space geometry and the current vehicle position.