Patent ID: 8988250
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: B60R,B62D,G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. A parking assistant, comprising: a camera for taking a vehicle surroundings image comprising color information; an overhead view image generator for generating, with a viewpoint conversion, an overhead view image from the vehicle surroundings image taken by the camera; a parking target area setter for setting a parking target area in the overhead view image generated by the overhead view image generator; a parking target area image generator for generating a parking target area image when a first certain portion of the parking target area is superposed by a solid object present in the overhead view image, the parking target area image being newly generated as a second certain portion of the parking target area other than the superposed first certain portion; a display for displaying the overhead view image generated by the overhead view image generator and displaying the parking target area image newly generated by the parking target area image generator; and a movement sensor for sensing a movement direction of a vehicle and a movement amount of the vehicle, wherein based on the movement direction and the movement amount of the vehicle which are sensed by the movement sensor, the overhead view image generator generates the overhead view image where a position of the parking target area in the overhead view image is renewed, and wherein the parking target area image generator compares: with