Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130265428 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF SETTING PARKING POSITION BASED ON AV IMAGE - Disclosed herein are an apparatus and a method of setting a parking position based on an around-view (AV) image. After the continuous AV images of the parking space are obtained in cooperation with an around-view monitoring (AVM) system, a parking space, designated by a driver in various designating schemes, is set to a parking position, allowing the driver to select the parking space and easily identify a surrounding space limitations of the selected parking space. | 10-10-2013 |
20140009614 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A THREE DIMENSIONAL OBJECT USING AN IMAGE AROUND A VEHICLE - An apparatus for detecting a three dimensional object using an image around a vehicle includes a plurality of imaging devices disposed on a front, a rear, a left side, and a right side of the vehicle; a processor configured to: collect an image of the front, the rear, the left side, and the right side of the vehicle through a virtual imaging device; generate a composite image by compounding a plurality of top view images of the image; extract a boundary pattern of the plurality of top view images in each boundary area; compare the boundary pattern of the plurality of top view images to analyze a correlation between a plurality of neighboring images in each boundary area; and detect a three dimensional object according to the correlation between the plurality of neighboring images in each boundary area. | 01-09-2014 |
20140104422 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING PARKING AREA - An apparatus for determining including a processor configured to: analyze a surrounding image of a vehicle; recognize a parking line in the surrounding image based the analysis of the surrounding image; sense a plurality of parking areas based on the recognized parking line; analyze the plurality of sensed parking areas divided into a plurality of predetermined intervals; determine an occupied state of the plurality of sensed parking areas based on analyzing each sensed parking area; and set an empty parking area as a parkable area. | 04-17-2014 |
20140104423 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING AND DISPLAYING THE HEIGHT OF AN OBJECT DETECTED IN AN IMAGE ON A DISPLAY - Disclosed is an apparatus for calculating the actual height of an object and displaying the calculated height on an image, including: an object detection unit that detects an object in an image of the vehicle's surroundings acquired by a camera disposed on a vehicle; an object position measurement unit that measures a position of the object in the image and measures an object distance and an object length of the object in the image based on a distance value acquired by a distance measuring sensor disposed on the vehicle; an object height calculation unit that calculates an object height using the object distance and the object length of the object displayed in the image; and a display controller controlling display of the calculated the height of the object on a display. | 04-17-2014 |
20140112542 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING PARKING SPACE LINE MARKINGS FOR VEHICLE - Disclosed herein is a method for recognizing a parking space line marking for a vehicle, including: detecting, by a processor, a plurality of parking spaces from a portion of a parking space line marking in an image; calculating, by the processor, an overlap coefficient representing a degree of overlapping between the detected parking spaces; selecting, by the processor, a parking space having a largest brightness coefficient as a final parking space by determining overlap when the overlap coefficient has a predetermined magnitude and comparing the brightness degrees of the overlapped parking spaces. | 04-24-2014 |
20140121899 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE DISPLAY OF AN IMAGE ON A MULTI-FUNCTION MIRROR - Disclosed herein are an apparatus and a method for controlling an image on a multi-function mirror, the apparatus for controlling an image on a multi-function mirror including: an angle sensor that measures the angle of a multi-function mirror in a vehicle; an operation sensing unit that senses the operation angle of the multi-function mirror from the value measured by the angle sensor; a view changing unit that produces a view-changed image by changing the view of an external image taken by a first camera mounted on the vehicle on the basis of the sensed operation angle of the room mirror; and an output control unit that controls the external image to be displayed on the multi-function mirror, and controls a view-changed image corresponding to the adjusted angle of the multi-function mirror to be displayed on the multi-function mirror. | 05-01-2014 |
20140132423 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PARKING POSITION DISPLAY OF VEHICLE - Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for parking position display of a vehicle. The apparatus includes a processor configured to detect objects around a vehicle by analyzing sensor values obtained by a distance sensor that is installed in the vehicle and surrounding images captured by imaging devices that are disposed in the vehicle. The processor is also configured to locate the detected objects based on the sensor values and the surrounding images. Additionally, the processor is configured to control display elements corresponding to the detected objects to be output on the surrounding images based on the positions of the detected objects. | 05-15-2014 |
20140244095 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GUIDING PARKING - A parking guidance method and apparatus that includes a controller that is configured to recognize and determine a user selected area as a target parking area when a vehicle parking mode is operated. In addition, the controller is configured to calculate a parking starting point based on the determined target parking area and calculate a parking trajectory from the parking starting point. The controller is configured to generate operation guidance information that induces the vehicle to the parking starting point based on the selected parking starting point and a location of the vehicle and for guiding parking from the parking starting point to the target parking area. Further, the controller is configured to set up a guidance screen that includes generated information when the vehicle is operated in the parking mode. | 08-28-2014 |
20140309834 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PARKING ASSISTANCE - An apparatus and a method for parking assistance is provided that include a controller configured to determine an intention to park based on vehicle condition information and environmental information. In addition, the controller is configured to set a parking mode of a vehicle by analyzing the direction of the vehicle and a gear position, when the vehicle stops in an area in response to determining that the vehicle is to be parked. Furthermore, the controller is configured to assist the vehicle in automatic parking into a target parking lot based on the set parking mode. | 10-16-2014 |
20140355822 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MATCHING PARKING-LOT OUTLINE - An apparatus and a method for tracing a parking-lot is provided that includes a controller configured to recognize at least one parking-lot from a previous image frame which photographed a surrounding of a vehicle and extract a template according to a type of a parking-lot line of the recognized parking-lot. In addition, the controller is configured to generate a template transformed based on a position information of the parking-lot and calculate similarity by comparing a template generated from a previous image frame with a parking-lot line recognized from a current image frame. A position of a parking-lot is determined according to the calculated similarity and the controller is configured to correct the template based on an information of a parking-lot line extracted from the determined position. | 12-04-2014 |
20150063647 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING OBSTACLE - An apparatus and a method for detecting an obstacle are provided. The apparatus includes a memory configured to store program instructions and a processor that is configured to execute the program instructions. The program instructions when executed are configured to compensate a position of a second image based on a first image based on a moving distance of a vehicle between the first image and the second image captured at different times and respectively generate a difference image based on a difference between the first image and the second image and between the first image and the second image in which the position is compensated. In addition, binarization is performed of the difference image and a synthetic image is generated for the two difference images. Then, the obstacle is detected by selecting a pixel corresponding to an area where the bit value is detected from the synthetic image. | 03-05-2015 |