DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DETECTING A PARKING SPACE THAT IS AVAILABLE FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE

The invention relates to a method for detecting an available parking space from a motor vehicle being driven on a roadway and equipped with an image-capturing apparatus, said method comprising a learning phase in which characteristics relating to known objects are stored locally in a database (DB) o...

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Main Author CHIRCA, Mihai
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
French
German
Published 04.09.2019
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
PHYSICS
PRESENTATION OF DATA
RECOGNITION OF DATA
RECORD CARRIERS
SIGNALLING
TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
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Summary:The invention relates to a method for detecting an available parking space from a motor vehicle being driven on a roadway and equipped with an image-capturing apparatus, said method comprising a learning phase in which characteristics relating to known objects are stored locally in a database (DB) of the vehicle, said method comprising: a step of acquiring an image of the roadway and its immediate environment; and a step of image processing, in which step: at least one known object, the characteristics of which have been learnt and stored beforehand, is detected (1.2); a parking area containing an available parking space is detected (1.3); and the length of the space is estimated (1.4) from a correlation between the characteristics, extracted from the database, of the known objects detected in the image.
Bibliography:Application Number: EP20160744811