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Patent Inventor Names
Tomohiko Endo0
Yukiko Kawabata0
Yuichi Kubota0
Yasushi Makino0
Date of Patent
April 12, 2011
0Patent Application Number
122935590
Date Filed
February 28, 2007
0Patent Citations Received
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Patent abstract
A parking assisting apparatus and method that can precisely estimate the orientation of a parking space. A parking assisting apparatus for assisting parking a vehicle includes an obstacle detecting mechanism that detects an obstacle near the vehicle and an orientation information acquiring mechanism that acquires information as to an orientation of the vehicle. The apparatus estimates an orientation of the parking space that may exist near the vehicle based on the detection result of the obstacle detecting mechanism and the orientation information.
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