ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,348, issued on April 14, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Parking assistance device" was invented by Yusuke Kiyokawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assistance device is provided and includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a captured image from an imaging unit imaging surrounding circumstances of a vehicle. A setting unit sets at a start of parking assistance, a reference movement target position of the vehicle in a parking space defined by a pair of spaced dividing lines included in the captured image, and sets, after the start of the parking assistance, a movement target position of the vehicl...