ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,298, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Parking assistance system and parking assistance method" was invented by Yuya Horii (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assistance system includes a rear-view image capturing unit that captures an image of an upper rear area behind a vehicle, a detection unit that detects information regarding a cargo on the vehicle using the captured image, an image display unit configured to display the captured image and display a guideline for assisting parking of the vehicle in the display of the captured image, and a guideline display control unit configured to c...