US Patent Issued to Panasonic Automotive Systems on March 25 for "Parking support device and parking support method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,764, issued on March 25, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Parking support device and parking support method" was invented by Yoshimasa Okabe (Kanagawa Ken, Japan) and Hiroto Sankoda (Kanagawa Ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking support device includes: an acquisition circuit configured to acquire first detection points related to obstacles around a vehicle before setting a parking direction, and acquire second detection points related to the obstacles after setting the parking direction; an analysis circuit configured to calculate first approximate straight lines and first var...