Parking Obstruction Locator and Height Estimator

Patent №

US 9,718,404

Granted

2017-08-01

Filed 2015

Owner

FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

Lab

AI components

3

vision · kr · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14872816

Systems, methods and apparatuses are disclosed for assessing whether a vehicle will make contact with an obstacle. The systems, methods, and apparatuses may include an obstacle sensing component configured to determine a location and a dimension of an obstacle, a vehicle sensing component configured to determine a height of a point of the vehicle relative to the ground, and a notification component configured to provide an indication of a presence of the obstacle to assist a human driver or an automated driving system in parking the vehicle without making contact with the obstacle.

VisionKnowledge representationPlanningB60Q 9/002B60Q 9/005B60Q 9/006B60Q 9/007B60W 30/09B60W 50/14G08G 1/168

AI classification

Planning1.00
Vision0.99
Knowledge representation0.88
AI hardware0.09
Machine learning0.01
Natural language0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

assignment · 367420491

Assignors

NALLAPA, VENKATAPATHI RAJU, BANVAIT, HARPREETSINGH, MYERS, SCOTT VINCENT, MICKS, ASHLEY ELIZABETH

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

© 2026 NYSGPT2525 LLC