GM has filed a patent application for a video system that assists drivers in parking their vehicle inside a garage. The application was assigned patent number US 2025/0104256 A1 with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and was published on March 27th, 2025. The GM patent application was originally submitted on September 26th, 2023, and lists Mohammad Naserian and Chuan Li as the inventors.
The patent application describes a system that uses video analysis and onboard vehicle technology to detect how far into the garage the vehicle has moved, as well as if the vehicle is correctly parked or not.
As the vehicle approaches and enters the garage, a camera inside the garage records video. The system then compares each frame of the video over time to identify changes in pixels, essentially monitoring which sections of the image are changing and which are staying the same. The rows of pixels that stop changing as the vehicle moves into the garage are counted. Once the number of unchanged pixel rows crosses a certain threshold, the system determines that the car has fully entered the garage and is no longer moving. At that point, the system can send a notification to the driver, either through a screen or interface, indicating that the vehicle is properly parked inside the garage.
What makes this system different from other parking assist tools is that it doesn’t rely solely on distance sensors like ultrasonic or radar sensors. Rather, it leverages frame-by-frame video analysis to assess motion visually, which may offer more accuracy in tight home garages. It can also overlay helpful visual aids, such as boundary lines, onto the live camera feed, which could help the driver more closely align the car with the garage walls.
Additional features may include recognizing if the side mirrors are folded in, thus adjusting visual overlays accordingly. The system also incorporates a vehicle controller that connects to a garage camera and other car systems, making real-time decisions based on the data it receives.
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If you want to operate and own a large SUV, you should know how to Drive and park it
God gave me a good set of eyeballs. This is only an American problem. Americans are very bad at math. They buy vehicles that get 15-18 MPG.
My tennis ball on a cord hanging down at just the right spot works just fine.
Here we go again. Fixing a problem that doesn’t exist. I’ll take my tennis ball any day.
It didn’t involve millions of dollars to “invent” an alternative. Somebody better invent a “system” that detects if a tree jumps out in front of you it’ll stop the vehicle. Maybe another “system” that will raise a steel panel if it detects a stone heading for your windshield. When will the insanity end. Maybe people should all just stop driving, play with their cell phones(Tik Tok) all day and wrap themselves in bubble wrap. If you can’t drive your own damn vehicle, you shouldn’t own one. Spare yourself. Sorry. That’s apparently someone else’s job. And we wonder (I don’t) why vehicles are so expensive. Absolute craziness.
No, people should buy what they can drive.
If you can’t park your vehicle, you have no business driving it. The answer to not knowing is learning. If you can’t learn, stay home.
At least 98 components to this (per the drawing)??
No thanks. Keep your Rube Goldberg, I’ll keep the ball and string.
Build smaller vehicles. You don’t need a school bus or monster truck to get groceries.
My Cadillac CT6 has cameras and sensors. I have a single car garage with a deep step into the house and “stuff” on the passenger side. I have no problems parking it or backing it in. If you can’t park your SUV/CUV or pickup in your garage you don’t need that damned big POS. Get a Yugo and be learn to drive and park.
Just build a bigger garage! (Sarcasm)