Patent ID: 8319614
Filing Date: 2012-11-27
Classification: B60R,B62D

Abstract:
1. A parking assistance apparatus comprising: a plurality of on-board cameras which take images around a vehicle; a bird's eye image creation unit that synthesizes a plurality of the images taken by the plurality of on-board cameras to thereby create a bird's eye image looking down on the vehicle from above the vehicle; and a display device that displays the created bird's eye image, a target parking frame over the displayed bird's eve image, the target parking frame indicating a target parking position, and a parking start frame over the displayed bird's eye image independently from the tarot parking position, the parking start frame indicating a parking start position that is a position for starting a reverse running toward the target parking position, wherein a display position and drawing mode of the parking start frame are changed in response to a change of a steering angle of the vehicle.