Patent ID: 8374749
Filing Date: 2013-02-12
Classification: B60R,B60W,B62D

Abstract:
1. A parking assist system for assisting a parking operation of a vehicle including forward movement to a reverse start position and subsequent reverse movement from the reverse start position to park the vehicle at a predetermined parking position, said system comprising: an image receiving section for obtaining image data captured by an image capturing device mounted on the vehicle from a scene around the vehicle; a parking reference detecting section for repeatedly detecting, based on said image data, a parking reference for use in parking the vehicle, during the forward movement of the vehicle to said reverse start position; a parking target setting section for repeatedly setting, based on said parking reference, a parking target position corresponding to said predetermined parking position, during the forward movement of the vehicle to said reverse start position; a parking path calculating section for successively calculating a parking path from a current position of the vehicle to said parking target position, based on said parking target positions and said parking references; and a parking path determining section for determining whether the parking path has been established effective or not, based upon the result of the calculation by said parking path calculating section, wherein a position where the parking path determined by the parking path determining section is established effective is set as the reverse start position.