Patent ID: 8384561
Filing Date: 2013-02-26
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
1. A parking assist device comprising: an image obtaining portion for obtaining a surrounding image of a vehicle, the surrounding image captured by an imaging device provided at the vehicle; a display controlling portion for displaying the surrounding image and a pair of vehicle width extended lines on a displaying device provided at an interior of the vehicle in such a way that the pair of vehicle width extended lines is superposed on the surrounding image, the vehicle width extended lines serving as indicative lines for notifying a driver of a width of the vehicle; and a stall line detecting portion for detecting a pair of stall lines in the surrounding image, the stall lines indicating a parking stall; wherein, when the pair of the stall lines is detected by the stall line detecting portion, the display controlling portion changes a distance between the vehicle width extended lines corresponding to a distance between the stall lines, a distance from one of the pair of vehicle width extended lines to the other of the vehicle width extended lines, with respect to the vehicle width direction, is larger than a length of the vehicle width.