Patent ID: 8170752

Claim:
A parking assistance apparatus comprising a parking-space-side apparatus and a vehicle-side apparatus, characterized in that: the parking-space-side apparatus includes: a fixed target that is fixed with a predetermined positional relation with respect to a target parking position in a parking space and has at least one characteristic point; a parking-space-side camera for taking an image of the parking space; and a parking-space-side communication portion for transmitting an image taken by the parking-space-side camera; and the vehicle-side apparatus includes: a vehicle-side camera for taking an image of the fixed target; a vehicle-side communication portion for receiving the image transmitted by the parking-space-side communication portion; a monitor located in the vicinity of a drivers seat; a steering angle sensor for detecting a steering angle of a vehicle, a relative position calculation portion for calculating a relative positional relation between the vehicle and the target parking position based on an image of the fixed target taken by the vehicle-side camera; an expected locus calculation portion for calculating an expected locus when the vehicle moves based on the steering angle detected by the steering angle sensor; and an image composition portion for displaying on the monitor information regarding parking superimposed on a background image, wherein the information regarding parking is obtained based on the relative positional relation between the vehicle and the target parking position calculated by the relative position calculation portion and based on the expected locus calculated by the expected locus calculation portion, and wherein the background image is based on the image received at the vehicle-side communication portion.