Patent ID: 8918254

Claim:
An apparatus for assisting a parking maneuver for a vehicle, comprising: an interface to a sensor for detecting at least one boundary of a parking space in surroundings of the vehicle and a height of the at least one boundary; a display for displaying the at least one boundary of the parking space; a control device adapted to determine that the at least one boundary is transgressible or not transgressible, wherein the at least one boundary is transgressible when a vehicle component has a clearance exceeding that of the at least one boundary based on a comparison of the at least one boundary height to a stored vehicle-specific height, and wherein the at least one boundary is adapted to be identified on the display as transgressible or not transgressible; and a user input to input that the at least one boundary is transgressible when the at least one boundary is identified as not transgressible; wherein the control device is adapted to calculate a trajectory into a parking position in the parking space such that the calculated trajectory into the parking position takes into account whether the at least one boundary is transgressible while preventing wheels of the vehicle from transgressing the boundary.