Patent ID: 7117073

Claim:
A parking-assist device for an automotive vehicle, comprising: an imaging unit which creates an image of an exterior behind the vehicle; a target-parking-position input unit which inputs a target parking position to park the vehicle when requested; a target-parking-position memory access unit which stores a plurality of items of target-parking-position information in a memory beforehand and reads a selected item of the target-parking-position information from the memory when requested; a parking-route determining unit which calculates a parking route from a current position of the vehicle to the target parking position; and a display unit which displays the image created by the imaging unit and displays one of the target parking position inputted by the target-parking-position input unit and the selected item of the target-parking-position information read by the target-parking-position memory access unit on the created image in a superimposed manner, so that an operator of the vehicle is guided to the target parking position according to the parking route, wherein the parking-route determining unit is configured to calculate the parking route from the current position of the vehicle to the selected item of the target-parking-position information.