Patent ID: 7970535

Claim:
A drive assist system for a vehicle, the system comprising: a notification unit configured to perform a notification operation for assisting a driver in moving the vehicle; a surrounding detection unit configured to detect surrounding information on a surrounding of the vehicle; a parking information acquisition unit configured to acquire, as parking information, information during a period of a parking operation from when the parking operation starts to when the vehicle stops in a parked area; a start method computation unit configured to compute, when starting the vehicle from the parked area, a start method including a movement direction of the vehicle based on (i) a vehicle specification indicating a dimension of the vehicle, (ii) the acquired parking information, and (iii) the detected surrounding information; and a notification control unit configured to cause the notification unit to notify the computed start method, wherein the parking information acquisition unit acquires, as parking information, a swept path of the vehicle from a predetermined position to the parked area during the period of the parking operation; wherein the parking information acquisition unit acquires the swept path of the vehicle undergoing a forward parking, in which the vehicle is moved forward to enter the parked area and wherein the start method computation unit computes, as a start method, a rearward exit method for the vehicle to exit from the parked area by referring to the swept path included in the acquired parking information.