Patent ID: 7515067

Claim:
A parking assist apparatus, comprising: a camera configured to take an image of a backside of a vehicle; a display unit configured to display the image taken by the camera; a movement distance detecting unit configured to detect a distance of movement of the vehicle; a steering angle detecting unit configured to detect a steering rudder angle of a steering wheel of the vehicle; an anticipated-course calculation unit configured to calculate an anticipated course of the vehicle in backing movement according to the steering rudder angle detected by the steering angle detecting unit; and a display control unit configured to superimpose on the image taken by the camera a discontinuous line which is formed with a series of successive marks as the anticipated course of the vehicle in backing movement calculated by the anticipated-course calculation unit and display the superimposed image on a screen of the display unit, and the display control unit is configured to update the marks on the screen of the display unit according to the distance of the movement of the vehicle detected by the movement distance detecting unit, wherein a color and an outer shape of each mark are different from those of a mark adjacent to the each mark.