Patent ID: 7358864

Claim:
A parking assist control apparatus which assists a driver with parking a vehicle, comprising: a door open detection unit which receives a detection signal indicative of an opened state or a closed state of each of a plurality of doors provided on the vehicle; a vehicle stop request unit which stops the vehicle by outputting an instruction signal to a braking force apply mechanism which applies a braking force to wheels provided on the vehicle and which generates braking force when the door open detection unit detects that at least one of the doors is open; and a control unit which calculates a target deceleration based on a vehicle speed and a braking distance, which is a distance from a present position to a position at which the vehicle should stop and is determined based on a distance from the vehicle to an obstacle, and which executes deceleration control to control a deceleration of the vehicle to reach the target deceleration, wherein the vehicle stop request unit stops the vehicle by outputting the instruction signal to cause the braking force apply mechanism to apply the braking force on the wheels when the door open detection unit detects that a door other than a driver door is open, but does not stop the vehicle even if the driver door is open.