Patent ID: 7813855

Claim:
A parking assist system for assisting parking of a vehicle, comprising: a parking target position setting section configured for temporarily setting, at a predetermined stop position, a parking target position for the vehicle for each one of a plurality of parking modes; a parking mode determining section configured for determining, after the setting of the parking target position and based upon an amount of steering operation effected by a driver, a parking mode and the parking target position corresponding to the parking mode; a guiding section configured for guiding, by automatic steering control, the vehicle from the predetermined stop position to the parking target position along a guiding path including at least one turning-direction switching position; and a correcting section configured for effecting such a correction that a deflection angle of the vehicle relative to the parking target position is corrected to a predetermined deflection angle at a corrected turning-direction switching position nearby said turning-direction switching position, regardless of the amount of steering operation effected prior to determination of the parking mode, the correcting section causing said guiding section to guide the vehicle to the parking target position, with the correction.