Patent ID: 7599771

Claim:
A parking assisting apparatus, comprising: image pickup means for picking up an image of an area behind a vehicle; display means for displaying said image picked up by said image pickup means; and image processing means for having said display means display a parking assisting guide for assisting a vehicle driver in parking said vehicle superposed on said image picked up by said image pickup means; and in which said parking assisting guide includes a steering start marker for notifying said vehicle driver of start of steering of said vehicle; said steering start marker is constituted by an intersection of tangential lines respectively tangent to a predetermined track at two different points; said predetermined track is a track expected to be drawn by a predetermined fixed point fixed with respect to said vehicle while said vehicle is driven backwardly at a maximum steering angle, and said fixed point is located on a side opposite to a center of a rotation of said vehicle while said vehicle is driven backwardly at a maximum steering angle, with respect to said vehicle.