Patent ID: 8504245

Claim:
A system for selecting and displaying a pulling out mode provided in a vehicle, comprising: a memory for storing predetermined pulling out modes, each pulling out mode stored in association with one or more corresponding parking modes, the pulling out modes indicating manners of pulling a vehicle out of a parking space in accordance with the parking modes, which indicate manners of parking the vehicle in the parking space; a determining unit that determines a parking mode by the time of completing an operation for parking the vehicle in the parking space; a detector for detecting an instruction from a driver of the vehicle to start pulling out the vehicle from the parking space after the vehicle is placed in the parking space; and a selection and display unit, responsive to the detected instruction for pulling out the vehicle, for determining from the memory a subset of the pulling out modes based on the association between the pulling out modes and the determined parking mode and for displaying the subset of pulling out modes as choices for selection by the operator.