Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Kenji Kodera

Jun Kadowaki

Motokatsu Tomozawa

Yu Tanaka

Hiroyuki Tachibana

Kosuke Sato

Atsuo Fukaya

Kazuya Watanabe

A parking assistance apparatus has a region detector capable of detecting a plurality of possible parking regions where a vehicle can park in at least one side to the left or right of the vehicle, a photographic image of the scenery surrounding the vehicle including the possible parking regions is displayed on a monitor device, the possible parking regions detected by the region detector are superimposed on the photographic image as graphic images showing parking target candidates in all of the corresponding positions, and one of the parking target candidates can be selected as a parking target on the basis of a command input from a driving device of the vehicle.

Parking assistance apparatus

A parking assist apparatus includes a parking target position setting section for setting a parking target position when a vehicle is to be parked by reversing, a parking pathway determining section for determining possibility/impossibility of direct parking for parking the vehicle to the parking target position without turnaround, and a report outputting section for effecting reporting to allow a driver engaged in parking to recognize the possibility/impossibility of the direct parking based on the result of determination by the parking pathway determining section.

Parking assist apparatus

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Chita-gun, Japan

Kenji Kodera