Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Yukiko Kanno

Masayoshi Michiguchi

Kenji Okano

Tatsuto Ryugo

A driving assistance apparatus is provided in which the detection range of a left-front-corner sonar () located at the vehicle's left front corner is included in the field of view of a second imaging means () located at the vehicle's left front corner. When the left-front-corner sonar () detects a three-dimensional object at the vehicle's left front corner, an image processing means () synthesizes an image of the image created using a second imaging means () and the images created with four cameras (-) for imaging the complete periphery of the vehicle, and creates a bird's-eye-view image (). The detection range of the left-front-corner sonar () is included within a region of the bird's-eye image () on the basis of the image created with the second imaging means ().

Display apparatus

Driving assistance apparatus

Disclosed is a parking assistance device such that it is easy to understand the process for aligning the vehicle with the guidance completion position of each stage of parking, specifically the parking start position, the steering wheel reversal position and the intended parking position. Specifically disclosed is a parking assistance device wherein a control device () switches to a first parking guidance indicator (A) during first parking guidance for guiding the vehicle to the parking start position, switches to a second parking guidance indicator (B) during second parking guidance for guiding the vehicle to the steering wheel reversal start position, and switches to a third parking guidance indicator (C) during third parking guidance for guiding the vehicle to the final parking position.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yukiko Kanno