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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2005
Kazufumi Mizusawa, Kadoma, JP;
Kazufumi Mizusawa, Kadoma, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
It is an object of the present invention to provide a parking assisting apparatus for assisting a vehicle driver in parking a vehicle more easily than the conventional apparatuses. The parking assisting apparatus comprises an image pickup unit for picking up the image of the area behind a vehicle (), display means for displaying the image picked up by the image pickup means; and image processing means for having the display means display a parking assisting guide for assisting a vehicle driver in parking the vehicle () superposed on the image picked up by the image pickup means; and in which the parking assisting guide includes a steering start marker () for notifying the vehicle driver of start of steering of the vehicle (); the steering start marker () is constituted by an intersection of tangential lines () respectively tangent to a predetermined track () at two different points; the predetermined track () is a track expected to be drawn by a predetermined fixed point () fixed with respect to the vehicle () while the vehicle () is driven backwardly at a maximum steering angle, and the fixed point () is located on a side opposite to a center () of a rotation of the vehicle () around which the vehicle () is expected to rotate while the vehicle () is driven backwardly at a maximum steering angle, with respect to the vehicle ().