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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2013
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Kenji Okano, Aichi, JP;
Hirotaka Kamiyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a parking assist device such that, when a vehicle has reached an area corresponding to a backing start position, the angle of a current position with respect to a target parking position is placed in an appropriate range so as to facilitate subsequent guidance to the target parking position. In the parking assist device, when a vehicle () has reached any of a plurality of backing start positions (to), a state control unit () determines whether the angle of a current position with respect to a target parking position () is appropriate for guidance to a target parking position (), and, if not, displays an angle correction indicating icon () on an image display means () to provide an indication for correcting the angle.