PARKING ASSISTANCE DEVICE AND PARKING ASSISTANCE METHOD

摘要

It is an object of the present invention to provide a parking assisting apparatus and method which can precisely estimate the orientation of the parking space. The present invention is related to a parking assisting apparatus for assisting parking a vehicle, said apparatus comprising; obstacle detecting means 70 for detecting an obstacle near the vehicle; and orientation information acquiring means (16, 18, 43) for acquiring information as to an orientation of the vehicle, wherein said apparatus estimates an orientation of parking space which may exist near the vehicle based on the detection result of the obstacle detecting means and the orientation information.