Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
PARKING ASSIST DEVICE, PARKING ASSIST METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT

Abstract:

A parking assist device provides control over a subject vehicle of interest such that the subject vehicle parks into a target parking location, based on information obtained by recognizing surroundings of the subject vehicle. The parking assist device includes: a parking available position detection part configured to detect one or more parking available locations each of which is a location available for the subject vehicle to park, based on the recognition information; and a target parking position determination part configured to, when the parking available position detection part detects a plurality of the parking available locations, extract a prescribed number or a smaller number of candidate parking locations from among the detected parking available locations, based on a distance between a current location of the subject vehicle and each of the parking available locations, display the extracted candidate parking locations in a display device, and selects a target parking location from among the displayed candidate parking locations.