Parking assist system using backup camera

A parking assist system for a vehicle, said parking assist system comprising:

• a rear backup camera disposed at a rear portion of a vehicle equipped with said parking assist system and having a field of view at least rearward of the equipped vehicle;
• a control comprising a processor operable to process image data captured by said rear backup camera;
• wherein said control, as the equipped vehicle is driven forward into a parking slot and via processing by said processor of image data captured by said rear backup camera, determines a parking slot marker at a side boundary of the parking slot at which the equipped vehicle is being parked;
• wherein said control, as the equipped vehicle is driven forward into the parking slot and via processing by said processor of image data captured by said rear backup camera, determines a degree of misalignment of the equipped vehicle relative to the determined parking slot marker;
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• wherein said control, as the equipped vehicle is driven forward into the parking slot and responsive to the determined degree of misalignment being greater than a threshold level, generates an output to alert a driver of the equipped vehicle that the equipped vehicle is not aligned in the parking slot.

A parking assist system for a vehicle, said parking assist system comprising:

• a rear backup camera disposed at a rear portion of a vehicle equipped with said parking assist system and having a field of view at least rearward of the equipped vehicle;
• a control comprising a processor operable to process image data captured by said rear backup camera;
• a display screen disposed in the equipped vehicle and viewable by a driver of the equipped vehicle;
• wherein said control, as the equipped vehicle is driven forward into a parking slot and via processing by said processor of image data captured by said rear backup camera, determines a parking slot marker at each side boundary of the parking slot at which the equipped vehicle is being parked;
• wherein said control, as the equipped vehicle is driven forward into the parking slot and via processing by said processor of image data captured by said rear backup camera, determines an orientation of the equipped vehicle relative to the determined parking slot markers;
• wherein, as the equipped vehicle is driven forward into the parking slot, said display screen displays an avatar of a vehicle at spaced apart line segments, and wherein the displayed avatar is at the determined orientation relative to the displayed spaced apart line segments so the driver, when viewing the display screen as the equipped vehicle is driven forward into the parking slot, can determine whether or not the equipped vehicle is aligned in the parking slot;
• wherein said control, as the equipped vehicle is driven forward into the parking slot and via processing by said processor of image data captured by said rear backup camera, determines when the determined orientation is indicative of a threshold degree of misalignment of the equipped vehicle relative to the determined parking slot markers;
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• wherein said control, as the equipped vehicle is driven forward into the parking slot and responsive to the determined orientation being indicative of greater than the threshold degree of misalignment, generates an alert to the driver of the equipped vehicle.