Target parking position setting apparatus and vehicle provided with the same

A vehicle comprising:

• image capturing means adapted for a vehicle and capturing an image of an outside of the vehicle;
• displaying means provided inside the vehicle and displaying an image captured by the image capturing means on a display screen;
• parking position display controlling means for displaying on the display screen of the displaying means a mark representing a provisional target parking position by superimposing the mark on the image captured by the image capturing means, the parking position display controlling means moving a display position of the mark in response to an instruction of an operator and displaying on the display screen a moving direction indicator indicating a moving direction of the mark;
• setting means for setting the display position of the mark on the image captured by the image capturing means as a target parking position in response to an instruction of the operator;
• and
• guiding means for guiding the vehicle to the target parking position set by the setting means,
• wherein the mark representing the provisional target parking position and the target parking position is a target parking frame, the parking position display controlling means displays the target parking frame on the display screen and moves the display position of the target parking frame in response to an instruction of the operator, and the parking position display controlling means displays at least an edge of the target parking frame, which corresponds to a moving direction of the target parking frame, distinguishably from among plural edges of the target parking frame when moving the target parking frame displayed on the display screen.

A computer readable medium storing a computer program implementing processes comprising:

• capturing an image of the outside of a vehicle by an image capturing device;
• displaying the image captured by the image capturing device on a display device;
• superimposing a mark representing a provisional target parking position of the vehicle on the captured image and displaying the mark on the displaying device;
• moving a display position of the mark on a display screen of the display device in response to an operation by an operator;
• and
• displaying a moving direction indicator representing a moving direction of the mark on the display screen of the display device in response to an operation by the operator,
• wherein the mark representing the provisional target parking position and the target parking position is a target parking frame, and
• wherein the processes flirt her comprise:
• displaying the target parking frame on the display screen and moving the display position of the target parking frame in response to an instruction of the operator and
• displaying at least an edge of the target parking frame, which corresponds to a moving direction of the target parking frame, distinguishably from among plural edges of the target parking frame when moving the target parking frame displayed on the display screen.