Parking assist device

The invention relates to a parking assist device. The parking assistance device performs a process for parking a vehicle in a parking area on the basis of a captured image acquired by an imaging device mounted on the vehicle, and is provided with: a storage unit for storing the captured image; a first processing unit that detects a parking area present in an imaging area of the imaging device on the basis of a low-resolution image obtained by reducing the resolution of the captured image; a selection unit that selects a target parking area from the detected parking area when the first processing unit detects the parking area; an extraction unit that extracts an extraction image including the target parking area from the captured image stored in the storage unit; and a second processing unit that generates, on the basis of the extracted image, target information indicating a target parking position when the vehicle is parked in the target parking area. 本发明涉及停车辅助装置。停车辅助装置基于由搭载于车辆的拍摄装置取得的拍摄图像进行用于使车辆在停车区域停车的处理，其具