PARKING ASSIST APPARATUS AND A METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE PARKING ASSIST APPARATUS

A parking assist apparatus comprises a position detection unit configured to detect a current position of a vehicle, a sensor provided to the vehicle to detect a periphery of the vehicle, a parking area detection unit configured to detect a parking area in which the vehicle can be parked based on information of the sensor, a parking path computing unit configured to calculate a path along which the vehicle is to be moved from a current position to the parking area based on a parking area detected by the parking area detection unit and a current position of the vehicle.