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

To enable to set parking paths more appropriately.A parking assist apparatus 100 comprises a position detection unit 110 configured to detect a current position of a vehicle 1, a sensor provided to the vehicle 1 to detect a periphery of the vehicle, a parking area detection unit configured to detect a parking area in which the vehicle 1 can be parked based on information of the sensor, a parking path computing unit 118 configured to calculate a path along which the vehicle 1 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.