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Driving assistance apparatus and driving assistance method

  • US 10,449,856 B2
  • Filed: 05/30/2017
  • Issued: 10/22/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A driving assistance apparatus that assists a transition from an autonomous driving mode in which a vehicle is driven under autonomous control to a manual driving mode in which the vehicle is driven by a driver, comprising:

  • one or more memories; and

    circuitry that, in operation, performs operations includingdetecting an activity by the driver,detecting a plurality of conditions of the driver, that include a level of concentration of the driver, anddetermining a take-over request method which is a method of presenting, in the vehicle, a take-over request that informs the driver that the autonomous driving mode is going to be cancelled, the determining being based on at least the detected activity by the driver and the plurality of detected conditions, whereinthe determining includes, if the detected activity by the driver is a specific activity, determining the take-over request method so that the take-over request is highlighted depending on the detected level of concentration.

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