TRAVELING SUPPORT APPARATUS AND TRAVELING SUPPORT METHOD

• US 20140012491A1
• Filed: 03/17/2011
• Published: 01/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Akiyama, Tomonori, Igarashi, Shinji, Yoshihama, Yuki
• Application Number:
  US13/375,367
• Publication Number:
  US 20140012491A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/300
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/30 Driving style
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/12 Lane keeping
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/00 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions information retrieval, database structures or file system structures therefor G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/167 Driving aids for lane monitoring, lane changing, e.g. blind spot detection

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a technique in order to carry out the driving support in conformity with the running feeling of a driver. The present invention resides in a traveling support apparatus for carrying out support of assist or warning in order to avoid any departure of a vehicle from a traveling route set on the basis of a traveling-prohibited region or a road indication to indicate a lane boundary, wherein a boundary of the traveling route is set by reflecting a distance which is provided in a lateral direction of the vehicle until present time between the subject vehicle and the traveling-prohibited region or the road indication to indicate the lane boundary. Accordingly, it is possible to set the boundary of the traveling route which is favorable for the driver and which is appropriate corresponding to each road. Therefore, it is possible to carry out the driving support in conformity with the running feeling of the driver.

Claims

1. A traveling support apparatus for carrying out support of assist or warning in order to avoid any departure of a vehicle from a traveling route set on the basis of a traveling-prohibited region or a road indication to indicate a lane boundary, wherein:

a boundary of the traveling route is set by reflecting a distance which is provided in a lateral direction of the vehicle until present time between the subject vehicle and the traveling-prohibited region or the road indication to indicate the lane boundary.

2. The traveling support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the boundary of the traveling route is set on a side opposite to a side on which the traveling-prohibited region or the road indication to indicate the lane boundary exists.

3. The traveling support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the distance, which is provided in the lateral direction of the vehicle until the present time between the subject vehicle and the traveling-prohibited region or the road indication to indicate the lane boundary, is statistically calculated.

4. A traveling support method for carrying out support of assist or warning in order to avoid any departure of a vehicle from a traveling route set on the basis of a traveling-prohibited region or a road indication to indicate a lane boundary, wherein:

a boundary of the traveling route is set by reflecting a distance which is provided in a lateral direction of the vehicle until present time between the subject vehicle and the traveling-prohibited region or the road indication to indicate the lane boundary.