DRIVING SUPPORT APPARATUS

• US 20150106007A1
• Filed: 10/08/2014
• Published: 04/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: MATSUMURA, Takeshi
• Granted Patent: US 9,702,710 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/408
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2520/10 Longitudinal speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/10 Accelerator pedal position
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/50 of positioning data, e.g. GPS [Global Positioning System] data
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/143 Speed control B60W30/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/18109 Braking
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network

Abstract

A driving support apparatus 1 performs a driving support based on travel data obtained while a driver causes a vehicle to travel by a driving operation. The apparatus includes storage units 20 and 41 that store a vehicle speed at each position on a traveling route using the vehicle speed acquired when the driver causes the vehicle to travel by performing an acceleration or deceleration operation, and traveling control units 30, 31, and 43 that perform a traveling control based on the vehicle speed at each position stored in the storage units 20 and 41 and the current position of the vehicle. The traveling control units 30, 31, and 43 end the traveling control in a case where the vehicle speed of the vehicle becomes lower than a threshold value during the deceleration by the traveling control.

Claims

1. A driving support apparatus that stores travel data while a driver causes a vehicle to travel by performing a driving operation and performs a driving support based on the stored travel data, the apparatus comprising:

a storage unit that stores a vehicle speed at each position on a traveling route using the vehicle speed acquired when the driver causes the vehicle to travel by performing an acceleration or deceleration operation;

a position acquisition unit that acquires a current position of the vehicle; and

a traveling control unit that performs a traveling control based on the vehicle speed at each position stored in the storage unit and the current position of the vehicle acquired by the position acquisition unit,

wherein, in a case where the vehicle speed of the vehicle becomes lower than a threshold value during the deceleration by the traveling control, the traveling control unit ends the traveling control.

2. The driving support apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the traveling control unit ends the traveling control before the vehicle reaches a stop position where the vehicle speed stored in the storage unit becomes zero km/h.

3. The driving support apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising:

an acceleration request detection unit that detects an acceleration request from the driver,

wherein, in a case where the acceleration request is detected by the acceleration request detection unit before the vehicle speed of the vehicle becomes lower than the threshold value during the deceleration by the deceleration control, the traveling control unit performs the traveling control while excluding the vehicle speed lower than the vehicle speed at the time of detecting the acceleration request among the vehicle speed data before and after the stop position stored in the storage unit.