VEHICLE DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE AND AUTOMATIC ACTIVATING METHOD OF VEHICLE DRIVING ASSISTANCE FUNCTION BY THE SAME

• US 20150148985A1
• Filed: 09/05/2014
• Published: 05/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: JO, Jang Hyeon
• Application Number:
  US14/478,560
• Publication Number:
  US 20150148985A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/0094 of control units
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2552/05 Type of road, e.g. motorways, local streets, paved or unpaved roads
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2554/801 Lateral distance
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/50 of positioning data, e.g. GPS [Global Positioning System] data
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/65 Data transmitted between vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2756/10 Involving external transmission of data to or from the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/09 Taking automatic action to avoid collision, e.g. braking and steering
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/095 Predicting travel path or likelihood of collision
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/18154 Approaching an intersection
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/18163 Lane change; Overtaking manoeuvres
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/14 Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/16 Tactile feedback to the driver, e.g. vibration or force feedback to the driver on the steering wheel or the accelerator pedal
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096725 where the received information generates an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/163 involving continuous checking

Abstract

The present invention provides a vehicle driving assistance device, including: a collecting unit which collects vehicle safety information including positional information of a vehicle; a determining unit which determines a kind of driving road on which the vehicle is driven using the positional information; and a control unit which activates at least one driving assistance function related with the kind of driving road, among a plurality of driving assistance functions which is implemented in the vehicle and an automatic activating method of a vehicle driving assistance function by the vehicle driving assistance device.

Claims

1. A vehicle driving assistance device, comprising:

a collecting unit which collects vehicle safety information including positional information of a vehicle;

a determining unit which determines a kind of driving road on which the vehicle is being driven using the positional information; and

a control unit which activates a driving assistance function related with the kind of driving road, among a plurality of driving assistance functions which is implemented in the vehicle.

2. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

a storing unit in which driving assistance functions which are grouped for every type of roads are stored, among the plurality of driving assistance functions,

wherein the control unit activates a driving assistance function corresponding to the kind of driving road, among the plurality of driving assistance functions and inactivates other driving assistance functions using the grouped driving assistance functions.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the control unit checks whether an event occurs by a control module of the activated driving assistance function and when the event occurs as a checking result, outputs event information of the driving assistance function in which the event occurs.

4. The device of claim 3, wherein the collecting unit further collects traffic information from an infrastructure through vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) communication and

a control module of the activated driving assistance function checks whether a danger event or a guidance event occurs using the vehicle safety information and the traffic information which are collected by the collecting unit.

5. The device of claim 3, wherein the collecting unit further collects other vehicle safety information of the other vehicle which is located near the vehicle through vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communication and

a control module of the activated driving assistance function checks whether a danger event or a guidance event occurs, using the vehicle safety information and the other vehicle safety information which are collected by the collecting unit.

6. The device of claim 3, wherein in a state where at least two driving assistance functions are activated among the plurality of driving assistance functions, when events simultaneously occur in the control modules of two or more driving assistance functions, the control unit outputs event information of the driving assistance function in which an event having the highest priority occurs in consideration of a priority which is set in advance.

7. The device of claim 3, wherein the control unit includes an automatic activating function which performs an operation of outputting at least one information of the warning information and the guidance information depending on whether the occurring event is a danger event or a guidance event.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of driving assistance functions includes an emergency electronic brake light function, an intersection collision warning function, an overtaking warning function, a forward collision warning function, a blind zone and lane change warning function, a smart tolling service function, and an emergency vehicle signal preemption function.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein the collecting unit collects positional information of the vehicle through at least one of a GPS module and a GNSS module and collects state information of the host vehicle including speed information, steering information, brake information, and steering light manipulation information of the vehicle from a body control module (BCM) and an electronic control unit (ECU) of the vehicle.

10. An automatic activating method of a vehicle driving assistance function by a vehicle driving assistance device, the method comprising:

collecting vehicle safety information including positional information of a vehicle;

determining a kind of driving road on which the vehicle is being driven using the collected positional information; and

activating a driving assistance function related with the determined type of driving road, among a plurality of driving assistance functions which is implemented in the vehicle.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the activating:

includes activating a driving assistance function corresponding to the kind of driving road and inactivating other driving assistance functions, by reading the grouped driving assistance function from a memory in which driving assistance functions which are grouped for every type of road among the plurality of driving assistance functions are stored.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

checking whether an event occurs in a control module of the activated driving assistance function; and

outputting event information of a driving assistance function in which the event occurs when the event occurs as a checking result.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the outputting includes outputting at least one information of the warning information and the guidance information depending on whether the occurring event is a danger event or a guidance event.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein in a state where at least two driving assistance functions are activated among the plurality of driving assistance functions, when two or more events simultaneously occur, the outputting includes outputting information of the driving assistance function in which an event having the highest priority occurs in consideration of a priority which is set in advance.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the control module of the activated driving assistance function checks whether an event occurs using at least one of safety information of the host vehicle which is collected from the body control module of the vehicle, traffic information collected from an infrastructure through vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) communication, and other vehicle safety information which is collected from other vehicle which is located near the vehicle through vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communication.