VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE

• US 20150258992A1
• Filed: 11/20/2013
• Published: 09/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Sawamoto, Kiichiro
• Granted Patent: US 9,409,575 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 7/22 initiated by contact of vehicle, e.g. bumper, with an external object, e.g. another vehicle , or by means of contactless obstacle detectors mounted on the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2420/403 Image sensing, e.g. optical camera
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2420/408 Radar; Laser, e.g. lidar
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2520/04 Vehicle stop
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2520/10 Longitudinal speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2554/00 Input parameters relating to objects
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2554/801 Lateral distance
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2554/802 Longitudinal distance
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2554/804 Relative longitudinal speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2556/50 of positioning data, e.g. GPS [Global Positioning System] data
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/14 Adaptive cruise control
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/17 with provision for special action when the preceding vehicle comes to a halt, e.g. stop and go
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/18027 Drive off, accelerating from standstill
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/166 for active traffic, e.g. moving vehicles, pedestrians, bikes

Abstract

A vehicle control device includes: a camera unit and a radar device that detect objects in front of the vehicle; and a travel control device that recognizes an object detected by the camera unit and the radar device as an object to be controlled, and performs travel control in accordance with the object to be controlled. The travel control device, when starting travel control from when the own vehicle is in a stopped state, recognizes the object to be controlled when a determination has been made that the own vehicle has moved from a stopped state to a travel state.

Claims

1. A vehicle control device comprising:

an object detection device which detects an object in front of an own vehicle; and

a travel control device that recognizes the object detected by the object detection device as an object to be controlled, and performs travel control in accordance with the object to be controlled, wherein

the travel control device, when starting travel control from when the own vehicle is in a stopped state, recognizes the object to be controlled when a determination has been made that the own vehicle has moved from the stopped state to a travel state.

2. The vehicle control device according to claim 1, wherein

the travel state is a state in which the own vehicle has moved a predetermined distance from the stopped state.

3. The vehicle control device according to claim 1, wherein

the travel state is a state in which a predetermined time has elapsed since the own vehicle started traveling.

4. The vehicle control device according to claim 1, wherein

the travel control device, until a determination has been made that the own vehicle has transitioned from the stopped state to the travel state, does not recognize the object detected by the object detection device as the object to be controlled if the object is determined to be a stationary object, and recognizes the object as the object to be controlled if the object is determined to be a moving object.