Cruise Control System for a Vehicle
First Claim
1. A system for cruise controlling a vehicle, the system comprising a control unit configured to select a driving control profile in dependence upon a determination by the system of an environmental and/or situational status of the vehicle, wherein the driving control profile comprises:
- an acceleration profile selected from two or more different acceleration profiles; and
/ora deceleration profile selected from two or more different deceleration profiles.
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Abstract
The disclosure relates to a system for cruise controlling a vehicle. The system comprises a control unit configured to select a current driving control profile in dependence upon a determination by the system of an environmental and/or situational status of the vehicle. The said driving control profile optionally comprises an acceleration profile selected from two or more different acceleration profiles in dependence upon a determination by the system of an environmental and/or situational status of the vehicle. The said driving control profile comprises a deceleration profile selected from two or more different deceleration profiles in dependence upon a determination by the system of an environmental and/or situational status of the vehicle. The environmental and/or situational status of the vehicle may be determined by consideration of signals comprising data obtained from sensors or control modules comprised within or mounted to the vehicle and/or from information sources external to the vehicle.
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67 Claims
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1. A system for cruise controlling a vehicle, the system comprising a control unit configured to select a driving control profile in dependence upon a determination by the system of an environmental and/or situational status of the vehicle, wherein the driving control profile comprises:
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an acceleration profile selected from two or more different acceleration profiles; and
/ora deceleration profile selected from two or more different deceleration profiles. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 20, 21, 22, 29, 30)
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31-41. -41. (canceled)
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42. A system for cruise controlling a vehicle, the system comprising a camera, and wherein the system is operable to control the vehicle so as to maintain a vehicle cruise speed, the system being configured to:
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determine a current legal speed limit using the camera to capture an image of a traffic speed limit sign; determine an appropriate vehicle speed, the appropriate vehicle speed being a safer recommended speed of travel at or below the determined legal speed limit determined in dependence upon the determined current legal speed limit and upon the environmental and/or the situational status of the vehicle; and output the determined appropriate vehicle speed for selection as the vehicle cruise speed.
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66. A system for cruise controlling a vehicle, wherein the system is operable to control the vehicle so as to maintain a vehicle cruise headway, the system being configured to determine an appropriate vehicle headway in dependence upon braking distance data for a current vehicle speed and for environmental and/or situational status of the vehicle as determined by the system,
wherein the vehicle cruise headway is selected by a driver of the vehicle, wherein the system is configured to display or otherwise communicate the determined appropriate vehicle headway to the driver of the vehicle as an indicated headway, for prompting the driver of the vehicle to select the indicated headway as the vehicle cruise headway, and wherein the system comprises a control device for use by the driver to select the indicated headway as the vehicle cruise headway and upon the driver selecting the indicated headway as the vehicle cruise headway by deploying said control device, the system is configured to adopt and maintain the indicated headway as the vehicle cruise headway.
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67-81. -81. (canceled)
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