DRIVING SUPPORT APPARATUS AND DRIVING SUPPORT METHOD

• US 20170116862A1
• Filed: 07/28/2014
• Published: 04/27/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: INOUE, Yuji
• Granted Patent: US 9,842,503 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/34 Route searching; Route guidance
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3697 Output of additional, non-guidance related information, e.g. low fuel level G01C21/3679 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/161 Decentralised systems, e.g. inter-vehicle communication
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/163 involving continuous checking
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/166 for active traffic, e.g. moving vehicles, pedestrians, bikes
• 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 which can enhance a possibility of giving notice of only a detected object in a dead angle area which is significant for a user. A controller causes a notification unit, in a first vehicle, to give notice of a detected object, which is determined to have an influence on a traveling of the first vehicle in a dead angle point which the first vehicle travels from among the detected object which is not detected by the first vehicle but detected by the second vehicle, as a travel influencing object based on a route information of the first vehicle, a current position information of the first vehicle, and a detected object information of the first vehicle and a second vehicle which are obtained by the information receiver.

Claims

1. A driving support apparatus of supporting a traveling of a vehicle using a notification unit, comprising:

an information receiver obtaining a route information of a first vehicle which includes a scheduled traveling route along which said first vehicle is going to travel, a current position information of said first vehicle, a detected object information regarding a detected object around said first vehicle and a second vehicle detected by said first and second vehicles, and a scheduled traveling information of said second vehicle, and

a controller causing said notification unit, in said first vehicle, to give notice of a detected object, which is determined to have an influence on a traveling of said first vehicle in a dead angle point on said scheduled traveling route along which said first vehicle travels from among said detected object which is not detected by said first vehicle but detected by said second vehicle, as a travel influencing object based on said route information of said first vehicle, said current position information of said first vehicle, said detected object information of said first and second vehicles, and said scheduled traveling information of said second vehicle which are obtained by said information receiver.

2. The driving support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said controller causes said notification unit not to give notice of said travel influencing object when a current position of said first vehicle is located a longer distance away from said dead angle point on said scheduled traveling route along which said first vehicle will travel soon than a predetermined first distance based on said current position information of said first vehicle.

3. The driving support apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

said information receiver further obtains a speed information of said first vehicle, and

said first distance is determined based on said speed information of said first vehicle.

4. The driving support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said detected object information includes a current position information of said detected object, and

said controller causes said notification unit not to give notice of said travel influencing object which is located a longer distance away from said dead angle point on said scheduled traveling route along which said first vehicle will travel soon than a predetermined second distance based on said current position information of said detected object.

5. The driving support apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

said detected object includes a moving body,

said detected object information further includes a speed information of said moving body, and

said second distance is determined based on said speed information of said moving body which is said travel influencing object.

6. The driving support apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

said detected object includes a moving body,

said detected object information includes a current position information of said moving body, and

said controller causes said notification unit not to give notice of said moving object, which is said travel influencing object which does not travel simultaneously with said first vehicle in said dead angle point when a traffic signal is disposed in said dead angle point.

7. A driving support method of supporting a traveling of a vehicle using a notification unit, comprising steps of:

obtaining a route information of a first vehicle which includes a scheduled traveling route along which said first vehicle is going to travel, a current position information of said first vehicle, a detected object information regarding a detected object around said first vehicle and a second vehicle detected by said first and second vehicles, and a scheduled traveling information of said second vehicle, and

causing said notification unit, in said first vehicle, to give notice of a detected object, which is determined to have an influence on a traveling of said first vehicle in a dead angle point on said scheduled traveling route along which said first vehicle travels from among said detected object which is not detected by said first vehicle but detected by said second vehicle, as a travel influencing object based on said route information of said first vehicle, said current position information of said first vehicle, said detected object information of said first and second vehicles, and said scheduled traveling information of said second vehicle which are obtained.