DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE USING SAME, DRIVING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, AUTOMATIC DRIVING CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE, AND PROGRAM

• US 20190256108A1
• Filed: 06/28/2017
• Published: 08/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: EMURA, KOICHI, OHDACHI, ERIKO
• Granted Patent: US 10,640,129 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 21/00 Arrangements or fittings on vehicles for protecting or preventing injuries to occupants or pedestrians in case of accidents or other traffic risks safety belts or body harnesses in vehicles B60R22/00; devices, apparatus or methods for life-saving in general A62B; safety devices for propulsion unit control specially adapted for, or arranged in, vehicles B60K28/00; seats constructed to protect the occupant from the effect of abnormal g-forces, e.g. crash or safety seats, B60N2/42; energy-absorbing arrangements for hand wheels for steering vehicles B62D1/11; energy-absorbing arrangements for vehicle steering columns B62D1/19; harnessing in aircraft B64D25/00
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/146 Display means
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2555/60 Traffic rules, e.g. speed limits or right of way
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 40/02 related to ambient conditions
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/14 Means for informing the driver, warning the driver or prompting a driver intervention
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/584 of vehicle lights or traffic lights
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/09 Arrangements for giving variable traffic instructions railroad crossing signals B61L; reflectors E01F, G08B; indicating arrangements for variable information by selection or combination of individual elements G09F9/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/09623 Systems involving the acquisition of information from passive traffic signs by means mounted on the vehicle G08G1/0967 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096725 where the received information generates an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/09675 where a selection from the received information takes place in the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096783 where the origin of the information is a roadside individual element
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/16 Anti-collision systems road vehicle drive control systems for predicting or avoiding probable or impending collision otherwise than by control of a particular sub-unit B60W30/08

Abstract

A signal recognition instruction receiving unit receives an instruction to recognize signal information in a traffic signal from an automatic driving control device. A signal information recognizer executes recognition processing for the signal information on an image from a sensor and information from a wireless device when the signal recognition instruction receiving unit receives the instruction. An image output unit outputs, to a notification device, start information indicating that the signal information recognizer starts the recognition processing for the signal information.

Claims

1. A driving assistance device comprising:

a signal recognition instruction receiving unit that receives an instruction to recognize signal information of a traffic signal;

a signal information recognizer that executes recognition processing for the signal information after the signal recognition instruction receiving unit receives the instruction; and

an image output unit that outputs start information indicating that the signal information recognizer starts the recognition processing for the signal information.

2. The driving assistance device according to claim 1, wherein the image output unit outputs a result of the recognition processing for the signal information after outputting the start information.

3. The driving assistance device according to claim 2, wherein

the signal recognition instruction receiving unit receives driving behavior information of a vehicle, the driving behavior information being reflected by the result of the recognition processing for the signal information, and

the image output unit outputs the driving behavior information of the vehicle.

4. The driving assistance device according to claim 1, wherein the signal information is externally input to the signal information recognizer.

5. A driving assistance system comprising:

a signal recognition instruction receiving unit that receives an instruction to recognize signal information of a traffic signal;

a signal information recognizer that executes recognition processing for the signal information after the signal recognition instruction receiving unit receives the instruction; and

a display that displays start information indicating that the signal information recognizer starts the recognition processing for the signal information.

6. The driving assistance system according to claim 5, wherein the signal information is externally input to the signal information recognizer.

7-10. -10. (canceled)

11. A driving assistance method comprising:

receiving an instruction to recognize signal information of a traffic signal;

executing recognition processing for the signal information after the instruction is received; and

outputting start information indicating that the recognition processing for the signal information is started.

12. (canceled)