Driving support device

• US 9,889,797 B2
• Filed: 08/05/2016
• Issued: 02/13/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Matsuoka, Katsuhiro, Morimoto, Kazuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Murillo Garcia, Fabricio R
• Application Number:
  US15/229,166
• Publication Number:
  US 20170072853A1
• Time in Patent Office: 557 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 9/008 for anti-collision purposes
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 40/10 related to vehicle motion
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/54 of traffic, e.g. cars on the road, trains or boats
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/58 Recognition of moving objects or obstacles, e.g. vehicles or pedestrians; Recognition of traffic objects, e.g. traffic signs, traffic lights or roads
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/00 Registering or indicating the working of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/164 Centralised systems, e.g. external to vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/166 for active traffic, e.g. moving vehicles, pedestrians, bikes

Abstract

An intersection information acquisition unit acquires detection information by an object detection sensor including at least one of a vehicle detection sensor and a human detection sensor. A support processor performs driving support processing for outputting an alarm when the support processor determines that an own vehicle intends to cross the opposite lane and determines based on the acquired detection information that an object exists or the object is approaching in a direction in which the own vehicle travels to cross the opposite lane at the intersection. The support processor performs the driving support processing when the intersection information acquisition unit acquires detection information by the vehicle detection sensor. On the other hand, the support processor does not perform the driving support processing when the intersection information acquisition unit acquires detection information by the human detection sensor and does not acquire detection information by the vehicle detection sensor.

Claims

1. A driving support device, comprising:

an acquirer configured to acquire detection information sent from a roadside machine disposed at or around an intersection of a road, the detection information being detected by an object detection sensor including at least one of a vehicle detection sensor and a human detection sensor; and

a support processor configured to perform driving support processing for outputting an alarm when the support processor (i) determines that an own vehicle, driven by a person, intends to cross an opposite lane at the intersection of the road and (ii) determines based on the acquired detection information that an object exists or the object is approaching in a direction in which the own vehicle travels to cross the opposite lane at the intersection of the road, wherein both;

(iii) the support processor performs the driving support processing when the acquirer acquires detection information by the vehicle detection sensor for detecting a vehicle traveling on the opposite lane and approaching the intersection of the road, and

(iv) the support processor does not perform the driving support processing when the acquirer acquires detection information by the human detection sensor for detecting a person existing ahead of the opposite lane in a direction in which the own vehicle travels to cross the opposite lane and does not acquire detection information by the vehicle detection sensor.

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

the support processor changes a mode of the output alarm depending on whether the acquirer acquires the detection information by the human detection sensor or not.

3. The driving support device according to claim 1, further comprising a support executability determiner configured to determine executability of the driving support processing by the support processor according to a type of the detection information acquired by the acquirer.