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APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PREDICTING TURNS OF VEHICLE

  • US 20150016678A1
  • Filed: 09/07/2012
  • Published: 01/15/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus for predicting a turn of a vehicle on the basis of viewing field information indicating a viewing field in a forward direction of the vehicle, the information being acquired from a sensor installed in the vehicle, the apparatus comprising:

  • an information acquiring means that acquires information on a position coordinate of a surrounding object of the vehicle on the basis of the viewing field information, the surrounding object being present in the viewing field, and surrounding-object information indicating whether the surrounding object is a preceding vehicle or an oncoming vehicle;

    a determining means that determines whether or not the surrounding object is an oncoming vehicle and the surrounding object is in a predetermined area on the left side or in a predetermined area on the right side in a detection range of the viewing field, on the basis of the surrounding-object information acquired by the information acquiring means; and

    a predicting means that predicts there is a curve in a traveling direction of the vehicle when a determination result of the determining means is affirmative and predicts there is no possible turn of the vehicle when a determination result of the determining means is negative.

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