DRIVING SUPPORT DEVICE FOR VEHICLE

• Main Authors: ISHIKAWA TOSHIHIRO, UCHIUMI SHOJI, YONEZAWA YASUNOBU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 07.05.2009
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; SIGNALLING; TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving support device for a vehicle, capable of performing warning by appropriately determining a risk degree even when multiple pedestrians adjacently exist, and having high safety. SOLUTION: The pedestrians F in a prescribed area 13 in front of one's own vehicle A are detected. The pedestrian states of the pedestrians F and the travelling state of the own vehicle A are detected, thereby setting dangerous zones 12 for each risk degree, on the basis of the states. The risk degree is determined from the state in which of the dangerous zone 12 the pedestrians F exist, to perform warning. The dangerous zones 12 are automatically changed in response to the change of the pedestrian states. The warning is automatically changed-over between display for each dangerous zone 12 and display of birds' eye view in response to the speed of the own vehicle and the state of a driver. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT