US 11,667,284 B2
Rear view monitoring device
Noriyuki Saito, Toyota (JP); Takuya Kaminade, Okazaki (JP); and Iwao Izumikawa, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Aug. 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/394,865.
Application 17/394,865 is a continuation of application No. 16/362,005, filed on Mar. 22, 2019, granted, now 11,091,159.
Claims priority of application No. JP2018-063556 (JP), filed on Mar. 29, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0362709 A1, Nov. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. B60W 30/095 (2012.01)
CPC B60W 30/0956 (2013.01) [B60W 2554/00 (2020.02)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A rear view monitoring device, which is to be applied to a vehicle including a left door and a right door, comprising:
an object detector configured to detect a position of an object positioned in a rear side of the vehicle with respect to the vehicle; and
a controller configured to execute, during a period in which the vehicle is stopped, preliminary control for preventing an occupant of the vehicle from performing an opening operation to at least one door between the left door and the right door when the object is positioned in any one of a left rear side area, a right rear side area, and a central rear side area between the left rear side area and the right rear side area, of the vehicle, including:
determine that the object is positioned in the left rear side area when the object is positioned in an area between a first left predetermined line segment extending toward the rear side of the vehicle from a first left predetermined position which is away from a center portion at a rear end of the vehicle in a vehicle width direction toward left in the vehicle width direction by a first left predetermined distance and a second left predetermined line segment extending toward the rear side of the vehicle from a second left predetermined position which is away from the first left predetermined position toward left in the vehicle width direction by a second left predetermined distance and is positioned toward left in the vehicle width direction compared to the a left side of the vehicle,
execute, as the preliminary control, left-side preliminary control for preventing the occupant from performing an opening operation to the left door when the object is positioned in the left rear side area,
determine that the object is positioned in the right rear side area when the object is positioned in an area between a first right predetermined line segment extending toward the rear side of the vehicle from a first right predetermined position which is away from the center portion toward right in the vehicle width direction by a first right predetermined distance and a second right predetermined line segment extending toward the rear side of the vehicle from a second right predetermined position which is away from the first right predetermined position toward right in the vehicle width direction by a second right predetermined distance and is positioned toward right in the vehicle width direction compared to a right side of the vehicle,
execute, as the preliminary control, right-side preliminary control for preventing the occupant from performing an opening operation to the right door when the object is positioned in the right rear side area,
determine that the object is positioned in the central rear side area when the object is positioned in an area between the first left predetermined line segment and the first right predetermined line segment, and
execute, as the preliminary control, both-side preliminary control for preventing the occupant from performing an opening operation to both of the left door and the right door when the object is positioned in the central rear side area.