US 11,753,026 B2
Vehicle control device
Masato Ishibashi, Hiroshima (JP); Kiyoyuki Tsuchiyama, Hiroshima (JP); Daisuke Hamano, Hiroshima (JP); Tomotsugu Futa, Hiroshima (JP); Daisuke Horigome, Hiroshima (JP); Atsushi Tasaki, Hiroshima (JP); Yosuke Hashimoto, Hiroshima (JP); Yusuke Kihara, Hiroshima (JP); Eiichi Hojin, Hiroshima (JP); Arnaud Van Den Bossche, Munich (DE); Ray Marshall, Glasgow (GB); and Leonardo Surico, Munich (DE)
Assigned to MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION, Hiroshima (JP); and NXP B.V., AG Eindhoven (NL)
Filed by Mazda Motor Corporation, Hiroshima (JP); and NXP B.V., AG Eindhoven (NL)
Filed on Jan. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/160,420.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-018116 (JP), filed on Feb. 5, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0237727 A1, Aug. 5, 2021
Int. Cl. B60W 50/06 (2006.01); B60W 30/14 (2006.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01); G06V 10/80 (2022.01)
CPC B60W 50/06 (2013.01) [B60W 30/14 (2013.01); G06V 10/811 (2022.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01); B60W 2420/42 (2013.01); B60W 2555/00 (2020.02)] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle control device comprising:
a first integrated circuit (IC) unit for receiving an output from a camera mounted in a vehicle, performing image processing on the output from the camera, and outputting image data obtained through the image processing;
a second IC unit for receiving the image data output from the first IC unit, performing recognition processing of an external environment of the vehicle based on the image data, and outputting external environment data obtained through the recognition processing; and
a third IC unit for receiving the external environmental data output from the second IC unit, and performing judgment processing for cruise control of the vehicle based on the external environment data, wherein
a control flow is provided so as to allow the third IC unit to transmit a control signal to each of the first and second IC units, the control flow including a first line from the third IC unit to the first IC unit and a second line from the third IC unit to the second IC unit, and
the control flow is provided separately from a data flow configured to transmit the output from the camera, the image data output from the first IC unit, and the external environment data output from the second IC unit.