US 12,233,862 B2
Driver assistance device to be applied to vehicle at times of right- and left-hand turns
Hideki Sugawara, Tokyo (JP); Takahiro Furuya, Tokyo (JP); Anfen Ye, Tokyo (JP); Kazuki Yamaguchi, Tokyo (JP); Wataru Matsudate, Tokyo (JP); Hayato Hori, Tokyo (JP); and Takayuki Sato, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/067,450.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-007426 (JP), filed on Jan. 20, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0227033 A1, Jul. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 30/095 (2012.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 40/04 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 30/0956 (2013.01) [B60W 30/18154 (2013.01); B60W 30/18159 (2020.02); B60W 40/04 (2013.01); B60W 2554/80 (2020.02); B60W 2555/60 (2020.02)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A driver assistance device to be applied to a vehicle at a time of a right-hand turn and at a time of a left-hand turn, the driver assistance device comprising:
a vehicle-driving environment information acquiring unit configured to acquire information about vehicle-driving environment ahead of the vehicle;
an intersection detecting unit configured to detect an intersection in the information about the vehicle-driving environment;
a right/left turn determining unit configured to determine whether the vehicle makes the right-hand turn or the left-hand turn at the intersection when the intersection is detected by the intersection detecting unit;
a projected course setting unit configured to set a projected course of the vehicle when the right/left turn determining unit determines that the vehicle makes the right-hand turn or the left-hand turn at the intersection;
a moving object recognizing unit configured to recognize, based on the information about the vehicle-driving environment, a moving object ahead in a direction in which the vehicle making the right-hand turn or the left-hand turn is headed;
a movement vector calculating unit configured to calculate a movement vector from positional changes of the moving object recognized by the moving object recognizing unit;
a meeting point calculating unit configured to calculate a meeting point of a path of the moving object in a direction of the movement vector calculated by the movement vector calculating unit and the projected course set by the projected course setting unit; and
a halt control unit configured to determine that there is a possibility of interference between the vehicle and the moving object and to bring the vehicle to a halt before reaching the meeting point when an interval between a first time at which the vehicle reaches the meeting point and a second time at which the moving object reaches the meeting point is determined to fall within a predetermined range, the first time and the second time being calculated by the meeting point calculating unit,
wherein the halt control unit is further configured to:
in response to determining that there is no possibility of the interference between the vehicle and the moving object, determine whether there is a crosswalk adjacent to the intersection and located on a road into which the vehicle turns right or left, based on the information about the vehicle-driving environment; and
in response to determining that there is the crosswalk ahead of the vehicle, bring the vehicle to a halt before reaching the crosswalk.