US 12,246,711 B2
Driving support device
Takuya Kaminade, Okazaki (JP); Masaki Ikai, Toyota (JP); and Masashi Oishi, Owariasahi (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Jan. 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/103,083.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-016112 (JP), filed on Feb. 4, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0249682 A1, Aug. 10, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 30/12 (2020.01); B60W 10/04 (2006.01); B60W 10/18 (2012.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01)
CPC B60W 30/12 (2013.01) [B60W 10/04 (2013.01); B60W 10/18 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 2540/10 (2013.01); B60W 2552/05 (2020.02); B60W 2552/53 (2020.02)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A driving support device, comprising:
an in-vehicle sensor configured to acquire and output each of position information relating to a position of an own vehicle, target information relating to a target positioned around the own vehicle, and operation information relating to an operation of an operating element of the own vehicle; and
an electronic control unit that includes a lane departure prevention function that is configured to prevent the own vehicle from departing from a lane in which the own vehicle is traveling by activating at least one device among a notification device, a drive device, and a braking device mounted on the own vehicle in a situation in which an accelerator pedal of the own vehicle is erroneously operated and an angle between a traveling direction of the own vehicle and a boundary line of the lane detected based on the target information is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold value,
the electronic control unit being configured to disable the lane departure prevention function in a special situation,
wherein the special situation is a situation in which the own vehicle enters, from a first lane in which the own vehicle has traveled, a second lane intersecting the first lane, and in which one of a time or a distance for which the own vehicle has traveled in a current lane since start of traveling in the current lane by the own vehicle is less than a predetermined threshold value, and
wherein the erroneous operation is based on a depression depth of the accelerator pedal.