US 12,258,006 B2
Object detection device
Hiromitsu Urano, Numazu (JP); and Kentaro Ichikawa, Shizuoka (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Jun. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/809,762.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-119413 (JP), filed on Jul. 20, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0022104 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 30/08 (2012.01); B60W 40/04 (2006.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01)
CPC B60W 30/08 (2013.01) [B60W 40/04 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 60/001 (2020.02); B60W 2420/403 (2013.01); B60W 2420/408 (2024.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An object detection device that determines whether or not an object is present in a blind spot of a sensor mounted on a vehicle, the object detection device comprising:
an acquisition unit configured to acquire an entry/exit status of the object into/from a closed blind spot of the sensor on the basis of a detection result from the sensor;
a determination unit configured to determine the presence or absence of the object in the closed blind spot on the basis of the entry/exit status; and
a number-of-persons acquisition unit configured to acquire the number of persons getting on the vehicle from the closed blind spot and the number of persons getting off the vehicle to the closed blind spot, wherein
the determination unit determines the presence or absence of the object in the closed blind spot on the basis of the number of persons getting on and the number of persons getting off.