US 11,954,896 B2
Driving support device
Koji Kurata, Hamamatsu (JP)
Assigned to SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION, Hamamatsu (JP)
Filed by SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION, Hamamatsu (JP)
Filed on Aug. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/406,793.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-141592 (JP), filed on Aug. 25, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0067409 A1, Mar. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. G06V 10/60 (2022.01); B60W 30/09 (2012.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 40/04 (2006.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01)
CPC G06V 10/60 (2022.01) [B60W 30/09 (2013.01); B60W 30/18163 (2013.01); B60W 40/04 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 60/0015 (2020.02); G06V 20/584 (2022.01); G06V 20/588 (2022.01); B60W 2050/143 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A driving support device that supports driving of a vehicle, the driving support device comprising:
an imaging device configured to capture an image of at least a front of the vehicle; and
a control device configured:
to detect whether or not the vehicle is approaching a merging section where a first road on which the vehicle is traveling and a second road having a height difference with respect to the first road merge with each other after there is no height difference between the first road and the second road;
to identify an image of a road surface of the merging section from the image captured by the imaging device when it is detected that the vehicle is approaching the merging section;
to detect whether or not the road surface of the merging section is irradiated with light emitted from a lighting device of another vehicle traveling on the second road based on luminance of each part in the image of the road surface of the merging section identified; and
to perform a processing of avoiding contact between the vehicle and the other vehicle when it is detected that the road surface of the merging section is irradiated with the light emitted from the lighting device of the other vehicle.