US 12,291,216 B2
Vehicle control device
Osamu Okada, Tokyo (JP); Tatsuya Suto, Tokyo (JP); and Koki Matsumoto, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/464,984.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-147844 (JP), filed on Sep. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0063640 A1, Mar. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. B60W 50/00 (2006.01); B60W 40/076 (2012.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01)
CPC B60W 50/0098 (2013.01) [B60W 40/076 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); G06V 20/588 (2022.01); B60W 2050/0054 (2013.01); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01); B60W 2520/26 (2013.01); B60W 2552/15 (2020.02)] 1 Claim
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle control device for a vehicle comprising:
an accelerometer configured to detect a slope angle of a road surface on which the vehicle is driving;
a ground contact detection sensor configured to detect a ground contact state between a wheel of the vehicle and a road surface;
a first image capture device configured to capture a first real-time image of an area ahead of the vehicle;
a second image capture device configured to capture a second real-time image of the wheel;
a display device disposed in a vehicle compartment of the vehicle; and
an arithmetic control device configured to:
perform a first determination process to determine whether a change in the slope angle over a predetermined time is greater than or equal to a predetermined value;
in response to determining, in the first determination process, that the change in the slope angle over the predetermined time is greater than or equal to the predetermined value, (1) control the display device to display the first real-time image and (2) perform a second determination process to determine whether the change in the slope angle over the predetermined time is less than the predetermined value;
in response to determining, in the second determination process, that the change in the slope angle over the predetermined time is less than the predetermined value, (1) control the display device to not display the first real-time image and (2) repeat performance of the first determination process;
in response to determining, in the second determination process, that the change in the slope angle over the predetermined time is not less than the predetermined value, (1) control the display device to maintain displaying the first real-time image and (2) repeat performance of the second determination process;
in response to determining, in the first determination process, that the change in the slope angle over the predetermined time is not greater than or equal to the predetermined value, perform a third determination process to determine whether the wheel is slipping based on the ground contact;
in response to determining that the wheel is not slipping in the third determination process, repeat performance of the first determination process;
in response to determining that the wheel is slipping in the third determination process, (1) control the display device to display the second real-time image and (2) perform a fourth determination process to determine whether the wheel is not slipping;
in response to determining that the wheel is not slipping in the fourth determination, (1) control the display device to not display the second real-time image and (2) repeat performance of the first determination process; and
in response to determining that the wheel is slipping in the fourth determination, (1) control the display device to maintain displaying the second real-time image and (2) repeat performance of the fourth determination process.