US 12,032,061 B2
Obstacle detection device and obstacle detection method
Daiki Kurosawa, Saitama (JP); and Jun Kuwamura, Saitama (JP)
Assigned to Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd., Saitama (JP)
Filed by Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co., Ltd., Saitama (JP)
Filed on Jan. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/573,728.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-006345 (JP), filed on Jan. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0229179 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. G01S 15/931 (2020.01); B60W 30/06 (2006.01); G01C 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC G01S 15/931 (2013.01) [B60W 30/06 (2013.01); B60W 2420/54 (2013.01); B60W 2554/801 (2020.02); B60W 2554/802 (2020.02); G01C 21/3807 (2020.08); G01S 2015/932 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
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1. An obstacle detection device comprising:
an input interface connected to an external device; and
a processor, wherein
the processor includes:
an acquisition unit configured to acquire path information as information about a parking path to a parking position where a vehicle is to be parked and range information representing a position and a range of an object existing around the vehicle;
an operation control unit configured to generate a driving signal according to the path information acquired by the acquisition unit and outputs the generated driving signal to a traveling driving unit configured to travel the vehicle, the driving signal being for operating the traveling driving unit;
an inside/outside determination unit configured to determine, when receiving surroundings information representing a situation around the vehicle from the external device via the input interface, whether an object included in the received surroundings information is an object positioned inside the range represented by the range information acquired by the acquisition unit or an object positioned outside the range; and
an obstacle determination unit configured to determine whether or not the object that has been determined to be positioned outside the range by the inside/outside determination unit is an obstacle to the vehicle traveling in the parking path,
wherein the obstacle determination unit does not determine whether or not the object that has been determined to be positioned inside the range is an obstacle to the vehicle traveling in the parking path.