US 12,358,519 B2
Notification device and notification method
Yamato Yorifuji, Aichi-gun Aichi-ken (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Nov. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/985,194.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-002545 (JP), filed on Jan. 11, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0242137 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 40/08 (2012.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01)
CPC B60W 50/14 (2013.01) [B60W 40/08 (2013.01); G06V 20/582 (2022.01); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01); B60W 2420/403 (2013.01); B60W 2552/53 (2020.02)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle comprising:
a first camera and a second camera are each configured to capture an image of at least an area forward of the vehicle to include a right-turn road surface marking in a travel lane of the vehicle, the second camera being disposed below the first camera in a vertical direction such that the second camera having an angle of view in which the image is of a lower side than the image of the area captured by the first camera;
an electronic control unit configured to determine whether the image captured by the first camera includes the right-turn road surface marking in the travel lane of the vehicle, when the image captured by the first camera does not include the right-turn road surface marking in the travel lane of the vehicle, the electronic control unit automatically initiates the second camera to capture the image; and
a human machine interface device that performs notification to alert a driver of the vehicle, wherein the electronic control unit controls the human machine interface device such that the human machine interface device notifies the driver that u-turn is not allowed when the electronic control unit detects a no u-turn sign forward of the vehicle and the electronic control unit detects the right-turn road surface marking in the travel lane of the vehicle via image recognition from the image captured by the first camera or the second camera.