US 12,441,347 B2
Vehicle outside risk visual recognition guiding apparatus
Tatsurou Yamasaki, Tokyo (JP); and Junpei Tokizaki, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/344,361.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-113519 (JP), filed on Jul. 14, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0017735 A1, Jan. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 40/08 (2012.01)
CPC B60W 50/14 (2013.01) [B60W 40/08 (2013.01); B60W 2050/143 (2013.01); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01); B60W 2540/225 (2020.02)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle outside risk visual recognition guiding apparatus comprising:
an output unit configured to output a warning that allows a sight line of a driver of a vehicle to be guided to a risk outside the vehicle;
a vehicle inside detection device configured to detect information from which a sight-line direction of the driver of the vehicle is acquirable, the sight-line direction of the driver being a direction of the sight line of the driver; and
a processor configured to acquire detected information that is the information detected by the vehicle inside detection device, wherein
the processor is configured to
acquire the sight-line direction of the driver from the detected information acquired from the vehicle inside detection device,
calculate sight-line movement amounts based on the acquired sight-line direction of the driver as a reference, the sight-line movement amounts each being an amount by which the sight line is caused to move to visually recognize any one of warning targets that are risks outside the vehicle,
determine a warning order related to the risks outside the vehicle at least based on the sight-line movement amounts by which the sight line is caused to move from the acquired sight-line direction of the driver to visually recognize the warning targets that are the risks, the warning order being an order in which the output unit is to output warnings about the risks outside the vehicle, and
cause the output unit to output the warnings that allow the warning targets that are the risks outside the vehicle to be visually recognized in accordance with the determined warning order.