US 12,485,899 B2
Apparatus for driving assistance and method for driving assistance
Shubo Sun, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to HL Klemove Corp., Incheon (KR)
Filed by HL Klemove Corp., Incheon (KR)
Filed on Aug. 3, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/229,853.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2023-0001938 (KR), filed on Jan. 5, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0227811 A1, Jul. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 50/029 (2012.01)
CPC B60W 30/18163 (2013.01) [B60W 50/029 (2013.01); B60W 2420/403 (2013.01); B60W 2420/408 (2024.01); B60W 2552/53 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4026 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4029 (2020.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for driving assistance, the apparatus comprising:
a front sensor installed on a vehicle and having a field of sensing outside the vehicle; and
a controller configured to process data acquired from a navigation device of the vehicle and data acquired from the front sensor,
wherein the controller is configured to:
determine whether the navigation device fails;
maintain, based on road state information determined before a failure of the navigation device, a road state according to the road state information as a state of the travel road for a predetermined time when the navigation device fails; and
after the predetermined time elapses, determine, based on the data acquired from the front sensor, whether a travel road is a road on which a lane change assistance function is operable when the navigation device fails.