Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle alert apparatus
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Application No.: US15976377Application Date: 2018-05-10
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Publication No.: US10169997B2Publication Date: 2019-01-01
- Inventor: Mitsuharu Kato , Yohei Fujii
- Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota-shi
- Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota-shi
- Agency: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
- Priority: JP2016-058209 20160323
- Main IPC: G08G1/16
- IPC: G08G1/16

Abstract:
An alert ECU acquires intersection information representing a situation of an intersection (target intersection) where a host vehicle will enter. The alert ECU excludes the leftward and rightward orientations from assistance-target orientations when the target intersection is grade separated, when a traffic light is installed at the target intersection, when a median strip is installed in the target intersection along the host vehicle traveling direction, or when a stop sign is not installed at the target intersection. As a result, an alert to a driver for a target vehicle is inhibited when the target vehicle is approaching the host vehicle from an orientation in which it is estimated that the target vehicle cannot collide with the host vehicle and when the target vehicle is approaching the host vehicle from an orientation in which it is estimated that the target vehicle will not collide with the host vehicle for regulatory reasons.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180261096A1 VEHICLE ALERT APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2018-09-13
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