Invention Grant
US08451141B2 Intersection visibility determination device, vehicle with intersection visibility determination device, and method for determining intersection visibility
有权
交叉口可视度确定装置,具有交叉点可视性确定装置的车辆,以及用于确定交叉点可视性的方法
- Patent Title: Intersection visibility determination device, vehicle with intersection visibility determination device, and method for determining intersection visibility
- Patent Title (中): 交叉口可视度确定装置,具有交叉点可视性确定装置的车辆,以及用于确定交叉点可视性的方法
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Application No.: US12935759Application Date: 2009-03-27
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Publication No.: US08451141B2Publication Date: 2013-05-28
- Inventor: Masaaki Uechi , Kazuya Sasaki , Masumi Kobana , Kazunori Higuchi , Mitsuteru Kokubun
- Applicant: Masaaki Uechi , Kazuya Sasaki , Masumi Kobana , Kazunori Higuchi , Mitsuteru Kokubun
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota-shi
- Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota-shi
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2008-090195 20080331
- International Application: PCT/IB2009/005346 WO 20090327
- International Announcement: WO2009/122284 WO 20091008
- Main IPC: G08G1/09
- IPC: G08G1/09 ; B60Q1/00

Abstract:
An intersection visibility determination device includes an ECU that determines visibility at an intersection. When a host vehicle approaches an intersection with a stop sign, the ECU calculates conflict points at which a trajectory vector of the host vehicle intersects with virtual trajectory vectors of intersecting objects, which are presumed to come from the right side and the left side of the intersection, respectively. The conflict points are calculated based on information on types and traveling positions of the intersecting objects. The ECU sets visibility determination areas at the intersection as viewed from the host vehicle based on the positions of the conflict points, the right-side and the left-side visibility target distances, and the current location of the host vehicle, and calculates, based on the visibility determination areas, visibility distances that are used as visibility parameters indicating whether the visibility at the intersection is good or poor.
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