Collision avoidance apparatus for notification of collision avoidance direction
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsTetsuya Tokuda, Takeshi Miura, Yasuhiko Mukai
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Abstract
A collision avoidance apparatus provided with object recognition means, collision determination means, and notification means. The object recognition means identifies an object around an own vehicle. The collision determination means determines the possibility of a collision between an object identified by the object recognition means and the own vehicle. The notification means notifies the outside of the own vehicle about the movement direction of the vehicle if the collision determination means determines that the target object is an object having the potential for collision with the own vehicle.
Claims12
A collision avoidance apparatus comprising:
- object recognition means for identifying an object around an own vehicle;
- collision determination means for determining the possibility of a collision between the object to be identified by the object recognition means and the own vehicle;
- notification means for notifying outside of the own vehicle about the movement direction of the vehicle if the collision determination means determines that a target object is an object having the potential for collision with the own vehicle;
- and
- avoidance traveling control means for controlling a traveling of the own vehicle to avoid a collision with the target object such that the movement direction of the own vehicle is changed, wherein
- the notification means is configured to notify that the own vehicle has set an avoidance direction for avoiding the target object as the movement direction of the own vehicle by an avoidance traveling control executed by the avoidance traveling control means, and
- in response to the own vehicle not being able to change the movement direction of the own vehicle to the avoidance direction, the notification means notifies that the movement direction of the own vehicle cannot change.
A collision avoidance method comprising:
- identifying an object around an own vehicle;
- determining the possibility of a collision between the object and the own vehicle;
- notifying outside of the own vehicle about the movement direction of the vehicle if determined that a target object is an object having the potential for collision with the own vehicle;
- and
- controlling a traveling of the own vehicle to avoid a collision with the target object such that the movement direction of the own vehicle is changed, wherein
- the outside of the own vehicle is notified that the own vehicle has set an avoidance direction for avoiding the target object as the movement direction of the own vehicle by executing an avoidance traveling control, and
- in response to the own vehicle not being able to change the movement direction of the own vehicle to the avoidance direction, the outside of the own vehicle is notified that the movement direction of the own vehicle cannot change.
A collision avoidance system comprising:
- a central processor;
- a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium;
- and
- a set of computer-executable instructions stored on the computer-readable storage medium that cause the central processor to implement:
- identifying an object around an own vehicle;
- determining the possibility of a collision between the object and the own vehicle;
- notifying outside of the own vehicle about the movement direction of the vehicle if determined that a target object is an object having the potential for collision with the own vehicle;
- and
- controlling a traveling of the own vehicle to avoid a collision with the target object such that the movement direction of the own vehicle is changed,
- wherein
- the outside of the own vehicle is notified that the own vehicle has set an avoidance direction for avoiding the target object as the movement direction of the own vehicle by executing an avoidance traveling control, and
- in response to the own vehicle not being able to change the movement direction of the own vehicle to the avoidance direction, the outside of the own vehicle is notified that the movement direction of the own vehicle cannot change.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.