Control system of vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakeshi Matsumura
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Abstract
The control system of a vehicle comprises: a driver monitor camera capturing an face of a driver of a vehicle to generate a facial image of the driver; a driver condition detection part configured to detect a condition of the driver based on the facial image; a steering system operating wheels and a steering wheel of the vehicle; and a steering control part configured to set a target turning angle of the wheels and a target steering angle of the steering wheel to control the steering system. The steering control part is configured to make an upper limit value of the target steering angle a value up to a maximum angle when one eye of the driver is not hidden by the steering wheel in the facial image generated when the driver is facing the front.
Claims9
A control system of a vehicle comprising:
- a driver monitor camera configured to capture a face of a driver of a vehicle to generate a facial image of the driver,
- a driver condition detection part configured to detect a condition of the driver based on the facial image,
- a steering system configured to operate wheels and a steering wheel of the vehicle, the steering wheel is positioned between the driver and the driver monitor camera such that the steering wheel can, at times, hide an eye or the eyes of the driver from the driver monitor camera, and
- a steering control part configured to control the steering system by setting a target turning angle of the wheels and setting a target steering angle of the steering wheel, wherein
- the steering control part is configured to set an upper limit value of the target steering angle to a value less than a maximum angle when at least one eye of the driver is not hidden by the steering wheel in the facial image generated by the driver monitor camera when the driver is facing a front of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.