Drive support device
AssigneeAisin Corporation
InventorsIppei Sugae, Shingo Fujimoto, Kosuke Wakita, Hisashi Inaba
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Abstract
A drive support device includes: an acquisition processing unit that acquires (i) a distance to an object detected based on a result of transmission of a transmission wave and reception of a reception wave that is the transmission wave having returned upon reflection by the object and (ii) a reception level of the reception wave used to detect the distance; and a detection processing unit that detects information about a height of the object, based on a relationship between the distance and the reception level that are acquired by the acquisition processing unit.
Claims7
A drive support device comprising:
- an acquisition processing unit configured to acquire:
- a distance to an object detected based on a result of transmission of a transmission wave and reception of a reception wave that is the transmission wave having returned upon reflection by the object;
- and a reception level of the reception wave used to detect the distance;
- and
- a detection processing unit configured to detect information about a height of the object, based on a correlation between the distance determined using the reception wave and the reception level of the reception wave that are acquired by the acquisition processing unit,
- wherein the detection processing unit detects the information about the height by using as the correlation an amount of fluctuation in the reception level over a change in the distance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.