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US 12,606,083 B2Granted
Control system for vehicle, control method for vehicle, and non-transitory storage medium
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorFumiya Mukai
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Abstract
In a control system for a vehicle including a target detector, a road surface drawer, and a controller, the controller is configured to, when the target detector detects a target in a road surface drawing area that is an irradiation area of drawing light while the road surface drawer is performing road surface drawing, switch radiation of the drawing light by the road surface drawer from an ON state to a blinking state in which the ON state and an OFF state are repeated at a predetermined first period, and switch a detection period of the target detector to a second period that is an integral multiple of the first period to adjust a detection timing for the target to a timing at which the drawing light is brought into the OFF state.
Claims3
A control system for a vehicle,
- the vehicle including:
- a target detector configured to detect a target existing in a predetermined area in a traveling direction of the vehicle at a predetermined detection period based on a captured image acquired by an imager configured to image the predetermined area;
- a road surface drawer configured to perform road surface drawing for drawing an indication of a specific pattern on a road surface in the predetermined area in the traveling direction of the vehicle by irradiating the road surface with drawing light;
- and
- a controller configured to control detection of the target by the target detector and the road surface drawing by the road surface drawer, wherein
- the controller is configured to,
- when the target detector detects the target in a road surface drawing area that is an irradiation area of the drawing light while the road surface drawer is performing the road surface drawing,
- switch radiation of the drawing light by the road surface drawer from an ON state to a blinking state in which the ON state and an OFF state are repeated at a predetermined first period, and
- switch the detection period of the target detector to a second period that is an integral multiple of the first period to adjust a detection timing for the target to a timing at which the drawing light is brought into the OFF state.
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A control method for a vehicle,
- the vehicle including:
- a target detector configured to detect a target existing in a predetermined area in a traveling direction of the vehicle at a predetermined detection period based on a captured image acquired by an imager configured to image the predetermined area;
- a road surface drawer configured to perform road surface drawing for drawing an indication of a specific pattern on a road surface in the predetermined area in the traveling direction of the vehicle by irradiating the road surface with drawing light;
- and
- a controller configured to control detection of the target by the target detector and the road surface drawing by the road surface drawer,
- the control method comprising,
- when the target detector detects the target in a road surface drawing area that is an irradiation area of the drawing light while the road surface drawer is performing the road surface drawing,
- switching radiation of the drawing light by the road surface drawer from an ON state to a blinking state in which the ON state and an OFF state are repeated at a predetermined first period, and
- switching the detection period of the target detector to a second period that is an integral multiple of the first period to adjust a detection timing for the target to a timing at which the drawing light is brought into the OFF state.
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A non-transitory storage medium storing a program for a computer of a control system for a vehicle,
- the vehicle including:
- a target detector configured to detect a target existing in a predetermined area in a traveling direction of the vehicle at a predetermined detection period based on a captured image acquired by an imager configured to image the predetermined area;
- a road surface drawer configured to perform road surface drawing for drawing an indication of a specific pattern on a road surface in the predetermined area in the traveling direction of the vehicle by irradiating the road surface with drawing light;
- and
- a controller configured to control detection of the target by the target detector and the road surface drawing by the road surface drawer,
- the program causing the computer to perform a process comprising,
- when the target detector detects the target in a road surface drawing area that is an irradiation area of the drawing light while the road surface drawer is performing the road surface drawing,
- switching radiation of the drawing light by the road surface drawer from an ON state to a blinking state in which the ON state and an OFF state are repeated at a predetermined first period, and
- switching the detection period of the target detector to a second period that is an integral multiple of the first period to adjust a detection timing for the target to a timing at which the drawing light is brought into the OFF state.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.