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US 12,608,844 B2Granted
Vehicle
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorHiro Tsutsumi
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Abstract
A vehicle includes a posture adjustment device connected to a wheel and configured to change a posture of a vehicle body relative to a road surface, an imaging device attached to the vehicle body and configured to capture an image of an external environment, and a controller configured to control the posture adjustment device and the imaging device. The controller is configured to determine whether a posture of the imaging device has changed, and correct the posture of the imaging device by causing the posture adjustment device to change the posture of the vehicle body in a case where the posture of the imaging device has changed.
Claims9
A vehicle, comprising:
- a posture adjustment device connected to a wheel and configured to change a posture of a vehicle body relative to a road surface;
- an imaging device attached to the vehicle body and configured to capture an image of an external environment;
- and
- a controller configured to control the posture adjustment device and the imaging device,
- wherein the controller is configured to
- acquire a current position of a vanishing point in the image captured by the imaging device,
- determine whether a posture of the imaging device has changed, and
- correct the posture of the imaging device by causing the posture adjustment device to change the posture of the vehicle body in a case where the posture of the imaging device has changed and an image processing area around the current position of the vanishing point does not fall within an imaging range of the imaging device.
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A vehicle, comprising:
- a posture adjustment device connected to a wheel and configured to change a posture of a vehicle body relative to a road surface;
- an imaging device attached to the vehicle body and configured to capture an image of an external environment;
- and
- a controller configured to control the posture adjustment device and the imaging device,
- wherein the controller is configured to
- determine whether a posture of the imaging device has changed, and
- correct the posture of the imaging device by causing the posture adjustment device to change the posture of the vehicle body in a case where the posture of the imaging device has changed,
- wherein the controller is configured to correct the posture of the imaging device by causing the posture adjustment device to change the posture of the vehicle body in a case where the posture of the imaging device has changed and a changing amount of the posture of the imaging device is equal to or greater than a first threshold,
- wherein the vehicle further comprises an output device configured to output information to an occupant,
- wherein the controller is configured to cause the output device to output warning information in a case where the posture of the imaging device has changed and the changing amount of the posture of the imaging device is equal to or greater than a second threshold that is greater than the first threshold,
- wherein the controller is configured to
- perform a plurality of driving assistance functions based on the image captured by the imaging device,
- allow performance of all of the driving assistance functions in a case where the posture of the imaging device has changed and the changing amount of the posture of the imaging device is less than the first threshold,
- prohibit performance of a part of the driving assistance functions in a case where the posture of the imaging device has changed and the changing amount of the posture of the imaging device is equal to or greater than the first threshold and less than the second threshold, and
- prohibit performance of all of the driving assistance functions in a case where the posture of the imaging device has changed and the changing amount of the posture of the imaging device is equal to or greater than the second threshold.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.