Object detection system, protection system, and vehicle
AssigneeTakata Corporation
InventorTadahiro Igawa
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Abstract
A system of detecting an object existing at the periphery of a vehicle is provided that is effective in reducing repair cost for a vehicle. In one form, a protection system installed in a vehicle is adapted to detect an object existing at the periphery of the vehicle through a camera sensor, determine, based on the detected information, whether the object is a vulnerable road user (person), and change the operation mode of outside protection devices according to the body size of the vulnerable road user.
Claims19
An object detection system comprising:
- a detecting device mounted to a vehicle configured to detect information regarding a shape of an object about a periphery of the vehicle without engagement therewith;
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- a discriminating device configured to determine if the object is a person based on the detected information regarding the object shape.
A pedestrian protection system for a vehicle, the pedestrian protection system comprising:
- a sensor that detects information regarding a predetermined dimension of a pedestrian prior to a vehicle collision with the pedestrian;
- a plurality of external pedestrian protection devices for being deployed at different areas about the vehicle;
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- a controller that is configured to determine and actuate the optimum protection device or combination of protection devices to be deployed based on the detected information for minimizing vehicle impact forces with the pedestrian.
A method of controlling operation of protection devices of a vehicle for pedestrian protection, the method comprising:
- detecting presence of an object spaced from the periphery of vehicle;
- determining if any present object is a pedestrian;
- determining a physical characteristic of any present pedestrian prior to vehicle engagement therewith;
- predicting whether the vehicle will collide with the pedestrian based on predetermined detected information regarding operation of the vehicle and the pedestrian;
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- deploying a predetermined protection device or devices based on the pedestrian's physical characteristic if a collision is predicted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.