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US 2012/0239265 A1Published application
Vehicle driving support apparatus
AssigneeFuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroki KATO, Kiyoshi Natori
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Abstract
In a vehicle driving support apparatus, if a brake pedal operation by a driver is detected during a braking control, a cruise control unit determines that it is highly likely that the driver recognizes a possibility of a collision of a subject vehicle and a obstacle, and halts the braking control. On the other hand, if a depression amount of the brake pedal by the driver changes to a release side at or over a preset speed, the cruise control unit restarts the halted braking control.
Claims8
A vehicle driving support apparatus comprising:
- a collision determining unit for determining a possibility of a collision of a subject vehicle and a obstacle that is recognised in front of the subject vehicle;
- a braking control unit for performing a braking control with respect to the obstacle when the collision determining units determines that there is a possibility of a collision of the subject vehicle and the obstacle;
- a control halt determining unit that determines a halt of the braking control when a brake pedal operation by a driver is detected;
- and
- a control restart determining unit that determines a restart of the halted braking control when a depression amount of the brake pedal changes to a release side at or over a preset speed while it is determined there is a possibility of a collision against the obstacle.
2 more elements
The vehicle driving support apparatus according to wherein
- the collision determining unit comprising a time to collision calculating unit for calculating a time to collision of the subject vehicle and the obstacle;
- and
- the braking control unit performing a braking control so as to stop the subject vehicle when the time to collision becomes shorter than or equal to a predetermined threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.