Driving support device
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshio Mukaiyama
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Abstract
A driving support device performs driving support of a vehicle, which is a host vehicle, based on signal cycle information on a lighting cycle of a signal at a service target intersection. When the signal cycle information is not available, the driving support device estimates the signal cycle information based on infrastructure data, which is surrounding information on the intersection, and performs driving support based on the estimated signal cycle information. This allows the driving support device to perform driving support suitably even when the signal cycle information is not available.
Claims12
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A driving support device comprising a control device and a support device that perform driving support of a host vehicle based on signal cycle information on a lighting cycle of a traffic light at an intersection, wherein:
- when the signal cycle information is not available, the control device estimates the signal cycle information based on surrounding information on the intersection to perform driving support based on the estimated signal cycle information;
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- the control device includes a plurality of estimation methods for estimating the signal cycle information and selects an estimation method, used for estimating the signal cycle information, from the plurality of estimation methods according to a scene in which the signal cycle information is not available.
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