Vehicle control device and recording medium
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorYoshimasa OKABE
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Abstract
A host vehicle includes a rear image capturing device and a vehicle control device. The rear image capturing device captures an image of an area behind the host vehicle. The vehicle control device detects a lateral position of a following vehicle in the same lane as that in which the host vehicle travels, the following vehicle being reflected in the image captured by the rear image capturing device and traveling in the lane. The vehicle control device determines a lateral position of the host vehicle within a lane depending on the lateral position of the following vehicle within the same lane.
Claims16
A vehicle control device, comprising:
- a receiver structured to receive an image of a periphery of a host vehicle captured by an image capturing device;
- a detector structured to detect a lateral position of a following vehicle in the same lane as that in which the host vehicle travels, the following vehicle being reflected in the image received by the receiver and traveling in the lane;
- and
- a decision circuitry structured to determine a lateral position of the host vehicle in the lane depending on the lateral position of the following vehicle detected by the detector.
A recording medium storing a computer program causing a computer to execute the following processes of:
- receiving an image of a periphery of a host vehicle captured by an image capturing device;
- detecting a lateral position of a following vehicle in the same lane as that in which the host vehicle travels, the following vehicle being reflected in the received image and traveling in the lane;
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- determining a lateral position of the host vehicle in the lane depending on the detected lateral position of the following vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.