Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control method
AssigneeHonda Motor Co., Ltd.
InventorsJun OCHIDA, Hiroaki HORII, Takashi KUBOSHIMA, Tadahiko KANOU
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Abstract
The present invention pertains to a vehicle control apparatus and a vehicle control method. This vehicle control apparatus is provided with: an identification process unit that identifies intersections through which a host vehicle passes while traveling straight; a lane determination unit that determines whether travel lanes of the vehicle are offset lanes deviated leftward or rightward on the near side and the deep side of the identified intersections; and a traveling control unit that carries out traveling control varied according to the determination result of the lane determination unit.
Claims10
A vehicle control device configured to perform travel control of a host vehicle at least partially automatically, the vehicle control device comprising:
- a recognition processing unit configured to recognize an intersection that the host vehicle will pass while traveling straight;
- a lane determination unit configured to determine whether a travel lane of the host vehicle is an offset lane in which the travel lane over the intersection that is recognized by the recognition processing unit is shifted with respect to the travel lane before the intersection in a left-right direction;
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- a travel control unit configured to perform various kinds of travel control in accordance with a determination result from the lane determination unit.
A vehicle control method using a vehicle control device configured to perform travel control of a host vehicle at least partially automatically, comprising:
- a recognition step of recognizing an intersection that the host vehicle will pass while traveling straight;
- a determination step of determining whether a travel lane of the host vehicle is an offset lane in which the travel lane over the recognized intersection is shifted with respect to the travel lane before the intersection in a left-right direction;
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- a control step of performing various kinds of travel control in accordance with a determination result in the determination step.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.