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US 2020/0090514 A1Published application
Driving assistance device and driving assistance method
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorsSunao SAKAGUCHI, Yuji INOUE
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Abstract
A control unit (3) determines whether a host vehicle has deviated from the lane of a scheduled travel route using information acquired by an information acquiring unit (2). A notification unit (4) notifies a driver of the host vehicle of the lane deviation of the host vehicle. A wireless communication unit (5) transmits lane deviation information indicating the lane deviation of the host vehicle to another vehicle.
Claims7
A driving assistance device comprising:
- a communication device to acquire route information indicating a scheduled travel route of a host vehicle and surrounding information indicating a surrounding situation of the host vehicle detected by a sensor mounted on the host vehicle;
- a processor to execute a program;
- a memory to store the program which, when executed by the processor, performs a process of
- determining whether the host vehicle has deviated from a lane of the scheduled travel route using the route information and the surrounding information of the host vehicle acquired by the communication device;
- and
- at least one of a display to notify a driver of the host vehicle when lane deviation of the host vehicle is determined and a speaker to notify the driver of the host vehicle when lane deviation of the host vehicle is determined,
- wherein the communication device transmits, to a different vehicle, the route information of the host vehicle, traveling lane information indicating a lane on which the host vehicle is traveling, and lane deviation information indicating lane deviation of the host vehicle.
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A driving assistance method comprising:
- acquiring route information indicating a scheduled travel route of a host vehicle and surrounding information indicating a surrounding situation of the host vehicle detected by a sensor mounted on the host vehicle;
- determining whether the host vehicle has deviated from a lane of the scheduled travel route using the route information and the surrounding information of the host vehicle acquired;
- notifying a driver of the host vehicle when lane deviation of the host vehicle is determined;
- and
- transmitting, to a different vehicle, the route information of the host vehicle, traveling lane information indicating a lane on which the host vehicle is traveling, and lane deviation information indicating lane deviation of the host vehicle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.