Driving support device
AssigneeSuzuki Motor Corporation
InventorKoji KURATA
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Abstract
A driving support device include an imaging device for capturing an image of at least a front of the vehicle, and a control device for, detecting that the vehicle is approaching a merging section where a first road on which the vehicle is traveling and a second road having a height difference with respect to the first road merge with each other, identifying an image of a road surface of the merging section from the image when it is detected that the vehicle is approaching the merging section, for detecting that the road surface is irradiated with light emitted from another vehicle traveling on the second road based on luminance in the image, and performing a processing of avoiding contact between the vehicle and the other vehicle when it is detected that the road surface is irradiated with the light emitted.
Claims7
A driving support device that supports driving of a vehicle, the driving support device comprising:
- an imaging device configured to capture an image of at least a front of the vehicle;
- and
- a control device configured:
- to detect whether or not the vehicle is approaching a merging section where a first road on which the vehicle is traveling and a second road having a height difference with respect to the first road merge with each other after there is no height difference between the first road and the second road;
- to identify an image of a road surface of the merging section from the image captured by the imaging device when it is detected that the vehicle is approaching the merging section;
- to detect whether or not the road surface of the merging section is irradiated with light emitted from a lighting device of another vehicle traveling on the second road based on luminance of each part in the image of the road surface of the merging section identified;
- and
- to perform a processing of avoiding contact between the vehicle and the other vehicle when it is detected that the road surface of the merging section is irradiated with the light emitted from the lighting device of the other vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.