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AssigneesDenso Corporation, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, J-QuAD DYNAMICS INC.
InventorsYukinori SAWADA, Norio IMAI
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A driving assistance apparatus acquires a surrounding-area image that is an image of an area surrounding a vehicle. The surrounding-area image includes a normal image and an obstacle image that mainly shows an obstacle. The driving assistance apparatus acquires a distance between the vehicle and the obstacle. The driving assistance apparatus performs driving assistance control causing the vehicle to travel on a travel route prescribed in advance. The driving assistance apparatus displays the surrounding-area image in a display apparatus mounted in the vehicle. The driving assistance apparatus displays the normal image in response to the distance being equal to or greater than a threshold prescribed in advance, and displays the obstacle image in response to the distance being less than the threshold distance.
A driving assistance apparatus comprising:
A driving assistance method for causing a vehicle to travel on a travel route prescribed in advance, the driving assistance method comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing therein a driving assistance program that causes a vehicle to travel on a travel route prescribed in advance, the driving assistance program causing at least one processor to implement:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.