Driving assisting apparatus for preventing vehicular collision
AssigneeDenso Corporation
InventorsKazuyoshi Isaji, Naohiko Tsuru
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Abstract
A driving assisting apparatus for preventing a vehicular collision including a camera, a target detector and a processor. The camera takes an image of a predetermined range in front of a vehicle. The target detector detects in the image a target notifying to stop the vehicle to prevent a vehicular collision. In a case that the target detector detects a plurality of the targets, the processor automatically stops the vehicle at a safe position required to prevent the vehicle from colliding with another vehicle.
Claims16
A driving assisting apparatus for preventing a vehicular collision comprising:
- a camera which takes an image of a predetermined range in front of a vehicle;
- a target detector which detects in the image targets existing in front of the vehicle notifying to stop the vehicle;
- and
- a processor which assists driving of the vehicle to stop the vehicle at a safe position, wherein
- the processor stops the vehicle only in a case that the number of the targets detected by the target detector is plural, and the processor stops the vehicle only when the plural targets are the same kind of stop notification.
A driving assisting method comprising steps of:
- opto-electrically taking an image of a predetermined range in front of a vehicle;
- electrically distinguishing in the image targets notifying to stop the vehicle;
- and
- automatically assisting driving of the vehicle to stop at a safe position only in a case that a plurality of the targets is distinguished in the distinguishing step,
- wherein the assisting is performed only when the targets are the same kind of stop notification.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.