Drive assisting apparatus
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHirotada Otake
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Abstract
A drive assisting apparatus includes an assistance controller configured to create a target vehicle travelling state in which a timing to start stop assistance is changed in accordance with an elapsed time elapsed from at the time a traffic light, which exists in an advancing direction of a vehicle, is switched to a stop display, and an assisting device configured to be able to output drive assisting information for assisting the driving of the vehicle based on the target travelling state amount of the vehicle.
Claims20
A drive assisting apparatus configured to assist driving of a vehicle, the drive assisting apparatus comprising:
- an assistance controller configured to
- determine an estimated variation including a distance between a reference stop position at a traffic light and a target stop position for the vehicle in accordance with an elapsed time elapsed from a time the traffic light is switched to a stop display, the traffic light existing in an advanced direction of the vehicle, and
- calculate a target travelling state amount including a target brake operation start vehicle speed based on the estimated variation to change a timing to start stop assistance, the target brake operation start vehicle speed being a recommended vehicle speed at a start of a brake operation;
- and
- at least one of a display device and a speaker configured to output drive assisting information for assisting the driving of the vehicle based on the target travelling state amount calculated by the assistance controller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.