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Granted Patent B2
US 11,267,466 · App. 16/688,430 · Granted Mar 8, 2022

Driving support device

Inventor: Yasunobu Yokoi (Okazaki, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
B60W30/0956B60W40/04B60W2554/80B60W2556/65
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Patent No.
US 11,267,466
App. No.
16/688,430
Granted
Mar 8, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A warning is not issued when there is not a history in which a host vehicle or an object vehicle (a recording target vehicle) have traveled from a current position of the host vehicle to a predicted collision point and a history in which the recording target vehicle has traveled from a current position of a collision-possible vehicle to the predicted collision point.

Claims (12)

1. A driving support device comprising:

an electronic control unit (ECU) including a processor programmed to:

acquire a host-vehicle scheduled route which is a scheduled traveling route of a host vehicle based on information on a position of the host vehicle and a travel state of the host vehicle;

receive information which is required for estimating an object-vehicle scheduled route which is a scheduled traveling route of an object vehicle from the object vehicle by radio communication;

acquire the object-vehicle scheduled route based on the information received;

acquire a route overlap point which is an overlap point between points on the host-vehicle scheduled route and points on the object-vehicle scheduled route;

determine whether predetermined warning conditions including that there is the overlap point are satisfied; and

after the determination that the predetermined warning conditions are satisfied, determine whether travelable conditions are satisfied, the travelable conditions including: (i) that a vehicle has previously traveled through a first section, which is from a current position of the host vehicle at a current time point to the route overlap point, and (ii) that a vehicle has previously traveled through a second section, which is from a current position of the object-vehicle at the current time point to the route overlap point,

based upon a determination that the travelable conditions are satisfied, issue a warning to a driver of the host vehicle, and

based upon a determination that the travelable conditions are not satisfied, not issue a warning to the driver of the host vehicle.

2. The driving support device according to claim 1 , wherein the ECU is further programmed to transmit a travel record inquiry request including information identifying the first section and information identifying the second section to a travel record server, to receive a travel record response to the travel record inquiry request from the travel record server, and to determine whether the travelable conditions are satisfied based on the received travel record response, and

wherein the travel record response is information which is generated based on a travel history of an arbitrary vehicle which is acquired from the arbitrary vehicle by the travel record server and includes information indicating whether there is a vehicle which has traveled in the first section in the past and information indicating whether there is a vehicle which has traveled in the second section in the past.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 19, 2019
From: YOKOI, YASUNOBU
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 051053/0909 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2019-005451 · Jan 16, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20200223432A1 · Jul 16, 2020