Driving assistance device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9315191-B2
Application number	US-201214390861-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 12, 2012
Priority date	Apr 12, 2012
Publication date	Apr 19, 2016
Grant date	Apr 19, 2016

Abstract

The present invention is a driving assistance device which provides driving assistance based on detection information of an obstacle in which an information processing amount of the driving assistance for the obstacle is changed according to a level of the driving assistance. The present invention also is the driving assistance device which provides the driving assistance to output information which can be recognized to a driver based on the detection information of the obstacle in which an information amount of the driving assistance to be presented to the driver is increased according to an increase in the level of the driving assistance.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A driving assistance device configured to provide driving assistance based on detection information of an obstacle, wherein
the driving assistance device changes an information processing amount of the driving assistance for the obstacle by determining whether to perform a process to estimate the detection information of the obstacle which cannot be obtained according to a level of the driving assistance.

2. The driving assistance device according to claim 1 , wherein
the driving assistance device decreases the information processing amount of the driving assistance according to a decrease in the level of the driving assistance.

3. The driving assistance device according to claim 2 , wherein
the driving assistance device decreases the information processing amount of the driving assistance by not performing dead reckoning to at least estimate a position of the obstacle which cannot be obtained at the time the level of the driving assistance is lower than a threshold and by performing the dead reckoning at the time the level of the driving assistance is equal to or more than the threshold.

4. The driving assistance device according to claim 2 , comprising:
a level determining unit mounted on a vehicle, wherein
the level of the driving assistance is the level determined by the level determining unit.

5. The driving assistance device according to claim 2 , wherein
the level of the driving assistance is a warning level about the obstacle.

6. The driving assistance device according to claim 3 , wherein
at the time the level of the driving assistance is equal to or more than the threshold and at the time the detection information cannot be obtained, the driving assistance device decreases the information processing amount of the driving assistance by not performing the dead reckoning at the time possibility of collision with the obstacle is low and by performing the dead reckoning at the time the possibility of collision with the obstacle is high.

7. The driving assistance device according to claim 3 , comprising:
a level determining unit mounted on a vehicle, wherein
the level of the driving assistance is the level determined by the level determining unit.

8. The driving assistance device according to claim 3 , wherein
the level of the driving assistance is a warning level about the obstacle.

9. The driving assistance device according to claim 6 , wherein
at the time the level of the driving assistance is equal to or more than the threshold and at the time the detection information cannot be obtained, the driving assistance device determines whether the detection information corresponding to the detection information which cannot be obtained is included in infrastructure information received from an infrastructure device capable of communicating, and
at the time the corresponding detection information is included in the infrastructure information, the driving assistance device decreases the information processing amount of the driving assistance by not performing the dead reckoning.

10. The driving assistance device according to claim 6 , wherein
the level of the driving assistance is a warning level about the obstacle,
the warning level about the obstacle includes information provision, a reminder with the warning level higher than the warning level of the information provision, and an alarm with the warning level higher than the warning level of the reminder,
the driving assistance device does not perform the dead reckoning at the time the warning level about the obstacle is the information provision, and perform the dead reckoning at the time the warning level about the obstacle is the reminder or the alarm.

11. The driving assistance device according to claim 6 , comprising:
a level determining unit mounted on a vehicle, wherein
the level of the driving assistance is the level determined by the level determining unit.

12. The driving assistance device according to claim 6 , wherein
the level of the driving assistance is a warning level about the obstacle.

13. The driving assistance device according to claim 9 , comprising:
a level determining unit mounted on a vehicle, wherein
the level of the driving assistance is the level determined by the level determining unit.

14. The driving assistance device according to claim 9 , wherein
the level of the driving assistance is a warning level about the obstacle.

15. The driving assistance device according to claim 1 , comprising:
a level determining unit mounted on a vehicle, wherein
the level of the driving assistance is the level determined by the level determining unit.

16. The driving assistance device according to claim 15 , wherein
the level of the driving assistance is a warning level about the obstacle.

17. The driving assistance device according to claim 1 , wherein
the level of the driving assistance is a warning level about the obstacle.

18. The driving assistance device according to claim 17 , wherein
the warning level about the obstacle includes information provision, a reminder with the warning level higher than the warning level of the information provision, and an alarm with the warning level higher than the warning level of the reminder.

19. The driving assistance device according to claim 1 , wherein
the information processing amount of the driving assistance is an amount of processing the detection information of the obstacle.

20. A driving assistance device configured to provide driving assistance to output information which is recognizable to a driver based on detection information of an obstacle, wherein
the driving assistance device increases an information amount of the driving assistance which is recognizable to the driver according to an increase in a level of the driving assistance.

Assignees

• Morimoto Kazuhiro
• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Morimoto Kazuhiro

Classifications

• G08G1/165

  for passive traffic, e.g. including static obstacles, trees · CPC title

• B60W2050/065

  by reducing the computational load on the digital processor of the control computer · CPC title

• G08G1/096716

  where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control · CPC title

• B62D15/029 Primary

  Steering assistants using warnings or proposing actions to the driver without influencing the steering system · CPC title

• G08G1/096758

  where no selection takes place on the transmitted or the received information · CPC title