Driving assist device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9446711-B2
Application number	US-201214399599-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 9, 2012
Priority date	May 9, 2012
Publication date	Sep 20, 2016
Grant date	Sep 20, 2016

Abstract

Provided is a driving assist device 10 that recognizes an object in the vicinity of a moving body, and assists a driver in driving the moving body, the apparatus including: an object detecting unit 12 that detects the object in the vicinity of the moving body; a three dimensional object detecting unit 13 that detects a three dimensional object in the vicinity of the moving body; and an object recognition unit 18 that recognizes the object at a predetermined detection position as a non-obstacle when the object information storing unit 16 stores the position of the object, and the three dimensional object information storing unit 17 does not store the position of the three dimensional object at the predetermined position in which detection is performed by both of the object detecting unit 12 and the three dimensional object detecting unit 13.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A driving assist device that recognizes an object in the vicinity of a moving body, and assists a driver in driving the moving body, the apparatus comprising:
an object detecting unit that detects the object in the vicinity of the moving body;
a three dimensional object detecting unit that detects a three dimensional object in the vicinity of the moving body;
a first storage unit that stores the position of the object detected by the object detecting unit;
a second storage unit that stores the position of a three dimensional object detected by the three dimensional object detecting unit; and
an object recognition unit that recognizes the object at a predetermined detection position as a non-obstacle when the first storage unit stores the position of the object, and the second storage unit does not store the position of the three dimensional object at the predetermined position in which detection is performed by both of the object detecting unit and the three dimensional object detecting unit.

2. The driving assist device according to claim 1 ,
wherein when the three dimensional object detecting unit does not detect the three dimensional object at the position of the object stored in the first storage unit, the object recognition unit recognizes the object detected by the object detecting unit as a non-obstacle.

3. The driving assist device according to claim 1 ,
wherein when the position of the object detected by the object detecting unit is not stored as the position of the three dimensional object by the second storage unit, the object recognition unit recognizes the object detected by the object detecting unit as a non-obstacle.

4. The driving assist device according to claim 1 ,
wherein in the respective detectable ranges of the object detecting unit and the three dimensional object detecting unit, with regard to at least a detectable range in a forward direction of the moving body, a position farthest from the moving body which is detectable by the object detecting unit is set to be located with respect to the moving body farther than a position farthest from the moving body which is detectable by the three dimensional object detecting unit.

5. The driving assist device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the object recognition unit compares the position of the object with the position of the three dimensional object in a detection range having a narrow detection range or a short detection distance between the detection range of the object detecting unit and the detection range of the three dimensional object detecting unit.

6. The driving assist device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the object detecting unit is a radar sensor.

7. The driving assist device according to claim 6 ,
wherein when the three dimensional object detecting unit detects the three dimensional object at a position in which the object is detected by the object detecting unit, and the intensity of a reflective wave from the object detected by the object detecting unit is less than a set threshold value, the object recognition unit recognizes the object detected by the object detecting unit as an obstacle.

Assignees

• Urano Hiromitsu
• Sakai Katsuhiro
• Kindo Toshiki
• Ichikawa Kentaro
• Harada Masahiro
• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Urano Hiromitsu
• Sakai Katsuhiro
• Kindo Toshiki
• Ichikawa Kentaro
• Harada Masahiro

Classifications

• B60W2720/106

  Longitudinal acceleration · CPC title

• G01S13/865

  Combination of radar systems with lidar systems · CPC title

• G01S13/931

  of land vehicles · CPC title

• G08G1/165

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

• B60W2754/10

  Spatial relation or speed relative to objects · CPC title