Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Kohsuke Fujii

Takeshi Matsumura

Hiroaki Ito

Toshihiro Nakatani

A detection device configured to detect a viewing direction of a driver of a vehicle is provided. Viewing information is accumulated in a data accumulation unit. The viewing information includes a required viewing area and a required viewing time of the driver of the vehicle when the driver took a gaze off a road for a necessary visual check at each point where the vehicle travels. The viewing information accumulated in the data accumulation unit is acquired from the data accumulation unit. The warning generation unit does not generate the inattention warning when the viewing direction of the driver of the vehicle is directed toward the required viewing area for a current location of the vehicle for not more than the required viewing time for the current location of the vehicle.

Inattention warning system

A vehicle driving support device performs driving support of supporting a driver's driving of a host vehicle based on traffic information. The vehicle driving support device performs a first process of acquiring traffic information associated with traveling of the host vehicle as first traffic information from forward information of the host vehicle detected by a forward information detecting device, performs a second process of acquiring traffic information associated with traveling of the host vehicle out of traffic information stored in a database as second traffic information by comparing a current position of the host vehicle with map data stored in the database, and performs the driving support based on the first traffic information even when the second traffic information is acquired until a predetermined first condition is satisfied when the first traffic information has been acquired.

Vehicle driving support device, vehicle driving support method, and vehicle driving support computer program

A driving support device includes: a front camera configured to acquire image data; and a controller configured to execute driving support control for supporting driving by a driver of a vehicle when the controller determines that a specific display object exists in front of the vehicle based on the image data. The driving support control is control executed depending on the specific display object. The controller is configured to determine whether a conforming operation is being executed by the driver. The controller is also configured to execute, as the driving support control, control having a higher support level indicating a degree of influence on the driver when the controller determines that the conforming operation is not being executed, as compared with a case where the controller determines that the conforming operation is executed.

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Toyota, Japan

Kohsuke Fujii