Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Denso Corporation

Denso Ten Limited

Yasutaka Matsunaga

Toshihiro Takagi

Masahiro Iino

Michihiro Takada

Mayuko Maeda

Masumi Fukuman

Yuusuke Nomura

Yuki Minase

Yuma Hoshikawa

Satoshi Kozai

Yu Hiei

Takuya Nakagawa

Miyuki Omori

Tetsuya Ikuta

Chenyang Wang

Sho Komai

Ryou Izumi

A vehicle alert apparatus acquires an object distance between an object and a vehicle, presumes a predicted moving route of the vehicle when the object distance is shorter than or equal to a threshold object distance. The vehicle alert apparatus calculates a collision distance which the vehicle has moves along the predicted moving route until the vehicle collides with the object or the vehicle has moved to a position closest to the object when determining that the vehicle potentially collides with the object, based on the predicted moving route. The vehicle alert apparatus performs a first alert when the collision distance is larger than a threshold collision distance. The vehicle alert apparatus performs a second alert having a higher alert level of alerting the driver than the alert level of the first alert when the collision distance is shorter than or equal to the threshold collision distance.

Vehicle alert apparatus

A display control device mounted on a vehicle having a parking support function controls a display to display a rear image captured by a rear camera. The display control device acquires the rear image captured by the rear camera; and superimposes, in response to the parking support function being activated, a target image item indicating a target parking position at a predetermined position of the rear image which corresponds to the target parking position. The display control device superimposes at least a part of the target image item in translucent manner on the rear image, and superimpose, on the rear image, an emphasized image item that emphasizes at least four corners of the target image item.

Display control device, display device, and display control program product for superimposing an emphasized image item

The parking assist apparatus comprises an ECU. When the ECU recognizes a perpendicular-parallel parking possible space to which a vehicle can not only be perpendicularly parked from a parking start position but also be parallelly parked from the parking start position, the ECU is configured to display any one of a first perpendicular-parallel parking space selection button and a second perpendicular-parallel parking space selection button in such a manner that one of the buttons is superimposed on the perpendicular-parallel parking possible space.

Parking assist apparatus displaying perpendicular-parallel parking space

A parking assist apparatus includes an ECU. The ECU displays a first left support image on a predetermined display area of a touch panel display section so that an entire area of a tentative target parking space is displayed within the predetermined display area, based on a relative position of the tentative target parking space with respect to a vehicle.

Parking assist apparatus

A vehicle parking assist apparatus registers information on a parking lot as parking lot information and executes a parking assist control with using the parking lot information. The vehicle parking assist apparats allows a user of a vehicle to request a deletion of the parking lot information as the vehicle parking assist apparatus executes the parking assist control without using the parking lot information and prevents the user of the vehicle from requesting the deletion of the parking lot information as the vehicle parking assist apparatus executes the parking assist control with using the parking lot information. The vehicle parking assist apparatus deletes the parking lot information when the deletion of the parking lot information is requested.

Vehicle parking assist apparatus

An image processing device used on a mobile body has: a determiner configured to determine one out of a plurality of combination patterns as to the presence or absence of an object in a plurality of predetermined regions around the mobile body; and a generator configured to generate a composite image by projecting onto a virtual projection surface a plurality of shot images acquired by a plurality of cameras taking images of the surroundings of the mobile body. The generator is configured to select, out of a plurality of projection surfaces prepared beforehand, the projection surface used in generating the composite image in accordance with the combination pattern determined by the determiner.

Image processing device and image processing method

A parking support apparatus determines whether or not a leaving condition becomes satisfied while the controller is executing the automatic parking control and the current shift range is at range other than a parking range, the leaving condition being a condition that is satisfied when the driver performs a leaving action. The parking support apparatus determines whether or not the vehicle has already reached the target parking area. The parking support apparatus generates a first alert having a first alerting capability, if the vehicle has already reached the target parking area when the leaving condition has been satisfied, and generates a second alert having a second alerting capability lower than the first alerting capability or no alerts, if the vehicle has not reached the target parking area yet when the leaving condition has been satisfied.

Parking support apparatus

An alert apparatus of a vehicle generates an alert to a driver when an object is a target alert object that is is an object that is present in one of predetermined areas around the vehicle and that has object distance equal to or shorter than a first distance threshold. The alert apparatus sets each one or more of said predetermined areas to a high level alert area based on a current shift range, and set each of the rest of said predetermined areas to a low level alert area.

Alert apparatus of vehicle

When an automatic parking registration method is selected, a vehicle control ECU performs a pre-registration automatic parking control and stores a position determined based on a position of a vehicle at a time point at which the vehicle is set to a stop state by the pre-registration automatic parking control as a registered parking position in a non-volatile memory. When an execution condition of a post-registration automatic parking control is satisfied, the vehicle control ECU performs the post-registration automatic parking control after setting a target parking position to registered parking position which has been stored in the non-volatile memory.

A disclosed control apparatus used for a host vehicle includes a radar apparatus, a control execution part configured to perform a predetermined control to reduce a probability of a collision between the object and the host vehicle based on information about the object from the radar apparatus; and a prevention part configured to prevent the predetermined control related to a first object when the radar apparatus simultaneously detects the first object and a second object at different distances and a difference between a lateral position of the first object and the lateral position of the second object is smaller than a predetermined value, the first object being closer to the host vehicle than the second object, the lateral position being determined in a lateral direction with respect to a traveling direction of the host vehicle.

Control apparatus for vehicle

A control apparatus for a vehicle includes a controller configured to (i) calculate, based on a distance and a relative speed between a host vehicle and a forward obstacle, a collision prediction time of a collision between the forward obstacle and the host vehicle; (ii) execute a predetermined control when the collision prediction time is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold, the predetermined control reducing a probability of the collision between the forward obstacle and the host vehicle, and (iii) decrease the predetermined threshold, when an accelerator pedal releasing operation is performed under a situation where the forward obstacle exists, depending on a first distance between the host vehicle and the forward obstacle at a time at which the accelerator pedal releasing operation is performed.

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Nisshin, Japan

Yasutaka Matsunaga