Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.

Yukiko Kanno

Masayoshi Michiguchi

Kenji Okano

Tatsuto Ryugo

A driving assistance apparatus is provided in which the detection range of a left-front-corner sonar () located at the vehicle's left front corner is included in the field of view of a second imaging means () located at the vehicle's left front corner. When the left-front-corner sonar () detects a three-dimensional object at the vehicle's left front corner, an image processing means () synthesizes an image of the image created using a second imaging means () and the images created with four cameras (-) for imaging the complete periphery of the vehicle, and creates a bird's-eye-view image (). The detection range of the left-front-corner sonar () is included within a region of the bird's-eye image () on the basis of the image created with the second imaging means ().

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Kyoto, Japan

Yukiko Kanno