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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2015
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Eisuke Yonezawa, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiro Abukawa, Tokyo, JP;
Naoyuki Tsushima, Tokyo, JP;
Michinori Yoshida, Tokyo, JP;
Shu Murayama, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A driver assistance system according to the present invention has an other-vehicle information acquisition unit that acquires travel direction information of an other-vehicle; a storage unit in which a spot where the visibility of a driver in a vehicle is reduced and information on a direction, associated with the spot, in which the visibility of the driver of the vehicle is reduced are stored in association with each other; a visibility determination unit that determines whether or not the visibility of a driver in the other-vehicle is reduced on the basis of the travel direction information acquired by the other-vehicle information acquisition unit and the information on the direction in which the visibility is reduced stored in the storage unit; and a warning processing unit that warns a driver of an own-vehicle that the visibility of the driver in the other-vehicle is reduced if the visibility determination unit determines that the visibility of the driver in the other-vehicle is reduced.