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Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 30, 2014
Applicant:

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Masahiko Katayama, Tokyo, JP;

Tetsuji Haga, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/16 (2006.01); G08G 1/123 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); B60R 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/166 (2013.01); B60R 1/00 (2013.01); G06K 9/00597 (2013.01); G06K 9/00845 (2013.01); G08G 1/123 (2013.01); G08G 1/163 (2013.01); G08G 1/167 (2013.01); B60R 2300/406 (2013.01); B60R 2300/50 (2013.01); B60R 2300/802 (2013.01); B60R 2300/804 (2013.01);
Abstract

A surrounding area monitoring apparatus receives visual field information about a driver of a surrounding vehicle of a self vehicle, and decides whether the self vehicle is outside the visual field of the surrounding vehicle or not in accordance with the visual field information. Accordingly, it can learn the present dynamic visual field range of the driver of the surrounding vehicle actually traveling around the self vehicle, and obtain more accurate visual field range. Thus, it can appropriately give information that is really necessary and suppress giving unnecessary information.


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