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Patent No.:

US 10486593 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 22, 2017

In-vehicle alert apparatus

Applicant:

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;

Inventor:

Teppei Ohta, Susono, JP;

Assignee:

TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota-shi, JP;

Attorney:

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Primary Examiner:

Steven Lim

Assistant Examiner:

Mancil Littlejohn, Jr

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/593 (2017.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G01S 13/08 (2006.01); G01S 13/86 (2006.01); G01S 13/87 (2006.01); B62D 15/02 (2006.01); G01S 13/93 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G01S 13/72 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 9/008 (2013.01); B62D 15/025 (2013.01); G01S 13/08 (2013.01); G01S 13/867 (2013.01); G01S 13/87 (2013.01); G01S 13/931 (2013.01); G06K 9/00805 (2013.01); G06T 7/593 (2017.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); B62D 15/021 (2013.01); G01S 13/726 (2013.01); G01S 2013/9375 (2013.01); G01S 2013/9389 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10012 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30261 (2013.01);
Abstract

An in-vehicle alert apparatus includes an electronic control unit. The ECU configured to estimate a predicted traveling course of a center point in a vehicle width direction of a host vehicle based on vehicle status information, extract an object having a possibility of colliding with the host vehicle as an obstacle, calculate an index value that is changed in accordance with a degree of need for an alert operation which alerts a driver to each extracted obstacle, select a processing target obstacle from the extracted obstacles by using the index value calculated for each extracted obstacle, determine whether a specific condition is established in accordance with a result of comparison between the index value for the processing target obstacle and a predetermined threshold, and display an alert screen on a display unit when the specific condition is determined to be established.

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