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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 10783781 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 24, 2015

Automatic driving system

Applicant:

Hitachi Automotive Systems Ltd., Hitachinaka-shi, Ibaraki, JP;

Inventor:

Shinya Ootsuji, Ibaraki, JP;

Assignee:

HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD., Hitachinaka-Shi, JP;

Attorney:

Foley & Lardner LLP

Primary Examiner:

Peter D Nolan

Assistant Examiner:

Wae L Louie

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/09 (2006.01); G08G 1/0967 (2006.01); B60R 21/00 (2006.01); G08G 1/00 (2006.01); G07C 5/08 (2006.01); B60W 50/02 (2012.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); B60K 28/06 (2006.01); B60K 31/00 (2006.01); B62D 1/02 (2006.01); B62D 1/28 (2006.01); B62D 12/02 (2006.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01); B60W 30/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/096725 (2013.01); B60K 28/066 (2013.01); B60K 31/0058 (2013.01); B60R 21/00 (2013.01); B60W 50/0205 (2013.01); B62D 1/02 (2013.01); B62D 1/28 (2013.01); B62D 12/02 (2013.01); G05D 1/0061 (2013.01); G07C 5/085 (2013.01); G08G 1/00 (2013.01); G08G 1/096758 (2013.01); B60K 2370/175 (2019.05); B60W 30/00 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0072 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0089 (2013.01); B60W 2554/00 (2020.02); B60W 2756/10 (2020.02);
Abstract

The present invention provides an automatic driving system capable of clearly identifying the factors responsible for causing an abnormality such as an accident or malfunction of a vehicle during automatic driving after the fact. The automatic driving system automatically selects, from each automatic driving function provided in the vehicle or each level of driving automation into which each automatic driving function is classified, an automatic driving function or a level of driving automation according to the circumstances surrounding the vehicle or the driving state of the vehicle, automatically performs a part of or the entirety of a vehicle driving operation to automatically drive the vehicle, and, remembers the time of automatic driving and information indicating the selected automatic driving function or level of driving automation at that time.

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