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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2017
Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd., Hitachinaka, JP;
Hideaki Tanaka, Ibaraki, JP;
HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD., Hitachinaka, JP;
Abstract
A problem to be addressed by the present invention is to obtain a vehicle control device which, while alleviating an excessive computation load, is capable of appropriately ascertaining an external environment. This vehicle control devicecomprises an other vehicle information acquisition unitwhich acquires information of another vehicle by communication, and an exterior recognition unitwhich carries out recognition of the exterior of a host vehicle by sensing. The exterior recognition unitsenses an other vehicle vicinity space in the vicinity of the other vehicle on the basis of the information of the other vehicle which is acquired by the other vehicle information acquisition unit