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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2017
Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Takahiro Baba, Kariya, JP;
Takaharu Oguri, Kariya, JP;
Yosuke Ito, Kariya, JP;
Kei Kamiya, Kariya, JP;
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle collision avoidance supporting apparatus may include a situation determination unit configured to determine whether it is a situation that there exists no moving object proceeding in a direction crossing a traveling direction of the vehicle; a first sensor and configured to detect an object ahead of the vehicle; and an avoidance operation controller configured to cause the vehicle to perform a predetermined avoidance operation for avoiding a collision in accordance with a detection result of the first sensor in a determination region ahead of the vehicle. The avoidance operation controller uses a region which is narrower in a direction perpendicular to the travelling direction and parallel to a horizontal direction as the determination region when it is the situation that there exists no moving object than when it is not the situation that there exists no moving object.