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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2020
Applicant:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/16 (2006.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 30/09 (2012.01); B60Q 5/00 (2006.01); B62D 15/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60Q 5/006 (2013.01); B60W 30/09 (2013.01); B62D 15/021 (2013.01); B60W 2050/143 (2013.01); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01);
Abstract
An alert apparatus of a vehicle generates an alert to a driver when an object is a target alert object that is is an object that is present in one of predetermined areas around the vehicle and that has object distance equal to or shorter than a first distance threshold. The alert apparatus sets each one or more of said predetermined areas to a high level alert area based on a current shift range, and set each of the rest of said predetermined areas to a low level alert area.