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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 17, 2017
Applicant:

Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Hideki Matsunaga, Wako, JP;

Masaaki Nagashima, Wako, JP;

Takeru Goto, Wako, JP;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 30/09 (2012.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G08G 1/00 (2006.01); G08G 1/0967 (2006.01); G08G 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/0016 (2020.02); B60W 30/09 (2013.01); G01C 21/3691 (2013.01); G05D 1/0212 (2013.01); G05D 1/0231 (2013.01); G08G 1/20 (2013.01); G08G 1/096725 (2013.01); G08G 1/096791 (2013.01); G08G 1/161 (2013.01); G08G 1/166 (2013.01);
Abstract

A vehicle control device is provided with: a surroundings recognition unit which recognizes external conditions around a host vehicle; a behavior determination unit which, if it is recognized that another vehicle is present along a travel path along which the host vehicle is traveling, determines behavior of the other vehicle; a space setting unit which, if the behavior deter urination unit determines that the other vehicle will cross the travel path, sets a space ahead of the other vehicle in accordance with the behavior of the other vehicle so that the other vehicle can secure fields of vision; and a vehicle control unit which performs control to form the space ahead of the other vehicle.


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