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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2020
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Continental Automotive Gmbh, Hanover, DE;
Yoshihiro Kawaguchi, Miyoshi, JP;
Takuto Kumashiro, Toyota, JP;
Junya Fukuta, Nisshin, JP;
Ryuichi Soya, Yokohama, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Continental Automotive GmbH, Hanover, DE;
Abstract
A vehicle alert device () executes alert control of determining, when a target is detected in a periphery of an own vehicle (C), within a set calculation period, whether the target is an alert-target object that does not include a stationary object, determining, when the target is an alert-target object, whether the alert-target object exists in a blind spot area (RL, RR) of a driver, and alerting the driver when the alert-target object exists in the blind spot area. The vehicle alert device avoids executing the alert control when a relative speed of the own vehicle with respect to the alert-target object at a time when the own vehicle overtakes the alert-target object is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold value. The vehicle alert device sets the predetermined threshold value to a larger value and sets the set calculation period to a shorter value, when a travel speed of the own vehicle at the time when the own vehicle overtakes the alert-target object is equal to or higher than a predetermined speed, than the predetermined threshold value and the set calculation period at a time when the travel speed of the own vehicle is lower than the predetermined speed.