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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2022
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Aichi-ken, JP;
Masakazu Nishijima, Ebina Kanagawa, JP;
Wataru Sasagawa, Susono Shizuoka, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A target vehicle recognition apparatus detects a stopped vehicle ahead of the host vehicle, detects a reference boundary line position where at least one of two boundary lines forming a travel lane of the host vehicle intersects a reference axis extending from a lower end of the stopped vehicle in an image horizontal direction on a captured image, recognizes the stopped vehicle as a target vehicle of steering control when the reference boundary line position between a vehicle left end position of the stopped vehicle and a vehicle right end position of the stopped vehicle is present, and does not recognize the stopped vehicle as a target vehicle of steering control when the reference boundary line position between the vehicle left end position of the stopped vehicle and the vehicle right end position of the stopped vehicle is not present.