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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:
Dec. 10, 2024

Filed:

Jan. 25, 2023
Applicants:

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

Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Hitachinaka, JP;

Inventors:

Masayuki Nakatsuka, Wako, JP;

Takeshi Kibayashi, Wako, JP;

Keiichiro Nagatsuka, Hitachinaka, JP;

Hirofumi Ikoma, Hitachinaka, JP;

Assignees:

HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;

HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD., Hitachinaka, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/14 (2020.01); G06V 20/58 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/14 (2013.01); G06V 20/584 (2022.01); B60W 2050/143 (2013.01); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01); B60W 2420/403 (2013.01);
Abstract

A driving assistance device comprises: a recognition unit configured to recognize a lighting color of a traffic light from an image captured by a camera that images an outside world of a vehicle; and an alarm output unit configured to output an alarm to a driver of the vehicle when the lighting color is red and there is no braking operation of the vehicle. When a plurality of traffic lights are recognized from the image by processing of the recognition unit, the alarm output unit controls the output of the alarm based on a combination of lighting colors of the plurality of traffic lights.


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