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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2022
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
The control device according to the present disclosure executes a process of acquiring an image captured by a camera provided in a vehicle and estimating an vehicle-to-vehicle distance and a relative speed with the preceding vehicle based on an image, a process of calculating a time to collision with respect to the preceding vehicle from the vehicle-to-vehicle distance and the relative speed, a deceleration process of decelerating the vehicle based on the vehicle-to-vehicle distance, the relative speed, and the time to collision, and a process of performing a warning to the driver of the vehicle upon receiving that the amplitude of the variation of any one physical quantity of the vehicle-to-vehicle distance, the relative speed, or the time to collision has become equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value.