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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2024
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Mafune Kakeshita, Toyota, JP;
Chen Xi, Nagoya, JP;
Kohei Morotomi, Nagoya, JP;
Yuto Shimbo, Toyota, JP;
Tasuku Usui, Susono, JP;
Kenichi Shimizu, Susono, JP;
Wataru Ike, Nagoya, JP;
Tsunekazu Yasoshima, Nagoya, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
An alert apparatus starts alerting a driver of a host vehicle, when an oncoming vehicle, that is an other vehicle traveling in an oncoming lane with respect to a traveling lane in which the host vehicle is traveling so as to approach the host vehicle and that is predicted to pass through on a specific direction side with respect to a current position of the host vehicle, is present, a turn signal indicator of the host vehicle corresponding to the specific direction side is being operated, and it is likely that the host vehicle starts turning to the specific direction side.