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Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025

Filed:

Apr. 20, 2023
Applicant:

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Mizuho Wakabayashi, Tokyo, JP;

Yuki Yoshida, Tokyo, JP;

Yuko Omagari, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/12 (2020.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 40/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/12 (2013.01); B60W 30/18163 (2013.01); B60W 40/06 (2013.01); B60W 2554/80 (2020.02);
Abstract

A vehicle control apparatus includes a lane-changing-cancellation determination unit that cancels lane changing and determines whether or not an own vehicle should return to the original lane, in the case where while the own vehicle performs the lane changing, another vehicle is detected within an area determined by a predetermined longitudinal-direction range and a predetermined transverse-direction range, and a moving-direction determination unit that determines a moving direction of another vehicle, based on another-vehicle information to be acquired by an another-vehicle-information acquisition unit and road information to be acquired by a road-information acquisition unit, wherein the lane-changing-cancellation determination unit changes at least one of the longitudinal-direction range and the transverse-direction range, in accordance with a moving direction of said another vehicle determined by the moving-direction determination unit.


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