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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2022
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Haisong Liu, Tokyo, JP;
Ryo Morosawa, Tokyo, JP;
Seonghun Lee, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiro Tanigawa, Wako, JP;
Kenya Sakurai, Tokyo, JP;
Eiji Hirano, Wako, JP;
Yuki Kagiya, Tokyo, JP;
Koji Nomura, Tokyo, JP;
Yuji Tsuchiya, Wako, JP;
Mitsunori Nishino, Tokyo, JP;
Toshihiro Kaneda, Tokyo, JP;
Kenji Okuma, Tokyo, JP;
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle control apparatus includes: a determination unit for determining, based on an image captured by a first camera with a first resolution, whether an object around a vehicle is a person or not; and a camera activation unit for activating a second camera when an image of the person as the object enters within a first area corresponding to a range of a first predetermined distance from the vehicle on the captured image, the second camera having a second resolution higher than the first resolution.