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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2024
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Hirotaka Hatakeyama, Nagoya, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
An alert device including a driving assistance control unit configured to operate a notification device to provide an alert when a collision between an own vehicle and another vehicle is judged to be possible, the driving assistance control unit sets a possibility judgment area that extends along an intersecting road intersecting an own vehicle's road, and judges whether or not there is a possibility of collision by judging whether or not there is another vehicle approaching the possibility judgment area, and furthermore, the driving assistance control unit sets a width direction range of the possibility judgment area variably according to at least one of the right/left turn direction of the own vehicle at an intersection, a lane configuration of the intersecting road, and a width of a lane of the intersecting road.
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