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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 1995
Filed:
Mar. 15, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yoshiaki Asayama, Himeji, JP;
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364443 ; 364460 ; 348113 ; 348118 ; 348139 ; 340435 ; 340903 ;
Abstract
A vehicle-surroundings monitoring apparatus is free from mistakenly identifying a lane marker on a road surface or a guard rail as a vehicle traveling in the blind spot of a nearby lane. A distance detecting section detects the distance up to a vehicle which is traveling in the blind-spot of a nearby lane and which is captured by a plurality of windows as set on a display screen. A detecting range restricting section restricts a distance detecting range for each window to a predetermined range to thereby select as a nearby vehicle an object to which the distance is within the predetermined range.
Published as:
GB9405695D0; GB2276481A; DE4410406A1; JPH06281455A; US5424952A; GB2276481B; DE4410406C2; JP2887039B2;