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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2012
Yoshiaki Sakagami, Saitama, JP;
Christian Goerick, Seligenstadt, DE;
Jan Fritsch, Muehlheim am Main, DE;
Bernd Heisele, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yoshiaki Sakagami, Saitama, JP;
Christian Goerick, Seligenstadt, DE;
Jan Fritsch, Muehlheim am Main, DE;
Bernd Heisele, Mountain View, CA (US);
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle periphery monitoring deviceis equipped with a first recognizing unitwhich recognizes a shape of a road in a traveling direction of a self vehicle C, a second recognizing unitwhich recognizes a position of an object M existing in a periphery of the self vehicle C, an estimating unitwhich estimates a moving direction of the object M from the position recognized by the second recognizing unit, and a contact avoiding process unitwhich determines whether or not to perform an avoiding process for avoiding contact between the self vehicle C and the object M, on the basis of a relationship between the shape of the road recognized by the first recognizing unitand the moving direction of the object M estimated by the estimating unit