Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080266168 | Obstacle Detecting Method, Obstacle Detecting Apparatus, and Standard Moving-Body Model - An obstacle detecting method for detecting a presence of an obstacle to a moving body using a sensor mounted on the moving body. The obstacle detecting method includes setting a movable area which is a surrounding area of the moving body and in which the moving body can move, arranging plural unconfirmed bodies over an entire area of the movable area as obstacle candidates as an initial state, and deleting the obstacle candidate which is determined not to be actually present as a result of detection by the sensor from the obstacle candidates arranged as the initial state. | 10-30-2008 |
20080303696 | Host vehicle moving area acquisition device and acquisition method - A movable area acquisition ECU 1 compares a possible path for a host vehicle and a predicted path of another vehicle in a travel area of the host vehicle with each other to obtain a possibility of collision between the two vehicles, thus computing a degree of danger to the host vehicle. If the degree of danger to the host vehicle exceeds a predetermined threshold, the travel area is extended and then a degree of danger to the host vehicle is computed and acquired. | 12-11-2008 |
20090012703 | Own-Vehicle-Path Determining Method and Own-Vehicle-Path Determining Apparatus - An own-vehicle-path determining method includes calculating a first evaluation value of each of plural predicted own-vehicle-path candidates, calculating a second evaluation value of each of the plural own-vehicle-path candidates, selecting own-vehicle-path candidates with high first evaluation values from the plural own-vehicle-path candidates, selecting own-vehicle-path candidates with high second evaluation values as appropriate own-vehicle-path candidates from the selected own-vehicle-path candidates, and selecting any one of the appropriate own-vehicle-path candidates as an own-vehicle path. | 01-08-2009 |
20090024357 | Object Path Prediction Method, Apparatus, and Program, and Automatic Operation System - An object path prediction method, apparatus, and program and an automatic operation system that can secure safety even in situations that can actually occur are provided. For this purpose, a computer having a storage unit that stores the position of an object and the internal state including the speed of the object reads the position and internal state of the object from the storage unit, generates trajectories in a space-time consisting of time and space from changes of the positions that can be taken by the object with the passage of time based on the read position and internal state of the object, and predicts probabilistically paths of the object by using the generated trajectories. | 01-22-2009 |
20090162825 | COURSE EVALUATION APPARATUS AND COURSE EVALUATION METHOD - A course evaluation apparatus includes an estimated-course-group generation portion that generates a plurality of estimated course groups for a movable body; and a course evaluation portion that performs a course evaluation on the plurality of estimated course groups with respect to at least two different evaluation criteria. | 06-25-2009 |
20090326751 | DRIVING ASSIST APPARATUS - A driving assist apparatus | 12-31-2009 |
20100030472 | COLLISION POSSIBILITY ACQUIRING DEVICE, AND COLLISION POSSIBILITY ACQUIRING METHOD - An own vehicle risk acquiring ECU | 02-04-2010 |
20100063735 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND PROGRAM OF PREDICTING OBSTACLE COURSE - A method, an apparatus, and a program of predicting an obstacle course, capable of appropriately predicting a course of an obstacle even under a complicated traffic environment, are provided. For this purpose, the course, which the obstacle may take, is predicted based on the position and the internal state of the obstacle, and at the time of the prediction, a plurality of courses are probabilistically predicted for at least one obstacle. When there are a plurality of obstacles, the course in which different obstacles interfere with each other is obtained from the predicted courses, which a plurality of obstacles may take, and the predictive probability of the course for which the probabilistic prediction is performed from the courses in which they interfere with each other is lowered. Probability of realizing each of a plurality of courses including the course of which predicted probability is lowered is calculated. | 03-11-2010 |
20100106418 | VEHICLE TRAVEL TRACK ESTIMATOR - A vehicle risk level acquiring ECU calculates and acquires a plurality of courses of other vehicles around a driver's own vehicle, and acquires the predicted course of the driver's own vehicle. The vehicle risk level acquiring ECU calculates the collision probability of the driver's own vehicle as collision possibility on the basis of the predicted course of the driver's own vehicle and the plurality of courses of other vehicles. | 04-29-2010 |
20100121576 | HOST-VEHICLE RISK ACQUISITION - A host-vehicle risk acquisition device includes a host-vehicle path acquisition portion that acquires a path of a host-vehicle, and an obstacle path acquisition portion that acquires a plurality of paths of an obstacle existing around the host-vehicle. A collision risk acquisition portion acquires an actual collision risk, which is a collision risk between the host-vehicle and the obstacle when the host-vehicle is in a travel state based on the path of the host-vehicle and the plurality of paths of the obstacle. An offset risk acquisition portion acquires an offset risk, which is a collision risk between the host-vehicle and the obstacle in an offset travel state, which is offset from the travel state of the host-vehicle. | 05-13-2010 |
20100318240 | COURSE EVALUATION APPARATUS AND COURSE EVALUATION METHOD - A course evaluation that evaluates a course of a mobile unit includes: generating a predetermined first course of the mobile unit; generating, for the first course, a second course for which a controlled amount of the mobile unit after a predetermined driving condition is satisfied is increased as compared with a controlled amount of the mobile unit on the first course; estimating another object course, which is a course of another object; determining whether the second course interferes with the other object course; and evaluating a degree of safety of the first course on the basis of a result of determination as to whether the second course interferes with the other object course. | 12-16-2010 |
20110010046 | OBJECT DETECTION DEVICE - An object detection device can acquire information of an object in the vicinity of a host-vehicle for appropriate traveling assistance. An object detection device | 01-13-2011 |
20120113412 | SPECTRUM MEASURING APPARATUS FOR MOVER - Provided is a moveable spectrum measuring apparatus capable of improving discrimination precision of a measuring object on the basis of observation data from a spectrum sensor mounted on a movable apparatus such as a vehicle. A measuring object and a reference body are irradiated with ambient light. A spectrum acquiring device acquires measuring object data indicating the spectrum of the measuring object, and reference body data indicating the spectrum of the reference body to become a reference at the time when the spectrum of the measuring object is corrected. A spectrum converting device has reference body reflectivity data indicating the surface reflectivity of the reference body, and creates ambient light data indicating the spectrum of the ambient light, on the basis of the reference body reflectivity data and the reference body data. By using the ambient light data, the measuring object data is converted into measuring object reflectivity data indicating the surface reflectivity of the measuring object. On the basis of the measuring object reflectivity data, a discrimination device discriminates the measuring object. | 05-10-2012 |
20120248295 | PHOTODETECTOR - A photodetector disclosed herein comprises an avalanche transistor having a reference junction structure in which temperature characteristics of a current amplification factor are about the same as those of an avalanche photodiode and which is reverse-biased, and a current injection junction structure which injects a reference current to the reference junction structure and which is forward-biased. Voltages to be applied to the avalanche photodiode and the reference junction structure are controlled so that the amplification factor of the reference current amplified in the reference junction structure is retained at a predetermined value, whereby the temperature characteristics of the photodetector utilizing an avalanche effect can be stabilized. | 10-04-2012 |
20130110343 | DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE | 05-02-2013 |
20130184980 | MOBILE BODY - Disclosed is a mobile body which plans an avoidance operation of the mobile body and an expected avoidance operation which is expected of a mobile obstacle, thereby improving efficiency of the avoidance operation. A mobile body ( | 07-18-2013 |
20130261952 | COLLISION DETERMINATION DEVICE - A collision determination device determines the possibility of collision between a host vehicle and the other object on the basis of a shortest arrival time calculated by a shortest arrival time calculation unit and a passage time at each point of the host vehicle acquired by a vehicle route candidate acquisition unit. In this way, even if a locus to be taken by the other object is not generated, the shortest arrival time at which the other object can arrive at each point of the route candidate of the host vehicle with a predetermined first displacement is calculated, thereby determining the possibility of collision between the host vehicle and the other object. Therefore, it is possible to reduce a computational load for determining collision and to accurately determine collision between the host vehicle and the other object. | 10-03-2013 |
20130289868 | HOST-VEHICLE RISK ACQUISITION DEVICE AND METHOD - A host-vehicle risk acquisition device includes a host-vehicle path acquisition portion that acquires a path of a host-vehicle, and an obstacle path acquisition portion that acquires a plurality of paths of an obstacle existing around the host-vehicle. A collision risk acquisition portion acquires an actual collision risk, which is a collision risk between the host-vehicle and the obstacle when the host-vehicle is in a travel state based on the path of the host-vehicle and the plurality of paths of the obstacle. An offset risk acquisition portion acquires an offset risk, which is a collision risk between the host-vehicle and the obstacle in an offset travel state, which is offset from the travel state of the host-vehicle. | 10-31-2013 |
20140018993 | DRIVING ASSIST DEVICE - A driving assist device includes a first control portion that controls a vehicle to carry out automated driving, and a second control portion that controls the vehicle to make a shift to manual driving, in which the vehicle travels on a basis of an driving operation by a driver, when canceling the automated driving, and changes a manner of canceling the automated driving in accordance with an elapsed time from a start of the automated driving. | 01-16-2014 |
20140104078 | OTHER-VEHICLE DETECTION DEVICE AND OTHER-VEHICLE DETECTION METHOD - An other-vehicle detector | 04-17-2014 |
20140112538 | PEDESTRIAN MOTION PREDICTING DEVICE - A subject is to provide a pedestrian motion predicting device capable of accurately predicting a possibility of a rush out before a pedestrian actually begins to rush out. According to the embodiments, the pedestrian is detected from input image data, a portion in which the detected pedestrian is imaged is cut out from the image data, a shape of the pedestrian imaged in the cut-out partial image data is classified by collating the shape with a learning-finished identifier group or a pedestrian recognition template group, and the rush out of the pedestrian is predicted based on a result of the acquired classification. | 04-24-2014 |
20140219505 | PEDESTRIAN BEHAVIOR PREDICTING DEVICE AND PEDESTRIAN BEHAVIOR PREDICTING METHOD - According to the present invention, a pedestrian is detected from an imaged image and a partial image including the pedestrian is extracted, shape information of the pedestrian acquired from the extracted partial image is accumulated and the shape information of a predetermined time before and the current shape information are compared using the accumulated shape information to detect change in the movement of the pedestrian, discontinuous movement estimating information indicating a discontinuous movement of the pedestrian that occurs following the change in the movement of the pedestrian is acquired from a storage means at the time the change in the movement of the pedestrian is detected, and a behavior of the pedestrian is predicted using the acquired discontinuous movement estimating information. | 08-07-2014 |
20140303883 | OBJECT PATH PREDICTION METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM, AND AUTOMATIC OPERATION SYSTEM - An object path prediction method, apparatus, and program and an automatic operation system that can secure safety even in situations that can actually occur are provided. For this purpose, a computer having a storage unit that stores the position of an object and the internal state including the speed of the object reads the position and internal state of the object from the storage unit, generates trajectories in a space-time consisting of time and space from changes of the positions that can be taken by the object with the passage of time based on the read position and internal state of the object, and predicts probabilistically paths of the object by using the generated trajectories. | 10-09-2014 |
20140369509 | SOUND SOURCE DETECTION APPARATUS - In a sound source detection apparatus that detects a sound source of a detection subject on the basis of collected sounds, sounds are collected by at least one sound collector, an autocorrelation between sounds collected in time series by the sound collector is calculated, and a determination as to whether or not the sound source of the detection subject exists is made on the basis of the autocorrelation. More particularly, sounds are preferably collected respectively by two or more sound collectors such that the existence of the sound source of the detection subject is determined by determining whether or not the autocorrelations of the sounds collected by the two or more sound collectors satisfy a predetermined condition. By using the autocorrelation to detect the sound source of the detection subject in this manner, high robustness against an S/N ratio is exhibited, leading to an improved detection performance when detecting the sound source of the detection subject. | 12-18-2014 |
20150049908 | SUBJECT CHANGE DETECTION SYSTEM AND SUBJECT CHANGE DETECTION METHOD - The invention detects a change in a subject by detecting the subject from an image, acquiring a feature quantity distribution that indicates shape information of the detected subject, accumulating the shape information that is indicated by the acquired feature quantity distribution and comparing the shape information a predetermined period of time before with the current shape information by using the accumulated shape information. Here, the invention acquires the feature quantity distribution of the subject from a processing target area extracted from an image area that includes the subject. The invention detects a change in the subject by using accumulated shape change information acquired from the shape information. The invention detects a change in the subject by using averaged shape change information obtained by averaging the shape change information. | 02-19-2015 |