Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – Indication or control of braking – acceleration – or deceleration
Reexamination Certificate
2007-12-07
2011-11-08
Black, Thomas (Department: 3661)
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
Indication or control of braking, acceleration, or deceleration
C340S435000, C340S903000, C342S070000, C342S118000, C701S301000, C701S117000, C701S300000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08055428
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle peripheral monitoring apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a forward monitoring unit for monitoring an obstacle within a predetermined forward area extending in a direction forward of an own vehicle; one or more forward-lateral monitoring units for monitoring an obstacle within a predetermined forward-lateral area extending in a direction lateral of the own vehicle relative to the predetermined forward area; and a traveling environment detecting unit for detecting a traveling environment of the own vehicle, wherein the monitoring with the forward-lateral monitoring units is suppressed when the traveling environment detecting unit detects that the own vehicle is traveling on a predetermined road including a highway, and a level of the suppressing of the monitoring with the forward-lateral monitoring unit is eased when the traveling environment detecting unit detects that the own vehicle is traveling in a predetermined area, including a junction, of the predetermined road.
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Office Action issued Apr. 7, 2011 in German Patent Application No. 10 2007 055 799.1-56.
Black Thomas
Huynh Luke
Oblon, Spivak McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
Toyota Jidosha & Kabushiki Kaisha
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