Vehicle speed control system

Details Vehicle speed control system Vehicle speed control system

1997-12-16

1999-05-11

Camby, Richard M.

Motor vehicles

With means responsive to speed of vehicle for maintaining...

180179, 180167, 701 96, B60K31/00

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059018062

ABSTRACT:
A vehicle speed control system for automatically sustaining a vehicle speed at a driver's setting, and decreasing the vehicle speed with decrease in a distance to a vehicle ahead, includes an input section for collecting information on a road situation ahead and a controller for adapting the speed control characteristic to the road situation. The input section of one embodiment includes an image sensing camera for forming an electronic image of the road ahead, and the controller is configured to detect edges such as derivative edges in the image and determine a correction quantity in accordance with the number of detected edges. The controller adjusts the control characteristic by using the correction quantity.

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