Vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus and traveling...

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2005-11-01

2005-11-01

Zanelli, Michael J. (Department: 3661)

Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location

Relative location

Collision avoidance

C701S096000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06961661

ABSTRACT:
A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus inputs images taken by a stereoscopic camera, vehicle speeds, steering wheel rotation angles, yaw rates and ON-OFF signals of a turn signal switch. An own travailing path C is calculated from an own traveling path A obtained from lane markers and side walls and an own traveling path B obtained from yaw rates of the own vehicle. Further, a new own traveling path E is calculated from the own traveling path C and a trace of a preceding vehicle, in which case where there is no possibility of a lane change of the preceding vehicle and the turn signal switch is turned off and the absolute value of the steering wheel rotation angle is smaller than a specified value and a present own traveling path is calculated from the own travailing path E and a previous own traveling path. In other cases, the present own traveling path is calculating from the travailing path C and the previous own traveling path.

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Patent Abstracts of Japan for JP09-091598 published on Apr. 4, 1997.

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