Patents Examined by Van Tu Trieu
  • Patent number: 5926117
    Abstract: A vehicle control system and method which can realize automatic driving of a vehicle under control of a base station with a high accuracy of the order of cm, low costs and a high reliability. On the basis of information relating to positions or speeds of other vehicles or fixed vehicles obtained through communication units installed in the vehicles and base station, the system know presence of vehicles in proximity to each vehicle, proximity distances, proximity directions or relative speeds thereof, informs an associated driver of it, or controls movement states of the proximity vehicles to avoid any contact with the proximity vehicles on the basis of the proximity information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1999
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Gunji, Hiroshi Kuroda, Kozo Nakamura, Hiroshi Takenaga