Abstract: A recognition support system includes: an object detection device detecting an object that is located in a periphery of a host vehicle; a direction sensing device sensing a direction to which a driver intends to turn the host vehicle; a range setting device setting a notification range based on the direction sensed by the direction sensing device; a selecting device defining the object, which is detected by the object detecting device, as a specified object when the object moves independently from the host vehicle, and selecting the specified object, which is located within the notification range, to be presented to the driver based on a state of the specified object; and an information presenting device presenting an information enabling the driver to recognize the specified object selected by the selecting device.

Abstract: A recognition support system includes: an object detection device detecting an object that is located in a periphery of a host vehicle; a direction sensing device sensing a direction to which a driver intends to turn the host vehicle; a range setting device setting a notification range based on the direction sensed by the direction sensing device; a selecting device defining the object, which is detected by the object detecting device, as a specified object when the object moves independently from the host vehicle, and selecting the specified object, which is located within the notification range, to be presented to the driver based on a state of the specified object; and an information presenting device presenting an information enabling the driver to recognize the specified object selected by the selecting device.

Abstract: An apparatus is configured for setting an assistance region for assisting a driver's recognition of a circumstance around a vehicle. The assistance region is indicative of at least one of: an imaging region of a device for picking up an image of the imaging region, and a particular image-processing region in the picked-up image. In the apparatus, a first unit estimates, based on a travelling condition of the vehicle, a turning parameter indicative of how the vehicle is turning or is about to turn. The turning parameter includes a turning course of the vehicle. A second unit sets the assistance region to an outside of the turning course of the vehicle.

Abstract: In an apparatus, a first unit obtains a picked-up image in a travelling direction of a vehicle, and a second unit determines whether or not a driver of the vehicle is about to perform in parking of the vehicle or is performing parking of the vehicle. A third unit estimates, based on the obtained picked-up image, a target parking area of the vehicle when it is deter mined that the driver of the vehicle is about to perfoim parking of the vehicle or is perfoi ming parking of the vehicle. A fourth unit sets, based a position of the estimated target parking area relative to the vehicle, a display mode for the obtained picked-up image. A fifth unit generates, based on the picked-up image and the display mode for the picked-up image, an image to be displayed on the display device.

Abstract: An axial direction control device obtains information regarding a road gradient in front of a road on which a motor vehicle drives. The axial direction control device adjusts an optical axis of headlamps and an image acquiring axis of an in-vehicle camera to an optimum direction on the basis of the acquired information before the motor vehicle has reached a road gradient change point. The road gradient is changed at the road gradient change point. Because the axial direction control device quickly changes the axial direction of each of the headlamps and the camera to an optimum direction before the road gradient is changed, driver safety and comfort is enhanced.