Abstract: In a collision avoidance apparatus for a vehicle, a collision avoidance controller is configured to calculate a movement trajectory of a moving object moving on a road crossing a road that the vehicle is traveling on from a succession of locations of the moving object, calculate a movement trajectory of the vehicle using a speed of the vehicle, determine whether the movement trajectory of the moving object is a trajectory of a moving object likely colliding with the vehicle, and in response to determining that the movement trajectory of the moving object is a trajectory of a moving object likely colliding with the vehicle and that the moving object fails to be recognized by a camera due to a view of the moving object being obstructed, calculate a risk index for determining a collision avoidance measure and employ the collision avoidance measure in dependence upon the risk index.

Abstract: A vehicle collision prediction apparatus, installable to a host vehicle that is equipped with a peripheral sensor for detecting a preceding vehicle, includes a collision prediction region setting section that sets a collision prediction region in front of the host vehicle and a collision prediction section which predicts that there is a probability of a collision between the host vehicle and the preceding vehicle if the preceding vehicle is within the collision prediction region; wherein in response to the preceding vehicle satisfying predetermined U-turn conditions for estimating that the preceding vehicle is executing a U-turn, the collision prediction region setting section expands the collision prediction region, making the collision prediction region larger than in response to the preceding vehicle not satisfying the U-turn conditions.

Abstract: A traveling assistance apparatus controls a safety apparatus for avoiding collision between an own vehicle and an object, based on detection information from an object detection apparatus. The assistance apparatus calculates a predicted time to collision of a target object and the own vehicle, and operates the safety apparatus in response to the predicted time to collision being equal to or less than a predetermined operation timing. In response to a steering operation by a driver for collision avoidance of the own vehicle being performed, the assistance apparatus performs operation-stop in which operation of the safety apparatus is stopped or operation-delay in which the operation timing is delayed. The assistance apparatus suppresses the operation-stop or the operation-delay in response to a target object serving as a collision avoidance target being recognized in a path of the own vehicle after the steering operation by the driver, based on the detection information.

Abstract: A measurement sensor package and a measurement sensor reduce susceptibility to noise and enable highly accurate measurement. A measurement sensor package includes a substrate. The substrate includes a first recess including a first bottom surface on which a light emitter is mountable, and a first step surface having a first connection pad thereon, a second recess including a second bottom surface on which a light receiver is mountable, and a second step surface having a second connection pad thereon. In a direction connecting a center of the first bottom surface and a center of the second bottom surface in a plan view, the first step surface is located outward from the first bottom surface and the second step surface is located outward from the second bottom surface.

Abstract: A driving support device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a lateral position, lateral velocity, and lateral acceleration of another vehicle; a first determination unit that, based on the lateral position and lateral velocity of the other vehicle, determines that the other vehicle is moving toward an own lane; a second determination unit that, when the first determination unit determines the movement of the other vehicle, determines whether the lateral acceleration of the other vehicle has increased to a negative side in the own lane; and a driving support unit that, when the first determination unit determines that the other vehicle is moving toward the own lane and the second determination unit does not determine that the lateral acceleration of the other vehicle has increased to the negative side, does not set the other vehicle as a target vehicle of the driving support.

Abstract: A drive assistance system includes a primary target setter to designate an object determined based on a current movement locus of the own vehicle to be a primary target probably interfering with the own vehicle; a prediction locus estimation unit to estimate a prediction locus along which the own vehicle moves when primary avoidance control is executed in the own vehicle to avoid the interference with the primary target; and a secondary target setter to designate another object determined based on the prediction locus as a secondary target probably interfering with the own vehicle. The drive assistance system also includes a drive assistance controller to execute drive assistance control in the own vehicle based on a determination of whether the interference by the secondary target can be avoided by executing a secondary avoidance control in the own vehicle to avoid the interference by the secondary target.

Abstract: In a driving assistance device for performing a driving assistance process to avoid or mitigate a collision between an own vehicle, which is a vehicle carrying the driving assistance device, and an oncoming vehicle detected within a predefined region ahead of the own vehicle, an entry determiner is configured to determine whether one of the own vehicle and the oncoming vehicle is likely to enter a lane in which the other one is present. An actuation controller is configured to, in response to the entry determiner determining that each one of the own vehicle and the oncoming vehicle is unlikely to enter the lane of the other, restrict actuation of the driving assistance process, and in response to the entry determiner determining that any one of the own vehicle and the oncoming vehicle is likely to enter the lane of the other, not restrict actuation of the driving assistance process.

Abstract: A measurement sensor package and a measurement sensor reduce susceptibility to noise and enable highly accurate measurement. A measurement sensor package (1) includes a substrate (2), a lid (3), and a ground conductor layer (4). The substrate (2) contains a light emitter and a light receiver, and includes a substrate body (20), a plurality of ground via conductors (21), an frame-shaped ground conductor layer (22), signal wiring conductors (23), and an external connection terminal (24). The ground via conductors (21) are connectable to a ground potential, and are located outward from a first recess (20a) and a second recess (20b) included in the substrate body (20) in a plan view.

Abstract: An object detection apparatus includes a radar apparatus, an image capture device, a radar-detection target position detection section, and an image-detection target position detection section. In the apparatus, it is determined that the radar-detection target and the image-detection target are identical when a positional relationship between the targets corresponds to a predetermined relationship. Mitigation control for mitigating a collision between the own vehicle and an identical target is executed when the radar-detection target and the image-detection target are determined to be identical and the distance between the own vehicle and the identical target is smaller than a predetermined distance. Execution of the mitigation control is prevented from being executed, when the distance between the radar-detection target and the image-detection target has increased or decreased monotonically for an interval longer than a predetermined interval.

Abstract: A driving support apparatus mounted on a vehicle, performing a driving support control includes: other vehicle determining unit that determines whether the other vehicle moves towards a present lane where the own vehicle runs from an adjacent lane; an acquiring unit that acquires a tip end lateral position of other vehicle in the present lane side, among lateral positions of the other vehicle in a direction perpendicular to a travelling direction of the own vehicle; an object determination unit that determines, based on a movement or a predicted movement of the tip end lateral position into the present lane from the adjacent lane, the other vehicle to be an object of a driving support control, and determining, based on no-movement of the tip end lateral position, the other vehicle not to be an object of a driving support control.

Abstract: In a driving support device for a vehicle, a collision prediction unit uses a determination plane defined by a lateral position axis indicating a position with respect to a vehicle in a lateral direction orthogonal to a vehicle traveling direction and a prediction time period axis indicating a time-to-collision set in the vehicle traveling direction. The collision prediction unit establishes a collision prediction area as an area in the determination plane. Further, the collision prediction unit determines whether at least a part of the section between both ends of a target is within the collision prediction area in the determination plane. Depending on the determination, the collision prediction unit predicts a collision with the target. The width of the collision prediction area along a lateral position axis is set based on the width of the vehicle. The lateral position of the collision prediction area is set based on a product between the speed of the target and the time-to-collision.

Abstract: An object detection apparatus detects an object present around an own vehicle by using a radar device and an imaging device. The object detection apparatus includes a type recognition section that recognizes a type of the object, based on an image captured by the imaging device, and a distance calculation section that calculates a distance to the object in a case where a single object is detected as the object by the imaging device and the radar device and where the object is recognized to be a bicycle by the type recognition section. The distance in this case is calculated taking account of a positional displacement between a front or rear end of the bicycle, whichever is nearer to the own vehicle, and a detection point on the object obtained through search waves transmitted from the radar device.

Abstract: A collision determination device includes: an own vehicle region calculation unit that calculates an own vehicle presence region for each predetermined time on an estimated route of the own vehicle in a two-dimensional coordinate system defined by a distance in an own vehicle traveling direction and a distance in a vehicle width direction of the own vehicle at a current time; an own vehicle information calculation unit that calculates an own vehicle solid by interpolating the calculated own vehicle presence region for each predetermined time in a three-dimensional coordinate system defined by the distance in the own vehicle traveling direction, the distance in the vehicle width direction, and elapsed time from the current time, the own vehicle solid being a solid showing change of the own vehicle presence region; a movement path calculation unit that calculates a movement path of the object in the three-dimensional coordinate system on the basis of a position of the object detected by the object detection dev

Abstract: In a driving support device for a vehicle, a collision prediction unit uses a determination plane defined by a lateral position axis indicating a position with respect to a vehicle in a lateral direction orthogonal to a vehicle traveling direction, and a prediction time period axis indicating a time-to-collision set in the vehicle traveling direction. Specifically, the collision prediction unit establishes a first collision prediction area as an area in the determination plane. The collision prediction unit determines whether an object is present in the first collision prediction area. Based on this determination, the collision prediction unit predicts a collision between the vehicle and the object. The width of the first collision prediction area along the lateral position axis is set based on the width of the vehicle. The lateral position of the first collision prediction area is set based on the speed of the object and the time-to-collision.

Abstract: An object detection device detects an object moving in the area surrounding an own object. The object detection device includes: an information obtainment unit which obtains an object speed value that is at least one of a speed and an acceleration of the object in a lateral direction which is orthogonal to a predetermined direction of the area surrounding the own object; and an upper limit setting unit which sets an upper limit of the object speed value on the basis of angle information that is the relationship indicating an angle of a moving direction of the object with respect to the predetermined direction.

Abstract: A traveling assistance apparatus controls a safety apparatus for avoiding collision between an own vehicle and an object, based on detection information from an object detection apparatus. The assistance apparatus calculates a predicted time to collision of a target object and the own vehicle, and operates the safety apparatus in response to the predicted time to collision being equal to or less than a predetermined operation timing. In response to a steering operation by a driver for collision avoidance of the own vehicle being performed, the assistance apparatus performs operation-stop in which operation of the safety apparatus is stopped or operation-delay in which the operation timing is delayed. The assistance apparatus suppresses the operation-stop or the operation-delay in response to a target object serving as a collision avoidance target being recognized in a path of the own vehicle after the steering operation by the driver, based on the detection information.

Abstract: In a collision avoidance apparatus for a vehicle, a collision avoidance controller is configured to calculate a movement trajectory of a moving object moving on a road crossing a road that the vehicle is traveling on from a succession of locations of the moving object, calculate a movement trajectory of the vehicle using a speed of the vehicle, determine whether the movement trajectory of the moving object is a trajectory of a moving object likely colliding with the vehicle, and in response to determining that the movement trajectory of the moving object is a trajectory of a moving object likely colliding with the vehicle and that the moving object fails to be recognized by a camera due to a view of the moving object being obstructed, calculate a risk index for determining a collision avoidance measure and employ the collision avoidance measure in dependence upon the risk index.

Abstract: A vehicle collision prediction apparatus, installable to a host vehicle that is equipped with a peripheral sensor for detecting a preceding vehicle, includes a collision prediction region setting section that sets a collision prediction region in front of the host vehicle and a collision prediction section which predicts that there is a probability of a collision between the host vehicle and the preceding vehicle if the preceding vehicle is within the collision prediction region; wherein in response to the preceding vehicle satisfying predetermined U-turn conditions for estimating that the preceding vehicle is executing a U-turn, the collision prediction region setting section expands the collision prediction region, making the collision prediction region larger than in response to the preceding vehicle not satisfying the U-turn conditions.

Abstract: A travelling assist apparatus executing a collision avoidance control between other vehicle and an own vehicle is provided with an approach determination unit determining whether the other vehicle will enter an own lane from an adjacent lane of the own lane; a passing determination unit determining whether the other vehicle is able to pass across the own lane; an interruption determination unit determining whether the other vehicle interrupts the own lane; and a collision avoidance unit executing the collision avoidance control under a condition where the interruption determination unit determines that the other vehicle interrupts the own lane and the passing determination unit determines that the other vehicle is able to pass across the own lane, and executes the collision avoidance control regardless of a determination of the interruption determination unit, when the passing determination unit determines that the other vehicle is unable to pass across the own lane.

Abstract: A collision avoidance assistance device includes a first determination section that determines a probability that a vehicle changes course, by using a recognition result of a road structure and a detection result by internal field sensors, a second determination section that determines a probability that the vehicle changes course, by using information related to a traveling situation output, a decision section that decides an operation mode of collision avoidance assistance using a collision avoidance assistance mechanism, by using a combination of a determination result of the first determination section and a determination result of the second determination section, and an assistance section that performs a process for controlling the collision avoidance assistance mechanism in the operation mode that has been decided by the decision section, upon detection of a collision probability with an obstacle using the information output by information output devices.