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.

Abstract: A driving assistance device performs collision avoidance control for avoidance of a collision between a vehicle and an object being around the vehicle and detected by an object detector, the collision avoidance control being performed based on collision determination as to a collision between the object and the vehicle. The driving assistance device includes: an object sensing section that senses an object around the vehicle; a blind spot area setting section that sets a blind spot area at an area positioned in the vehicle's blind spot blocked by an obstacle sensed by the object sensing section; an early determination area setting section that sets an early determination area including the blind spot area and extended therefrom; and a collision determination section that accelerates the collision determination for an object sensed in the early determination area, compared with the collision determination for an object sensed outside the early determination area.

Abstract: A braking control device for controlling braking of a host vehicle. For a state in which a host vehicle is stopped in an intersection by automatic emergency braking and an oncoming vehicle is approaching in an oncoming lane, the host vehicle prohibits secondary braking is prohibited in, flashes a hazard lamp, and prohibits an idling stop. For a state in which it is determined in that the vehicle is stopped and it is determined in that it is safe for the vehicle to start moving, the host vehicle releases stop maintenance braking.

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 collision avoidance apparatus includes a travelling state calculation section, a target detection section, a target state calculation section, a lateral moving object determination section, a collision determination section, and a collision avoidance control section. The collision avoidance control section calculates, based on (i) a passing-through period of the lateral moving object in which the lateral moving object passes through an own vehicle course that is a moving course of the own vehicle and (ii) a reaching time of the own vehicle that is a period remaining before the own vehicle reaching a lateral moving object course that is a moving course of the lateral moving object, an operation timing of the brakes for the lateral moving object passing through the own vehicle course before the own vehicle reaches the lateral moving object course, and operates the brakes at the calculated operation timing of the brakes.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle braking support device. The braking support device includes: detection units for detecting a state around a host vehicle; a braking support control unit for executing braking support by a braking device according to the detected state; and a vehicle stop control unit for maintaining a stopped state of a host vehicle after the host vehicle is stopped by the braking support control unit, and for releasing the stopped state of the host vehicle after a predetermined period has elapsed. The vehicle stop control unit, in a case where by using the detected state it is determined that it is desirable to maintain the stopped state of the host vehicle beyond the predetermined period, the vehicle stop control unit does not release the stopped state of the host vehicle until an operation by a driver is detected.

Abstract: A traveling support device is applied to a vehicle equipped with an imaging device and performs a traveling support control on an own vehicle based on an image captured by the imaging device.

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 collision determination apparatus is provided. The collision determination apparatus is provided with an acquiring unit that acquires a posture and movement characteristics of an object to be determined whether a collision risk is present; and a reliability determination unit that determines a reliability of the movement characteristics using the posture and the movement characteristics acquired by the acquiring unit.

Abstract: A braking control device for controlling braking of a host vehicle. For a state in which a host vehicle is stopped in an intersection by automatic emergency braking and an oncoming vehicle is approaching in an oncoming lane, the host vehicle prohibits secondary braking is prohibited in, flashes a hazard lamp,and prohibits an idling stop. For a state in which it is determined in that the vehicle is stopped and it is determined in that it is safe for the vehicle to start moving, the host vehicle releases stop maintenance braking.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle braking support device. The braking support device includes: detection units for detecting a state around a host vehicle; a braking support control unit for executing braking support by a braking device according to the detected state; and a vehicle stop control unit for maintaining a stopped state of a host vehicle after the host vehicle is stopped by the braking support control unit, and for releasing the stopped state of the host vehicle after a predetermined period has elapsed. The vehicle stop control unit, in a case where by using the detected state it is determined that it is desirable to maintain the stopped state of the host vehicle beyond the predetermined period, the vehicle stop control unit does not release the stopped state of the host vehicle until an operation by a driver is detected.

Abstract: A braking control device for controlling braking of a host vehicle. For a state in which a host vehicle is stopped in an intersection by automatic emergency braking and an oncoming vehicle is approaching in an oncoming lane, the host vehicle prohibits secondary braking, flashes a hazard lamp, and prohibits an idling stop. For a state in which it is determined in that the vehicle is stopped and it is determined in that it is safe for the vehicle to start moving, the host vehicle releases stop maintenance braking.

Abstract: Provided is a vehicle braking support device. The braking support device includes: detection units for detecting a state around a host vehicle; a braking support control unit for executing braking support by a braking device according to the detected state; and a vehicle stop control unit for maintaining a stopped state of a host vehicle after the host vehicle is stopped by the braking support control unit, and for releasing the stopped state of the host vehicle after a predetermined period has elapsed. The vehicle stop control unit, in a case where by using the detected state it is determined that it is desirable to maintain the stopped state of the host vehicle beyond the predetermined period, the vehicle stop control unit does not release the stopped state of the host vehicle until an operation by a driver is detected.

Abstract: A braking assistance device for a vehicle includes an object sensing unit for sensing an object, an intersection entry determination unit for determining entry of a host vehicle into an intersection, and a braking assistance execution unit for executing braking assistance by a braking device so as to avoid or mitigate collision with the object. If the host vehicle is determined to be entering the intersection, the braking assistance execution unit determines, based on a sensing result from the object sensing unit, a traffic environment at the intersection, and controls execution of the braking assistance in accordance with the determined traffic environment.

Abstract: The collision prediction apparatus is installed in a vehicle and predicts a collision between a moving object and the vehicle. The collision predict apparatus includes a vehicle path estimation section, a moving object path estimation section, an obstruction specifying section, a direction change information acquisition section, a moving object extraction area setting section, and a collision predict section. The moving object extraction area setting section sets, as a moving object extraction area, an area that is in the vicinity of an obstruction and is near an outer periphery of the obstruction facing a path of the vehicle after change of a traveling direction indicated by direction change information.

Abstract: A collision avoidance device for a vehicle is provided. The collision avoidance device includes an object sensing unit for sensing an object, an attribute acquisition unit for using a sensing result from the object sensing unit to acquire an attribute of an oncoming vehicle, and a collision avoidance execution unit for executing at least one of a notification of a possibility of collision and a collision avoidance operation, if it is determined, based on the attribute acquired by the attribute acquisition unit, that the oncoming vehicle crosses a center line.

Abstract: A brake assistance apparatus for a vehicle is provided. The brake assistance apparatus includes a detecting unit and a brake assistance control unit. The detecting unit detects a state surrounding an own vehicle. The brake assistance control unit performs brake assistance to brake the own vehicle at a first brake timing, based on the detected state surrounding the own vehicle. In response to the own vehicle being determined to be advancing at an intersection based on the detected state surrounding the own vehicle, the brake assistance control unit performs the brake assistance at a second brake timing that is later than the first brake timing.

Abstract: A driving assistance device performs collision avoidance control for avoidance of a collision between a vehicle and an object being around the vehicle and detected by an object detector, the collision avoidance control being performed based on collision determination as to a collision between the object and the vehicle. The driving assistance device includes: an object sensing section that senses an object around the vehicle; a blind spot area setting section that sets a blind spot area at an area positioned in the vehicle's blind spot blocked by an obstacle sensed by the object sensing section; an early determination area setting section that sets an early determination area including the blind spot area and extended therefrom; and a collision determination section that accelerates the collision determination for an object sensed in the early determination area, compared with the collision determination for an object sensed outside the early determination area.

Abstract: In an apparatus for controlling travel of an own vehicle which is a vehicle carrying the apparatus, an information acquirer is configured to acquire information regarding a target around the own vehicle from a target detector. A controller is configured to, if determining, using the target information acquired by the information acquirer, that if travel of the own vehicle is continued in accordance with a collision avoidance trajectory determined to avoid a collision with an object located on a roadway ahead of the own vehicle, the own vehicle is likely to collide with the object or another object, change a setting of a driving state of the own vehicle so as to avoid or reduce a likelihood of the collision.

Abstract: A vehicle collision avoidance supporting apparatus may include a situation determination unit configured to determine whether it is a situation that there exists no moving object proceeding in a direction crossing a traveling direction of the vehicle; a first sensor and configured to detect an object ahead of the vehicle; and an avoidance operation controller configured to cause the vehicle to perform a predetermined avoidance operation for avoiding a collision in accordance with a detection result of the first sensor in a determination region ahead of the vehicle. The avoidance operation controller uses a region which is narrower in a direction perpendicular to the travelling direction and parallel to a horizontal direction as the determination region when it is the situation that there exists no moving object than when it is not the situation that there exists no moving object.