OBSTACLE DETECTING DEVICE AND WARNING DEVICE FOR AUTOMOBILE

摘要

PURPOSE:To secure the cooperation for detection of obstacles in accordance with the traveling state of an automobile and also to change the report contents in accordance with the state of each obstacle. CONSTITUTION:The size and the position of an obstacle existing in the front of an automobile are detected based on the image information given from an image sensor 1. Meanwhile the distance between the obstacle and the automobile and the direction of the obstacle are detected by the laser light emitted from a laser diode 3. Then a deciding part 5 changes the cooperative relation between both detecting operations in accordance with the traveling state of the automobile. So that the obstacle identifying accuracy is improved in accordance with the traveling state of the automobile. Furthermore a control part 6 gives a warning to the driver to properly evade the danger based on the identifying result.