DRIVING SUPPORT DEVICE AND DRIVING SUPPORT METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving support device capable of detecting the travel end of a connected road connected to the main lane of an automobile road without using navigation information.SOLUTION: An ECU 20 includes: a sign detection part 21 for detecting a sign indicating a limited speed on the basis of a front image photographed by an on-vehicle camera 10 mounted on an own vehicle; an entry detection part 24 for detecting the entry of the own vehicle from the main lane of the automobile road to a ramp way; and a determination part 26 for, when the entry of the own vehicle to the ramp way is detected by the entry detection part, determining the section of a track in which there exist two or more signs detected by the sign detection part along the travel direction of the own vehicle, and the limited speed indicated by each sign is a predetermined deceleration pattern as the ramp way.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1