DRIVING SUPPORT APPARATUS, DRIVING SUPPORT METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING DRIVING SUPPORT PROGRAM

摘要

A driving support apparatus includes a line-of-data judgment unit configured to judge a type of line-of-sight data indicating a direction of the line of sight of a driver; an estimation unit configured to estimate an attentive watching state of the driver on a target area to be attentively watched by performing based on the target area being set depending on a driving situation based on vehicle state information and a direction of the line of sight indicated by a plurality of pieces of line-of-sight data acquired in a judgment time; and a confidence-level-calculation unit configured to calculate a confidence level of an estimation result of the attentive watching state by performing based on one of setting accuracy of the target area, and a configuration state of line-of-sight data associated with each type of the plurality of pieces of line-of-sight data acquired in the judgment time.

主权项

1. A driving support apparatus comprising:
a line-of-data judgment unit configured to judge a type of line-of-sight data indicating a direction of the line of sight of a driver; an estimation unit configured to perform an estimate of an attentive watching state of the driver on a target area to be attentively watched, the estimation being performed based on the target area to be attentively watched being set depending on a driving situation based on vehicle state information indicating a vehicle state and surrounding state information indicating a state surrounding the vehicle, and a direction of the line of sight indicated by a plurality of pieces of line-of-sight data acquired in a judgment time determined depending on the driving situation; and a confidence level calculation unit configured to perform a calculation for a confidence level of an estimation result of the attentive watching state, the calculation being performed based on at least one of setting accuracy of the target area to be attentively watched, and a configuration state of line-of-sight data associated with each type of the plurality of pieces of line-of-sight data acquired in the judgment time.