OUTSIDE VIEW RECOGNITION DEVICE FOR VEHICLE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an outside view recognition device for a vehicle for quickly and accurately recognizing and discriminating whether the other vehicle becomes an obstacle to an own vehicle or not and establishing proper braking operation. SOLUTION: A degree of obstacle recognition as a rate at which an object (an obstacle candidate) such as the other vehicle detected as an obstacle is calculated by using different methods based on the direction of a relative speed vector of the obstacle candidate and based on the position of the obstacle candidate with respect to the future moving track of the own vehicle. Furthermore, weighted average computation is carried out such that the degree of obstacle recognition calculated by the respective methods is weighted to find a final degree of obstacle recognition.