US 12,168,439 B2
Vehicle control device, and vehicle control system
Ryoh Inaba, Tokyo (JP); Trongmun Jiralerspong, Tokyo (JP); and Hidehiro Toyoda, Hitachinaka (JP)
Assigned to Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Ibaraki (JP)
Appl. No. 17/783,532
Filed by Hitachi Astemo, Ltd., Hitachinaka (JP)
PCT Filed Nov. 20, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/043333
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 8, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/124794, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 24, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-226274 (JP), filed on Dec. 16, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0021615 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 30/14 (2006.01); B60W 10/18 (2012.01); B60W 30/09 (2012.01); B60W 30/095 (2012.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 40/04 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 30/146 (2013.01) [B60W 10/18 (2013.01); B60W 30/09 (2013.01); B60W 30/0956 (2013.01); B60W 30/18127 (2013.01); B60W 40/04 (2013.01); B60W 2554/402 (2020.02); B60W 2556/40 (2020.02)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A control device for a vehicle comprising:
a memory;
a communication interface that is communicatively coupled to a sensor; and
a processor that is communicatively coupled to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to:
detect a blind spot area of the sensor, wherein the sensor recognizes an external environment; and
estimate a blind spot object that is a virtual moving body hidden in the blind spot area, and
when the vehicle approaches the blind spot area:
transmit a first command to a brake control device to decelerate the vehicle at a first rate, and
transmit, in response to a moving body detected by the sensor being different from a type of the blind spot object, a second command to the brake control device to decelerate the vehicle at a second rate, wherein the second rate is faster than the first rate.