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Title:
VEHICLE TRAVEL CONTROL DEVICE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2009146289
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a vehicle travel control device capable of improving the detection accuracy of a road shape for lane keeping control, while permitting an inter-vehicle distance desired by a driver.

The vehicle travel control device is provided with an imaging means for imaging a road in front of a vehicle, a lane-keeping control means for controlling the vehicle so as to maintain the lane to travel, on the basis of the road shape image-recognized from an imaged image of the imaging means, and a recognition range changing means for changing an imaging range of the imaging means or an image recognition range in the imaged image of the imaging means, according to the inter-vehicle distance from the preceding vehicle in front of the vehicle.


Inventors:
TANAKA AKIHIRO
TASHIRO TATSUMI
NISHIMURA HIROSHI
ODA TETSUYA
NAGANO TASUKE
SUZUKI TOMOKI
OTSUKI NOBUHIRO
NIIMI YOSHITAKA
HASHIMOTO NAOYA
MIURA YASUHIRO
Application Number:
JP2007324856A
Publication Date:
July 02, 2009
Filing Date:
December 17, 2007
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
TOYOTA MOTOR CORP
International Classes:
G08G1/16; B60W30/00; B60W30/12; B60W30/16
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Tadahiko Ito