View source for US Patent Application 18139731. DRIVING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS, DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING DRIVING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM simplified abstract

=DRIVING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS, DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING DRIVING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM=


==Organization Name==

[[TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA]]


==Inventor(s)==

[[Yusuke Fukui of Toyota-shi (JP)]]

[[Yuhei Miyamoto of Toyota-shi (JP)]]

==DRIVING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS, DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING DRIVING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - A simplified explanation of the abstract==


This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18139731 titled 'DRIVING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS, DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING DRIVING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

==Simplified Explanation==

The driving assistance apparatus described in this patent application is designed to help drivers avoid collisions with oncoming vehicles during a crossing movement, such as making a turn across a lane of traffic. 

* The apparatus includes an electronic control unit that is responsible for executing the driving assistance control.
* The control unit detects and identifies oncoming vehicles that pose a potential collision risk.
* When the own vehicle starts its crossing movement and the control unit determines that a collision with an alert-target oncoming vehicle is likely, it activates the driving assistance control to alert the driver.
* The driving assistance control is only active for a specific period of time, known as the after-crossing-start elapsing time.
* Once this time threshold has passed, the driving assistance control is deactivated and no longer alerts the driver.


==Original Abstract Submitted==

A driving assistance apparatus comprises an electronic control unit which executes a driving assistance control to alert a driver of an own vehicle for avoiding a collision of the own vehicle with an oncoming vehicle when the own vehicle performs a crossing movement. The crossing movement is a movement of the own vehicle to turn, crossing a line along which the oncoming vehicle moves. The electronic control unit detects and sets the oncoming vehicle as an alert-target oncoming vehicle, executes the driving assistance control when determining that the own vehicle is going to collide with the alert-target oncoming vehicle after determining that the crossing movement of the own vehicle starts and before a predetermined after-crossing-start elapsing time elapses, and keeps the driving assistance control unexecuted after the after-crossing-start elapsing time threshold elapses.