Vehicle-surroundings monitoring apparatus
US5424952A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 15, 1994 |
| Grant date | Jun 13, 1995 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 15, 2014 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01S11/12
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A vehicle-surroundings monitoring apparatus is free from mistakenly identifying a lane marker on a road surface or a guard rail as a vehicle traveling in the blind spot of a nearby lane. A distance detecting section detects the distance up to a vehicle which is traveling in the blind-spot of a nearby lane and which is captured by a plurality of windows as set on a display screen. A detecting range restricting section restricts a distance detecting range for each window to a predetermined range to thereby select as a nearby vehicle an object to which the distance is within the predetermined range.
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