公开(公告)号：US12233971B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-25

申请号：US18175847

申请日：2023-02-28

Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION

Inventor： Kensuke Oshima ,  Makoto Nakauchi ,  Masaya Sakamoto ,  Yuki Yoshida

IPC: B62D6/00 ,  B62D7/15

Abstract: A vehicle driving support apparatus to be applied to a vehicle comprises a running environment recognizer; a preceding vehicle information acquirer that detects a vehicle class and variation in behavior of a preceding vehicle; an amount-of-steering control calculator that calculates an amount of steering control to cause the vehicle to run along a target path of travel set on a lane; a disturbance estimation control calculator that estimates lateral-direction disturbance to calculate an amount of steering against the disturbance based on the estimated disturbance; and a coordination controller that corrects the amount of steering control with the amount of steering. If a rolling direction and a lateral motion direction of the preceding vehicle coincide with each other, the disturbance estimation control calculator determines that the variation in the behavior of the preceding vehicle is caused by the disturbance, and calculates the amount of steering.

公开(公告)号：US12233936B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-25

申请号：US18121824

申请日：2023-03-15

Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION

Inventor： Norio Oowada ,  Hiroomi Kobayashi ,  Taichi Murai ,  Yosuke Takebayashi ,  Takeshi Yoneda ,  Kaoru Sugano ,  Akihiro Nabeshima ,  Minoru Suyama ,  Tatsuya Takayanagi

IPC: B62D17/00 ,  B60G17/016

Abstract: A vehicle steering apparatus is configured to apply, to a steered wheel of a vehicle, a driving force for canceling a toe change amount caused by a road irregularity. The vehicle steering apparatus includes a road reaction force detector configured to detect a road reaction force received by a tire of the steered wheel, a toe adjustment actuator coupled to the steered wheel, and a controller configured to control a driving force of the toe adjustment actuator. The controller includes a toe change amount setter configured to set the toe change amount based on the road reaction force detected by the road reaction force detector, an operation amount calculator configured to calculate an actuator operation amount for canceling the toe change amount set by the toe change amount setter, and a driver configured to drive the toe adjustment actuator by the actuator operation amount calculated by the operation amount calculator.

公开(公告)号：US12233894B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-25

申请号：US17698377

申请日：2022-03-18

Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION

Inventor： Ryota Nakamura ,  Tsukasa Mikuni ,  Takuya Homma ,  Yutaka Ishii ,  Masatoshi Tsuge ,  Kazuhiro Hayakawa ,  Toru Kato

IPC: B60W50/14 ,  B60W40/08 ,  B60W40/09 ,  G06V20/59

Abstract: An occupant state detection system includes an occupant monitoring apparatus, an occupant state detection apparatus, and a determination apparatus. The occupant state detection apparatus includes one or more processors and one or more memories. The one or more processors cooperate with one or more programs included in the one or more memories to receive occupant monitoring data from the occupant monitoring apparatus and determination data from the determination apparatus. On the basis of the determination data, the one or more processors make assignment of a part to be monitored, of an occupant in a vehicle, to be monitored by the occupant monitoring apparatus, to detect a physical state of the occupant.

公开(公告)号：US12233870B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-25

申请号：US18059050

申请日：2022-11-28

Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION

Inventor： Harunobu Horiguchi

IPC: B60W30/165 ,  B60W30/18

Abstract: A vehicle driving assistance apparatus includes a traveling environment recognizer and an adaptive cruise controller. The traveling environment recognizer recognizes traveling environment information regarding an outside of a vehicle. Based on the traveling environment information, the adaptive cruise controller performs a follow-up traveling control of causing the vehicle to travel to follow a preceding vehicle, if recognized, and performs a constant-speed traveling control of causing the vehicle to travel at constant speed. If the vehicle starts a lane change to a traveling lane during traveling based on the follow-up traveling control, the adaptive cruise controller keeps a target vehicle speed at a start of the lane change at least until the lane change ends, and thereafter accelerates the vehicle, by setting a set vehicle speed as a new target vehicle speed, and setting a target acceleration rate based on the new target vehicle speed.

公开(公告)号：US12233862B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-25

申请号：US18067450

申请日：2022-12-16

Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION

Inventor： Hideki Sugawara ,  Takahiro Furuya ,  Anfen Ye ,  Kazuki Yamaguchi ,  Wataru Matsudate ,  Hayato Hori ,  Takayuki Sato

IPC: B60W30/095 ,  B60W30/18 ,  B60W40/04

Abstract: A driver assistance device acquires information about vehicle-driving environment ahead of the vehicle to detect an intersection. Upon determining that the vehicle makes a right- or left-hand turn at the intersection, the driver assistance device sets a projected course of the vehicle and recognizes a moving object ahead in a direction in which the vehicle making a right- or left-hand turn is headed. The driver assistance device calculates a movement vector from positional changes of the moving object to calculate a meeting point of a path of the object and the projected course. When an interval between times at which the vehicle and the moving object reach the meeting point is found to fall within a predetermined range, the driver assistance device determines that there is a possibility of interference between the vehicle and the moving object and then causes the vehicle to halt short of the meeting point.

公开(公告)号：US12233779B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-25

申请号：US18125345

申请日：2023-03-23

Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION

Inventor： Yuki Kominato

IPC: B60Q5/00

Abstract: A vehicle approach notification device to be applied to a vehicle includes a determination processor, a selection processor, and a sound emission controller. The determination processor is configured to perform a determination as to whether to change a currently set notification sound when it is determined that a surrounding vehicle is detected. The selection processor is configured to select a notification sound in place of the currently set notification sound from multiple notification sounds when the determination processor determines to change the currently set notification sound in the determination. The sound emission controller is configured to perform sound emission control of the notification sound selected by the selection processor.

公开(公告)号：US12223746B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-11

申请号：US17702437

申请日：2022-03-23

Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION

Inventor： Keita Onishi ,  Masayuki Marubashi ,  Junpei Tokizaki ,  Keiji Asai ,  Shinichi Miyamoto

IPC: G06V20/59 ,  B60W40/09 ,  B60W40/11 ,  B60W40/114 ,  G06V40/16 ,  B60W40/08

Abstract: A distracted-driving monitoring apparatus for a vehicle includes an imaging device and a determiner. The imaging device is configured to capture an image indicating at least an occupant of the vehicle. The determiner is configured to make a determination on distracted driving of the occupant of the vehicle based on the captured image. The determiner is configured to determine areas in the captured image corresponding to areas that the occupant faces from among divided areas obtained by dividing a viewing range. The viewing range corresponds to a range where the occupant is likely to face while the vehicle is in operation. The determiner is configured to execute determination processing differently for each of the determined areas to make the determination on the distracted driving of the occupant.

公开(公告)号：US12221107B2

公开(公告)日：2025-02-11

申请号：US17508129

申请日：2021-10-22

Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION

Inventor： Shinya Kudo

IPC: B60W30/18 ,  B60Q1/50 ,  B60W30/09 ,  B60W30/095 ,  B60W40/04 ,  G06V20/58

Abstract: A vehicle drive assist apparatus includes a surrounding-condition-information acquiring unit that acquires surrounding condition information, a vehicle-state-information acquiring unit that acquires vehicle state information, a light-distribution control processor that executes light distribution control, a traveling control processor that executes traveling control in accordance with traffic lane designation, a DDI detector that detects a DDI in a front region based on the surrounding condition information and determines whether the vehicle is entering or exiting from the DDI based on the surrounding condition information and the vehicle state information, and a control switch. When the vehicle entering the DDI is detected, the control switch switches the traveling control and the light distribution control from standard traveling control to non-standard traveling control. When the vehicle exiting from the DDI is detected, the control switch switches the traveling control and the light distribution control from the non-standard traveling control to the standard traveling control.

公开(公告)号：US20250046129A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-06

申请号：US18716571

申请日：2022-10-31

Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION

Inventor： Takeshi TORII ,  Noeru SATO

IPC: G07C5/04

Abstract: A driving skill evaluation method according to one embodiment of the disclosure includes: performing a setting process of setting one or more evaluation target curves of two or more curves; and performing an evaluation process of evaluating a driving skill of a driver of a vehicle, based on traveling data of the vehicle at the one or more evaluation target curves. The setting process includes: calculating multiple first similarity levels for each of the two or more curves, by calculating similarity levels between multiple pieces of first data obtained based on traveling data regarding multiple drivers having a first skill level, and multiple pieces of second data obtained based on traveling data regarding multiple drivers having a second skill level; calculating multiple second similarity levels for each of the two or more curves, by calculating similarity levels between the multiple pieces of second data; and setting the one or more evaluation target curves, based on the multiple first similarity levels and the multiple second similarity levels.

公开(公告)号：US20250026256A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-23

申请号：US18738793

申请日：2024-06-10

Applicant: SUBARU CORPORATION

Inventor： Riku HASEGAWA

IPC: B60N3/04

Abstract: A vehicle floor mat structure configured to guide air-conditioned air blown from below a front seat of a vehicle toward a foot of a passenger seated on a rear seat of the vehicle. The vehicle floor mat structure includes an opening and an inclined portion. The opening is provided in a floor mat below the front seat and serves as an air passage for the air-conditioned air. The inclined portion is provided closer to the rear seat than the opening is to the rear seat. The inclined portion is provided on the floor mat. The inclined portion includes an upward inclined surface toward the rear seat.