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6600412 Sensor system for vehicle  
A vehicular sensor system of the present invention includes a plurality of bumper sensors mounted to a front bumper of a vehicle in a spaced relationship in a widthwise direction thereof, and a...
6594574 Inter-vehicle distance control apparatus and a recording medium for the same  
It judges whether a decelerator, such as fuel cut, over-drive cut, down shifting, braking, is in a temporarily unusable condition and further judges that it is necessary to drive the decelerator by...
6594583 Side-monitoring apparatus for motor vehicle  
An image pick-up means mounted in the motor vehicle picks up a side direction of a driver's own vehicle. An approaching object detecting means detects an approaching degree of an approaching object...
6590495 Automobile distance warning and alarm system  
An automobile distance warning and alarm system (ADWAS) in which the warning system is armed when the vehicle exceeds a threshold speed. The vehicle speed is used, along with road or weather...
6591192 Vehicle surrounding monitoring apparatus  
A vehicle surrounding monitoring apparatus includes an object position detecting device for periodically detecting a distance of from the self vehicle to the object that exists in the periphery of...
6587043 Driver warning system  
The present invention provides an improved driver warning system that more effectively conveys the urgency of a potentially unsafe condition. The driver warning system detects a distance based...
6583753 Vehicle back-up and parking aid radar system  
An improved vehicle radar system and control aids the vehicle driver during both parking and back-up maneuvers. The radar system is equipped with both long range and short range radar detection...
6580373 Car-mounted image record system  
A vehicle-mounted image record system for ensuring safe driving of a vehicle by recording images of a portion of the vehicle and a surface of a road in the vicinity of the vehicle so as to monitor...
6581007 System, method, and program for detecting approach to object  
A system for accurately detecting approach to an object by performing simple processing. The system comprises an optical flow calculating section for calculating an optical flow based on at least...
6570497 Apparatus and method for rail track inspection  
An apparatus for inspecting an operational condition of a rail track from a railcar includes an antenna positioned on the railcar that directs radar signals toward the rail track and collects radar...
6571176 Vehicle travel safety device  
A steering actuator is prevented from generating excess steering torque that gives an uncomfortable feeling to a driver who is holding a steering wheel when a collision between a vehicle and an...
6567748 Motion control system for vehicle  
A motion control system controls a vehicle so as to avoid contacting an obstacle in front of the vehicle by applying a braking force or a turning force to the vehicle. In particular, the turning...
6566999 Anti-collision support system and method for automotive vehicle  
In anti-collision support method and apparatus for an automotive vehicle, a deceleration magnitude adjustment manipulation distance which is another vehicular running distance required to carry out...
6567000 Methods and means for monitoring events in vehicles  
Events in a vehicle are monitored by producing electrical outputs representative of events in the vehicle, comparing characteristics of one event with characteristics of other events accumulated...
6559763 Frontal impact characterization apparatus for a motor vehicle restraint system  
An improved vehicle crash sensing apparatus quickly and reliably characterizes frontal impacts with only minimal data processing requirements. Two or more longitudinally separated piezoelectric...
6559775 Passive garage door opener using collision avoidance system  
A vehicle wireless transmitter system includes a collision avoidance sensor in a wireless transmitter. The wireless transmitter generates a wireless signal, such as a garage door opener signal,...
6552656 Method and apparatus for generating notification of changed conditions behind a vehicle  
According to the present invention, methods and apparatus are provided to generate notification about condition changes behind a vehicle. Information about a first set of conditions behind a...
6553288 Vehicle traveling control system and vehicle control device  
A vehicle traveling control system and a vehicle control device whereby markers are detected with reliability and information about a local vehicle is transmitted to a succeeding vehicle....
6549124 Environment monitoring system for a vehicle with an image pickup device  
In an environment monitoring system for a vehicle, when a detecting means decides that an approaching vehicle cannot be detected by an image processing means, a waning means gives warning of this...
6549836 Method and apparatus for controlling an actuatable restraint device using a velocity/displacement based safing function with immunity box  
An apparatus and method for controlling an actuatable occupant restraint device having a plurality of actuatable stages ( 24, 26 ), the apparatus including a crash sensor ( 14, 16 ) for sensing...
6535114 Method and apparatus for environment recognition  
Images are captured using a single camera in motion. A recognition process section detects a possible object in a photographed image, tracks the possible object within the moving image, and...
6535115 Air bag having excessive external magnetic field protection circuitry  
An air bag deployment system includes circuitry for preventing the accidental deployment of the air bag during exposure of the system to an excessive external magnetic field. In a first exemplary...
6531959 Position detecting device  
A position detecting device for a vehicle detects the position of an object in a real space coordinate system. A plurality of objects are extracted from an image obtained by cameras, and a...
6530597 Device for protecting vehicle occupants in a motor vehicle  
A device for protecting vehicle occupants in a motor vehicle has an impact sensor unit which is provided remote from a central region of the vehicle. The impact sensor unit is connected, via a data...
6522245 Composite device for vehicle  
The object of the present invention is to provide a composite apparatus in which a meter for a vehicle and an obstacle alarm device for a vehicle share a constituting means common to the meter and...
6512969 Vehicle sensing system using biased severity measure  
A sensing algorithm for a dual stage airbag system is disclosed which applies a biased severity measure BSM to determine no-deployment, single-stage deployment or two-stage deployment of an airbag....
6512978 Vehicle traveling position detecting system  
A vehicle travelling position detecting system includes a plurality of magnetic sensors arranged on a vehicle for detecting magnetic fields generated by magnetic markers arranged on the road in the...
6504473 Vehicle travel safety apparatus  
When a turning state of a subject vehicle is detected, the action timing of the contact avoidance support device is slower than when the turning state is not detected. When an action timing...
6504264 Activating device of vehicular passenger protection system  
An activating device for an airbag system is constructed to prevent erroneous activating operation. A microcomputer generates a test signal and applies it to a determination circuit and an...
6501371 Apparatus and method for positioning a reflective surface on a vehicle  
A reflective surface positioning apparatus ( 10 ) includes first locating device ( 21 ), second locating device ( 22 ), first utilizing device ( 51 ), and second utilizing device ( 52 ). The first...
6496108 Method and device for regulating clearance for a vehicle  
The present invention relates to a method for regulating clearance for a vehicle, in which a relative velocity (v rel ) and a relative distance (a) between the vehicle and a second vehicle driving...
6496770 Method and apparatus for controlling the travel speed of a vehicle  
The method of controlling travel speed of a vehicle includes controlling vehicle travel speed according to a set vehicle speed given by a driver of the controlled vehicle in a speed control mode;...
6493621 Operator reaction dependent stand-by brake torque build-up rate controlling scheme  
The present invention pertains a controlling scheme for build-up or variation rate at which brake pressure increases till completion of pressure build-up for stand-by brake torque. Stand-by brake...
6492902 Ultrasonic obstacle detector  
Extraneous matter such as snow or mud sticking to an ultrasonic sensor is detected. An obstacle ( 10 ) reflects transmitted waves from an ultrasonic sensor ( 3 ), and the indirect waves (k) are...
6489887 Lane-keep assisting system for vehicle  
A system for assisting a lane-keep traveling of a vehicle is comprised of a camera for detecting a view ahead of the vehicle, a vehicle behavior detector including a vehicle speed sensor and a yaw...
6487501 System for preventing lane deviation of vehicle and control method thereof  
A system for preventing lane deviation of a vehicle and a control method thereof are provided, in which control is performed to prevent the vehicle from inadvertently deviating from a lane. The...
6487500 GPS vehicle collision avoidance warning and control system and method  
GPS satellite ( 4 ) ranging signals ( 6 ) received ( 32 ) on comm 1, and DGPS auxiliary range correction signals and pseudolite carrier phase ambiguity resolution signals ( 8 ) from a fixed known...
6483442 Parking aid system  
A parking aid system having a driver initially stop the subject vehicle alongside a target parking position so that a mark provided inside a door coincides with the central line of the target...
6476731 Driving support device  
The invention makes it possible to acquire the dead angle (dead spot) information as images properly related to the field of view of a driver by an arrangement of image pickup units. There is...
6470989 Method and arrangement for preventing the passage of a mining vehicle  
The invention relates to a method and arrangement for preventing the passage of preferably an unmanned mining vehicle. The invention is based on the idea of providing a mining vehicle, such as a...
6472977 Method for the displaying information in a motor vehicle  
A method for the display of information in a motor vehicle, in which a segment of an image from a camera is displayed on a display unit and the image segment contains a road sign after analysis by...
6473686 Automatic vehicular velocity control apparatus for automotive vehicle  
In an automatic vehicular velocity control apparatus for an automotive vehicle, a relative velocity detector is provided to detect a relative velocity of a preceding vehicle to the vehicle, an...
6470272 Situation awareness processor  
A plurality of events representative of a situation in which the host vehicle is operated are selected, including at least one set of related events. Input data is provided to an inference engine...
6470249 Vehicle occupant protection system for a motor vehicle and method for controlling the triggering of the vehicle occupant protection system  
A motor vehicle occupant protection system and a method for triggering the system include an accident sensor and a control device. The latter controls system triggering as a function of a sensor...
6470273 Collision warning system  
A collision warning system includes pairs of optical sensors integral to a moving vehicle. Each of the optical sensors of the pairs of said sensors is enabled for the detection of visible light...
6463369 Lane following vehicle control and process  
In accordance with a vehicle running condition along a lane and an actual steering angle, a control unit determine a target steering angle to follow the lane, and controls an actual steering torque...
6459365 Dangerous area alarm system  
The present invention relates to a dangerous area alarm system. This system comprises a detection device which is provided in a vehicle and detects conditions of the vehicle to output vehicle data;...
6459982 Preceding vehicle following control system  
A preceding vehicle following control apparatus includes a sensor sensing an actual vehicle speed, a sensor sensing an actual vehicle spacing from a controlled vehicle to a preceding vehicle ahead,...
6459366 System and method for controlling an actuatable occupant protection device  
A system ( 10 ) for controlling an actuatable occupant protection device ( 44, 46, 52, 48, 50, 54 ) includes an actuatable headrest device ( 44, 48 ) which, when actuated, helps protect an occupant...
6452535 Method and apparatus for impact crash mitigation  
A pre-crash sensing system is provided for sensing an impact of a target vehicle ( 46 ) with a host vehicle ( 12 ). The target vehicle ( 46 ) has side transponders that generate side identification...