Surroundings monitoring apparatus for an automotive vehicle
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May 1, 2001
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Nov 4, 1998
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Jun 3, 1998
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A surroundings monitoring apparatus for an automotive vehicle, which may readily predict a road geography such as a road radius only by lane information of a vehicle and a relative position, includes a radar head 1 for detecting objects that are present around the subject vehicle and for outputting the positional information of the objects in a predetermined detection coordinate system, a vehicle identifying device (step S3) for classifying the vehicles travelling along the road and objects other than the vehicles out of the objects and a road geography prediction device (step S4) for predicting the road geography based upon the position of the travelling vehicles and the lane information in accordance with an output of the radar head and an output of the vehicle identifying device (step S3).
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