Patent ID: 11951982
Assignee: KIA CORPORATION
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A lane following assist apparatus, comprising:
a camera configured to capture an image in front of a vehicle; and
a processor configured to receive a forward image from the camera,
wherein the processor is configured to:
obtain line information from the forward image;
calculate a straight distance between a target traveling route and a center of a vehicle as a vehicle offset based on the line information, wherein the target traveling route is set along the center of both lines of a lane on which the vehicle should travel;
calculate a difference between the vehicle offset and a predetermined threshold when the vehicle offset is greater than a predetermined threshold;
change a previously set preview time based on the calculated difference;
set a target look-ahead distance based on the changed preview time and a vehicle speed; and
perform lane following assist control using the target look-ahead distance.