Patent ID: 11954896
Assignee: SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 5:
6. The driving support device according to claim 5 further comprising:
an object detector configured to detect an object present at least in front of the vehicle by using an ultrasonic wave, light, or a radio wave; and
the control device configured to detect whether or not the other vehicle has passed through the merging section based on an image captured by the imaging device and a detection signal output from the object detector,
wherein the control device is configured to perform, in a case where a processing of outputting an alarm or a message to the other vehicle is performed as a processing of avoiding contact between the vehicle and the other vehicle, a processing of stopping the alarm or the message when the control device detects that the other vehicle has passed through the merging section, in a case where a processing of performing deceleration control on the vehicle is performed as a processing of avoiding contact between the vehicle and the other vehicle, a processing of releasing the deceleration control on the vehicle when the control device detects that the other vehicle has passed through the merging section, and in a case where a processing of performing stop control on the vehicle is performed as a processing of avoiding contact between the vehicle and the other vehicle, a processing of releasing the stop control on the vehicle when the control device detects that the other vehicle has passed through the merging section.