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

Claim 0:
1. A driving support device that supports driving of a vehicle, the driving support device comprising:
an imaging device configured to capture an image of at least a front of the vehicle; and
a control device configured:
to detect whether or not the vehicle is approaching a merging section where a first road on which the vehicle is traveling and a second road having a height difference with respect to the first road merge with each other after there is no height difference between the first road and the second road;
to identify an image of a road surface of the merging section from the image captured by the imaging device when it is detected that the vehicle is approaching the merging section;
to detect whether or not the road surface of the merging section is irradiated with light emitted from a lighting device of another vehicle traveling on the second road based on luminance of each part in the image of the road surface of the merging section identified; and
to perform a processing of avoiding contact between the vehicle and the other vehicle when it is detected that the road surface of the merging section is irradiated with the light emitted from the lighting device of the other vehicle.