Patent ID: 11897464
Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 17:
18. The vehicle control method according to claim 1, further comprising:
when the traffic participant is recognized, wherein the traffic participant is in front of the vehicle and the traffic participant moves on the sidewalk adjacent to the roadway,
recognizing a presence or an absence of a region, wherein the region is a region in which the traffic participant is able to enter the roadway from the sidewalk that is in front of the participant,
recognizing a type of structure of a boundary between the sidewalk and roadway, in a case where there is the region,
recognizing a presence or an absence of another traffic participant in front of the traffic participant, in a case where the traffic participant is moving on the sidewalk, wherein the another traffic participant interfering with a moving of the traffic participant,
determining whether the traffic participant's face, head, or body is directed toward the roadway side or not, and
determining whether a central axis of the traffic participant tilt toward the roadway side or not,

deriving a plurality of scores according with each of result of recognizing and determining, and integrating the derived scores, and
setting the risk index for the position at which the traffic participant will be present in the future based on the derived scores.