Patent ID: 11884267
Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 15:
16. An apparatus, comprising:
an image sensor configured to provide image information by acquiring a surrounding image of a host vehicle; and
a controller configured to:
detect, through the image sensor, one or more adjacent vehicles traveling adjacent to the host vehicle from the surrounding image;
determine, responsive to detecting a large vehicle among the one or more adjacent vehicles, a dangerousness level of a blind spot of the large vehicle based on a height of the large vehicle;
determine a default blind spot range, based on a roof area of the host vehicle and a total height of the host vehicle and one or more of a type of the large vehicle and a size of the large vehicle; and
generate a path for the host vehicle that reduces the dangerousness level of the large vehicle blind spot according to the default blind spot range.