Patent ID: 9275287
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: B60R,G06K,G08G,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A driving assistance device equipped with an indication control unit including an indicator mounted on a vehicle which displays an image of a side-rearward of the vehicle captured by a camera mounted on the vehicle with a guideline showing a guide of distance from the vehicle to an object in the image superimposed on the image, the driving assistance device comprising: a road shape recognizing unit which recognizes a shape of a road on which the vehicle is traveling; wherein, when it is recognized by the road shape recognizing unit that the shape of the road on which the vehicle is traveling is a shape of a curved road with a curvature equal to or more than a first predetermined value, or a shape of a road of a traveling path during a right-turn or a left-turn of an intersection, or a shape of a road with a gradient change rate equal to or more than a second predetermined value, the indication control unit sets the guideline to non-display or sets a indicating position of the guideline in line with the shape of the road recognized by the road shape recognizing unit.