Patent ID: 9399464
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: B60R,B60W,B62D,G01C

Claim Text:
1. A vehicle cruise control device comprising: an image pickup device configured to acquire at least information about a situation in front of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to obtain a target trajectory of the vehicle based on a traveling route specification target included in the information acquired by the image pickup device, and perform traveling trajectory control so as to cause the vehicle to travel along the target trajectory, when a target trajectory cannot be obtained based on the traveling route specification target, an area where a traveling route branches into a plurality of traveling routes is considered to be a particular area, and wherein, when the vehicle travels to the particular area, the control unit determines a first traveling route that the vehicle is to travel after traveling the particular area, obtains an interim target trajectory for the particular area based on a first traveling route specification target of the first traveling route and a second traveling route specification target of a second traveling route that the vehicle is traveling, and executes interim traveling trajectory control so that the vehicle travels along the interim target trajectory.