Patent ID: 9487217
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: B60T,B60W,G01S

Claim Text:
1. A collision mitigation apparatus, which is installed in a vehicle and mitigates damage to the vehicle in occurrence of a collision, comprising: a collision mitigation controller that detects an object positioned around the vehicle, that activates a collision mitigation part for mitigating damage to the vehicle in occurrence of a collision if a positional relationship between the vehicle and the object meets a predetermined activation condition, that determines a type of the object, the type being any one of a vehicle, a pedestrian and a roadside object, and that strictly sets the activation condition compared to a case where the type of the object is not a roadside object, if the type of the object is a roadside object, wherein in a case where the type of the object is the roadside object, the collision mitigation controller determines whether or not the roadside object is a continuous roadside object based on recognition of a series of targets that are present along a traveling direction of the vehicle, and in a case where the roadside object is the continuous roadside object, the collision mitigation controller sets the activation condition more strictly than in a case where the roadside object that is not the continuous roadside object.