Patent ID: 9604639
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: B60W,G06K

Claim:
1. A pedestrian-intent-detection system for automated operation of a host-vehicle, said system comprising: an object-detection device operable to detect an object proximate to a host-vehicle; and a controller in communication with the object-detection device, said controller configured to determine when the object detected by the object-detection device is a pedestrian based on a detection-characteristic of the pedestrian indicated by the object-detection device, define a size of a caution-area located proximate to the pedestrian based on a behavior-characteristic of the pedestrian indicated by the object-detection device, and operate the host-vehicle in order to avoid the caution-area, wherein the behavior-characteristic includes a gaze-direction of the pedestrian, and the controller is configured to increase the size of the caution-area when the gaze-direction is not toward the host-vehicle.