Patent ID: 9599710
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: G01S,G08G

Claim:
1. A parallel running vehicle detecting apparatus comprising: a first distance sensor that is mounted on a vehicle and that detects a distance to an object which exists in a first detection area on a rear lateral side of the vehicle; a second distance sensor that is mounted on the vehicle and that detects a distance to an object which exists in a second detection area, wherein at least a part of the second detection area is outside the first detection area; a parallel running vehicle detector that detects a parallel running vehicle based on a detection situation of the first distance sensor and a detection situation of the second distance sensor; and a storage that stores a detection history of the distance by the second distance sensor, wherein, the parallel running vehicle detector is provided with a plurality of parallel running vehicle determination conditions for determining whether the object detected by the first distance sensor is the parallel running vehicle, and the parallel running vehicle detector switches between the parallel running vehicle determination conditions based on the history of the detection of the distance stored in the storage; wherein the parallel running vehicle detector switches between the parallel running vehicle determination conditions depending on whether the history indicates that the object is continuously detected in a same metric division of a plurality of metric divisions into which a detection range of the second distance sensor is divided.