Patent ID: 8340866
Filing Date: 2012-12-25
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
1. A vehicle comprising: an imaging means; an image acquisition means which acquires an image of a road via the imaging means; a lane recognition means which detects a lane mark on the road from the image acquired by the image acquisition means and recognizes a lane along which the vehicle travels from the detected lane mark; an actuator which drives a steering mechanism capable of steering a steering wheel of the vehicle; a steering assistance means which performs steering assistance processing for driving the actuator so that the vehicle travels along the lane recognized by the lane recognition means; a side displacement amount calculation means which calculates a displacement amount in the lane width direction between the position of the vehicle and the center of the lane recognized by the lane recognition means by dividing a distance in the lane width direction between the position of the vehicle and the center of the lane recognized by the lane reconition means by a lane width of the recognized lane; and a steering assistance inhibition means which inhibits the steering assistance processing based at least in part on the calculated displacement amount.