Patent ID: 7804413
Filing Date: 2010-09-28
Classification: B60K,B60W

Abstract:
1. An object awareness determination system comprising: an external object sensor system on a host vehicle and sensing an object external to the host vehicle and generating input data relating to the object, the input data including an object position, an object velocity |({dot over (x)}, {dot over (y)})| and an object direction of movement (({dot over (x)}, {dot over (y)})/|({dot over (x)}, {dot over (y)})|) an eye gaze monitor determining a direction of gaze (φ an eye gaze recorder recording the direction of gaze (φ a past trajectory estimator which, after entry of the object into a detecting range of the external object sensor system, estimates a past trajectory of the object within a time span [t a host vehicle movement tracker determining a past host vehicle position ((x,y) a controller determining awareness of the user to the object before the object has entered the detecting range based on an assessed observation by using the past host vehicle position ((x,y)