Patent ID: 6665614
Filing Date: 2003-12-16
Classification: B60K,B60W,G01S,G06K,G08G

Abstract:
A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus for monitoring traveling circumstances of an own vehicle, comprising:traveling condition detecting means for detecting a traveling condition of said own vehicle; front information detecting means for detecting front information of at least data of a solid object, data of a side wall and data of a lane marker; lane marker position establishing means for estimating a traveling path of said own vehicle according to at least either of said front information and said traveling condition of said own vehicle and for establishing a position of said lane marker in said traveling path of said own vehicle; solid object and side wall position establishing means for establishing a position of said solid object and a position of said side wall in terms of said position of said lane marker; own vehicle traveling trace detecting means for detecting a traveling trace of said own vehicle; preceding vehicle extracting means for extracting a preceding vehicle traveling ahead of said own vehicle; and preceding vehicle traveling trace detecting means for detecting a traveling trace of said preceding vehicle.