Patent ID: 8676488
Filing Date: 2014-03-18
Classification: B60W,G01S,G08G

Abstract:
1. A vehicle surrounding monitor device comprising: a plurality of monitoring sensors which monitor different areas around a host vehicle; a state detection unit which detects one of the traveling state of the host vehicle and the state of a driver of the host vehicle; and a control unit which controls one of the operation of the monitoring sensors and processing of information output from the monitoring sensors, wherein the control unit sets priority on a plurality of monitoring sensors on the basis of one of the traveling state of the host vehicle and the state of the driver of the host vehicle detected by the state detection unit, distributes the amount of information per unit time to be allocated to the processing of information output from each of the monitoring sensors from the amount of information per unit time allocated to the whole of the processing of information output from the monitoring sensors on the basis of the set priority, and controls one of the detection precision of each of the monitoring sensors and the period of processing information output from each of the monitoring sensors in accordance with the distributed amount of information per unit time to be allocated to the processing of information output from each of the monitoring sensors, wherein the state detection unit detects the line of ht of the driver of the host vehicle, and wherein the control unit sets higher priority on a monitoring sensor, which monitors an area not included in the line of sight of the driver of the host vehicle, than a monitoring sensor, which monitors an area included in the line of sight of the driver of the host vehicle, on the basis of the line sight of the driver of the host vehicle detected by the state detection unit.