Patent ID: 8214087
Filing Date: 2012-07-03
Classification: B60W

Abstract:
1. An object specifying device for specifying a control-based object, according to a movement of which a controlled vehicle is controlled, comprising: detection result acquisition unit for acquiring a detection result from an object detector, the detection result including at least a position of each of a plurality of objects existing in a monitoring area set along a running direction of the controlled vehicle; an object tracking unit that tracks each of the plurality of objects as a forward object to detect a movement of the object on the basis of its current and previous acquired positions relative to the controlled vehicle; a forward vehicle specifying unit that specifies one of the forward objects as a forward vehicle when the forward object is moving; a candidate specifying unit that specifies each of the forward objects other than the forward vehicle as a candidate for the control-based object when the forward object is placed in an inter-vehicle area between the controlled vehicle and the forward vehicle; and an object specifying unit that specifies one of the candidates specified by the candidate specifying unit as the control-based object when the object tracking unit tracks the candidate for a tracking period of time equal to or longer than a reference tracking period of time and specifies another one of the candidates as a non-control-based object when the object tracking unit tracks the candidate for a tracking period of time shorter than the reference tracking period of time.