Patent ID: 7669685

Claim:
A pedestrian protecting apparatus for a vehicle, comprising: a pedestrian protecting unit which is mounted at a hood of the vehicle to protect a pedestrian in a collision between the vehicle and the pedestrian; a detecting unit which senses an obstacle entering a predetermined region at an upper side of the hood and measures a recognition parameter of the obstacle; a pedestrian collision determining unit for determining whether or not there occurs the collision between the vehicle and the pedestrian based on the measured recognition parameter of the obstacle; and a control unit which actuates the pedestrian protecting unit in the case where the collision between the vehicle and the pedestrian is determined by the pedestrian collision determining unit, wherein: the recognition parameter of the obstacle is a variation of an inclination angle of the obstacle in the collision, the inclination angle being defined with respect to a vehicle traveling direction; the detecting unit is an inclination angle variation detecting unit which senses the obstacle entering the predetermined region and measures the variation of the inclination angle of the obstacle in the collision; and the pedestrian collision determining unit determines whether or not there occurs the collision between the vehicle and the pedestrian based on the variation of the inclination angle measured by the inclination angle variation detecting unit.