Patent ID: 7652560

Claim:
An obstacle detecting control device of a vehicle, which includes a radar device to detect an obstacle in front of the vehicle and an operational-device control device to control an operational device of the vehicle according to an obstacle detecting information detected by the radar device, wherein: said radar device is configured to transmit an electric wave and receives a reflected wave that is generated by a reflection of the electric wave on an object, to recognize the object is a potential obstacle that is to be hit by the vehicle when a received intensity of the reflected wave thereby is a specified threshold or more, and to output an information related to the recognized object as the potential obstacle to said operational-device control device as the obstacle detecting information; said radar device comprises a determining device to determine whether the detected object is a moving object or a stationary object, and said plural threshold values includes a threshold for moving object and a threshold for stationary object, the threshold for moving object being for recognizing the moving object as the obstacle, the threshold for stationary object being for recognizing the stationary object as the obstacle; said threshold for stationary object is configured to have a greater preset value than said threshold for moving object, said threshold for stationary object comprising a first threshold and a second threshold that is greater than the first threshold; said radar device is configured to recognize that the stationary object determined by said determining device is said obstacle when said received intensity of the reflected wave from the stationary object is said first threshold for stationary object or more, said radar device is further configured to provisionally recognize that the stationary object determined by said determining device is said obstacle as a potential object when said received intensity of the reflected wave from the stationary object is said threshold for moving object or more and less than said first threshold for stationary object, and obstacle-related information of the stationary object that has been provisionally recognized as the potential obstacle is outputted to said operational-device control device as a different information from obstacle-related information of the stationary object that has been recognized as the obstacle; and said radar device is configured to recognize that said stationary object which is previously determined by said determining device as the potential object is said obstacle when said received intensity of the reflected wave from the stationary object is said second threshold for stationary object or more.