Patent ID: 8401714

Claim:
A drive supporting apparatus comprising: a gaze point setter that sets a gaze point of a driver of a mobile object; a motion detector that detects motion of an environmental field around the mobile object with respect to the driver of the mobile object; a curl component calculator that: projects the motion of the environmental field detected by the motion detecting means in a coordinate system, the coordinate system being formed by modeling a retina sphere of the driver of the mobile object, and calculates each of rotational components of the projected motion of the environmental field around an axis, the axis being an eye direction of the driver of the mobile object to the gaze point; a target trajectory setter that sets, as a target trajectory of the mobile object, an equal-potential line of a part of the rotational components of the projected motion of the environmental field, the part of the rotational components having a same magnitude; and a supporter that supports drive of the mobile object based on the target trajectory of the mobile object set by the target trajectory setter.