Patent Document ID: 20050093735
Application ID: 10725269
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An object recognition apparatus for a vehicle comprising: radar means for emitting a plurality of transmission waves throughout a predetermined angular range in each of vertical and horizontal directions of said vehicle to, on the basis of reflected waves thereof, detect distances to reflecting objects, angles in said vertical and horizontal directions and intensities of said reflected waves; decision means for, when a plurality of reflecting objects satisfy a predetermined unity condition, making a decision that said plurality of reflecting objects constitute a unitary reflecting object; selection means for selecting the highest intensity of intensities of reflected waves corresponding to said reflecting objects decided to be a unitary reflecting object in said decision means; and recognition means for recognizing said reflecting objects on the basis of said distance and said angles in said vertical and horizontal directions which are detection results acquired by said radar means, and for enhancing a probability of said reflecting object being recognized as a non-vehicle when the highest intensity selected by said selection means is lower than a predetermined reference intensity.