FORWARD SENSING CAMERA (FSC)

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Purpose

•  The camera recognizes light-emitting objects and vehicle lane lines based on the images picked up at the front of the vehicle, and controls the High Beam Control (HBC) system and Lane Departure Warning System (LDWS).

Function

Note
•  In the following cases, the FSC may not be able to detect target objects correctly.
―  Under bad weather condition, such as rain, fog and snow.
―  The window washer is being used or the windshield wipers are not used when it's raining.
―  Ice, fog, snow, frost, rainfall, dirt, or foreign matter such as a plastic bag is stuck on the windshield.
―  Trucks with low loading platforms and vehicles with an extremely low or high profile.
―  When driving next to walls with no patterning (including fences and longitudinally striped walls).
―  The taillights of the vehicle ahead are turned off.
―  A vehicle is outside the illumination range of the headlights.
―  The vehicle is making a sharp turn, or ascending or descending a steep slope.
―  Entering or exiting a tunnel.
―  Heavy luggage is loaded causing the vehicle to tilt.
―  Strong light is shone at the front of the vehicle (back light or high-beam light from on-coming vehicles).
―  There are many light emitters on the vehicle ahead.
―  When the vehicle ahead is not equipped with taillights or the taillights are turned off at nighttime.
―  Elongated luggage or cargo is loaded onto installed roof rails and covers the FSC.
―  Exhaust gas from the vehicle in front, sand, snow, and water vapor rising from manholes and grating, and water splashed into the air.
―  When towing a malfunctioning vehicle.
―  The vehicle is driven with tires having significantly different wear.
―  The vehicle is driven on down slopes or bumpy roads.
―  There are water puddles on the road.
―  The surroundings are dark such as during the night, early evening, or early morning, or in a tunnel or indoor parking lot.
―  The illumination brightness of the headlights is reduced or the headlight illumination is weakened due to dirt or a deviated optical axis.
―  The target object enters the blind spot of the FSC.
―  A person or object bursts onto the road from the shoulder or cuts right in front of you.
―  You change lanes and approach a vehicle ahead.
―  When driving extremely close to the target object.
―  Tire chains or a temporary spare tire is installed.
―  The vehicle ahead has a special shape. For example, a vehicle towing a trailer house or a boat, or a vehicle carrier carrying a vehicle with its front pointed rearward.

Light-emitting object (on-coming vehicle, vehicle ahead, street lights) recognition function

•  The camera analyzes the light-emitting object it picks up, and recognizes it as an on-coming vehicle, vehicle ahead, or street lights (traveling on town/city streets).
On-coming vehicle recognition function
•  The FSC recognizes a light-emitting object that is within at least approx. 600 m {1,969 ft}from the detecting vehicle as an on-coming vehicle when any of the following conditions are met:
―  Light-emitting object approaches having brightness of specified value or more
―  Light-emitting object approaches having white color and certain level of brightness or more (if it approaches and brightness changes, determination made at point of image capture)
Note
•  If the on-coming vehicle and the surrounding conditions are as follows, the FSC may require time until it recognizes an on-coming vehicle.
―  Poor visibility due to rain and fog
―  On-coming vehicle is travelling with only TNS or fog lights
―  Brightness of light source, such as vehicle, lowers
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Vehicle ahead recognition function
•  The FSC recognizes a light-emitting object that is within at least approx. 500 m {1,640 ft}of the detecting vehicle as a vehicle ahead, and when any of the following conditions is met:
―  Red light emitted from light-emitting object is detected
―  Determines that there is a pair of light-emitting objects
Note
•  Because prevention of dazzling from other vehicles is made a priority, the system could recognize reflecting objects on the road surface or a guard rail as a vehicle ahead (switches to low beams).
•  If visibility is poor due to rain or fog, a vehicle ahead may not be recognized even though one may exist (maintains high beams).
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Town/city streets recognition function
•  Travel on town/city streets is recognized in the following cases:
―  Several light-emitting objects of certain height or more from road surface along same line are detected
―  Camera image gray color is certain level or more
Note
•  Even during travel other than at night or on town/city streets, if the road surface is bright from moonlight, the system may recognize that the vehicle is traveling on town/city streets (switches to low beams).
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Vehicle lane lines and travel lane recognition function

•  The FSC recognizes line shapes which are paler than the surrounding color, and white/yellow lines as vehicle lane lines by the contrast (color density) of the camera image.
•  If the vehicle lane lines are continuous they are recognized as actual lines, if discontinuous they are recognized as broken lines.
•  The travel lanes recognized from the vehicle lane lines on the left and right of the vehicle are used to calculate the width.
•  Traveling in a straight line or cornering is determined by the status of the vehicle lane lines.
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LDWS warning-trigger line setting function

•  The FSC sets the LDWS warning-trigger lines *1 at approx.5 cm {2 in}inside of the recognized vehicle lane lines.
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•  If there is only one vehicle lane line or only one vehicle lane line can be recognized, the warning-trigger line is set to only the recognized vehicle lane line.
•  If the FSC recognizes both broken vehicle lane lines and actual vehicle lane lines, the warning-trigger line is set to the actual vehicle lane line.
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*1  :The distance between the vehicle lane lines and the warning-trigger lines can be changed using the personalization feature. Refer to INSTRUMENTATION/DRIVER INFO. PERSONALIZATION for details. (See INSTRUMENTATION/DRIVER INFO. PERSONALIZATION.)


LDWS warning-trigger line auto-adjust function

•  The FSC automatically adjusts the set warning-trigger lines within the adjustment range in the following cases:

Detection state

Adjustment
Distance of vehicle to vehicle lane line recognized by FSC detected (such as staying to left) continuously as closer than specified value for certain period of time.
Recognized travel lane width decreases to certain width or less
Recognized vehicle lane line curves for certain period of time or more and system determines that vehicle is cornering (out-in-out travel)
Recognized travel lane width is wider than certain width


Aiming correction function

•  The FSC adjusts the camera shot angle by aiming, and stores the vanishing point *1. The stored vanishing point and the current vanishing point are compared and if there is a deviation of a certain value or more in the vanishing point, the current vanishing point is stored as the new vanishing point.
*1  :The vehicle lane lines on the road surface are parallel and do not intersect, however, when viewed by the camera image, the lines converge in the distance and eventually cross. The point at which the lines cross is called the vanishing point.
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HBC indicator light (green)/HBC warning light (amber) and LDWS indicator light (green)/LDWS warning light (amber) blown fuse check function

•  When the ignition is switched ON, the FSC illuminates the HBC warning light (amber)/LDWS warning light (amber) for approx. 3 s and performs a blown fuse check of each indicator light/warning light.


On-board diagnostic function

•  The FSC detects dirt and fogging of the camera lens and windshield glass, FSC transmission errors, FSC internal malfunctions, and outputs DTCs. For DTC details, refer to the ON-BOARD DIAGNOSTIC [FSC]. (See ON-BOARD DIAGNOSTIC [FORWARD SENSING CAMERA (FSC)].)


Construction

•  Installed to the windshield.
•  By integrating a small, color CMOS camera *1 with the control module, lightness and size reduction have been achieved.
•  The FSC transmits between other modules using CAN.
*1  :Camera with high sensitivity CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) picture element
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Note
•  If there is damage or cracking in the windshield glass repair prohibited area, replace the windshield. If the damage or cracking in the windshield glass repair prohibited area is repaired, it could affect the recognition of the Forward Sensing Camera (FSC) and the system may not operate normally.
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Operation


Camera range

•  The FSC camera shoots in the following range.
Note
•  The FSC may be unable to pickup an object within the camera range in front of the vehicle, and not recognize it as a controlled target object depending on the surrounding conditions (ascending roads, winding roads, walls).
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Position calculation

•  When an object appears on the screen, the FSC determines the position coordinates, and from the coordinates it calculates the distance of the vehicle to the object and the direction.
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Fail-safe

DTC No.

Fail-safe function
B115E:54
•  Inhibits the Lane Departure Warning System (LDWS).
•  Inhibits the High Beam Control (HBC) system.
B13A6:11
•  Inhibits the Lane Departure Warning System (LDWS).
C1001:92
•  Inhibits the Lane Departure Warning System (LDWS).
•  Inhibits the High Beam Control (HBC) system.
C1001:97
U0001:88
U0100:00
U0121:00
U0131:00
U0140:00
U0155:00
U0214:00
U0401:68
U0415:68
U0420:68
•  Inhibits the Lane Departure Warning System (LDWS).
U0423:68
U0515:68
•  Inhibits the Lane Departure Warning System (LDWS).
•  Inhibits the High Beam Control (HBC) system.
U2005:86
U2100:00
U2101:00
U3000:04
U3000:09
U3000:42
U3000:49
U3003:16
U3003:17