PEDESTRIAN PROTECTION APPARATUS AND METHOD

A pedestrian protection apparatus includes: an active sensor configured to sense a dynamic behavior of a vehicle; a passive sensor configured to sense a collision of the vehicle; and a pedestrian protection module configured to: predict a possibility of a pedestrian collision in response to active information received from the active sensor, the pedestrian collision being a collision of the vehicle that involves a pedestrian; adjust a threshold value for sensing the collision of the vehicle determined by passive information received from the passive sensor in response to predicting the possibility of the pedestrian collision; and deploy a protection module in response to determining the pedestrian collision using the adjusted threshold value and the passive information received from the passive sensor. 行人保护装置可以包括：主动传感器，被配置为感测车辆的动态行为；被动传感器，被配置为感测车辆的碰撞；行人保护模块，被配置为通过使用从主动传感器接收到的主动信息来确定行人的碰撞可能性，当有行人发生碰撞的可能性时，调整用于感测通过从被动传感器接收的被动信息确定的车辆的碰撞的阈值，并在使用阈值的调整结果和被动信息确定行人的碰撞时，控制保护模块部署。