Lane determination device
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShuichi Morimoto
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Abstract
A lane determination device includes a processor configured to: store map information including information on division lines defining two lanes on a road; calculate a first angle and a second angle based on the map information, the first angle being a bending angle of a first division hue at a junction where the two lanes merge together, the second angle being a bending angle of a second division line at the junction, the first division line being one of two outermost division lines in the division lines defining the two lanes, the second division line being the other one of the two outermost division lines; and determine, as a merging lane, a lane defined by the second division line out of the two lanes when the first angle is larger than the second angle.
Claims7
A lane determination device comprising a processor configured to:
- store map information including information on division lines defining two lanes on a road;
- calculate a first angle and a second angle based on the map information, the first angle being a bending angle of a first division line at a junction where the two lanes merge together, the second angle being a bending angle of a second division line at the junction, the first division line being one of two outermost division lines in the division lines defining the two lanes, the second division line being the other one of the two outermost division lines;
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- determine, as a merging lane, a lane defined by the second division line out of the two lanes when the first angle is larger than the second angle.
A lane determination device comprising a processor configured to:
- store map information including information on division lines defining two lanes on a road and information on an arrow marking on the road which indicates a traveling direction of a vehicle merging at a junction where the two lanes merge together;
- extract, based on the map information, information on an arrow marking provided between the junction and a point distanced from the junction by a predetermined distance in a predetermined direction, the predetermined direction being a direction from the junction toward the two lanes;
- extract, based on the map information, information on two division lines defining a lane where, the arrow marking is present;
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- determine, as a merging lane, a lane defined by an outside division line and a central division line when an arrow of the arrow marking, the information of which is extracted by the processor, is directed from the outside division line to the central division line, the central division line being a division line provided between the two lanes out of the two division lines, the outside division line being the other one of the two division lines.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.