IP Library Granted Patent US 10,697,787
Granted Patent B2
US 10,697,787 · App. 15/903,833 · Granted Jun 30, 2020

Detour recommended area estimation system, detour recommended area estimation program, and navigation device

Inventors: Yoko Sakurai (Toyohashi, JP); Xin Jin (Nagoya, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
G01C21/3461
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Patent No.
US 10,697,787
App. No.
15/903,833
Granted
Jun 30, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A detour recommended area estimation system includes: a recording medium; and a control unit configured to collect probe information from a vehicle; acquire a travel-avoided direction based on the probe information when the vehicle made a detour, the travel-avoided direction being a direction in which the vehicle would have been traveled if the detour had not been made; estimate an area in which a direction dependence degree of the travel-avoided direction is less than a reference value as a detour recommended area, and record the detour recommended area in a recording medium.

Claims (16)

1. A detour recommended area estimation system comprising:

a recording medium; and

a control unit configured to

collect probe information from a vehicle,

acquire a travel-avoided direction based on the probe information when the vehicle made a detour, the travel-avoided direction being a direction in which the vehicle leaves an intersection at a detour point on a movement planned route,

estimate an area in which a direction dependence degree of the travel-avoided direction is less than a reference value as a detour recommended area based on a frequency at which a combination of a plurality of the travel-avoided directions becomes a predetermined combination, and record the detour recommended area in the recording medium.

2. The detour recommended area estimation system according to claim 1 , wherein the control unit is configured to estimate an area in which the direction dependence degree of the travel-avoided direction is less than the reference value and a detour occurrence time zone satisfies a predetermined determination condition as the detour recommended area.

3. The detour recommended area estimation system according to claim 1 , wherein the control unit is configured to estimate an area surrounded by a plurality of detour points whose direction dependence degree of the travel-avoided direction is less than the reference value as the detour recommended area.

4. A navigation device wherein the navigation device is configured to set a movement planned route that avoids the detour recommended area estimated by the detour recommended area estimation system according to claim 1 .

5. The detour recommended area estimation system according to claim 1 , wherein the control unit is configured to determine whether the direction dependence degree of the travel-avoided direction is less than the reference value based on the frequency at which a combination of a plurality of the travel-avoided directions becomes a predetermined combination.

6. The detour recommended area estimation system according to claim 5 , wherein the direction dependence degree of the travel-avoided direction which is less than the reference value indicates that a frequency at which a detour in which the travel-avoided direction is a direction of traveling in a first lane and a detour in which the travel-avoided direction is a direction of traveling in a second lane have occurred is equal to or greater than a first threshold value, the second lane being an oncoming lane of the first lane.

7. The detour recommended area estimation system according to claim 5 , wherein the direction dependence degree of the travel-avoided direction which is less than the reference value indicates that a frequency at which a detour in which the travel-avoided direction is a direction of traveling on a first road and a detour in which the travel-avoided direction is a direction of traveling on a second road have occurred is equal to or greater than a second threshold value, the second road intersecting with the first road.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising a detour recommended area estimation program, the detour recommended area estimation program causing a computer to:

collect probe information from a vehicle,

acquire a travel-avoided direction based on the probe information when the vehicle made a detour, the travel-avoided direction being a direction in which the vehicle leaves an intersection at a detour point on a movement planned route, and

estimate an area in which a direction dependence degree of the travel-avoided direction is less than a reference value as a detour recommended area based on a frequency at which a combination of a plurality of the travel-avoided directions becomes a predetermined combination.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 23, 2018
From: SAKURAI, YOKO; JIN, XIN
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 045022/0158 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2017-034803 · Feb 27, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180245936A1 · Aug 30, 2018