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Granted Patent B2
US 10,839,678 · App. 15/938,106 · Granted Nov 17, 2020

Vehicle identifying device

Inventor: Hiromitsu Urano (Numazu, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
G08G1/017B60W40/09G08G1/015B60W2554/80B60W2555/60B60W2556/45
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 10,839,678
App. No.
15/938,106
Granted
Nov 17, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle identifying device is configured to identify a target vehicle around a vehicle. The vehicle identifying device includes circuitry configured to: acquire a behavior of the target vehicle based on a detection result of an external sensor; estimate a behavior of the target vehicle in a case where the target vehicle is an automatically driven vehicle based on map information; and identify whether the target vehicle is the automatically driven vehicle based on a result of comparison between the acquired behavior of the target vehicle and the estimated behavior.

Claims (10)

1. A vehicle identifying device configured to identify whether a target vehicle around a vehicle is an autonomous vehicle, the vehicle identifying device comprising circuitry configured to:

acquire a behavior of the target vehicle based on a detection result of an external sensor;

estimate a behavior of the target vehicle based on map information that includes traffic rules; and

identify that the target vehicle is an autonomously driven vehicle based on a determination that the acquired behavior of the target vehicle and the behavior estimated based on the traffic rules match each other,

wherein the circuitry is configured to identify that the target vehicle is an autonomously driven vehicle based on determining that the target vehicle stops at a stop line for a predetermined time.

2. A vehicle identifying device configured to identify whether a target vehicle around a vehicle is an autonomous vehicle, the vehicle identifying device comprising circuitry to:

acquire a behavior of the target vehicle based on a detection result of an external sensor;

estimate a behavior of the target vehicle based on map information that includes traffic rules; and

identify that the target vehicle is an autonomously driven vehicle based on a determination that the acquired behavior of the target vehicle and the behavior estimated based on the traffic rules match each other,

wherein the circuitry is configured to identify that the target vehicle is an autonomously driven vehicle based on determining that the target vehicle turns on a direction indicator at a predetermined position before a crossing.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 28, 2018
From: URANO, HIROMITSU
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 045748/0816 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2017-074701 · Apr 4, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180286222A1 · Oct 4, 2018
Cited By (1)
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