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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2017
Here Global B.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Richard Kwant, Oakland, CA (US);
Anish Mittal, Berkeley, CA (US);
Nicholas Pojman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yangyang Chen, Oakland, CA (US);
HERE Global B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
An approach is provided for estimating a vanishing point or horizon in an image depicting one or more lanes of a roadway. The approach involves processing the image to construct one or more lane models of the one or more road lanes depicted in the image. The approach also involves extending the one or more road lanes through the image using the one or more lane models. The approach further involves determining a horizontal line in the image at which a maximum number of the one or more extended road lanes crosses over a minimum horizontal extent of the horizontal line. The approach further involves designating the horizontal line as the horizon of the image.