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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2018
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A ceiling map building method includes estimating a scale of each ceiling image based on information related to the ceiling image and information related to another ceiling image including a same object as included in the ceiling image, the scale being represented as a ratio of an amount of movement of the object between the two ceiling images to an amount of movement of the camera () between the positions thereof when the two ceiling images were respectively captured (ST), and building a ceiling map () (ST) by converting the ceiling images in accordance with the respective scales so as to have sizes suitable for the ceiling map and combining the converted ceiling images (ST).