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Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020

Filed:

Feb. 21, 2020
Applicants:

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;

The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Kyoichi Tohriyama, Yokohama, JP;

Takuma Ito, Tokyo-to, JP;

Masatsugu Soya, Tokyo-to, JP;

Minoru Kamata, Tokyo-to, JP;

Assignees:

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;

The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 40/06 (2012.01); B60W 40/09 (2012.01); B60W 30/095 (2012.01); G08G 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 40/06 (2013.01); B60W 30/0956 (2013.01); B60W 40/09 (2013.01); G08G 1/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

An evaluating apparatus is configured to evaluate a risk that exists in surroundings of a road on which a vehicle travels. The evaluating apparatus is provided with: a first determinator configured to determine a first risk value indicating an extent of a risk in one section of the road, on the basis of a feature value indicating driving behavior of a driver of the vehicle; a second determinator configured to determine a second risk value indicating an extent of a risk in the one section, on the basis of surrounding information about the surroundings of the road; and an acquirer configured to obtain reliability of the second risk value, by evaluating the second risk value by using the first risk value.


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