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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2018
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Torrance, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/32 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G01S 17/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/32 (2013.01); G05D 1/021 (2013.01); G01S 17/42 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0213 (2013.01);
Abstract
An information processing apparatus is configured to distribute, to a vehicle, a map showing a road shape of a road on which the vehicle runs makes, for each of a plurality of areas and determine whether it is necessary to update the map of that area. The determination is based on at least either an amount of change from the road shape shown by the map to the road shape at a present time in each of the plurality of areas or the number of occurrences of a predetermined action of a vehicle having run through in each of the plurality of areas.