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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 14, 2020
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Jun Hattori, Chofu, JP;
Kenki Ueda, Tokyo-to, JP;
Tetsuya Hashimoto, Tokyo-to, JP;
Hajime Tojiki, Musashino, JP;
Naoki Ishihara, Tokyo-to, JP;
Hideki Kawai, Toyko-to, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A flood detection device and method that acquires meteorological data; acquires traffic volume data representing vehicle traffic volume; and determines that an area, in which a vehicle traffic volume during or after rain is less than or equal to a predetermined number of vehicles, is flooded based on the meteorological data and the traffic volume data, when a probability, that the vehicle traffic volume in a normal time is less than or equal to the predetermined number of vehicles, is less than a predetermined value, the normal time being a state in which a rainfall amount is less than a predetermined value.