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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2022

Filed:

Oct. 23, 2018
Applicant:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Takayoshi Nishino, Tokyo, JP;

Yuhi Tsutsumi, Tokyo, JP;

Atsushi Oda, Tokyo, JP;

Kentaroh Maki, Tokyo, JP;

Takenori Wajima, Tokyo, JP;

Kazuo Tokuyama, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B61L 25/02 (2006.01); B60L 3/00 (2019.01); B61L 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B61L 25/02 (2013.01); B60L 3/00 (2013.01); B61L 3/006 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention is provided with: a sensing unit which is provided in a vehicle and measures the three-dimensional shape of an object; a matching unit for performing matching between multiple sets of structure information, in which are associated a data group indicating the three-dimensional shapes of structures provided beforehand near a path the vehicle will travel along and positional information indicating the posit ions of the structures, and a data group indicating the three-dimensional shape of the object measured by the sensing unit, and for specifying the position of the object; and an estimated position determination unit for determining, with the position specified by the matching unit as a reference position, the estimated position of the vehicle on the basis of the reference position.


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